What Makes the Weather Change

This cycle shows the way water evaporates from Earth’s surface into the air, condenses, and falls back to the surface as precipitation.

What is this cycle called?

• A. the water cycle

• B. the weather cycle

• C. the precipitation cycle

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Which part of the day usually is coolest?

• B. evening

• C. night

• A. afternoon

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What does a weather pattern show?

• A. no change in the weather over time

• B. a weather change that happens once

• C. a weather change that happens over and over

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Every winter it snows in a certain place. Every spring the snow melts and the temperatures rise. What is this an example of?

• A. a year

• B. a weather effect

• C. a weather pattern

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Water moves from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back again through which process?

• A. precipitation

• B. the wind cycle

• C. the water cycle

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What is a weather change that repeats over and over called?

• A. the water cycle

• B. a weather pattern

• C. a weather report

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What is one tool used to track weather?

• B. water cycle

• C. weather prediction

• A. satellite

This chart shows one town’s average temperatures for four months of the year.

Which is true?

• A. May has the warmest average temperature.

• B. December has the coldest average temperature.

• C. September has the warmest average temperature.

You observe the weather for five days and make this chart.

Which observation is correct?

• A. It was coldest during sunny weather.

• B. The temperature was the same on the two rainy days.

• C. On Friday, the temperature was lower than on the days that it rained.

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This diagram shoes three important processes in the water cycle, What does number 1 show?

• Evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

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