Surface Processes and Landscape Change gives Grade 7 science students a focused way to examine how weathering, erosion, transport, and deposition change Earth's surface. Built around the NGSS lesson topic Earth's Systems, the resource connects individual geologic processes with visible changes in landscapes over time.

From Weathering to Deposition

Students distinguish mechanical weathering from chemical weathering and identify how each changes rock material. They examine erosion as the movement of weathered material by water, ice, wind, and gravity, then connect transported sediment to deposition in a new location.

The worksheet also uses real landforms and surface features as evidence of these processes. Students consider how flowing water can form canyons, waves can contribute to coastal retreat, glaciers can carve valleys and leave moraines, and rivers can build deltas. Soil profiles and rock layers provide additional evidence for recognizing landscape change over time.

What Students Do

The resource combines a science reading passage with multiple-choice questions, true/false statements, short-answer responses, a labeled diagram, a categorization activity, and a short note. Students identify processes, compare types of weathering, connect agents with landscape changes, interpret evidence, and explain relationships such as the connection between erosion and deposition.

What Comes With the Worksheet

• ✔️ Student worksheet on surface processes and landscape change
• ✔️ Separate PDF answer key
• ✔️ Student Notes lines for recording key ideas
• ✔️ Teacher Guide with Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes

Practical Classroom Use

Use this Grade 7 Earth science worksheet as guided practice after instruction, independent classwork, a review activity, or a way to reinforce vocabulary and evidence-based explanations. The reading passage establishes the key ideas before students apply them through different response formats.

The combination of process identification and landscape evidence helps students connect terms such as weathering, erosion, transport, and deposition to observable changes on Earth's surface. The separate answer key and included Teacher Guide also provide support for checking responses and planning classroom discussion.