Grade 7 Worksheets

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• Explain how heritable variation and environmental pressures influence natural selection.
• Identify examples of adaptation and how selection pressures affect populations.
• Describe sources of genetic variation and their role in evolution.+ Show more

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• Understand how gravity influences the motion of bodies in the solar system.
• Explain the concept of orbital paths and elliptical trajectories.
• Describe the balance between gravity and inertia that keeps objects in orbit.+ Show more

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• Understand how human activities such as deforestation, urban expansion, and pollution impact the environment.
• Learn how scientific tools like water-quality indicators, remote sensing, and ecological indicators are used to monitor environmental changes.
• Explore mitigation strategies including policy measures, landscape restoration, and source reduction to reduce human impacts.+ Show more

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• Analyze how an author’s tone, imagery, figurative language, and sentence patterns affect a reader’s understanding.
• Identify craft choices in informational and literary texts and explain how they create specific effects.
• Connect rhetorical moves (such as definitions, repetition, and shifts in focus) to the meaning they produce.+ Show more

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• Explain how maritime industries and fisheries affected livelihoods and settlement patterns in the Atlantic region from 1713 to 1850.
• Describe how transatlantic migration and imperial competition influenced labor, density, and economic networks.
• Analyze how Indigenous Mi'kmaq, Acadian populations, British authorities, and merchants interacted within changing imperial trade patterns.

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• Distinguish between literal and figurative meanings of words and phrases in a narrative.
• Use context clues (events, character reactions, descriptive details) to determine connotation and implied attitude.
• Explain how figurative language shapes a reader’s view of character and theme.

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• Define kinetic energy and potential energy using everyday examples
• Explain how height and motion change which form of energy is present
• Describe energy transfer and the idea of energy conservation in simple systems

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• Understand the principles of calorimetry and how it measures energy exchange.
• Apply calorimetric reasoning to different thermal scenarios involving heat transfer.
• Connect observed temperature changes to energy transfer calculations in Joules.+ Show more

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• Explain how tone and word choice affect how an audience receives a message
• Identify clues of formality and register that signal a writer’s intended audience
• Revise sentences to match a specific audience and purpose using consistent tone

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• Identify and correct misused modifiers to improve clarity and meaning.
• Recognize and fix run-on sentences and sentence fragments using correct punctuation and complete-sentence structure.
• Apply standard English conventions for capitalization and punctuation to strengthen coherence.

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• Identify how cause-and-effect relationships and sequences of events connect ideas in an informational text.
• Compare viewpoints in a passage and explain how those viewpoints influence understanding of events.
• Use evidence from multiple parts of a passage to support claims about how ideas interact.

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• Understand the concept of radiant transfer and how it conveys energy through electromagnetic waves.
• Identify factors such as solar radiation intensity, surface absorptivity, and emissivity that influence radiative heating.
• Explain how different surfaces like roofs, vegetation, and snowpack affect radiative balances and local microclimates.+ Show more

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• Understand the concepts of span, support conditions, and load types in beam performance.
• Relate beam behavior to real-world examples like highway overpasses and building floor joists.
• Evaluate how span-to-depth ratios, material stiffness, and service loads affect beam stability and comfort.+ Show more

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• Understand the core metrics used to describe populations.
• Explain how demographic factors and environmental conditions influence population trends.
• Identify the processes that cause changes in population size, such as births, deaths, immigration, and emigration.+ Show more

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• Identify the three main boundary types and their characteristic landforms.
• Explain how divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries differ in processes and landforms.
• Describe the processes of crustal extension, subduction, and lateral motion at plate boundaries.+ Show more

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• Understand the differences between exponential and logistic population growth models.
• Identify factors that influence population dynamics, including density-dependent and density-independent factors.
• Interpret how models help predict patterns in ecosystems.+ Show more

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• Describe the different states of matter based on particle arrangement, spacing, and movement.
• Explain how temperature and pressure influence changes between solids, liquids, and gases.
• Identify observable characteristics used to classify substances as solids, liquids, or gases.+ Show more

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• Understand how faults and seismicity relate to tectonic stress and plate interactions.
• Identify different fault types and their seismic signatures.
• Describe how seismic waves are generated and what factors influence earthquake intensity.+ Show more

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• Explain how telescopes, satellites, and spacecraft instruments help scientists observe space beyond Earth
• Describe how propulsion and communication systems enable space missions and data collection
• Use examples from robotic missions and space stations to connect technology to scientific inference

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• Explain how soil, climate, market demand, and labour shape food production and agricultural regions.
• Describe how supply chains and trade influence agricultural intensification and cropping patterns.
• Evaluate how First Nations, Métis, and Inuit food practices support resilience, food sovereignty, and ecological health.

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• State the law of conservation of mass for a closed system during physical and chemical changes.
• Use mass accounting to relate reactant mass and product (or dissolved) mass in sealed systems.
• Balance simple chemical formulas and apply stoichiometric expectations to reconcile observed mass differences.

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• Explain how trade, communication, and cultural exchange connect places across the world.
• Describe how geographic location can shape a country’s opportunities and vulnerabilities within global networks.
• Analyze how transportation routes and resources influence settlement patterns over time.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy flows through trophic levels using food chains, food webs, and trophic pyramids.
• Describe how decomposers contribute to matter cycling and nutrient recycling in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
• Analyze how changes in energy pathways or inputs can shift community composition and ecosystem processes.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of a food web and its components.
• Identify the interconnected feeding relationships among organisms.
• Explain how energy flows through a food web and the importance of network structure.+ Show more

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• Compare embryonic development stages across different taxa to identify conserved features.
• Explain how developmental structures like pharyngeal pouches and limb buds reflect evolutionary relationships.
• Analyze developmental timing and patterning to understand phylogenetic connections among vertebrates.+ Show more

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• Compare thermal conductivity across metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites using qualitative reasoning
• Explain how free electrons and lattice vibrations contribute to heat conduction differences
• Describe how density, porosity, and moisture affect effective thermal conductivity+ Show more

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• Explain how motifs (repeated images, ideas, or actions) help build a text’s developing message
• Analyze how symbols gain meaning through repeated appearances in changing contexts
• Write theme-based responses that focus on how each recurrence adds new layers rather than summarizing plot

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• Understand the different types of specialized cells and their unique structures.
• Describe how morphological differences enable cells to perform specific functions.
• Explain the importance of cellular specialization in organismal tasks such as movement, gas exchange, and nutrient absorption.+ Show more

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• Understand the purpose and types of ecological models used in environmental science.
• Identify the inputs, limitations, and regional examples of ecological models.
• Explain how models help interpret complex ecological data and the importance of verification.

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• Identify the main parts of a cell and their functions.
• Describe the diversity of cell structures and their roles in living organisms.
• Understand the differences between plant and animal cells.+ Show more

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• Describe the organization and components of the cell membrane as a fluid mosaic model.
• Explain the functions of phospholipids, proteins, cholesterol, and carbohydrates in the membrane.
• Understand how the membrane's structure contributes to its selective permeability and cellular communication.+ Show more

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• Explain the key concepts of the particle model of matter.
• Describe how particle arrangement and motion relate to states of matter and phenomena like diffusion and condensation.
• Differentiate between physical rearrangements and chemical transformations using the particle model.

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• Understand the internal force paths within truss structures and how they distribute loads.
• Describe the method of joints and its application in analyzing truss members.
• Identify common truss forms used in bridges and roof structures and evaluate their efficiency.+ Show more

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• Understand the role of decomposers in recycling nutrients within ecosystems.
• Identify different types of decomposers such as fungi and bacteria.
• Explain how decomposition connects living organisms to the nonliving environment.+ Show more

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• Understand how resource decisions impact land, water, and ecosystems.
• Analyze tradeoffs involved in balancing community needs and environmental health.
• Evaluate different management strategies considering long-term sustainability.+ Show more

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• Understand that matter is made of particles too small to see and that these particles are in constant motion.
• Explain how temperature affects the motion of particles and observable behaviors of substances.
• Describe how macroscopic properties like pressure and diffusion reflect particle interactions and spacing.+ Show more

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• Identify observable evidence that indicates a chemical reaction has occurred.
• Connect macroscopic observations (gas, color change, precipitate, irreversibility) to particle rearrangement.
• Differentiate chemical changes from physical changes using consistent evidence.

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• Identify the main functions of the circulatory, respiratory, and digestive systems.
• Explain how organ systems depend on cellular transport and specialized structures.
• Describe the interactions among different organ systems to maintain internal stability.+ Show more

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• Classify mixtures as homogeneous or heterogeneous based on visible phases and uniform composition.
• Differentiate solutions, colloids, and suspensions using particle size and light scattering behavior.
• Predict how mixture stability affects separation choices for real-world examples.

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• Understand the process of comparing alternatives and selecting the best solution based on criteria and tradeoffs.
• Learn how to justify design choices by linking criteria to outcomes and managing constraints.
• Recognize the importance of iterative refinement and documenting decision-making in engineering design.+ Show more

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• Explain how iterative refinement and quantitative comparison improve structural designs
• Distinguish between topology optimization and form optimization and describe their purposes
• Use performance-based criteria and life-cycle thinking to balance strength, stiffness, cost, and durability

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• Understand that matter is conserved during physical and chemical changes.
• Identify evidence that supports the conservation of mass in different processes.
• Differentiate between physical and chemical changes based on mass conservation.+ Show more

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• Distinguish temperature from internal energy using the idea of average kinetic energy of particles
• Describe common sources of thermal energy in natural and built environments
• Explain heat flow direction from higher internal energy to lower internal energy+ Show more

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• Explain how temperature changes cause thermal expansion, contraction, phase changes, and viscosity variations in materials.
• Connect microscopic particle motion to macroscopic changes such as volume, density, and pressure.
• Predict practical consequences of thermal cycling for material choice and engineering design.

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• Explain how calibration and traceable reference points improve temperature measurement accuracy.
• Identify common sources of error (sensor placement, radiation shielding, thermal contact, and response time) and how they affect readings.
• Interpret temperature results using uncertainty, resolution limits, and error budgets.+ Show more

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• Explain how latitude and the angle of incoming sunlight affect temperature patterns on Earth
• Describe how elevation and distance from large water bodies influence climate and precipitation
• Analyze how ocean currents can transport warm or cold water and change regional climates

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• Explain how measurement tool resolution limits accuracy and precision
• Describe how repeated measurements are used to estimate uncertainty
• Interpret data displays that use ranges or error estimates to judge whether results are meaningful+ Show more

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• Explain how filtration separates mixtures using particle size and pore size in porous media
• Describe how flow behavior affects filtration efficiency for suspensions and precipitates
• Evaluate limitations of filtration for dissolved solutes and colloids+ Show more