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 NGSS performance expectation 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 students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 16 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 students 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.Before groynes were built, 180 kg of sand a week was carried off a beach. Afterward, 40 kg a week was. Judge groynes as a solution.
Say what groynes do
Use the sand figures
Say what happens further along
2.Plowed 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 16 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Reducing What the Earth Does to Us
Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.
1.Groynes trapping sand, using the fall from 180 kg to 40 kg a week, and the drawback that beaches further along the coast lose sand instead.
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.