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Third Grade Unit Test
Weather and Astronomy
Part 4
1. Which picture correctly shows the relationship between Earth, the sun, and the moon?
A. C.
B. D.
2. Which picture shows evaporation?
A. C.
B. D.
3. After it rains, some water soaks into the soil and becomes _____________.
A. groundwater
B. precipitation
C. condensation
D. atmosphere
4. When liquid or frozen water falls from the sky it is called __________.
A. water cycle
B. atmosphere
C. condensation
D. precipitation
5. On a cold day, you can breathe on a window and it may fog up. This is an example of ___________________.
A. evaporation
B. condensation
C. precipitation
D. conservation
6. What makes a wet beach towel lying over a chair dry out?
A. condensation
B. evaporation
C. accumulation
D. conservation
7. A student recorded this data in his journal. What two tools did he use?
A. anemometer and thermometer
B. rain gauge and wind vane
C. rain gauge and thermometer
D. wind vane and anemometer
A place where two air masses of different temperatures meet is called ________.
A. temperature
B. evaporation
C. precipitation
D. a front
9-11. Match the weather tools form the box to what they measure.
A. B. C. D.
____ 9. wind speed
_____ 10. wind direction
_____11. the amount of precipitation
12. Freshwater can be found in all these places EXCEPT ______________.
A. lakes
B. ponds
C. glaciers
D. oceans
13. Which picture shows condensation?
A. C.
B. D.
14. Which picture shows precipitation?
A. C.
B. D.
15. This is a diagram of the __________.
A. simple machines
B. weather map
C. water cycle
D. atmosphere
16. Letter D on the diagram shows __________.
A. condensation
B. evaporation
C. wind
D. precipitation
17. Letter C on the diagram shows __________.
A. groundwater
B. evaporation
C. wind
D. condensation
18. In places where warm and cold air meet, there is most likely to be ______.
A. precipitation
B. sunshine
C. a hurricane
D. a flood
19. ______________ is the measurement of how hot or cold something is.
A. Wind
B. Front
C. Temperature
D. Weather
Identify each moon phase.
|A. full moon |B. new moon |C. crescent moon |D. quarter moon |
20. __________ 21. __________ 22. __________ 23. __________
Use the following map to answer Questions 24 and 25.
24. What kind of weather is in the northeast United States?
A. cold and snowing
B. cold and clear skies
C. warm and raining
D. cold and raining
25. In what city is the high temperature in the 70s and the weather is sunny?
A. Seattle
B. San Francisco
C. Houston
D. Miami
26. An estuary is __________________.
A. a body of fresh water
B. a place where fresh water rivers meet saltwater oceans
C. water under the ground
D. a body of salt water
27. Water is a ______________ resource.
A. renewable
B. nonrenewable
C. recyclable
D. atmosphere
28. The diagram shows __________, the spinning of an object on its axis.
A. revolution
B. orbit
C. eclipse
D. rotation
29. Earth spins, or rotates, on its axis once every __________.
A. 24 hours
B. 365 days
C. 29 days
D. 12 hours
30. When the moon appears to change shape as it moves through its phases
every 29 ½ days is the __________.
A. solar eclipse
B. lunar cycle
C. lunar eclipse
D. seasons
31. More direct light from the sun gives more light and heat to the surface of
Earth, causing _________.
A. winter
B. night
C. revolution
D. summer
32. Which is NOT a true fact about the sun?
A. The sun is a hot ball of glowing gas.
B. The sun is the center of our solar system.
C. The sun has a strong gravitational pull.
D. The sun has a weak gravitational pull.
33. This diagram shows a ________.
A. crescent moon
B. solar eclipse
C. lunar eclipse
D. new moon
34. Earth’s revolution and its tilt cause the __________.
A. days
B. months
C. seasons
D. years
35. Which moon phase is missing?
A. B. C. D.
Use the following diagram and word bank to answer questions 36-37. Fill in the diagram with the correct names of the planets.
|A. Mercury |B. Mars |C. Jupiter |D. Saturn |
38. According to the diagram, what is at the center of our solar system?
A. a large rock
B. the sun
C. an asteroid
D. Earth
39. Four astronauts left in four different space ships from four different planets to travel to the sun. If they left at the same time and their space ships move at the same speed, the astronaut to reach the sun first will be from the planet __________.
A. Earth
B. Jupiter
C. Neptune
D. Venus
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