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 16 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 sandy beach
A canyon
A scree slope
A cave in limestone
A.Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag
B.A river cutting down through rock for millions of years
C.Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock
D.Waves dropping sand along the shore
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A huge boulder alone in a flat field
A sea arch
A U-shaped valley
A sea stack standing off the coast
A.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
B.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in
C.A glacier carrying it there and then melting
D.A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep
LessonPrint · 4-ESS2-1 · Set 16 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What Made This Landform?
Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A sandy beach — D (Waves dropping sand along the shore) 2. A canyon — B (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years) 3. A scree slope — A (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag) 4. A cave in limestone — C (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock)
2.1. A huge boulder alone in a flat field — C (A glacier carrying it there and then melting) 2. A sea arch — A (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland) 3. A U-shaped valley — D (A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep) 4. A sea stack standing off the coast — B (Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in)
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-ESS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.