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 20 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.In three storms the upper village, with no defenses, had 14, 9 and 17 homes flooded. The lower village had 11 flooded, then built an earth bank, then had 2 and 3 flooded. Judge the bank as a solution.
Use the flood figures
Say what it reduced
Name one limit
LessonPrint · 4-ESS3-2 · Set 20 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Reducing What the Earth Does to Us
Set 20. 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 judgment on the earth bank using the flood figures, the lower village falling from 11 homes to 2 and 3 while the upper village stayed high, 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.