Grade 7 Worksheets

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• Identify the purpose of a technical text.
• Determine the main idea using evidence from the passage.

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• Identify cause-and-effect impacts of a technology in a real-world system.
• Explain how transportation technology can create both benefits and unintended consequences.
• Suggest a mitigation strategy to reduce an identified negative impact.

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• Define variation, selection, adaptation, and selective pressure in simple terms
• Explain how differences in survival and reproduction can change trait frequencies over time
• Connect environmental change to shifts in which traits are most helpful

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• Identify producers, consumers, and decomposers in a food chain
• Explain how energy moves through trophic levels
• Describe how decomposers help recycle matter in ecosystems

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• Identify the main idea of a passage about human impacts on ecosystems
• Describe key human actions that change habitats and affect biodiversity
• Use vocabulary from the passage to answer reading questions

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• Identify main ideas about hierarchical organization in living systems.
• Use key vocabulary: organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere.
• Explain how structure at one level can support how life functions at the next level.

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• Identify the independent variable and dependent variable in a simple investigation.
• Recognize key controlled variables that must stay the same to make results trustworthy.
• Use evidence from an investigation description to match variables to their roles.

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• Explain how energy from the Sun drives convection in the atmosphere
• Describe cause-and-effect relationships between temperature, air movement, and pressure
• Identify key terms such as convection, rising air, and cooling with altitude

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• Identify cause-and-effect details about how weathering changes rocks
• Use evidence from a science passage to explain how different forces affect land surfaces
• Distinguish weathering from erosion by describing what each process does

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• Identify protons, neutrons, and electrons as parts of an atom.
• Explain how atomic number and mass number relate to element identity and isotope variation.
• Describe a simple electron arrangement and why models help explain atomic behavior.

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• Summarize the law of conservation of mass for closed systems.
• Explain how mass is tracked during physical and chemical changes.
• Use simple mass accounting ideas to relate reactants and products.

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• Identify the three main ways heat energy moves: conduction, convection, and radiation.
• Explain how temperature differences drive energy transfer.
• Relate thermal conductivity to everyday materials like metals and insulators.+ Show more

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• Identify the purpose of an engineering design.
• Describe key constraints and how they affect a structure’s design choices.
• Explain how engineers use materials and load ideas to improve reliability.

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• Read a distance–time graph to describe motion and rest intervals.
• Identify what different slopes mean for whether an object is moving or staying still.
• Use graph evidence to explain motion in simple real-world contexts.

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• Explain net force as the vector sum of forces, including direction.
• Use words and simple sign conventions to predict the direction of motion.
• Identify when forces are balanced and when an object’s motion changes.

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• Identify what is changing in a motion description and connect it to rate
• Distinguish speed from velocity and explain acceleration qualitatively
• Interpret motion scenarios using scalar and vector ideas

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• Identify how inertia affects whether an object’s motion changes quickly or slowly.
• Describe how mass can make changes in motion harder to notice.
• Explain inertia using everyday examples from the passage.

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• Define speed and explain what it measures in everyday motion.
• Distinguish average speed from instantaneous rate using a motion description.
• Use unit ideas (m/s and km/h) to support correct thinking about speed.

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• Define mechanical advantage and explain how it relates force input and force output
• Identify the purpose of simple machines in everyday situations
• Use a basic mechanical advantage equation with given forces

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• Explain the particle model using the ideas of discrete particles, spaces between particles, and constant motion
• Use particle arrangements and motion to predict observable physical properties of materials
• Connect the microscopic particle model to real-world examples such as evaporation and condensation

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• Explain what makes a pure substance uniform in composition and properties
• Distinguish elements from compounds using physical and chemical tests
• Identify how impurities or multiple substances change observed test results

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• Explain the purpose of ecosystem models.
• Identify key details about conceptual and quantitative modelling.
• Describe model inputs, assumptions, and limitations.+ Show more

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• Identify kinetic and potential energy in everyday situations.
• Explain how changes in height and speed affect mechanical energy.
• Use energy conservation ideas to reason about safer motion and loading.

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• Define conservation status using details from the passage
• Identify how threats, population trends, and recovery potential shape risk levels
• Explain how habitat change, genetic diversity, and connectivity affect species vulnerability

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• Identify the main idea of how wetlands help manage water across a landscape
• Describe hydrological functions of wetlands using supporting details from the passage
• Explain how wetland water storage can reduce flooding after heavy rainfall

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• Identify material properties such as strength, stiffness, density, and environmental resilience
• Explain how compression, tension, and bending affect long-term performance of common materials
• Use evidence from a passage to support maintenance and design choices in cold, snowy climates

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• Identify parts of a mixture in oil sands using physical properties.
• Distinguish physical separation steps from chemical changes during processing.
• Explain how density, particle size, temperature, and additives affect mixture behavior.

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• Explain how mass conservation applies to closed systems and reactors.
• Interpret a mass budget by comparing expected and measured masses.
• Identify where mass can appear or disappear in conservation accounting.

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• Define biodiversity, species richness, species evenness, and habitat heterogeneity from a scientific text
• Interpret what biodiversity indices can reveal about ecosystem health
• Choose the best biodiversity index to match a description

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• Identify the main idea and key details about oral histories as ecological records
• Explain how place-based knowledge helps interpret ecological relationships and seasonal cycles
• Describe how stewardship practices connect human choices to long-term environmental patterns

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• Explain how nutrient runoff, hydrocarbons, and airborne deposition can enter ecosystems
• Describe cause-and-effect links between pollution sources and ecological effects
• Use terms such as bioaccumulation, food web, and exposure to interpret environmental impacts

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• Define net force and equilibrium using key vocabulary from a text.
• Distinguish static equilibrium from dynamic equilibrium in simple situations.
• Explain how balanced force pairs affect motion using qualitative reasoning.

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• Identify biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem
• Explain cause-and-effect relationships between abiotic conditions and resource availability
• Describe how sunlight, soil, water, temperature, and topography influence living things

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• Identify how distance changes over time on a distance–time graph
• Interpret whether motion speeds up, slows down, or stays constant by reading slope
• Use graph features to explain meaning of increasing, flattening, and decreasing sections

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• Identify evidence that a chemical change has occurred based on observable observations.
• Distinguish chemical changes from physical changes using particle-level reasoning.
• Explain how bond changes and energy transfer lead to new substances.

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• Explain the cause-and-effect chain in convection using temperature, density, and fluid motion
• Identify natural convection patterns in air based on density differences
• Use convection vocabulary (buoyancy, boundary layer, density) to describe heat transfer

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• Identify common SI units used to measure distance and time
• Use unit names correctly when describing motion
• Recognize that speed is distance divided by time

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• Extract key numbers and energy terms from an energy-budget text.
• Identify how conduction, convection, and radiation move energy in a passive solar house.
• Use conservation of energy ideas to interpret net heat gain and losses.

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• Define solution concentration and identify key vocabulary in context.
• Explain how mass percent and grams per litre describe concentration.
• Use concentration ideas to predict how dilution changes a solution.

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• Identify key ideas about thermal conductivity and specific heat capacity from a science text
• Use evidence from a text to explain how material properties affect heat flow
• Compare material choices using vocabulary such as density, porosity, and phase change

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• Explain how temperature change relates to energy transfer in heating and cooling
• Use energy units (J and kJ) and temperature scales to describe thermal processes
• Identify key variables in heat calculations: specific heat, mass, and temperature change

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• Explain the purpose of filtration in separating mixtures
• Identify how particle size affects which materials pass through a filter
• Use physical property clues to predict filter results

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• Explain how radiant transfer moves energy using electromagnetic waves
• Identify factors that affect net radiative heating
• Use emissivity and absorptivity ideas to predict heating and cooling patterns

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• Define saturation and solubility in terms of dissolved solute at a given temperature and pressure
• Explain what happens when more solute is added after a solution becomes saturated
• Describe supersaturation and why it can lead to sudden precipitation

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• Explain the main idea of conduction in solids
• Describe how particle motion transfers kinetic energy during conduction
• Use key vocabulary (kinetic energy, particles, conductivity, interface) to answer questions about heat flow+ Show more

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• Explain how birth and death rates change population size using cause-and-effect.
• Identify how resource availability and abiotic constraints can increase deaths or limit births.
• Use measurement of population trends to describe whether a population is growing, shrinking, or fluctuating.

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• Explain temperature as related to average random kinetic energy of particles.
• Use evidence from a text to describe how particle motion connects to thermal energy and pressure.
• Distinguish how different factors (particle number and phase) can change thermal energy even when particles move randomly.

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• Explain how load paths help structures resist forces.
• Identify the roles of compression, tension, and shear in common structures.
• Use material properties such as stiffness, strength, and durability to judge safety.