Weather or Climate? is a free printable Grade 3 science worksheet on telling one day's weather from a region's climate over many years, aligned to NGSS performance expectation 3-ESS2-2. It prints 3 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 19 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Weather or Climate?
3-ESS2-2
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Sort each sentence into weather or climate.
1.Sort each one: Weather: what the air is doing on one day or Climate: what it is usually like over many years?
Sort: The desert gets almost no rain in most years, It is raining in town this morning, Tonight will be frosty, Most years, the first frost here comes in October
Weather: what the air is doing on one dayClimate: what it is usually like over many years
2.Sort each one: Weather: what the air is doing on one day or Climate: what it is usually like over many years?
Sort: The rainforest is hot and wet all year round, Yesterday afternoon was very windy, Summers here are usually hot and dry, Snow fell on Saturday
Weather: what the air is doing on one dayClimate: what it is usually like over many years
3.Sort each one: Weather: what the air is doing on one day or Climate: what it is usually like over many years?
Sort: The fog lifted by eleven o'clock, Over thirty years, July has been the warmest month here, Winters in the far north are long and very cold, A thunderstorm hit the coast on Tuesday
Weather: what the air is doing on one dayClimate: what it is usually like over many years
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Answer key — Weather or Climate?
Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. It is raining in town this morning — Weather: what the air is doing on one day 2. Most years, the first frost here comes in October — Climate: what it is usually like over many years 3. The desert gets almost no rain in most years — Climate: what it is usually like over many years 4. Tonight will be frosty — Weather: what the air is doing on one day
2.1. Snow fell on Saturday — Weather: what the air is doing on one day 2. Summers here are usually hot and dry — Climate: what it is usually like over many years 3. The rainforest is hot and wet all year round — Climate: what it is usually like over many years 4. Yesterday afternoon was very windy — Weather: what the air is doing on one day
3.1. A thunderstorm hit the coast on Tuesday — Weather: what the air is doing on one day 2. Over thirty years, July has been the warmest month here — Climate: what it is usually like over many years 3. The fog lifted by eleven o'clock — Weather: what the air is doing on one day 4. Winters in the far north are long and very cold — Climate: what it is usually like over many years
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 3-ESS2-2 of the Next Generation Science Standards.