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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 sand dune
  • A sea arch
  • A cave in limestone
  • A scree slope
  • A.Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag
  • B.Wind piling up loose sand
  • C.Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock
  • D.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
  • A sea stack standing off the coast
  • A canyon
  • Rounded pebbles in a river bed
  • A sandy beach
  • A.Waves dropping sand along the shore
  • B.Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in
  • C.Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along
  • D.A river cutting down through rock for millions of years

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Answer key — What Made This Landform?

Set 7. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A sand dune — B (Wind piling up loose sand) 2. A sea arch — D (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland) 3. A cave in limestone — C (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock) 4. A scree slope — A (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag)
  2. 2.1. A sea stack standing off the coast — B (Waves wearing away an arch until its top falls in) 2. A canyon — D (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years) 3. Rounded pebbles in a river bed — C (Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along) 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.