Grade 6 Worksheets

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• Explain how incremental adjustments to shape, mass distribution, and control surfaces affect aerodynamic performance and safety.
• Identify criteria for evaluating modifications in flight performance.
• Understand trade-offs between speed, stability, and payload in design modifications.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of longitudinal and lateral stability in aircraft and gliders.
• Explain how the center of mass and center of pressure influence static stability.
• Identify design features such as dihedral angles and tail volume that contribute to stability.+ Show more

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• Describe the seasonal patterns in Alberta and how they are influenced by Earth's position and solar geometry.
• Explain the effects of seasonal changes on ecosystems, agriculture, and environment in Alberta.
• Connect astronomical causes to terrestrial environmental cycles in Alberta's climate patterns.

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• Understand various instruments used for data collection in science.
• Learn how to calibrate and record measurements accurately.
• Compare measurement data from different environments such as prairie and mountain settings.+ Show more

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• Understand how genetic differences and environmental factors contribute to observable variation among individuals.
• Explain how models of allele combinations and mutation impact demonstrate genetic variation.
• Describe nonheritable influence factors such as temperature-dependent coloration and nutrient effects on traits.+ Show more

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• Describe the apparent daily motion of the Sun, Moon, and stars from Earth's perspective.
• Explain how Earth's rotation and orbit create observable celestial phenomena.
• Identify the concepts of diurnal rising and setting, and the celestial sphere.+ Show more

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• Understand how species occurrence varies across different ecosystems
• Identify factors that influence biodiversity and species richness
• Analyze data displays related to biodiversity patterns+ Show more

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• Describe various human activities that impact forest ecosystems.
• Identify specific examples of human impacts in Alberta.
• Understand the ecological consequences of habitat fragmentation and pollution.+ Show more

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• Describe the molecular composition of air and how it influences properties like pressure and density.
• Explain how altitude and temperature affect air density and pressure.
• Illustrate regional examples such as Chinook winds and altitude differences to show real-world air property variations.+ Show more

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• Describe how Earth's rotation causes day and night.
• Explain how axial tilt and Earth's orbit influence the length of daylight throughout the year.
• Relate observed daylight patterns in Alberta to Earth's movements and tilt.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of integrated forest management and its ecological, social, and economic objectives.
• Identify strategies such as ecosystem-based management, adaptive harvest planning, and risk monitoring.
• Explain how landscape-scale planning and stakeholder collaboration contribute to sustainable forest practices.+ Show more

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• Understand the importance of systematic sky observations in recognizing celestial patterns.
• Identify key celestial events like sunrise, sunset, Moon phases, and star positions.
• Record and analyze data related to Earth's movements and Moon's phases.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of control coupling in aerodynamics and aircraft control systems.
• Identify how control inputs like yaw, pitch, and roll interact and produce coupled responses.
• Explain techniques used to mitigate adverse control coupling effects such as differential and Frise ailerons.+ Show more

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• Explain how the shape and volume of solids, liquids, and gases differ due to particle behavior.
• Use models of particle motion to describe changes in state and connect them to energy changes.
• Classify everyday materials as solids, liquids, or gases based on observed properties.

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• Explain how the respiratory system exchanges gases through diffusion using concentration differences.
• Describe how the digestive system breaks food into smaller molecules that can enter circulation.
• Connect how oxygen intake and nutrient absorption work together to support energy release in cells.

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• Explain how the cell membrane, cytoplasm, and nucleus contribute to cell survival
• Describe how organelles help cells carry out specialized functions
• Use evidence from a text to answer questions about shared and distinct cell structures

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• Describe how the heart’s rhythmic pumping creates pressure that moves blood through the body
• Compare the roles and structures of arteries, veins, and capillaries
• Explain how capillaries support exchange of oxygen, nutrients, and wastes between blood and body cells

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• Explain gas pressure using the particle model and collisions with container walls
• Describe how changing particle speed, collision frequency, and gas volume affects pressure
• Predict how temperature and pressure are related in sealed and unsealed situations+ Show more

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• Explain how distillation separates components based on differences in boiling point and vapor pressure
• Describe the particle-energy changes that occur during boiling and condensation
• Compare simple distillation and fractional distillation for mixtures with small vs. large boiling-point differences+ Show more

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• Explain how producers capture energy and how consumers obtain energy in a food web.
• Identify primary, secondary, and higher-level consumers and describe their roles.
• Describe how energy transfer limits affect ecosystem productivity and stability.

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• Explain how a food web shows feeding relationships and alternative energy pathways.
• Describe how changes to one species can cause cascading effects through an ecosystem.
• Use food web ideas (connectivity, redundancy, and specialization) to predict stability after disturbances.

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• Identify physical properties that can be used to separate components of a mixture
• Explain why mixture separation does not create a new substance
• Choose an appropriate separation method for a given mixture based on its properties+ Show more

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• Differentiate between heat and temperature using particle motion and energy transfer
• Explain how temperature and heat are affected by the amount of material (mass/size of container)
• Use warming/cooling patterns to describe the direction of energy flow

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• Describe how growth rings form and how ring width and density can reflect environmental conditions.
• Explain how scientists use growth rings and dendrochronology to reconstruct past climate and disturbance events.
• Interpret growth-ring clues to make evidence-based claims about tree age, growth rates, and long-term forest health.

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• Explain how organisms in an ecosystem depend on each other for resources and survival
• Describe how predators, prey, competition, and mutualism affect population sizes
• Predict how a change in one population can ripple through a community

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• Explain how lift, drag, and stability relate to aerodynamic design choices.
• Describe how changes in wing curvature, aspect ratio, and surface area can affect performance.
• Use real-world examples (kites and model gliders) to make predictions about aerodynamic outcomes.

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• Explain how uneven heating of Earth drives rising and sinking air that forms global wind patterns.
• Describe how warm air and cool air differ in density and how that affects movement in the atmosphere.
• Connect atmospheric circulation to moisture transport and the development of storms.+ Show more

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• Identify how different conservation strategies (protected areas, habitat restoration, sustainable harvesting, invasive species control) help ecosystems maintain balance
• Explain how conservation strategies involve trade-offs among ecological goals, economic needs, and social values
• Use monitoring to evaluate whether conservation actions improve habitat and species survival over time

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• Compare the relative sizes and mean distances of the Sun, Earth, and Moon and relate these to their gravitational interactions.
• Explain how gravity between Earth and Moon produces a shared orbital motion around their barycenter.
• Describe how the Sun’s stronger gravity dominates the overall Sun–Earth–Moon system and helps maintain stable orbits.+ Show more

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• Explain how changing perspective can alter a reader’s understanding of events and motives.
• Identify textual evidence that shows what information is foregrounded or backgrounded in a narrative.
• Evaluate how shifts in emotional angle or framing affect reliability and interpretation.

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• Explain how the relative positions of Earth, Moon, and Sun produce lunar phases through line-of-sight illumination and shadowing.
• Sequence the primary lunar phases and describe how they repeat in a predictable pattern.
• Identify conditions for solar and lunar eclipses, including alignment constraints and apparent sizes.

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• Explain how apparent solar motion and local solar noon are used to measure solar time.
• Compare solar time and clock time and identify why they can differ.
• Describe how longitude, time zones, and the equation of time affect timekeeping.+ Show more

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• Determine a story’s theme by identifying the central message or insight the author develops through events and conflicts
• Distinguish theme from topic by explaining how theme connects to character actions and evidence from the text
• Write a clear theme statement that expresses a relationship between ideas (not just a subject)

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• Explain how decomposers break down dead organisms and waste and return matter to the environment.
• Describe how nutrients and atoms move from decomposers to producers and support ecosystem functioning.
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to connect decomposition to nutrient availability in soil and water.

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• Explain how adaptation trade-offs occur when a helpful trait causes a cost.
• Evaluate costs and benefits of traits for survival and niche (habitat/role) occupation.
• Use examples to describe how environmental pressures shape evolutionary outcomes.

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• Differentiate between a fundamental niche and a realized niche and explain why the realized niche is usually smaller.
• Identify how abiotic factors (environmental conditions) and biotic interactions (other species) affect where organisms live and what resources they use.
• Use examples of temporal and spatial partitioning to explain how similar species can coexist.+ Show more

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• Explain what chemical indicators are and how they provide evidence that a chemical reaction has occurred
• Identify common indicator signs such as color change, gas production, precipitate formation, and energy changes
• Distinguish between indicators of chemical change and signs of physical change

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• Explain how oceans absorb, store, and release heat to moderate temperature changes.
• Describe how ocean heat affects evaporation, humidity, and atmospheric stability.
• Connect ocean circulation and ocean heat content changes to possible shifts in weather patterns.+ Show more

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• Explain how photosynthesis converts light energy into chemical energy stored in glucose and other carbon-based molecules.
• Describe the inputs and outputs of photosynthesis, including carbon dioxide, water, glucose, and oxygen.
• Compare the light-dependent reactions and the Calvin cycle in terms of what each one produces.

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• Explain how drag, surface area, and porosity affect a parachute’s descent.
• Describe how terminal velocity relates to mass-to-area ratio in a drag-dominated fall.
• Compare canopy design trade-offs that change descent rate and stability.

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• Explain how Earth’s rotation causes day and night.
• Describe how Earth’s 23.5° axial tilt and orbit around the Sun produce seasonal changes.
• Identify solstices and equinoxes as predictable observational events.+ Show more

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• Explain how behavioral adaptations help organisms survive in changing environments.
• Compare different behavioral strategies such as migration, hibernation, and daily timing.
• Describe how behaviors work alongside structural and physiological traits.

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• Explain why energy transfer between trophic levels is inefficient and decreases at higher levels.
• Describe how energy losses appear as heat and how some energy becomes new biomass.
• Use food chains to predict which trophic levels usually contain less usable energy.

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• Differentiate between systematic error and random error using real-world examples.
• Identify how instrument bias, procedural inconsistency, and environmental variability affect data.
• Use replication and calibration records to estimate uncertainty and judge confidence in conclusions.

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• Differentiate between renewable and nonrenewable natural resources and explain why renewal rates matter.
• Describe how natural resources form and where they are commonly found in regions.
• Analyze environmental and economic impacts of extracting and using natural resources.+ Show more

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• Explain how invasive species are introduced and why they can spread quickly.
• Describe how invasive species can change food webs and habitats.
• Identify both ecological and economic impacts of invasive species.+ Show more

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• Explain how particle arrangement differs between crystalline and amorphous solids.
• Use the particle model to predict how structure affects melting behavior and mechanical properties.
• Compare features such as brittleness, cleavage, and strength using evidence from bonding and order.

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• Explain how the respiratory system brings oxygen to moist exchange surfaces and removes carbon dioxide by diffusion.
• Describe how lung structures and surface area adaptations increase the efficiency of gas exchange.
• Connect respiratory function with circulation in order to supply oxygen and remove metabolic wastes and heat.