Grade 6 Science Worksheets

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• Explain how predator and prey populations affect each other in an ecosystem
• Identify examples of prey adaptations that reduce predator capture
• Describe cause-and-effect feedback loops in food webs+ Show more

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• Understand the difference between criteria and constraints in the design process.
• Identify examples of criteria and constraints in real-world design scenarios.
• Analyze how constraints limit possible solutions while criteria define success.+ Show more

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• Explain how chemical energy in food molecules is transformed to power life processes.
• Describe how energy is conserved in organisms as it changes form (useful energy and heat).
• Use evidence from a scientific passage to support claims about how feeding supports sustained functioning.

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• Understand the application of scientific methods to local community issues.
• Recognize the importance of cultural sensitivity and community engagement in scientific observations.
• Learn strategies for validating community-contributed data and communicating findings effectively.+ Show more

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• Explain how moving water causes erosion and deposition of Earth materials.
• Identify features formed by erosion and deposition such as deltas and river terraces.
• Describe factors that influence the process of erosion and deposition, including water volume and surface materials.+ 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 produce seasonal changes in sunlight and temperature.
• Identify solstices and equinoxes as predictable observational events tied to daylight patterns.+ Show more

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• Understand what El Niño is and how it affects global weather patterns.
• Learn scientific vocabulary related to ocean-atmosphere interactions.
• Develop reading comprehension skills through scientific texts.+ Show more

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• Understand methods for summarizing patterns and using descriptive statistics in scientific evidence.
• Identify appropriate visual representations such as bar, line, and scatter plots for environmental data.
• Learn conventions for citing data sources, labelling units, and writing concise, evidence-based summaries.+ Show more

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• Identify contrasting traits suitable for binary identification branches
• Construct decision points for dichotomous and multi-access keys
• Revise identification keys to improve classification clarity+ Show more

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• Explain how tectonic processes can lead to natural hazards
• Interpret seismic data and maps as evidence of hazards
• Describe how hazard zones affect communities and infrastructure+ Show more

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• Explain how flowing water erodes and transports Earth materials.
• Describe how changes in water energy lead to deposition.
• Identify common landforms formed by erosion and deposition, such as river terraces and deltas.+ Show more

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• Identify weathering as the breakdown of rock at Earth's surface
• Distinguish physical weathering from chemical weathering
• Classify examples of weathering, erosion, and deposition+ Show more

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• Understand what a food chain is and its components.
• Identify producers, primary consumers, and secondary consumers.
• Recognize examples of organisms at each trophic level.+ Show more

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• Understand how plants obtain matter from the environment for growth.
• Identify the roles of carbon dioxide, water, and gases exchanged through leaves.
• Describe how plant biomass is derived from external sources and how matter is used during growth.

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• Explain why energy transfer between trophic levels is inefficient
• Describe how heat loss affects the amount of energy available to organisms at higher levels
• Predict how removing a species or food source can impact populations across a food web+ Show more

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• Explain how DNA barcoding supports species identification
• Compare morphological keys with genetic markers
• Interpret relationships shown in a simple phylogenetic tree+ Show more

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• Explain how gravity moves water downhill through interconnected pathways in a watershed
• Describe how infiltration, storage, and surface cover affect runoff speed and erosion
• Use watershed-scale ideas to predict how upstream conditions influence downstream water+ Show more

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• Explain how density relates mass to volume and why it is useful as evidence to classify materials
• Use float/sink behavior in water to infer relative density without changing a substance’s identity
• Estimate or measure density and use it to predict how substances will layer in mixtures+ Show more

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• Explain how energy (stream speed or wind strength) affects the size of particles that can be transported.
• Describe how decreasing energy leads to sediment sorting and layered deposition.
• Identify real-world landforms (stream bars, sandbars, and beach/river-delta zones) formed by sediment sorting.

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• Understand key ethical principles such as beneficence, risk minimization, and informed consent in scientific contexts.
• Analyze scenarios involving data privacy, environmental stewardship, and biotechnology from an ethical perspective.
• Apply criteria for ethical judgment to real-world scientific applications and societal issues.+ Show more

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• Understand different types of population growth models
• Recognize factors that influence population size
• Identify concepts of carrying capacity, limiting factors, exponential and logistic growth

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• Identify evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.
• Match water-cycle processes with accurate definitions and examples.
• Recognize water-cycle processes in familiar everyday scenarios.+ Show more

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• Differentiate weather from climate using examples from temperature, precipitation, wind, and cloud cover.
• Explain why weather changes quickly while climate describes long-term patterns.
• Use observations from days and months to identify recurring patterns that define local climate.

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• Explain how genes on chromosomes determine dominant and recessive traits
• Model Mendelian crosses using simple probability
• Predict expected offspring trait ratios from inheritance models+ Show more

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• Identify producers, consumers, and decomposers in food webs
• Explain energy transfer across trophic levels
• Describe how energy decreases across trophic levels+ Show more

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• Understand what a watershed is and how water moves within it
• Identify land features that affect water flow and infiltration
• Describe the roles of vegetation and terrain in watershed processes+ Show more

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• Describe how water moves through a watershed using interconnected pathways shaped by terrain and land cover.
• Explain how gravity, infiltration, and vegetation affect the timing and amount of water moving downstream.
• Connect watershed processes to downstream conditions such as stream flow, erosion, and water quality.

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• Explain how gravity, terrain, and land cover shape water movement within a watershed
• Describe how infiltration and soil storage affect the timing of runoff
• Connect vegetation and soil stability to erosion and sediment transport+ Show more

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• Explain how gravity, terrain, and land cover shape water movement within a watershed
• Describe how infiltration and soil storage affect runoff timing and streamflow
• Identify how vegetation influences erosion and sediment movement in watershed pathways

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• Understand the concept of diffusion and the factors influencing its rate.
• Connect microscopic particle motion to observable phenomena like scent spread and dye dispersal.
• Identify how temperature, particle size, and medium viscosity affect diffusion.+ Show more

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• Explain the difference between balanced forces and unbalanced forces using net force.
• Predict how balanced or unbalanced forces affect an object’s speed and direction.
• Use the direction of the net force to describe the resulting change in motion.

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• Define speed and velocity and explain how velocity includes direction
• Calculate or interpret average speed using total distance and elapsed time
• Explain how changing speed affects motion and how consistent units improve clarity+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth’s rotation causes day and night.
• Describe how Earth’s orbit and tilted axis lead to seasons.
• Identify why the Moon’s phases repeat in a monthly cycle.

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• Explain how recrystallization separates and purifies a dissolved solid using solubility changes with temperature
• Describe how impurities remain in the solvent while the pure solute forms crystals as the solution cools
• Interpret the role of saturation and particle arrangement in crystal size and purity

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• Define what elements and compounds are.
• Identify the differences between elements and compounds.
• Understand how atoms bond together to form compounds.+ Show more

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• Define pure substances and distinguish them from mixtures based on whether more than one substance is present
• Identify whether a given example is a uniform (homogeneous) or nonuniform (heterogeneous) mixture based on observable properties
• Select an appropriate separation technique by matching it to differences among mixture components+ Show more

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• Understand the roles of producers and consumers in an ecosystem.
• Identify different types of consumers and their feeding habits.
• Describe energy transfer and efficiency across trophic levels.+ Show more

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• Explain how DNA barcoding and sequence comparison help identify species.
• Describe how phylogenetic trees use genetic similarities and differences to show relationships.
• Compare morphological keys with molecular genetic evidence in classifying organisms.+ Show more

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• Identify major components of weather and the atmosphere
• Explain how air pressure differences cause wind
• Sequence cloud and precipitation formation processes+ Show more

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• Understand the fundamental parameters influencing population growth and decline.
• Identify factors such as birth rates, death rates, immigration, and emigration.
• Differentiate between logistic and exponential growth models in ecological systems.+ Show more

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• Explain how competition occurs when organisms need limited resources.
• Identify how traits, timing of feeding, and tolerance affect access to resources.
• Describe how competition can change population sizes and which species persist in a community.

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• Understand the role of producers in ecosystems.
• Identify different types of producers, such as plants and chemosynthetic bacteria.
• Explain how producers convert energy into biomass through photosynthesis and chemosynthesis.+ Show more

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• Explain how DNA barcoding and DNA sequence comparison can help classify organisms
• Describe how genetic markers reveal cryptic species and affect taxonomic revisions
• Interpret how simple phylogenetic trees can suggest evolutionary relationships

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• Describe how erosion and deposition reshape Earth’s surface using water, wind, ice, and gravity.
• Explain how losing energy during deposition leads to sediment settling.
• Identify features formed by repeated erosion and deposition, such as river valleys and deltas.+ Show more

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• Explain how stream or wind energy affects the size of particles that can be transported.
• Describe how settling and deposition cause sediment sorting by grain size.
• Identify the relationships among faster flow, slower flow, and layered sediment structures.

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• Describe how Earth's systems interact through the transfer of matter and energy.
• Explain feedback mechanisms such as albedo changes and sediment transport.
• Identify energy sources, sinks, and phase-change energy transfers within Earth's systems.+ Show more

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• Explain how multiple design goals (lift, drag, weight, stability, and manufacturability) can conflict in aircraft or vehicle design
• Use Pareto-tradeoff thinking to compare designs and identify non-dominated options
• Describe how safety margins and buffers affect viable performance envelopes+ Show more

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• Understand how wave interactions like interference, superposition, and resonance affect sound and light.
• Identify what causes constructive and destructive interference.
• Describe how standing waves and resonance contribute to energy concentration in systems.+ Show more