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.
Set 9 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
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 cave in limestone
Rounded pebbles in a river bed
A delta
A canyon
A.A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea
B.Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along
C.Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock
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 huge boulder alone in a flat field
A sand dune
A sea arch
A.Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag
B.Waves wearing a hole right through a headland
C.Wind piling up loose sand
D.A glacier carrying it there and then melting
LessonPrint · 4-ESS2-1 · Set 9 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What Made This Landform?
Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A cave in limestone — C (Rainwater slowly dissolving the rock) 2. Rounded pebbles in a river bed — B (Stones knocking together as the water rolls them along) 3. A delta — A (A river dropping mud and sand where it slows at the sea) 4. A canyon — D (A river cutting down through rock for millions of years)
2.1. A scree slope — A (Water freezing in cracks and splitting rock from a crag) 2. A huge boulder alone in a flat field — D (A glacier carrying it there and then melting) 3. A sand dune — C (Wind piling up loose sand) 4. A sea arch — B (Waves wearing a hole right through a headland)
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-ESS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.