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 sandy beach
A sea stack standing off the coast
A scree slope
A.Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag
B.Wind piling up loose sand
C.Waves dropping sand along the shore
D.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in
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 delta
A.A river cutting down through rock for millions of years
B.A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea
C.A glacier carrying it there and then melting
D.Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along
LessonPrint · 4-ESS2-1 · Set 4 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What Made This Landform?
Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A sand dune — B (Wind piling up loose sand) 2. A sandy beach — C (Waves dropping sand along the shore) 3. A sea stack standing off the coast — D (Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in) 4. A scree slope — A (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag)
2.1. Rounded pebbles in a river bed — D (Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along) 2. A canyon — A (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years) 3. A huge boulder alone in a flat field — C (A glacier carrying it there and then melting) 4. A delta — B (A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea)
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-ESS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.