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 14 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 scree slope
A sand dune
A huge boulder alone in a flat field
A U-shaped valley
A.Wind piling up loose sand
B.Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag
C.A glacier carrying it there and then melting
D.A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A sea stack standing off the coast
A canyon
A cave in limestone
A sea arch
A.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
B.A river cutting down through rock for millions of years
C.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in
D.Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock
LessonPrint · 4-ESS2-1 · Set 14 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What Made This Landform?
Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A scree slope — B (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag) 2. A sand dune — A (Wind piling up loose sand) 3. A huge boulder alone in a flat field — C (A glacier carrying it there and then melting) 4. A U-shaped valley — D (A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep)
2.1. A sea stack standing off the coast — C (Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in) 2. A canyon — B (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years) 3. A cave in limestone — D (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock) 4. A sea arch — A (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland)
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-ESS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.