Weather and Climate Amplify Science

Which row of Cindy's chart describes climate?

• row 1

• row 2

• row 3

• row 4

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Which row of Cindy's chart describes weather? Choose all correct answers.

• row 1 and 2

• row 1, 2, and 3

• row 3 and 4

• row 1, 2, and 4

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Why do you think it is important for meteorologists to predict the weather? Choose all correct answers.

• So people can learn about weather because weather is interesting.

• To help people understand the type of clothes to wear outside so they are prepared for the weather.

• To help people prepare for dangerous weather such as snow storms.

• So people can learn about weather right at this moment and in the past.

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How would you describe the climate of Cindy's vacation spot?

• The vacation spot has a cold climate.

• The vacation spot has a warm climate.

• The vacation spot has temperatures that are tipically in the 60s.

• The vacation spot has a high precipitation rate with almost 80 inches of rain per year.

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If Dana’s family wants to spend a lot of time outside with the family member that they visit, which location would they likely choose to visit?

• Aunt Sarah

• Uncle David

• Cousin Alyssa

Kathy is trying to design a new type of shoe. When you walk on a bumpy road, the shoe has a sole made of special material that molds to the bumps, so you do not trip. This will help people from falling while walking outside. What is the best way for Kathy to test her design for the new shoe?

• She should put on the shoe and go for a walk through the house.

• She should put on the shoe and go for a walk through the woods.

• She should put on the shoe and walk on the flat sidewalk on a windy day.

• She should put on the shoe and walk through water.

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Which statement best describes the rainforests climate?

• The rainforest seems to be getting hotter as time passes

• The climate of the rainforest seems to be cooling over time

• Each year in the rainforest is bringing more and more rain

• The temperatures are rising because the precipitation is rising

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Rainstorms and hurricanes wash away parts of the land. Scientists want to find a way to protect Louisiana’s coastline from eroding away. They set up an experiment to see if plants in the soil have an effect on erosion. The amount of water and soil are the same in each box. The only thing different is that one box has plants and the other box only has soil.

The scientist pours the same amount of water into each box. She finds that Pot 2 had the most soil that was washed away. Pot 1 had less soil washed away. What can the scientist learn from these findings?

• Maybe the water that was poured in the box with soil only was cold, and that’s why more erosion happened.

• Both pots had soil in it, so water is powerful and can wash away soil even when there are plants in it.

• More soil washed away in the box with no plants, so I learned the more soil there is the more will wash away.

• Less soil washed away in the box with plants and soil, so planting grasses in soil will help stop erosion.

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Using the data from the table above, how would you describe the climate of De Soto Parish during July?

• The high temperatures in July are usually in the 70s and 80s Fahrenheit, and the low temperatures in July are usually in the 50s and 60s Fahrenheit.

• The month of July in De Soto Parish has a lot of sunshine.

• De Soto Parish usually gets less than 2 inches of precipitation in the month of July.

• Each month of July is warmer than the previous year in July.

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If the place you live has a windy climate, this causes problems because it can cause damage to structures on your property. An engineer drew a diagram of the direction of wind flow when a dune was built in front of a home. After analyzing the diagram, the engineer thinks she had learned how to solve the problem of winds damaging structures on people’s property. He tells the people in the windy community that they can build up the land to create a dune in front of important structures on their property. The engineer believes this dune will cause wind to travel in a different direction away from important structures that people do not want damaged.

Why should the citizens in the community allow the engineer to build these land structures on their property?

• Because it will create an opposing wind motion which redirects the wind in the opposite direction.

• Because it will redirect the flow of wind over the important structure on peoples’ property.

• Because it will completely stop the wind from reaching the structures people are trying to keep safe.

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