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 sand dune
A cave in limestone
A sandy beach
A sea arch
A.Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock
B.Waves dropping sand along the shore
C.Wind piling up loose sand
D.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
Rounded pebbles in a river bed
A canyon
A huge boulder alone in a flat field
A sea stack standing off the coast
A.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in
B.Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along
C.A river cutting down through rock for millions of years
D.A glacier carrying it there and then melting
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Answer key — What Made This Landform?
Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A sand dune — C (Wind piling up loose sand) 2. A cave in limestone — A (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock) 3. A sandy beach — B (Waves dropping sand along the shore) 4. A sea arch — D (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland)
2.1. Rounded pebbles in a river bed — B (Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along) 2. A canyon — C (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years) 3. A huge boulder alone in a flat field — D (A glacier carrying it there and then melting) 4. A sea stack standing off the coast — A (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.