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 12 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.A cliff is retreating 45 cm a year at one point. Judge a solution for the houses above it.
Name the solution
Say what it reduces
Name a cost
LessonPrint · 4-ESS3-2 · Set 12 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Reducing What the Earth Does to Us
Set 12. 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 solution for the retreating cliff, what it reduces, and a cost such as money or moving the erosion elsewhere.
More practice for 4-ESS3-2
Compare designs that reduce the harm from natural Earth processes.