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.
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What Made This Landform?
4-ESS2-1
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Draw a line from each landform to what shaped it.
1.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A sea stack standing off the coast
A canyon
A scree slope
A U-shaped valley
A.A river cutting down through rock for millions of years
B.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in
C.Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag
D.A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A delta
A sea arch
A cave in limestone
Rounded pebbles in a river bed
A.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
B.Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along
C.A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea
D.Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock
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Answer key — What Made This Landform?
Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A sea stack standing off the coast — B (Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in) 2. A canyon — A (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years) 3. A scree slope — C (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag) 4. A U-shaped valley — D (A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep)
2.1. A delta — C (A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea) 2. A sea arch — A (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland) 3. A cave in limestone — D (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock) 4. Rounded pebbles in a river bed — B (Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along)
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-ESS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.