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 scree slope
A sea stack standing off the coast
A huge boulder alone in a flat field
A sandy beach
A.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in
B.A glacier carrying it there and then melting
C.Waves dropping sand along the shore
D.Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A cave in limestone
Rounded pebbles in a river bed
A sea arch
A U-shaped valley
A.A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep
B.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
C.Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along
D.Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock
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Answer key — What Made This Landform?
Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A scree slope — D (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag) 2. A sea stack standing off the coast — A (Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in) 3. A huge boulder alone in a flat field — B (A glacier carrying it there and then melting) 4. A sandy beach — C (Waves dropping sand along the shore)
2.1. A cave in limestone — D (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock) 2. Rounded pebbles in a river bed — C (Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along) 3. A sea arch — B (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland) 4. A U-shaped valley — A (A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep)
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-ESS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.