What Made This Landform? is a free printable Grade 4 science worksheet on linking landforms to the water, ice or wind that wore or built them, aligned to NGSS performance expectation 4-ESS2-1. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask 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 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
C.A river cutting down through rock for millions of years
D.Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A delta
A scree slope
A cave in limestone
A sea arch
A.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
B.Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock
C.A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea
D.Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag
LessonPrint · 4-ESS2-1 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What Made This Landform?
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A U-shaped valley — A (A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep) 2. A canyon — C (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years) 3. A sandy beach — B (Waves dropping sand along the shore) 4. Rounded pebbles in a river bed — D (Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along)
2.1. A delta — C (A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea) 2. A scree slope — D (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag) 3. A cave in limestone — B (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock) 4. A sea arch — A (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland)
Questions about What Made This Landform?
What does the What Made This Landform? worksheet cover?
It practices linking landforms to the water, ice or wind that wore or built them — 2 questions for Grade 4, all on NGSS 4-ESS2-1: Measure what water, ice, wind or plants do to rock and soil. The instruction to students is “Draw a line from each landform to what shaped it”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which NGSS performance expectation does What Made This Landform? practice?
4-ESS2-1, under Earth and Space Science for Grade 4. The published performance expectation reads: “Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.” The worksheet assesses that performance expectation rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
What Made This Landform? is written for Grade 4, typically ages 9-10. It is one of the sheets on 4-ESS2-1, so it suits any student working at that standard — including older students revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does What Made This Landform? come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of What Made This Landform? can I print?
25 — one per student, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is What Made This Landform? free to print and photocopy?
Yes. What Made This Landform?, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
More practice for 4-ESS2-1
Measure what water, ice, wind or plants do to rock and soil.