Process Flowchart Order

This worksheet is designed for students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 to deepen understanding of Earth’s surface processes by sequencing how rock becomes sediment and eventually forms new landforms. Learners read eight scrambled statements describing weathering, erosion by wind, water, ice, or gravity, deposition, organic mixing, and long-term surface change, then place each step in the correct order, building a clear mental model of how these processes work together over time.

Skills Reinforced

• Weathering, Erosion & Deposition (Grades 4-6) – Students understand how these processes connect as stages in one continuous cycle.
• Sequencing & Systems Thinking – Learners organize scientific steps logically to show cause-and-effect relationships.
• Landform Formation by Deposition – Bonus questions reinforce how features like deltas or sand dunes are created.
• Scientific Explanation Writing – Students apply knowledge by explaining real-world landforms in their own words.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with upper-elementary Earth science standards.
• Flowchart-Style Sequencing – Helps students visualize processes as a connected system rather than isolated events.
• Includes Application Challenge – Writing extension strengthens transfer of learning to real examples.
• Low-Prep & Printable – Easy to use for instruction, review, assessment, or homeschool learning.

This printable Earth science worksheet helps students understand Earth’s changing surface as an interconnected process driven by weathering, erosion, and deposition. By sequencing events and applying concepts to real landforms, learners strengthen scientific reasoning, comprehension, and explanatory writing skills. Ideal for classroom or homeschool use, this activity offers a clear, engaging way to reinforce Earth systems and long-term surface change.

This worksheet is part of our Weathering and Erosion Worksheets Collection.