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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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Chicago

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San Francisco

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37. _______

36. ________

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