Grade 6 Science Worksheets

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• Explain how nutrient loading causes eutrophication in aquatic ecosystems and how it affects dissolved oxygen.
• Describe how chemical contaminants can disrupt hormones in amphibians and harm biodiversity.
• Connect bioaccumulation and biomagnification to contaminant residues and effects on top predators.

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• Explain how adaptations help organisms survive when environmental conditions fit their traits.
• Describe how changes in conditions can shift survival and reproduction within a population.
• Connect adaptation over generations to changes in ecosystems and resilience.

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• Explain the difference between static and dynamic stability using center of gravity and aerodynamic effects
• Describe how wing geometry and control surfaces influence longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability
• Identify stability behaviors such as damping, phugoid, and Dutch roll and their implications for safe control+ Show more

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• Describe how different observational instruments (optical, radio, spectrometers, and space-based observatories) collect information about the solar system.
• Explain how wavelength helps determine composition, motion, and temperature of space objects.
• Compare ground-based and space-based observing platforms and identify key advantages of avoiding atmospheric distortion.

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• Explain how the changing relative positions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon create the visible fractions of the Moon during its phases.
• Describe the typical sequence of lunar phases and relate it to the Moon’s repeating cycle over time.
• Distinguish lunar phase appearance from eclipse circumstances using observational patterns.

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• Explain how charge transfer during rubbing or contact can create temporary static electricity.
• Use the triboelectric series idea to predict the usual direction of charge tendency for common materials.
• Describe attraction, repulsion, and spark discharge as effects of electrostatic charge behavior.+ Show more

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• Explain the roles of ammeters and voltmeters in measuring electrical quantities.
• Use the units of ampere (A) and volt (V) to interpret instrument readings.
• Predict how ideal instruments behave when connected in series or parallel in simple circuits.+ Show more

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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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• Explain how the heart and blood vessels work together to move blood through the body.
• Describe how oxygen, glucose, carbon dioxide, and wastes are transported during circulation.
• Connect circulation to the respiratory and digestive systems.

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• Identify common forms of energy (kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, electrical) and describe what they have to do with in everyday systems.
• Explain how energy can transform from one form to another (including examples like sunlight to chemical energy and combustion to thermal energy).
• Use energy vocabulary to predict how energy moves in natural and engineered processes.

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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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• Identify major cell parts (cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, and organelles) and describe their functions.
• Explain how cell structure helps life processes happen in an organized way.
• Compare the roles of shared cell parts and how specialized organelles support controlled chemical reactions.

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• Explain how cells convert energy and exchange materials to support life processes.
• Describe photosynthesis and cellular respiration as linked pathways for energy transfer and gas exchange.
• Use the ideas of diffusion and transport to predict how materials move across cell membranes.

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• Describe key structures of the respiratory and digestive systems and explain how each structure supports its function.
• Explain how gas exchange in the lungs happens through efficient diffusion driven by concentration differences.
• Model how digestion breaks food into smaller molecules that can enter circulation.+ Show more

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• Explain how evaporation, precipitation, and runoff move water through the water cycle.
• Describe how infiltration and groundwater recharge help store freshwater over time.
• Analyze how land cover and temperature affect streamflow and local humidity.

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• Explain what a design problem is and identify the need behind the problem
• Use measurable requirements and constraints to evaluate potential solutions
• Generate solution ideas using sketches, dimensions, and performance goals+ Show more

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• Identify trends on graphs, such as increasing, decreasing, plateau, and curved change.
• Describe graph patterns using quantitative language (including axis values and units).
• Use evidence from scatter plots and line graphs to make comparisons between conditions.+ Show more

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• Explain how heat transfer affects the energy and motion of particles in matter.
• Compare melting, freezing, evaporation, and boiling as changes in state.
• Use the particle model to predict how temperature and state changes are related.+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth’s axial tilt changes the solar angle across the year
• Describe how changes in solar angle affect day length and seasonal heating
• Connect seasonal tilt to climate and observable patterns in Alberta

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• Describe how the Sun’s position changes during the day and how that changes shadow length and direction.
• Explain how seasonal changes in Sun angle affect the longest and shortest shadows over the year.
• Use observations of shadows to connect Earth’s rotation and axial tilt to day/night and seasons.

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• Describe how the apparent motion of the sky can be identified through systematic observations over time
• Use recorded patterns (sunrise/sunset, Moon phases, and star positions) to explain repeating cycles
• Relate observed sky changes to Earth’s rotation and orbit and the Moon’s orbit around Earth

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• Describe major ways humans impact forests and related habitats.
• Explain how human impacts can change habitat connectivity, soil, water quality, and species composition.
• Identify examples of cumulative effects and how they influence ecological processes.

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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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• Explain why choosing a measurement tool and units affects the accuracy of collected data.
• Use measurement tools responsibly by calibrating and recording observations consistently.
• Represent measurement information clearly so it can be compared across time and locations.

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• Explain what measurement uncertainty means and why it affects the confidence of conclusions
• Identify common sources of uncertainty in real scientific measurements
• Estimate uncertainty using repeated measurements and compare results using ranges or percent error

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• Identify safe choices for using common field measurement tools (thermometers, pH probes, handheld anemometers, and electronic dataloggers).
• Describe proper handling, storage, cleaning, and battery management to prevent equipment damage and incorrect data.
• Explain how to reduce contamination of samples and protect people when working near wetlands or river edges.

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• Explain how chemical energy stored in food can be transformed to power life processes in organisms.
• Describe how energy is conserved during cellular work (energy changes form, not created or destroyed).
• Distinguish between useful energy for body functions and energy lost as heat.+ Show more

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• Explain how limited resources lead to competition between organisms.
• Describe how direct and indirect competition can affect survival and reproduction.
• Use evidence from a scenario to predict how population sizes may change.

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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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• Explain how food molecules provide both chemical building materials and stored energy in the body
• Describe how digestion breaks large food molecules into smaller molecules that can be absorbed
• Connect specific food molecules to different cell needs, such as structure and quick energy+ 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 matter can be modeled as particles and how atoms form elements.
• Describe how different particle compositions lead to measurable properties of substances.
• Use particle model ideas to interpret properties like density, melting point, and reactivity.

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• Explain what a compound is and why compounds contain atoms of more than one element.
• Use particle models to describe how atoms of different elements are arranged in a compound.
• Describe how definite proportions in compounds help explain consistent properties and measurable outcomes.

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• Explain the difference between reactants and products in a chemical reaction
• Use particle diagrams to describe how atoms are rearranged from reactants into products
• Identify evidence that a chemical reaction occurred by comparing properties of reactants and products

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• Explain how cooling and saturation lead to condensation of water vapor into droplets or ice crystals
• Describe how droplets and ice crystals collect to form clouds and how cloud growth can lead to precipitation
• Connect cloud properties to energy balance by explaining how clouds reflect and absorb sunlight and radiation+ Show more

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• Explain how moving water erodes sediment and transports it downstream.
• Describe how deposition happens when water energy decreases.
• Identify real-world landforms formed by erosion and deposition (such as river terraces and deltas).+ Show more

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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 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 energy can change forms while the total energy in a system remains conserved.
• Identify common energy transformations (potential ↔ kinetic, kinetic → thermal, electrical → light/thermal).
• Use observations of motion, temperature, and brightness to infer where energy went during a transformation.

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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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• Describe how structural adaptations help organisms obtain food, move efficiently, and survive predators.
• Explain how physical features relate to an organism’s habitat and survival needs.
• Use evidence from examples (shells, webbed feet, roots, camouflage) to identify the function of a trait.

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• Explain how scientific knowledge improves through iterative refinement when new evidence becomes available.
• Differentiate scientific theories and laws and describe how evidence supports each.
• Identify how communication, peer evaluation, and reproducibility strengthen scientific claims.+ Show more

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• Explain what makes a prediction testable by connecting it to a model or explanation.
• Use evidence to judge whether observations support or challenge a prediction.
• Describe how scientists communicate criteria for evaluating results and measurement uncertainty.

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• Explain how conduction, convection, and radiation transfer energy from one place to another.
• Identify which energy-transfer process best matches a real-world temperature change.
• Use evidence from observations (touching, air/fluid movement, and light emission) to justify answers.

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• Explain how interference and superposition affect sound and light waves when they overlap.
• Describe constructive vs. destructive interference and how they change wave energy.
• Model how standing waves form nodes and antinodes and how resonance amplifies certain frequencies.+ Show more

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• Explain how air composition is made of gases and how that composition stays fairly constant in everyday conditions.
• Describe how air density changes with altitude and temperature and how this affects weather and wind.
• Relate air pressure to collisions between gas molecules and predict simple cause-and-effect outcomes.

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• Explain how angle of attack influences lift and drag on a wing.
• Describe the relationship between increasing angle of attack and stall conditions.
• Use examples (kites and small gliders) to predict how changing angle affects motion.

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• Explain how ailerons, elevators, and rudders change airflow to create aerodynamic moments.
• Describe how deflecting control surfaces alters lift and produces rolling, pitching, and yawing motions.
• Connect control-surface responses to real-world flight examples, including short-field operations and crosswind control.