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 7 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: A thunderstorm hit the coast on Tuesday, The rainforest is hot and wet all year round, The fog lifted by eleven o'clock, This coast gets rain in every season of the year
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 desert gets almost no rain in most years, Winters in the far north are long and very cold, Snow fell on Saturday, It reached 31 degrees in the city today
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: Most years, the first frost here comes in October, Tonight will be frosty, Yesterday afternoon was very windy, Over thirty years, July has been the warmest month here
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 7. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A thunderstorm hit the coast on Tuesday — Weather: what the air is doing on one day 2. The fog lifted by eleven o'clock — Weather: what the air is doing on one day 3. The rainforest is hot and wet all year round — Climate: what it is usually like over many years 4. This coast gets rain in every season of the year — Climate: what it is usually like over many years
2.1. It reached 31 degrees in the city today — Weather: what the air is doing on one day 2. Snow fell on Saturday — Weather: what the air is doing on one day 3. The desert gets almost no rain in most years — Climate: what it is usually like over many years 4. Winters in the far north are long and very cold — Climate: what it is usually like over many years
3.1. Most years, the first frost here comes in October — Climate: what it is usually like over many years 2. Over thirty years, July has been the warmest month here — Climate: what it is usually like over many years 3. Tonight will be frosty — Weather: what the air is doing on one day 4. Yesterday afternoon was very windy — Weather: what the air is doing on one day
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 3-ESS2-2 of the Next Generation Science Standards.