Unit 3 Lesson 3 Check

1. Emily’s science team put a thermometer in the shade outside their classroom window. They recorded the temperature every hour in the table below. What claim is supported by the evidence in the table?

• The temperature went down 4 °C from noon to 1 p.m.
• The temperature went up 10 °C in the first hour.
• The temperature went down 1 °C from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
• The temperature went up 9 °C from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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2. Skylar hangs a thermometer outdoors. What will the thermometer measure?

• Brightness
• Temperature
• Color
• Volume

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3. Two cars are parked for 1 hour. The black car is in the shade. The white car is in sunlight. The black car is cooler. What reasoning could explain this?

• Black cars heat up quickly.
• Small cars heat up slowly.
• Objects in sunlight heat up more than objects in the shade.
• Objects in the shade heat up more than objects in sunlight.

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4. A compost pile is in the shade in the morning and in direct sunlight in the afternoon. Which is a claim about why the time of day could affect the temperature?

• A thermometer works better in the morning.
• A thermometer works better in the afternoon.
• Sunlight increases temperature.
• Sunlight decreases temperature.

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5. Who depends on the suns light and heat to survive?

• All living things
• Plants
• Animals
• Humans

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6. Heat from the sun warms Earths ___________________________.

• Land
• Water
• Air
• All the above

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7. What does temperature measure?

• How hot something is.
• How cold something is.
• How hot or cold something is.
• How heavy something is.

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8. What tool is used to measure temperature?

• Pan balance
• Milliliters
• Thermometer
• None of the above

9. What happens to the Earth when the sun goes down?

• It gets warmer.
• It gets cooler.
• It stays the same.
• The moon comes out.

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10. Without the suns energy, heat is ___________________________.

• lost
• found
• produced
• consumed

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