Cause Identification

This worksheet supports students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 as they analyze how specific pollution sources lead to real environmental consequences. Learners examine causes such as vehicle exhaust, factory waste, pesticide use, oil spills, and landfill leakage, then identify resulting effects on air, water, soil, and ecosystems while strengthening scientific reasoning and environmental literacy.

Learning Goals

• Pollution Causes & Effects (Grades 4-6) – Students connect human activities to their environmental consequences across air, water, and soil systems.
• Environmental Systems Understanding – Learners analyze how pollutants move through ecosystems and create ecological harm.
• Cause-and-Effect Reasoning – Students complete a chart that links specific actions to measurable outcomes.
• Scientific Explanation Skills – A reflection prompt encourages students to explain why understanding these relationships matters for environmental protection.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with upper-elementary environmental science standards.
• Clear, Structured Chart Format – Supports organized thinking and accurate analysis.
• Real-World Relevance – Uses familiar pollution examples to connect learning to everyday life.
• Flexible Classroom Use – Ideal for independent practice, group discussion, review lessons, or assessment.

This cause identification pollution worksheet helps students deepen their understanding of how human actions directly impact the environment. By linking pollution sources to their effects, students strengthen science literacy, critical thinking, and awareness of environmental responsibility. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this printable resource provides meaningful, low-prep practice that supports thoughtful analysis of pollution and environmental protection.

This worksheet is part of our Pollution Worksheets collection.