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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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
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 U-shaped valley
A sea stack standing off the coast
A sand dune
A.Wind piling up loose sand
B.A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep
C.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in
D.A river cutting down through rock for millions of years
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A scree slope
A sandy beach
A huge boulder alone in a flat field
Rounded pebbles in a river bed
A.Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag
B.Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along
C.Waves dropping sand along the shore
D.A glacier carrying it there and then melting
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Answer key — What Made This Landform?
Set 5. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A canyon — D (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years) 2. A U-shaped valley — B (A glacier scraping the valley wide and deep) 3. A sea stack standing off the coast — C (Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in) 4. A sand dune — A (Wind piling up loose sand)
2.1. A scree slope — A (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag) 2. A sandy beach — C (Waves dropping sand along the shore) 3. A huge boulder alone in a flat field — D (A glacier carrying it there and then melting) 4. Rounded pebbles in a river bed — B (Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along)
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-ESS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.