Grade 7 Worksheets

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• Understand how building design integrates orientation, envelope assembly, and mechanical systems to optimize thermal performance across Alberta's climate zones.
• Identify strategies such as passive solar gains, thermal barriers, and heat-recovery ventilation used in sustainable building design.
• Analyze case examples from rural prairie houses and urban developments in Calgary and Edmonton to evaluate performance trade-offs.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of specific heat capacity and its units.
• Learn how to calculate the energy needed to heat substances using mass, specific heat, and temperature change.
• Apply tabular values and unit conversions to thermal calculations related to water, greenhouse warming, and petroleum processing.

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• Understand how material properties like thermal resistance influence heat flow in buildings.
• Identify design choices that improve energy efficiency through insulation.
• Analyze regional examples of insulation strategies used in Alberta climate conditions.+ Show more

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• Understand the intrinsic thermal properties of common construction materials.
• Compare how porosity, moisture, and layering affect thermal conductivity.
• Identify trade-offs between structural considerations and thermal resistance in building materials.+ Show more

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• Understand how numerical representations measure heat transfer in different thermal processes.
• Learn about units of energy and temperature scales used in thermal calculations.
• Apply specific heat, mass, and temperature change to calculate energy transfer in Joules and kilojoules.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of radiant transfer and its role in energy conveyance.
• Identify factors influencing radiative heating and cooling in different landscapes and structures.
• Explain how surface properties like absorptivity, emissivity, and solar angles affect local microclimates.+ Show more

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• Understand the particle motion underlying thermal phenomena.
• Explain how temperature measures average kinetic energy of particles.
• Describe how heat energy is transferred through conduction, convection, and radiation.+ Show more

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• Understand how energy flows and transforms within mechanical and industrial systems.
• Interpret energy flow diagrams and Sankey diagrams to quantify inputs, useful outputs, and waste heat.
• Explain the conservation of energy principles in various energy systems such as oil sands extraction, heating plants, and hydroelectric infrastructure.+ Show more

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• Understand how surface-area-to-volume ratios limit cell size and function.
• Identify adaptations that increase exchange surfaces in cells and organisms.
• Explain how multicellular organisms overcome diffusion limitations through specialized structures.+ Show more

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• Understand how deposition shapes various landforms and environments.
• Identify different types of depositional processes and their resulting landforms.
• Describe how sediment characteristics and depositional features reveal geological history.+ Show more

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• Understand the causes and types of faults and earthquakes.
• Identify characteristic seismic signatures related to fault motion.
• Explain how fault geometry and local geology influence seismic intensity.+ Show more

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• Understand the key factors that influence the durability of construction materials over time.
• Identify protective measures and maintenance practices that extend the lifespan of building components.
• Analyze how environmental exposure impacts materials like steel, timber, concrete, and polymers in structural applications.+ Show more

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• Describe the agents responsible for erosion and transport of sediments.
• Explain how different erosional agents leave distinctive sedimentary signatures.
• Identify features produced by river, glacier, wind, and gravity-driven erosion.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of temperature measurement and instrument characteristics.
• Differentiate between liquid-in-glass, bimetallic, and digital thermometers and their appropriate applications.
• Explain the Celsius scale, fixed points, and the importance of calibration for reliable temperature readings.+ Show more

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• Understand characteristic methods for testing material behavior, including tensile, compression, and bending assessments.
• Explore non-destructive testing techniques such as ultrasonic and hardness measurements.
• Learn about anisotropy, strain localization, and the application of safety factors and design codes in material testing.+ Show more

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• Understand various data recording methods including tabular and log formats.
• Identify proper units, column headings, and timestamp conventions for time-series data.
• Recognize the importance of metadata, sampling frames, replication records, and annotated raw data for validation.+ Show more

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• Understand the functions of various organ systems in the human body.
• Describe how tissues and organs work together in organ systems.
• Identify key structures like capillary networks and alveoli that facilitate exchange processes.+ Show more

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• Understand the processes that drive landscape evolution, including tectonic uplift, volcanic activity, and surface erosion.
• Explain how climate influences weathering and transport mechanisms affecting landscapes.
• Describe the cycle of mountain building and denudation over geologic time.+ Show more

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• Understand the main force systems that drive plate motion within Earth.
• Identify the roles of mantle convection, slab pull, and ridge push in plate tectonics.
• Explain how these mechanisms operate at different scales and influence tectonic events.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of convective heat transfer in fluids.
• Explain how buoyancy and density variations drive convection.
• Identify natural phenomena that result from convection processes.+ Show more

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• Understand how nonliving factors such as temperature, light, water, soil, and salinity influence species distribution and ecosystem productivity.
• Explain gradients and microclimates and their effects on organisms' physiological tolerances and seasonal behaviors.
• Describe how abiotic variability interacts with biotic relationships to shape biodiversity and community composition in different habitats.

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• Explain the particle model as a representation of matter.
• Describe how atoms and molecules interact in chemical changes.
• Understand that mass remains constant during chemical reactions due to the rearrangement of atoms.+ Show more

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• Understand the key indicators of physical changes in substances.
• Identify examples of physical changes in everyday life.
• Explain how particle behavior relates to observable physical transformations.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of mass conservation in closed systems.
• Learn how to measure and compare mass before and after chemical changes.
• Recognize the factors that influence observed mass differences, such as gases or dissolved species.+ Show more

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• Understand the difference between closed and open systems in terms of matter transfer.
• Identify system boundaries and their effects on observed mass during reactions.
• Explain why mass conservation appears to vary in open systems.+ Show more

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• Describe the three principal types of plate boundaries and their characteristic features.
• Explain how divergent boundaries form mid-ocean ridges and rift valleys.
• Identify the landforms and processes associated with convergent plate boundaries.+ Show more

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• Describe the mechanisms of passive and active transport across cell membranes.
• Explain the process of diffusion and osmosis and their roles in cell function.
• Identify the role of membrane proteins in selective transport and ion regulation.+ Show more

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• Understand common structural failure modes such as buckling, fatigue, shear, and connection failures.
• Learn how limit states design philosophy, safety factors, and redundancy mitigate failure risks.
• Relate failure mechanisms to geometric, material, and loading characteristics using real-world exemplars.

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• Understand the concept of active transport and how it moves molecules against concentration gradients.
• Identify the role of ATP and membrane proteins such as pumps in cellular transport.
• Explain the function of the sodium-potassium pump in maintaining electrochemical gradients.+ Show more

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• Define the concept of a keystone species and its role in ecosystems.
• Identify examples of keystone species and their effects on biodiversity.
• Explain trophic cascades and how removal of keystone species impacts food webs.+ Show more

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• Identify the key components of an ecosystem, including both living organisms and physical factors.
• Explain how biotic and abiotic components interact within an ecosystem.
• Describe the flow of energy through an ecosystem via producers and feeding relationships.+ Show more

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• Describe the different states of matter—solids, liquids, and gases—based on particle arrangement, spacing, and movement.
• Explain how temperature and pressure influence transitions between states of matter.
• Identify observable characteristics used to classify substances by physical properties related to states of matter.

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• Understand microscopic particle motion and its relation to temperature, thermal energy, and pressure.
• Explain how microscopic particle behavior relates to macroscopic properties like heat transfer.
• Describe the distribution of molecular speeds in different temperature conditions.+ Show more

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• Understand the different categories of chemical reaction types.
• Identify and distinguish syntheses, decompostions, single and double displacements, acid-base neutralizations, and combustion reactions.
• Predict possible products based on reaction type at the particle level.+ Show more

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• Describe how energy flows through food chains, webs, and trophic pyramids in ecosystems.
• Explain the cycling of matter, such as carbon and water, within ecosystems.
• Analyze the impact of environmental changes on community composition and ecosystem processes.+ Show more

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• Understand the physical properties exploited by different separation techniques.
• Identify common separation methods like filtration, decanting, evaporation, and magnetic separation.
• Relate regional examples of separation processes to their underlying principles.+ Show more

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• Understand the importance of controlling variables in scientific experiments
• Learn methods for systematic variable management including randomization, blocking, and documentation
• Identify different types of variables and strategies to manage them in controlled studies+ Show more

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• Understand how physical and chemical properties can predict chemical reactions.
• Identify reactivity trends such as flammability, solubility, and acid-base behavior.
• Explain how evidence indicates chemical transformations in materials.+ Show more

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• Define and understand physical properties such as density, melting point, boiling point, color, hardness, solubility, and electrical conductivity.
• Explain how physical properties are used to identify and categorize substances.
• Describe the importance of density and solubility in separating mixtures and selecting materials for specific applications.+ Show more

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• Define and describe what a physical change is and how it differs from a chemical change.
• Identify common examples of physical changes in everyday life.
• Explain the reversibility of physical changes under different conditions.+ Show more

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• Understand the different types of phase changes such as melting, freezing, vaporization, condensation, sublimation, and deposition.
• Describe how temperature and pressure influence phase transitions.
• Explain the concept of latent heat and its role during phase changes.+ Show more

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• Analyze the societal, economic, and environmental impacts of various technologies.
• Evaluate short-term and long-term consequences of technological development.
• Develop reasoning skills to assess trade-offs and unintended outcomes of technology use.+ Show more

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• Describe Earth's internal layers and their properties.
• Explain how seismic waves provide evidence for Earth's internal structure.
• Understand mantle convection and its role in plate movement.+ Show more

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• Understand the difference between mixtures and pure substances.
• Identify the characteristics of heterogeneous and homogeneous mixtures.
• Explain how physical properties help in separating mixtures.+ Show more

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• Understand how observable physical and chemical properties are used to select materials for specific applications.
• Identify key properties such as corrosion resistance, hardness, melting point, solubility, and reactivity.
• Explain the importance of chemical stability, density, and strength in material choice.+ Show more

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• Understand the principle of conservation of mass in chemical reactions.
• Describe how atoms are conserved and rearranged during reactions.
• Explain the concept of closed systems and their importance in mass conservation.+ Show more

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• Identify observable signs that indicate a chemical change has occurred.
• Differentiate between physical and chemical changes based on evidence.
• Understand how multiple change indicators together strengthen evidence of chemical reactions.+ Show more

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• Explain the basic structure of Earth's lithospheric plates and their movement.
• Identify different types of plate boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform.
• Understand how plate interactions influence geological features like earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain chains.+ Show more