Wearing the Rock Away is a free printable Grade 4 science worksheet on measuring the effects of weathering and the rate of erosion, aligned to Common Core standard 4-ESS2-1. It prints 4 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 23 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 25 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 23 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.
Wearing the Rock Away
4-ESS2-1
NameDate
Look at the measurements, then answer.
1.
Point APoint BPoint CPoint D
Cliff retreat in centimetres per year at four points. Which retreated fastest?
2.
ChalkSandstoneGraniteSlate
Rock lost from four samples in a shaking jar, in grams. Which was hardest?
3.
Plot 1Plot 2Plot 3Plot 4
Depth of soil lost from four plots in a year, in millimetres. Which lost least?
4.
BareGrassedStonyWooded
Soil washed off four slopes in one storm, in grams. Which slope lost most?
LessonPrint · 4-ESS2-1 · Set 25 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Wearing the Rock Away
Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.
1.Point B, at 45 cm a year.
2.Granite, which lost only 3 g and so wore away least.
3.Plot 2, losing only 4 mm.
4.The bare slope, losing 84 g.
More practice for 4-ESS2-1
Measure what water, ice, wind or plants do to rock and soil.
Teaching this next? Wearing the Rock Away is the 55-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.