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 12 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
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 sea arch
A huge boulder alone in a flat field
A scree slope
A.A glacier carrying it there and then melting
B.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in
C.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
D.Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A delta
A sandy beach
Rounded pebbles in a river bed
A sand dune
A.Waves dropping sand along the shore
B.A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea
C.Wind piling up loose sand
D.Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along
LessonPrint · 4-ESS2-1 · Set 12 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What Made This Landform?
Set 12. 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 sea arch — C (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland) 3. A huge boulder alone in a flat field — A (A glacier carrying it there and then melting) 4. A scree slope — D (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag)
2.1. A delta — B (A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea) 2. A sandy beach — A (Waves dropping sand along the shore) 3. Rounded pebbles in a river bed — D (Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along) 4. A sand dune — C (Wind piling up loose sand)
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-ESS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.