Grade 9 Science Worksheets

333 practice questions, 278 drills, 62 printable sheets across 9 chapters. Free, no account, and every answer explained.

What is here

333 practice questions, 278 drills, 62 printable sheets, drawn from Earth & Space Science. You do not need the course to use them — each sheet stands on its own — but the lesson behind every one is free to read if a topic needs explaining first.

Every topic

Investigating Earth

Measurements, Models & EvidencePractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print
Topographic Maps & GradientsPractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print

Chapter quiz · Problem set · Print the whole chapter

Earth’s Interior & Plate Tectonics

Earth's Internal StructurePractice (10) · Drills (8) · Print
Plate BoundariesPractice (10) · Drills (8) · Print
Earthquakes & VolcanoesPractice (11) · Drills (8) · Print
Evidence for Continental DriftPractice (10) · Drills (8) · Print
Earthquake Evidence & Hazard RiskPractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print

Chapter quiz · Problem set · Print the whole chapter

Rocks, Landscapes & Water

Minerals & Their PropertiesPractice (10) · Drills (8) · Print
The Rock CyclePractice (10) · Drills (8) · Print
The Three Rock TypesPractice (11) · Drills (6) · Print
Weathering, Erosion & DepositionPractice (11) · Drills (8) · Print
Groundwater, Watersheds & Water BudgetsPractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print

Chapter quiz · Problem set · Print the whole chapter

Earth’s History

Geologic Time & the Rock RecordPractice (11) · Drills (8) · Print
Fossils & Relative DatingPractice (11) · Drills (8) · Print
Radiometric Dating & Half-LifePractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print
Reconstructing Early EarthPractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print

Chapter quiz · Problem set · Print the whole chapter

Atmosphere & Weather

The Water CyclePractice (10) · Drills (8) · Print
Atmospheric Energy & CirculationPractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print
Air Masses, Fronts & PressurePractice (11) · Drills (8) · Print
Reading Weather PatternsPractice (11) · Drills (8) · Print

Chapter quiz · Problem set · Print the whole chapter

Oceans, Carbon & Climate

Climate & the Greenhouse EffectPractice (11) · Drills (8) · Print
Ocean Circulation & ClimatePractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print
Carbon Cycling & Earth-System FeedbacksPractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print
Climate Evidence, Trends & ProjectionsPractice (9) · Drills (8) · Print

Chapter quiz · Problem set · Print the whole chapter

Earth, Moon & Solar System

Earth, Moon & Sun: Moon PhasesPractice (10) · Drills (8) · Print
Seasons & Earth's TiltPractice (10) · Drills (8) · Print
The Solar SystemPractice (11) · Drills (8) · Print
Gravity, Orbits & TidesPractice (11) · Drills (8) · Print
Predicting Orbits with Mathematical ModelsPractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print

Chapter quiz · Problem set · Print the whole chapter

Stars & the Universe

Stars, Fusion & Element FormationPractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print
Star Properties & H–R DiagramsPractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print
Spectra & Evidence for an Expanding UniversePractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print

Chapter quiz · Problem set · Print the whole chapter

Resources & Human Decisions

Natural Resources: Renewable & NonrenewablePractice (11) · Drills (8) · Print
Human Impact & StewardshipPractice (11) · Drills (8) · Print
Evaluating Environmental SolutionsPractice (8) · Drills (8) · Print

Chapter quiz · Problem set · Print the whole chapter

How to use these

Every sheet here is free, needs no account, and prints from your browser. There are three kinds, and they do different jobs.

  • Practice — the main set for a topic, worked at a desk or printed. Answers and explanations are on the page, folded away until you ask for them.
  • Drills — short retrieval questions meant to be repeated days apart rather than finished once. Spacing them out is the point.
  • Print — the whole lesson, teaching text and all, laid out for paper. Use it when the screen is the problem.

Quizzes and problem sets sit at the end of each chapter and pull from every topic in it, which makes them a fair check of whether something has stuck rather than whether it was just read.