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 20 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 canyon
A sea arch
A.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
B.Wind piling up loose sand
C.A river cutting down through rock for millions of years
D.Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A U-shaped valley
A cave in limestone
Rounded pebbles in a river bed
A sandy beach
A.A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep
B.Waves dropping sand along the shore
C.Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock
D.Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along
LessonPrint · 4-ESS2-1 · Set 20 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What Made This Landform?
Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A scree slope — D (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag) 2. A sand dune — B (Wind piling up loose sand) 3. A canyon — C (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years) 4. A sea arch — A (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland)
2.1. A U-shaped valley — A (A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep) 2. A cave in limestone — C (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock) 3. Rounded pebbles in a river bed — D (Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along) 4. A sandy beach — B (Waves dropping sand along the shore)
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-ESS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.