Skip to content
LessonPrint

One Day, or Many Years? is a free printable Grade 3 science worksheet on reasoning about what evidence shows weather and what shows climate, aligned to NGSS performance expectation 3-ESS2-2. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

Set 16 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

Next set

One paper per student

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425

Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

One Day, or Many Years?

3-ESS2-2

NameDate

Circle the best answer.

1.One summer is unusually cool. Has the country's climate changed?
  • A.Not from one summer; climate is the pattern over many years
  • B.Yes, for ever
  • C.Yes, at once
2.A hot desert has one day of heavy rain. Does that make its climate wet?
  • A.Yes, it is now a wet place
  • B.No, one rainy day is weather; the climate is still dry
  • C.Yes, for that year
3.Over about how long is a place's climate usually worked out?
  • A.One day
  • B.About thirty years
  • C.One week
4.Which of these is a statement about climate?
  • A.It is raining now
  • B.It was foggy this morning
  • C.Most years, this town has a dry summer and a wet winter
5.Why do farmers choose crops that suit their area's climate?
  • A.Climate changes every day
  • B.The climate tells them what the weather is usually like through the growing season
  • C.Weather never matters to crops
6.Which of these is a statement about weather?
  • A.This island has mild winters most years
  • B.It will be windy on Friday afternoon
  • C.The desert gets very little rain each year
7.Which tells you more about a place's climate?
  • A.A picture of today's sky
  • B.A graph of its average rainfall for each month
  • C.The weather report for tomorrow
8.A family is packing for a vacation next month. What should they look at?
  • A.Last year's vacation photos
  • B.Only today's weather at home
  • C.What the climate there is usually like, then the forecast just before they go

LessonPrint · 3-ESS2-2 · Set 16 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — One Day, or Many Years?

Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Not from one summer; climate is the pattern over many years
  2. 2.No, one rainy day is weather; the climate is still dry
  3. 3.About thirty years
  4. 4.Most years, this town has a dry summer and a wet winter
  5. 5.The climate tells them what the weather is usually like through the growing season
  6. 6.It will be windy on Friday afternoon
  7. 7.A graph of its average rainfall for each month
  8. 8.What the climate there is usually like, then the forecast just before they go

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 3-ESS2-2 of the Next Generation Science Standards.