Cause-and-Effect

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 understand how pollution impacts the environment by tracing clear cause-and-effect chains for air, water, and soil pollution. Learners analyze informational scenarios, follow sequences of events, and apply environmental science concepts to see how pollutants move through ecosystems and affect people, animals, and natural resources.

Learning Goals

• Pollution & Environmental Systems (Grades 4-6) – Students examine how air, water, and soil pollution begin and spread through ecosystems.
• Cause-and-Effect Reasoning – Learners complete chains by identifying starting causes, intermediate steps, and final environmental impacts.
• Human Impact Awareness – Reinforces understanding of how everyday human actions influence environmental health.
• Scientific Reading & Interpretation – Students analyze short scenarios to extract relevant information and apply it logically.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with upper-elementary environmental science standards.
• Structured Thinking Format – Cause-and-effect chains support logical sequencing and conceptual clarity.
• Real-World Connections – Focuses on pollution issues students may encounter in daily life.
• Flexible Classroom Use – Ideal for independent practice, small groups, review lessons, or formative assessment.

This cause-and-effect pollution worksheet helps students build foundational skills in environmental science by connecting actions to consequences. By tracing how pollutants travel through air, water, and soil, students strengthen science literacy, critical thinking, and understanding of ecosystems. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this printable resource offers meaningful, low-prep practice that encourages thoughtful reasoning about pollution and environmental responsibility.

This worksheet is part of our Pollution Worksheets collection.