This is an 8th grade informational text about the different climates ranging throughout the United States. While reading, students should cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences. Students should also analyze how the text makes connections among and distinctions between ideas, or events (License: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License).