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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 canyon
  • A sand dune
  • A cave in limestone
  • A sandy beach
  • A.A river cutting down through rock for millions of years
  • B.Wind piling up loose sand
  • 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 U-shaped valley
  • A sea arch
  • A sea stack standing off the coast
  • A.A glacier carrying it there and then melting
  • B.A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep
  • C.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
  • D.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in

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Answer key — What Made This Landform?

Set 22. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A canyon — A (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years) 2. A sand dune — B (Wind piling up loose sand) 3. A cave in limestone — C (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock) 4. A sandy beach — D (Waves dropping sand along the shore)
  2. 2.1. A huge boulder alone in a flat field — A (A glacier carrying it there and then melting) 2. A U-shaped valley — B (A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep) 3. A sea arch — C (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland) 4. A sea stack standing off the coast — D (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.