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 15 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 cave in limestone
A U-shaped valley
A scree slope
A canyon
A.A river cutting down through rock for millions of years
B.Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock
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 sea stack standing off the coast
A sea arch
Rounded pebbles in a river bed
A sand dune
A.Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along
B.Wind piling up loose sand
C.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in
D.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
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Answer key — What Made This Landform?
Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A cave in limestone — B (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock) 2. A U-shaped valley — D (A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep) 3. A scree slope — C (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag) 4. A canyon — A (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years)
2.1. A sea stack standing off the coast — C (Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in) 2. A sea arch — D (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland) 3. Rounded pebbles in a river bed — A (Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along) 4. A sand dune — B (Wind piling up loose sand)
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-ESS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.