Grade 7 Worksheets

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• Explain what the urban heat island effect is and why cities often have higher temperatures than nearby rural areas.
• Describe how surface materials, vegetation, building geometry, and human activities influence urban microclimates.
• Evaluate mitigation strategies such as cool pavements, increased greenery, and strategic shading, and relate them to energy use and outdoor comfort.

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• Compare traditional and Indigenous resource management practices with modern resource management approaches.
• Explain how sustainable resource stewardship supports community resilience and social cohesion.
• Describe how resource decisions affect both environmental health and long-term community well-being.

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• Explain how energy transfers through conduction, convection, and radiation using everyday examples
• Compare how energy moves in solids, liquids, and gases for each transfer mechanism
• Describe how energy can transform from one form to another (chemical, electrical, thermal, light)+ Show more

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• Analyze how cultural, political, and social backgrounds influence interpretations of historical events.
• Compare diverse sources of evidence such as government records, oral histories, and media reports.
• Assess biases and assumptions embedded within different narratives about colonization, residential schools, and reconciliation in Canada.+ Show more

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• Explain how Métis communities emerged from commerce and kinship connections across the fur trade frontier
• Analyze how westward trade expansion affected Métis identity formation and community life
• Describe continuity and change in Métis social customs and governance during the fur trade era+ Show more

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• Explain density using the particle view of matter (mass and how particles are spaced).
• Predict how sinking, floating, and heating relate to changes in volume and average particle spacing.
• Use evidence from particle spacing to compare the densities of different substances.

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• Explain that pure substances have uniform composition and characteristic properties.
• Distinguish elements from compounds using physical and chemical tests.
• Use fixed melting and boiling points to support identification of pure substances.+ Show more

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• Identify structural, physiological, and behavioral adaptations
• Explain how selective pressures influence trait frequencies over generations
• Compare adaptation examples across different habitat contexts+ Show more

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• Explain how books have helped preserve history over time
• Identify major changes in how books were written, produced, and shared
• Use vocabulary related to reading and publishing in context

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• Explain how perspective can influence the interpretation of evidence and the meaning people draw from it.
• Evaluate the reliability, context, and implications of historical evidence related to Indigenous land claims and treaties.
• Identify how cultural, ethical, and political viewpoints shape historical narratives about rights and sovereignty.

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• Compare traditional, command, and market economic systems and describe how each affects labor opportunities.
• Explain how economic demands can change employment patterns in communities.
• Use examples to connect economic structure with community development and social impacts.

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• Explain how technological innovations can change economic activities over time.
• Analyze how technology affects employment opportunities and community relationships.
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to describe positive and negative consequences of technological change.

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• Explain how technological innovations change economic activities and resource management in communities.
• Describe how technology can reshape social organization and access to information.
• Compare older and newer technologies to predict their effects on community growth.

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• Understand the concept of an individual organism and its characteristics
• Recognize examples of individual organisms in ecological contexts
• Identify how individual traits contribute to higher levels of ecological organization+ Show more

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• Explain how insulation reduces heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation.
• Compare common insulating materials (fibreglass, foam, reflective foils) using ideas like trapped air and thermal resistance.
• Describe how air leakage, thermal bridging, and continuous insulation affect overall heat loss in buildings.

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• Understand the role of natural resources such as groundwater, soil, and minerals.
• Explain processes of aquifer recharge, porosity, and permeability.
• Differentiate between renewable and nonrenewable resources based on geologic settings.+ Show more

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• Describe the physical and chemical processes that shape Earth's surface, including weathering, erosion, deposition, and mass wasting.
• Identify driving forces such as water flow, wind, glaciers, and gravity, and explain their influence on landform development.
• Link observable landforms like deltas, canyons, and dunes to specific surface processes and understand their rates of change.+ Show more

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• Describe Earth's internal layering and the properties of each layer.
• Explain seismic wave behavior as evidence for Earth's internal structure.
• Understand mantle convection and its role in plate motion.+ Show more

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• Describe the processes involved in atmospheric energy transfer and circulation.
• Explain how air masses, pressure gradients, and large-scale circulation affect weather and climate.
• Identify observational phenomena like fronts and jet streams and their impacts.+ Show more

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• Understand the processes of the rock cycle, including sedimentation, lithification, metamorphism, and magmatism.
• Explain how fossils and stratigraphy serve as evidence of Earth's history and surface change.
• Identify relative and absolute dating techniques, including index fossils and radiometric decay methods.+ Show more

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• Define kinetic and potential energy with real-world examples.
• Explain how height and motion relate to different energy forms.
• Illustrate energy transfer and conservation concepts in systems.+ Show more

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• Identify key features of monarchies, autocracies, and city-states
• Explain how governments maintain authority and stability over time
• Compare historical government forms with modern government systems+ Show more

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• Identify key features of monarchies, autocracies, and city-states and explain how authority is established.
• Describe methods rulers use to maintain stability and control in large empires.
• Compare historical forms of government with modern government practices such as constitutions and elections.

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• Explain how political reforms and revolutions can transform governance structures.
• Identify causes of revolutionary movements and evaluate their effects on constitutions, monarchies, and political rights.
• Compare reform and revolution by analyzing how internal demands challenge existing authority.

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• Explain how political authority and legitimacy work in different systems of government
• Compare democracy, monarchy, and dictatorship using legal, cultural, and historical factors
• Identify how legitimacy affects stability, change, and citizen participation

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• Understand the concept of energy transfer through trophic levels in ecosystems.
• Identify and analyze patterns of trophic efficiency and biomass pyramids.
• Describe how solar energy is captured and how energy loss affects community structure.+ Show more

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• Understand the ecological consequences of non-native species introductions.
• Identify pathways through which invasive species are introduced and establish.
• Analyze long-term environmental and economic effects of invasive species.+ Show more

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• Understand basic models of population growth, including exponential and logistic growth.
• Identify factors that limit population size such as food, predation, disease, and environmental stresses.
• Differentiate between density-dependent and density-independent factors affecting populations.+ Show more

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• Describe the structure and stratification of freshwater systems such as ponds and lakes.
• Explain how abiotic gradients influence community composition and vertical zonation in standing-water ecosystems.
• Discuss seasonal changes like thermal turnover and their effects on oxygen levels, nutrient mixing, and habitat conditions in freshwater environments.

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• Understand the components and roles of biotic and abiotic elements in ecosystems.
• Identify trophic categories such as producers, consumers, and decomposers and their energy flow.
• Analyze simple food chains and the cycling of matter in pond and forest ecosystems.+ Show more

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• Define cultural diffusion and explain how it spreads ideas and practices between regions.
• Identify geographic factors that can hinder or facilitate cultural exchange.
• Use examples to distinguish migration, trade, and conquest as pathways of diffusion.+ Show more

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• Identify and describe conduction, convection, and radiation as energy transfer mechanisms.
• Explain how energy can transform from one form to another in everyday systems.
• Compare different energy transfers to predict what will happen in real-life situations.

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• Understand how rivers influence settlement patterns.
• Identify the role of rivers in resource management.
• Analyze how natural features shape community development.+ Show more

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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 how historical context influences how people interpret events.
• Identify how multiple perspectives can lead to different historical claims.
• Evaluate evidence by considering author viewpoint, purpose, and potential bias.+ Show more

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• Understand the processes of diffusion and osmosis as passive transport mechanisms.
• Identify factors that influence the rate of diffusion and osmosis.
• Explain how diffusion and osmosis affect living cells and organisms.+ Show more

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• Explain how Mongol rule affected trade along routes such as the Silk Road and maritime pathways.
• Identify examples of goods and ideas that moved through Eurasian trade networks.
• Analyze how cultural exchanges can increase knowledge and innovation across regions.

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• Explain how trade routes during the Mongol Empire moved goods, ideas, and cultural practices across Eurasia
• Describe how stability and security along Mongol-controlled routes increased intercultural exchange
• Compare the roles of major land and maritime pathways, including the Silk Road and sea routes+ Show more

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• Understand how melting point ranges can indicate the purity of a substance.
• Identify differences in conductivity to assess molecular composition.
• Explain how refractive index and gravimetric residue help determine contamination.+ Show more

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• Explain how French legal traditions and seigneurial landholding shaped everyday life in Lower Canada under British rule.
• Analyze cause-and-effect relationships between legislative tensions, economic pressures, and francophone community continuity.
• Compare continuities and changes in language and legal practices from 1713 to 1850.+ Show more

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• Describe the three main types of rocks: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
• Explain the processes by which each type of rock forms.
• Identify distinguishing features of each rock type based on texture and mineral content.+ Show more

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• Explain how francophone culture, French legal traditions, and seigneurial landholding shaped Lower Canada from 1713 to 1850.
• Analyze causes and consequences of legislative tensions and economic pressures affecting francophone communities.
• Describe continuity and change in language and legal practices under British rule.+ Show more

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• Understand how test results guide design modifications for improved performance.
• Identify specific weaknesses based on data and suggest targeted changes.
• Explain how evidence from results connects to design decisions and improvements.+ Show more

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• To comprehend the causes of urban heat and the effect of surface materials, vegetation, and human activities.
• To develop skills in reading comprehension related to environmental science topics.
• To interpret scientific information through various question formats.

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• Explain how industrialization changed production methods and increased efficiency and output.
• Describe how industrialization reshaped labor conditions and encouraged migration to cities.
• Analyze how technological innovation during industrial growth connected changes in manufacturing to markets, transportation, and infrastructure.

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• Understand the different types of biotic interactions such as predation, competition, mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.
• Identify examples of biotic relationships in ecosystems.
• Explain how human actions can disrupt biotic relationships and affect biodiversity.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of the particle model as a representation of matter.
• Explain how chemical reactions involve the breaking and forming of bonds between particles.
• Describe why mass remains constant during chemical changes in a closed system.+ Show more

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• Identify key processes in the water cycle such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
• Explain how water moves through Earth's spheres including rivers, groundwater, and oceans.
• Describe the role of energy and gravity in the movement of water.+ Show more