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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 sea arch
  • A sea stack standing off the coast
  • A U-shaped valley
  • A delta
  • A.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
  • B.A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep
  • C.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in
  • D.A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
  • Rounded pebbles in a river bed
  • A huge boulder alone in a flat field
  • A cave in limestone
  • A sandy beach
  • A.Waves dropping sand along the shore
  • B.A glacier carrying it there and then melting
  • C.Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock
  • D.Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along

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Answer key — What Made This Landform?

Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A sea arch — A (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland) 2. A sea stack standing off the coast — C (Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in) 3. A U-shaped valley — B (A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep) 4. A delta — D (A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea)
  2. 2.1. Rounded pebbles in a river bed — D (Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along) 2. A huge boulder alone in a flat field — B (A glacier carrying it there and then melting) 3. A cave in limestone — C (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock) 4. A sandy beach — A (Waves dropping sand along the shore)

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-ESS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.