AY Honor Winter Requirements

Winter

Skill Level

3

Year

2020

Version

21.07.2026

Approval authority

Euro-Asia Division

1. What is winter?

2. What is astronomical winter?

3. What is calendar winter?

4. What is climatic winter?

5. What winter natural phenomena do you know?

6. Explain what snow is, how it is formed, and in which countries it falls.

7. What are the different types of snow?

8. What is the crunching sound of snow and how does it occur?

9. What is a snowstorm or blizzard? What are the different types of blizzards?

10. What are frost patterns and how are they formed?

11. What is black ice?

12. Which winter natural phenomena can be dangerous?

13. What winter phenomena occur in the animal and plant worlds?

14. Name some winter sports.

15. What outdoor winter games do you know?

16. Describe the unusual natural phenomena listed below that are observed in winter:

a. Light pillars

b. Thundersnow

c. Pancake ice

d. Rime ice

e. Frozen frogs

f. A hole in the sky

g. Underwater icicles - brinicles

17. Learn three beautiful quotes or aphorisms about winter.

18. Find five passages in the Bible that mention winter.