Landform Fill-In

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen knowledge of U.S. physical geography through a sentence-completion activity focused on major landforms. Students read each sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the correct geographic term, using context clues and prior knowledge to identify mountains, deserts, rivers, valleys, and plains found across the United States.

Learning Goals

• Physical Geography and Landforms (Grades 4-6) – Identify major landforms and where they are commonly found.
• Landform Identification – Recognize features such as mountains, deserts, rivers, valleys, and plains.
• Vocabulary in Context – Use sentence clues to apply geographic terms accurately.
• Reading Comprehension and Sentence Completion – Demonstrate understanding by selecting the correct word to complete each sentence.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to support geography, earth science, and ELA standards.
• Cloze-Style Practice – Encourages careful reading and attention to meaning.
• Builds Content Vocabulary – Reinforces key geographic terms through application.
• Flexible Classroom Use – Works well for independent practice, review, small groups, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students build confidence in identifying and using landform vocabulary. By completing sentences about U.S. physical features, learners strengthen comprehension, geographic literacy, and vocabulary skills. It is a simple, no-prep resource for classroom and homeschool settings that supports earth science and social studies instruction.

This worksheet is part of our United States Worksheets collection.