Groundhog Day Predictions
 

DIRECTIONS:Use the Groundhog Day Predictions chart at http://www.groundhog.org/history/predictions.shtml on the Internet to answer each of these questions.

1. Did Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow in 1997? ________

2. At what time did Phil see his shadow in 1996? ___________

3. Look at the results of Punxsutawney Phil's predictions for the last ten years. How many times in the last ten years did Phil see his shadow? ________

4. Find 1951 on the chart. Starting in 1951, how many years in a row did Phil see his shadow? __________

5. What was the temperature on Groundhog Day 1971? _____________

6. How many times in the 1980s did Phil see no shadow? ___

7. In which year -- 1948, 1949, or 1950 -- did Phil see no shadow? ____________

8. Did Phil see his shadow at 7:29 a.m. in 1980 or 1981? ____________

9. In which years in the 1970s did Phil see no shadow? ______ _______

10. How many times in the 1960s did Phil see no shadow? ____________

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