Snow and the Number Six

Snow and the Number Six

Snow and the Number Six
Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 4 to 5
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	4.34

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		Brrrrrr, dendrite, ragged, snowflake, prism, snowfall, blows, column, ever, real, often, crash, study, group, sheet, capped
	content words:		Six-pointed Star

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Snow and the Number Six
By Brenda B. Covert

¹ Have you ever wondered why most real snowflakes don't look like the paper snowflakes that you made in art class? There are two reasons for this.

² First of all, snowflakes are made up of a group of snow crystals - anywhere from two to 200 snow crystals for each snowflake! There are six types of crystals that make up snowflakes:

Needle - long and thin, this is the simplest kind of crystal.
Column - a long, hollow, six-sided prism. (There's that six again!)
Plate - flat and thin like a stop sign with six sides.
Column capped with Plates - sort of like a bar with a wheel on each end.
Dendrite - a crystal that looks like a tiny tree.
Six-pointed Star - the prettiest snowflake.

³ The colder it is, the smaller the snowflake will be. When the temperature is closer to 32

F, the snowflakes are larger. For six-pointed stars, the temperature in the clouds must be between 3

to 10

F. Brrrrrr. It is very cold in snow clouds. The highest clouds are often 30 degrees below zero! That's -30