Grade 11 Science Worksheets

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• Describe mechanisms that control gene expression in eukaryotic cells.
• Explain the roles of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin modifications.
• Identify post-transcriptional processes involved in gene regulation.+ Show more

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• Explain how atomic radius, ionization energy, and electronegativity vary across the periodic table.
• Describe how periodic trends influence element bonding and material properties.
• Connect periodic patterns to real-world examples such as corrosion and alloying in Alberta metallurgy.+ Show more

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• Understand the types of intermolecular forces and their effects on physical properties of substances.
• Compare how different molecules with similar formulas exhibit varying solubility and phase behavior due to intermolecular interactions.
• Explain why energy is required to separate molecules in different states based on intermolecular forces.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy transfers occur through work and heat, and how they affect internal and kinetic energy
• Apply conservation of energy to energy budgets for closed and open systems
• Use quantitative relationships (including calorimetry and work–energy analysis) to solve physics problems+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of acid-base chemistry in environmental contexts.
• Analyze pH trends and buffering capacity in ecological systems.
• Apply stoichiometry and titration data to assess neutralization requirements.+ Show more

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• Identify and describe the effects of gravity, normal force, friction, and tension on objects.
• Determine how net force (vector sum) relates to changes in motion, including the direction of acceleration.
• Apply force-type concepts to analyze real-world situations such as sliding blocks and astronauts in spacecraft.

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• Explain how physical and chemical contaminants move through ecosystems from point and nonpoint sources.
• Evaluate contaminant fate processes such as transport, bioaccumulation, and biomagnification across a food web.
• Analyze how nutrients, heavy metals, and persistent organic pollutants affect community composition and ecological risk.+ Show more

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• Define solute and solvent in the context of solutions.
• Understand concentration units and how they describe solution strength.
• Explain the microscopic interactions during dissolution and how temperature and pressure affect solution formation.+ Show more

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• Explain charge, current, potential difference, and resistance as macroscopic circuit quantities
• Use Ohm’s law and series/parallel combinations to predict changes in circuit behavior
• Apply Kirchhoff’s loop and junction rules to check circuit consistency+ Show more

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• Explain the energy changes involved in the formation and breaking of chemical bonds.
• Describe how reaction energetics determine whether a reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
• Analyze energy diagrams to interpret reaction energy profiles and activation energy barriers.+ Show more

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• Understand the mechanisms of heat transfer—conduction, convection, and radiation.
• Identify examples of conduction through metal, convection in fluids, and radiation from hot surfaces.
• Explain the process of heat flow during phase changes and temperature change.+ Show more

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• Convert between mass, moles, and particle counts using molar mass and Avogadro’s number
• Determine the limiting reagent and calculate theoretical and percent yield from balanced chemical equations
• Derive empirical and molecular formulas from percent composition and molar-mass information

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• Represent motion using vectors (position, velocity, acceleration) and interpret components in kinematics problems.
• Apply Newton’s laws to analyze forces, including friction, and use impulse-momentum when forces act over short times.
• Use energy methods and conservation principles to compute speeds and predict motion efficiently.+ Show more

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• Explain how thermal-driven circulation in Earth’s mantle can transport heat and redistribute material.
• Describe how upwelling, downwelling, and mantle plumes relate to plate motion and surface tectonics.
• Interpret how seismic tomography and gravity anomalies provide evidence for complex mantle flow patterns.+ Show more

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• Describe the key characteristics of waves, including amplitude, frequency, wavelength, and speed.
• Explain wave behaviors such as reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference.
• Understand the concept of resonance and how it amplifies oscillations in systems.

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• Understand the concept of oxidation numbers and their role in redox reactions
• Identify oxidants and reductants based on oxidation states
• Explain the connection between redox reactions and electrochemical cell potentials+ Show more

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• Understand how energy from the sun is captured by producers in ecosystems
• Identify the pathways of energy transfer among producers, consumers, and decomposers
• Describe the role of primary production in ecosystems+ Show more

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• Explain how energy moves through trophic levels and distinguish primary production, gross productivity, and net productivity.
• Calculate and interpret basic energy-flow ideas using transfer efficiency and secondary production concepts.
• Describe top-down and bottom-up controls, trophic cascades, and why decomposers are essential for ecosystem function and resilience.

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• Compare prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell organization, including the presence or absence of a nucleus and membrane-bound compartments.
• Explain how organelle ultrastructure (e.g., cristae, thylakoids, rough and smooth ER) supports metabolic and transport functions.
• Use microscopy-derived reasoning to relate cell structures to surface-area-to-volume constraints and diffusion/transport limits.

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• Understand the concepts of position, displacement, speed, and velocity
• Differentiate between position and displacement
• Describe how speed and velocity relate to motion+ Show more

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• Identify different types of chemical bonds: ionic, covalent, and metallic.
• Understand how bonding types influence material properties such as melting point, conductivity, hardness, and solubility.
• Compare properties of ionic solids, metallic substances, and covalent networks using real-world examples.+ Show more

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• Use the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium model to calculate expected genotype frequencies from allele frequencies
• Evaluate departures from Hardy–Weinberg expectations using chi-square tests and confidence intervals
• Interpret sampling error, population size effects, and probability models for fixation versus loss in evolutionary genetics+ Show more

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• Understand the different methods of remote sensing used in landscape monitoring.
• Identify key technologies such as satellite imagery, aerial photography, and LiDAR.
• Explain concepts like land cover classification, vegetation indices, and change detection.+ Show more

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• Explain how physical and chemical contaminants move through ecosystems and how their fate changes over time
• Compare point-source and nonpoint-source contamination and predict likely transport pathways
• Describe bioaccumulation and biomagnification and how they can alter food-web structure+ Show more

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• Explain how water moves through the atmosphere and hydrosphere using evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, infiltration, and groundwater flow.
• Analyze how ocean circulation and currents redistribute heat and moisture, affecting humidity and atmospheric pressure patterns.
• Evaluate how changes in sea surface temperature and atmospheric stability can influence regional precipitation and storm behavior during events like El Niño and La Niña.

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• Explain how energy transfers between systems using work, heat, and internal energy while applying conservation of energy.
• Use quantitative relationships for mechanical and thermal energy transfer (e.g., work–energy and calorimetry).
• Evaluate energy efficiency and describe how energy conversions relate to bond energy and thermochemical change.

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• Convert moles to grams using molar mass
• Convert moles to particles using Avogadro’s number
• Relate moles of ideal gas to volume at standard conditions+ Show more

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• Understand the basic components and structure of DNA.
• Identify how complementary base pairing contributes to DNA function.
• Describe the significance of DNA's double helix and major/minor grooves in biological processes.+ Show more

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• Identify the main components of DNA and their functions.
• Explain the structure of DNA as a double helix with complementary base pairing.
• Describe how DNA sequences vary and relate to genetic information.

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• Identify major reservoirs of carbon in the Earth's system.
• Describe fluxes of carbon between reservoirs.
• Explain human impacts on the carbon cycle.+ Show more

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• Explain how mutations change DNA and how they can affect gene function or gene regulation
• Analyze how mutations create genetic variation that can influence evolution
• Describe how genetic variation can be reshuffled through recombination during sexual reproduction+ Show more

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• Understand the process of meiotic recombination and its role in genetic variation.
• Identify key mechanisms such as crossing over and independent assortment.
• Explain how chromosomal segregation and chiasmata formation contribute to inheritance.+ Show more

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• Define uniform and non-uniform circular motion.
• Identify the key forces acting on objects in circular motion.
• Explain the concepts of centripetal acceleration and tangential acceleration.+ Show more

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• Explain how conduction, convection, and radiation transfer thermal energy.
• Identify the physical conditions or materials in which each heat-transfer mechanism is most effective.
• Interpret real-world examples (hot drinks, heated rooms, and sunlight) using the correct heat-transfer model.

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• Understand how diseases and environmental factors affect organ system function.
• Identify mechanisms through which pathogens, toxins, and lifestyle influence health.
• Analyze how external and internal insults cascade to produce systemic complications.+ Show more

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• Explain how molecular structure factors (bond polarity, atom size, electronegativity, resonance stabilization, and oxidation state) influence acid strength
• Predict relative acidity for oxyacids and halogen-substituted acids using electron-withdrawing effects
• Connect acid formation in Alberta’s environment to combustion products and precipitation acidity

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• Identify Earth's major reservoirs: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, biosphere.
• Understand how solar energy input influences Earth's processes.
• Describe energy exchanges among Earth's systems and feedback mechanisms.+ Show more

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• Explain how dominance, recessiveness, and carrier states affect observable traits across generations.
• Use Punnett-square reasoning to predict expected offspring genotypes and phenotypes.
• Differentiate autosomal inheritance patterns from sex-linked inheritance patterns.

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• Analyze how natural resource availability affects human settlement, land use, and economic development.
• Explain how natural hazards and climate change influence migration, coastal settlement, and land management decisions.
• Evaluate the feedbacks between resource extraction, ecosystem services, and sustainability across regions and history.+ Show more

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• Identify major cell components in eukaryotic cells and describe the functions of membrane-bound organelles.
• Explain how non-membrane-bound structures like the cytoskeleton support cell shape and transport.
• Connect organelle roles to larger processes such as protein synthesis, energy conversion, and cellular degradation.

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• Identify and describe the different trophic levels in a food chain
• Explain the flow of energy across trophic levels
• Understand concepts of primary production, gross and net productivity, and secondary production+ Show more

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• Define combustion reactions and identify their key features.
• Understand the process of oxidation in fuels during combustion.
• Differentiate between complete and incomplete combustion.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of gas laws and how they relate to mole ratios in chemical reactions.
• Apply gas law equations to calculate volumes of gases under different conditions.
• Convert gas volumes between standard and nonstandard conditions relevant to Alberta's industrial context.+ Show more

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• Analyze elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions using conservation of momentum.
• Determine when kinetic energy is conserved and use energy partitioning in inelastic collisions.
• Compare laboratory and center-of-mass perspectives to predict post-collision velocities using algebra and vectors.+ Show more

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• Explain how protein targeting and vesicular transport connect the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, lysosomes, and other organelles.
• Describe how cells sort proteins for secretion versus degradation using signals and post-translational labels.
• Compare mitochondrial, chloroplast, and peroxisomal import mechanisms with endomembrane trafficking.

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• Understand and explain basic wave characteristics such as wavelength, frequency, amplitude, and wave speed.
• Describe wave phenomena including superposition, interference, standing waves, and Doppler effects.
• Apply principles of optics including reflection, refraction, and lens imaging to real-world scenarios.+ Show more

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• Explain how reproductive isolation leads to the formation of distinct species through genetic divergence
• Compare allopatric and sympatric speciation using examples of barriers to gene flow
• Distinguish prezygotic and postzygotic reproductive barriers and predict their effects on interbreeding+ Show more

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• Explain the molecular mechanisms involved in DNA replication fidelity and repair.
• Identify various pathways of DNA repair and their roles in genome stability.
• Describe the causes and consequences of mutations resulting from DNA damage and replication errors.+ Show more