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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, for that year
  • B.Yes, it is now a wet place
  • C.No, one rainy day is weather; the climate is still dry
2.Which of these is a statement about weather?
  • A.It will be windy on Friday afternoon
  • B.The desert gets very little rain each year
  • C.This island has mild winters most years
3.Over about how long is a place's climate usually worked out?
  • A.One week
  • B.About thirty years
  • C.One day
4.Which tells you more about a place's climate?
  • A.The weather report for tomorrow
  • B.A graph of its average rainfall for each month
  • C.A picture of today's sky
5.Which would best describe a city's climate?
  • A.Its temperature and rainfall recorded over thirty years
  • B.Tomorrow's forecast
  • C.One photograph of the sky
6.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
7.Which of these is a statement about climate?
  • A.It was foggy this morning
  • B.Most years, this town has a dry summer and a wet winter
  • C.It is raining now
8.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

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Answer key — One Day, or Many Years?

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

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