
Part A: What is the meaning of the word climate as it is used in paragraph 1?
Part B: What word from paragraph 1 is the best clue to the meaning of climate?

Why was air conditioning important for hospital patients?
How did air conditioning improve movie theaters and shopping malls? Use details from the text to support your response.

What did you learn from your passage about the invention and how it affected people’s lives?
Why did air conditioning let architects use more glass in skyscraper windows?