Climate Cause-and-Effect

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 understand how human activities influence Earth’s climate through cause-and-effect reasoning, scientific literacy, and environmental analysis. By examining actions such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and large-scale livestock farming, learners identify resulting climate impacts and strengthen their understanding of greenhouse gases, global systems, and environmental responsibility.

Learning Goals

• Climate Change Causes & Impacts (Grades 4-6) – Identify how specific human activities contribute to climate-related changes.
• Cause-and-Effect Reasoning – Analyze relationships between actions and environmental outcomes using structured charts.
• Climate Systems Understanding – Explore how greenhouse gases and land-use changes affect Earth’s atmosphere.
• Environmental Literacy – Connect global climate issues to everyday human behaviors and decisions.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with upper elementary climate science standards.
• Two-Part Activity Structure – Includes both cause-to-effect completion and reverse matching for deeper understanding.
• Critical Thinking Focus – Requires analysis rather than memorization of climate facts.
• Flexible Classroom Use – Ideal for classwork, homework, review lessons, assessments, or environmental units.

This printable worksheet strengthens students’ ability to think critically about climate change by analyzing how human actions shape environmental outcomes. Learners practice organizing information, recognizing patterns, and explaining complex relationships in clear scientific terms. Well suited for both classroom and homeschool settings, this no-prep activity supports meaningful learning through cause-and-effect reasoning, climate science understanding, and real-world relevance.

This worksheet is part of our Weather and Climate Worksheets collection.