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 13 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.Ploughed fields lose 19 gullies of soil in a storm and grassed ones lose 2. Judge a solution.
Use the gully figures
Say what it reduces
Name who bears the cost
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
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Answer key — Reducing What the Earth Does to Us
Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.
1.A solution such as grass cover, justified by the gully figures, naming the farmer as bearing the cost.
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.