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 15 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.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
LessonPrint · 4-ESS3-2 · Set 15 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Reducing What the Earth Does to Us
Set 15. 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 such as grass cover, justified by the gully figures, naming the farmer as bearing the cost.
More practice for 4-ESS3-2
Compare designs that reduce the harm from natural Earth processes.