It is weather. The weather of an area is the climate
Because they were inexperienced
A. Is the correct answer, due to colonization Spanish and Portuguese are popular languages in Latin America
The correct answer is was working.
You need to use past continuous tense (was working) to denote that an action which was being processed for a period of time has now been interrupted. So, Penelope was working on her homework for a prolonged period of time, and then the doorbell rang and interrupted her.