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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.

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One Day, or Many Years?

3-ESS2-2

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1.A family is packing for a vacation next month. What should they look at?
  • A.What the climate there is usually like, then the forecast just before they go
  • B.Last year's vacation photos
  • C.Only today's weather at home
2.Which tells you more about a place's climate?
  • A.The weather report for tomorrow
  • B.A picture of today's sky
  • C.A graph of its average rainfall for each month
3.Why do farmers choose crops that suit their area's climate?
  • A.The climate tells them what the weather is usually like through the growing season
  • B.Weather never matters to crops
  • C.Climate changes every day
4.Which of these is a statement about weather?
  • A.It will be windy on Friday afternoon
  • B.This island has mild winters most years
  • C.The desert gets very little rain each year
5.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
6.One summer is unusually cool. Has the country's climate changed?
  • A.Yes, for ever
  • B.Yes, at once
  • C.Not from one summer; climate is the pattern over many years
7.Which of these is a statement about climate?
  • A.Most years, this town has a dry summer and a wet winter
  • B.It is raining now
  • C.It was foggy this morning
8.Which would best describe a city's climate?
  • A.Tomorrow's forecast
  • B.One photograph of the sky
  • C.Its temperature and rainfall recorded over thirty years

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Answer key — One Day, or Many Years?

Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.

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

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