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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 hot desert has one day of heavy rain. Does that make its climate wet?
  • A.Yes, it is now a wet place
  • B.Yes, for that year
  • C.No, one rainy day is weather; the climate is still dry
2.Which would best describe a city's climate?
  • A.Its temperature and rainfall recorded over thirty years
  • B.One photograph of the sky
  • C.Tomorrow's forecast
3.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
4.It snowed in a city yesterday. Does that tell you the city's climate?
  • A.Yes, the city has a snowy climate
  • B.Yes, snow is always climate
  • C.No, one day's snow is weather; climate is what is usual over many years
5.Which tells you more about a place's climate?
  • A.A graph of its average rainfall for each month
  • B.A picture of today's sky
  • C.The weather report for tomorrow
6.One summer is unusually cool. Has the country's climate changed?
  • A.Yes, at once
  • B.Yes, for ever
  • C.Not from one summer; climate is the pattern over many years
7.Over about how long is a place's climate usually worked out?
  • A.One week
  • B.About thirty years
  • C.One day
8.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

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Answer key — One Day, or Many Years?

Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.No, one rainy day is weather; the climate is still dry
  2. 2.Its temperature and rainfall recorded over thirty years
  3. 3.Most years, this town has a dry summer and a wet winter
  4. 4.No, one day's snow is weather; climate is what is usual over many years
  5. 5.A graph of its average rainfall for each month
  6. 6.Not from one summer; climate is the pattern over many years
  7. 7.About thirty years
  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.