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 9 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.
Shaken in waterFrozen and thawedBlown with sandPacked with roots
Chalk lost in a week under four treatments. Which wore away the least?
2.
Plot 1Plot 2Plot 3Plot 4
Depth of soil lost from four plots in a year, in millimetres. Which lost least?
3.
North cragSouth cragEast cragWest crag
Ice-shattered fragments collected below four crags, in kilograms. Which crag shed most?
4.
ChalkSandstoneGraniteSlate
Rock lost from four samples in a shaking jar, in grams. Which was hardest?
LessonPrint · 4-ESS2-1 · Set 9 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Wearing the Rock Away
Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.
1.Packed with roots, at 14 tenths of a gram.
2.Plot 2, losing only 4 mm.
3.The north crag, shedding 38 kilograms.
4.Granite, which lost only 3 g and so wore away least.
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.