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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 scree slope
  • A sea stack standing off the coast
  • A sandy beach
  • A delta
  • A.A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea
  • B.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in
  • C.Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag
  • D.Waves dropping sand along the shore
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
  • A canyon
  • A sea arch
  • A cave in limestone
  • A huge boulder alone in a flat field
  • A.Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock
  • B.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
  • C.A glacier carrying it there and then melting
  • D.A river cutting down through rock for millions of years

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Answer key — What Made This Landform?

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A scree slope — C (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag) 2. A sea stack standing off the coast — B (Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in) 3. A sandy beach — D (Waves dropping sand along the shore) 4. A delta — A (A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea)
  2. 2.1. A canyon — D (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years) 2. A sea arch — B (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland) 3. A cave in limestone — A (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock) 4. A huge boulder alone in a flat field — C (A glacier carrying it there and then melting)

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-ESS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.