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Grade 3 Weathering, Erosion & Rock Layers Worksheet with Answers
Grade 3 (US) · Year 4 (UK) · Class 3 (India) · Science
Unit 6: Going FurtherAdvanced: Grade 4 PreviewNGSS 4-ESS2-1Advanced
How weathering, erosion and deposition shape land, and what rock layers reveal. This free upper elementary worksheet has 11 questions and a full answer key. Print it or save it as a PDF — every answer is checked by code, not guessed.
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Learning goal: Advanced: Grade 4 Preview · NGSS 4-ESS2-1
Directions: Read each question carefully and write your answer on the line.
RememberThe rock cycle
- 1
Rock layers show a fish fossil below a land-plant fossil. What changed?
- 2
What forms when a river drops sediment where it meets the sea?
- 3
How does ice break rocks?
- 4
Why do mountains in old ranges look rounder?
- 5
What is erosion?
- 6
What landform does wind erosion make in a desert?
- 7
Why are the lowest rock layers usually the oldest?
- 8
Name something that causes weathering.
- 9
What carved U-shaped valleys?
- 10
What is deposition?
- 11
What is weathering?
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I am water you can't pour because I am frozen. What am I?
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Answer key — Weathering, Erosion & Rock Layers (Grade 3)
- 1.the area was once water, then became land
- 2.a delta
- 3.water freezes in cracks, expands and splits the rock
- 4.they have been weathered and eroded for longer
- 5.moving weathered rock and soil to a new place
- 6.sand dunes (or arches)
- 7.they were deposited first
- 8.water, ice, wind or plant roots (any one)
- 9.glaciers
- 10.dropping sediment in a new place
- 11.breaking rock into smaller pieces
- ★ice
Answer key (click to show)
- 1.the area was once water, then became land
- 2.a delta
- 3.water freezes in cracks, expands and splits the rock
- 4.they have been weathered and eroded for longer
- 5.moving weathered rock and soil to a new place
- 6.sand dunes (or arches)
- 7.they were deposited first
- 8.water, ice, wind or plant roots (any one)
- 9.glaciers
- 10.dropping sediment in a new place
- 11.breaking rock into smaller pieces
- ★ice (challenge corner)
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