Earth Shaping Short Answers

This worksheet requires students to write 2-4 complete-sentence explanations for five real-world scenarios involving weathering, erosion, and deposition. Learners analyze situations such as mountains wearing down, coastal erosion, sediment carried by rivers, glacier movement, and human impacts on hillsides. The task emphasizes scientific vocabulary use while strengthening explanation and reasoning skills. Students must describe how Earth processes work together to shape the landscape over long periods of time. The bonus challenge asks learners to choose a well-known landform and explain how weathering, erosion, and deposition contributed to its formation, reinforcing the interconnectedness of these processes. This worksheet supports accurate scientific writing and conceptual understanding.

Curriculum Matched Skills

Science – Interactions of Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition

Science – Changes to Earth’s Surface Over Time

English Language Arts – Constructed Scientific Responses

Science – Human Impact on Landforms

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