Reducing What the Earth Does to Us is a free printable Grade 4 science worksheet on comparing solutions that reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes, aligned to Common Core standard 4-ESS3-2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 14 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 10 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 14 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
Reducing What the Earth Does to Us
4-ESS3-2
NameDate
Write your answer. Use the checklist.
1.A town below a volcano wants warning of an eruption. Judge a monitoring system.
Say what it detects
Say what people could do
Say what it cannot do
2.One village on the river has an earth bank and one has none. Judge the bank as a solution.
Use the flood figures
Say what it reduced
Name one limit
LessonPrint · 4-ESS3-2 · Set 10 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Reducing What the Earth Does to Us
Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.
1.A monitoring system detecting warning signs so people can leave, with the limit that it cannot stop the eruption.
2.A judgement on the earth bank using the flood figures for both villages, with a limit such as a storm bigger than it was built for.
More practice for 4-ESS3-2
Compare designs that reduce the harm from natural Earth processes.