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Weather & the four seasons
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Worksheet StudioPractice pack · Ages 4-6
Weather & the four seasons
Take your time. Show your thinking.
1. During which season are daylight hours longest and temperatures warmest: summer or winter?
2. What are clouds made of: tiny water droplets and ice crystals, or solid smoke?
3. What do we call a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended near the ground that reduces visibility: fog or hail?
4. What hard pellets of layered ice form inside strong thunderstorm updrafts before falling to the ground: hail or dew?
5. What gentle wind blows from the cooler sea toward the warmer land during a sunny afternoon: a sea breeze or a glacier?
6. What do we call water falling from clouds as rain, snow, sleet or hail: precipitation or transpiration?
7. Why do we see lightning before we hear thunder: light travels faster than sound, or lightning happens closer?
8. What creates a rainbow in the sky: sunlight refracting and reflecting in raindrops, or moonlight on clouds?
9. In which season do many hibernating animals wake and plant buds open as days grow warmer: spring or winter?
10. At what temperature on the Celsius scale does pure water freeze into ice: 0 °C or 100 °C?
11. Which instrument shows the direction the wind is blowing from: a wind vane or a rain gauge?
12. Which instrument measures wind speed: an anemometer or a hygrometer?
12 questions · Seed 43 · Age guidance, not curriculum certification
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Weather & the four seasons
Answers and reasoning. Review before teaching.
1. During which season are daylight hours longest and temperatures warmest: summer or winter?
SummerIn summer, the hemisphere tilts toward the Sun, giving longer days.
2. What are clouds made of: tiny water droplets and ice crystals, or solid smoke?
Tiny water droplets and ice crystalsWarm moist air cools aloft and condenses into tiny droplets or ice crystals.
3. What do we call a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended near the ground that reduces visibility: fog or hail?
FogFog is a cloud in contact with the ground or sea surface.
4. What hard pellets of layered ice form inside strong thunderstorm updrafts before falling to the ground: hail or dew?
HailHailstones grow as updrafts carry water droplets repeatedly above the freezing level.
5. What gentle wind blows from the cooler sea toward the warmer land during a sunny afternoon: a sea breeze or a glacier?
Sea breezeWarm air rising over land draws cooler air inland from the sea.
6. What do we call water falling from clouds as rain, snow, sleet or hail: precipitation or transpiration?
PrecipitationAny form of water falling from clouds to the ground is precipitation.
7. Why do we see lightning before we hear thunder: light travels faster than sound, or lightning happens closer?
Light travels faster than soundLight travels at about 300,000 km/s, whereas sound travels at about 343 m/s in air.
8. What creates a rainbow in the sky: sunlight refracting and reflecting in raindrops, or moonlight on clouds?
Sunlight refracting and reflecting in raindropsRaindrops split white sunlight into a spectrum of colours.
9. In which season do many hibernating animals wake and plant buds open as days grow warmer: spring or winter?
SpringSpring brings increasing daylight and warmth that trigger new growth.
10. At what temperature on the Celsius scale does pure water freeze into ice: 0 °C or 100 °C?
0 °CPure water freezes at 0 °C at standard atmospheric pressure.
11. Which instrument shows the direction the wind is blowing from: a wind vane or a rain gauge?
Wind vaneA wind vane rotates to point into the wind.
12. Which instrument measures wind speed: an anemometer or a hygrometer?
AnemometerSpinning cups on an anemometer measure how fast the wind blows.
12 questions · Seed 43 · Age guidance, not curriculum certification
Worksheet StudioPractice pack · Ages 4-6
Weather & the four seasons
Take your time. Show your thinking.
1. During which season are daylight hours longest and temperatures warmest: summer or winter?
2. What are clouds made of: tiny water droplets and ice crystals, or solid smoke?
3. What do we call a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended near the ground that reduces visibility: fog or hail?
4. What hard pellets of layered ice form inside strong thunderstorm updrafts before falling to the ground: hail or dew?
5. What gentle wind blows from the cooler sea toward the warmer land during a sunny afternoon: a sea breeze or a glacier?
6. What do we call water falling from clouds as rain, snow, sleet or hail: precipitation or transpiration?
7. Why do we see lightning before we hear thunder: light travels faster than sound, or lightning happens closer?
8. What creates a rainbow in the sky: sunlight refracting and reflecting in raindrops, or moonlight on clouds?
9. In which season do many hibernating animals wake and plant buds open as days grow warmer: spring or winter?
10. At what temperature on the Celsius scale does pure water freeze into ice: 0 °C or 100 °C?
11. Which instrument shows the direction the wind is blowing from: a wind vane or a rain gauge?
12. Which instrument measures wind speed: an anemometer or a hygrometer?
12 questions · Seed 43 · Age guidance, not curriculum certification
Worksheet StudioAnswer key · Ages 4-6
Weather & the four seasons
Answers and reasoning. Review before teaching.
1. During which season are daylight hours longest and temperatures warmest: summer or winter?
SummerIn summer, the hemisphere tilts toward the Sun, giving longer days.
2. What are clouds made of: tiny water droplets and ice crystals, or solid smoke?
Tiny water droplets and ice crystalsWarm moist air cools aloft and condenses into tiny droplets or ice crystals.
3. What do we call a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended near the ground that reduces visibility: fog or hail?
FogFog is a cloud in contact with the ground or sea surface.
4. What hard pellets of layered ice form inside strong thunderstorm updrafts before falling to the ground: hail or dew?
HailHailstones grow as updrafts carry water droplets repeatedly above the freezing level.
5. What gentle wind blows from the cooler sea toward the warmer land during a sunny afternoon: a sea breeze or a glacier?
Sea breezeWarm air rising over land draws cooler air inland from the sea.
6. What do we call water falling from clouds as rain, snow, sleet or hail: precipitation or transpiration?
PrecipitationAny form of water falling from clouds to the ground is precipitation.
7. Why do we see lightning before we hear thunder: light travels faster than sound, or lightning happens closer?
Light travels faster than soundLight travels at about 300,000 km/s, whereas sound travels at about 343 m/s in air.
8. What creates a rainbow in the sky: sunlight refracting and reflecting in raindrops, or moonlight on clouds?
Sunlight refracting and reflecting in raindropsRaindrops split white sunlight into a spectrum of colours.
9. In which season do many hibernating animals wake and plant buds open as days grow warmer: spring or winter?
SpringSpring brings increasing daylight and warmth that trigger new growth.
10. At what temperature on the Celsius scale does pure water freeze into ice: 0 °C or 100 °C?
0 °CPure water freezes at 0 °C at standard atmospheric pressure.
11. Which instrument shows the direction the wind is blowing from: a wind vane or a rain gauge?
Wind vaneA wind vane rotates to point into the wind.
12. Which instrument measures wind speed: an anemometer or a hygrometer?
AnemometerSpinning cups on an anemometer measure how fast the wind blows.
12 questions · Seed 43 · Age guidance, not curriculum certification