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Grade 4 Earth’s Features Practice Test

Build Grade 4 Science skills with five 10-question practice tests on mountains, plateaus, plains, valleys, islands, rivers, lakes, coastlines, maps, elevation, and Earth surface changes.

Earth’s Features Practice Tests

These Grade 4 Science practice tests help students identify landforms and water features and use maps to describe Earth’s surface. Students study mountains, plateaus, plains, valleys, islands, peninsulas, rivers, lakes, coastlines, elevation, and the processes that shape features over time.

Skills covered

  • Identifying common landforms and water features
  • Using map keys, symbols, scales, compass roses, and elevation information
  • Describing rivers, watersheds, glaciers, bays, waterfalls, and groundwater
  • Connecting landforms to uplift, volcanism, weathering, erosion, and deposition
  • Using maps and observations as evidence of Earth changes
  • Comparing the shapes, locations, and elevations of Earth features

How to use these practice tests

Focus on the defining shape or location of each feature. Use the map legend, scale, compass rose, and elevation information when a map is described. Then connect the feature to the Earth process that may have formed or changed it.

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Grade 4 Earth’s Features Practice Tests

A 10-question Grade 4 Science practice test on landforms, water features, maps, elevation, rivers, coastlines, and Earth surface changes.

Read each description or map situation and choose the answer that best identifies the landform, water feature, map tool, or Earth process.

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1. QuestionMultiple choice

How can mountains form?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is Earth’s crust can move upward when tectonic plates push together..

  1. Identify the feature: Look at the shape, location, water connection, or map information in the description.
  2. Use the Earth science clue: Movement of Earth’s crust can uplift and fold land into mountains.
  3. Confirm the classification: The correct choice is Earth’s crust can move upward when tectonic plates push together..

Movement of Earth’s crust can uplift and fold land into mountains.

2. QuestionMultiple choice

How can a volcano change a landform?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Lava and ash can build new layers of rock at the surface..

  1. Identify the feature: Look at the shape, location, water connection, or map information in the description.
  2. Use the Earth science clue: Eruptions add lava and ash that can form or change landforms.
  3. Confirm the classification: The correct choice is Lava and ash can build new layers of rock at the surface..

Eruptions add lava and ash that can form or change landforms.

3. QuestionMultiple choice

How can a canyon become deeper?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is A river can erode the rock and soil in its channel over time..

  1. Identify the feature: Look at the shape, location, water connection, or map information in the description.
  2. Use the Earth science clue: Long-term erosion by moving water can deepen and widen a canyon.
  3. Confirm the classification: The correct choice is A river can erode the rock and soil in its channel over time..

Long-term erosion by moving water can deepen and widen a canyon.

4. QuestionMultiple choice

How can a delta grow at a river mouth?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is The river deposits sediment as its water slows..

  1. Identify the feature: Look at the shape, location, water connection, or map information in the description.
  2. Use the Earth science clue: Slower water loses energy and settles sediment near the river mouth.
  3. Confirm the classification: The correct choice is The river deposits sediment as its water slows..

Slower water loses energy and settles sediment near the river mouth.

5. QuestionMultiple choice

How can waves change a beach?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is Waves can erode some sand and deposit sand in other places..

  1. Identify the feature: Look at the shape, location, water connection, or map information in the description.
  2. Use the Earth science clue: Wave action can both remove and deposit coastal sediment.
  3. Confirm the classification: The correct choice is Waves can erode some sand and deposit sand in other places..

Wave action can both remove and deposit coastal sediment.

6. QuestionMultiple choice

How can a glacier shape a valley?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Moving ice can scrape and widen the valley into a broad shape..

  1. Identify the feature: Look at the shape, location, water connection, or map information in the description.
  2. Use the Earth science clue: Glacial erosion can create broad valleys and move rock debris.
  3. Confirm the classification: The correct choice is Moving ice can scrape and widen the valley into a broad shape..

Glacial erosion can create broad valleys and move rock debris.

7. QuestionMultiple choice

How can people change an Earth feature?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is Building a dam can change the flow of a river..

  1. Identify the feature: Look at the shape, location, water connection, or map information in the description.
  2. Use the Earth science clue: Human structures such as dams can alter water movement and nearby land.
  3. Confirm the classification: The correct choice is Building a dam can change the flow of a river..

Human structures such as dams can alter water movement and nearby land.

8. QuestionMultiple choice

How can maps from different years show a changing coastline?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is They can show that the shoreline moved because of erosion or deposition..

  1. Identify the feature: Look at the shape, location, water connection, or map information in the description.
  2. Use the Earth science clue: Comparing maps over time provides evidence of coastal change.
  3. Confirm the classification: The correct choice is They can show that the shoreline moved because of erosion or deposition..

Comparing maps over time provides evidence of coastal change.

9. QuestionMultiple choice

What feature may form where a river meets an ocean and drops sediment?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A delta.

  1. Identify the feature: Look at the shape, location, water connection, or map information in the description.
  2. Use the Earth science clue: A delta is a sediment deposit near a river mouth.
  3. Confirm the classification: The correct choice is A delta.

A delta is a sediment deposit near a river mouth.

10. QuestionMultiple choice

Which process can lower a mountain slope over a very long time?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Weathering and erosion.

  1. Identify the feature: Look at the shape, location, water connection, or map information in the description.
  2. Use the Earth science clue: Weathering breaks material down and erosion carries it away.
  3. Confirm the classification: The correct choice is Weathering and erosion.

Weathering breaks material down and erosion carries it away.

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Frequently asked questions about Grade 4 Earth’s Features

What is a landform?

A landform is a natural feature of Earth’s solid surface, such as a mountain, plain, valley, plateau, or canyon.

What can an elevation map show?

An elevation map can show how high or low different places are and help readers compare the shape of the land.

How many questions are on this page?

The page includes five mini tests with 10 questions each, for 50 Grade 4 Earth’s Features questions in total.