Grade 7 Worksheets

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• Understand the importance of regular physical activity, balanced nutrition, adequate sleep, and stress management.
• Identify different healthy practices and their interconnected effects on overall well-being.
• Analyze sustainable habits for maintaining long-term health.+ Show more

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• Understand the importance of tracking health goals over time.
• Identify different techniques used for self-monitoring and evaluating progress.
• Recognize how early successes and setbacks can refine health strategies.+ Show more

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• Understand the importance of setting short-term health goals.
• Identify clear and measurable health objectives that motivate behavior change.
• Recognize how achieving immediate goals can contribute to overall well-being.+ Show more

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• Understand risk factors that increase health and safety hazards.
• Identify and apply risk reduction practices to everyday situations.
• Recognize the importance of making informed decisions to prevent injuries and illnesses.+ Show more

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• Understand how media influences health behaviors and perceptions.
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of various media messages about health.
• Analyze the impact of social media on youth health choices.+ Show more

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• Understand the conventions of technical communication including drawings, schematics, and documentation.
• Identify and interpret standardized symbols, units, and labels used in engineering diagrams.
• Explain the importance of clarity, scale, and unambiguous dimensioning in technical drawings.+ Show more

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• Explain the mechanisms of heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation.
• Relate energy transfer processes to real-world phenomena such as thermal conductivity differences and radiant warming.
• Describe how temperature gradients, specific heat, and phase changes influence energy flow.+ Show more

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• Describe the basic components of an atom: protons, neutrons, and electrons.
• Explain how atomic number and mass number relate to element identity and isotopic variation.
• Identify simple electron arrangements for common elements.+ Show more

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• Identify how speakers use signals (linking words, brief summaries, and references to earlier points) to show relationships between ideas
• Explain how discussions shift when new information appears through synthesis rather than repetition
• Use evidence from what was said to ground disagreement and support a coherent group claim

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• Identify the main idea in an oral message that has a clear introduction, logical flow, and conclusion
• Evaluate statements for clarity by checking whether details match the speaker’s purpose and stay on topic
• Use transitions, sequence words, and category cues to follow the order of ideas+ Show more

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• Identify common text features (headings, subheadings, captions, bold terms, and pull quotes) and explain what each feature helps a reader do.
• Use text features to locate information, definitions, and evidence that supports an answer.
• Distinguish information found in text features from information found in the body text to ensure conclusions are supported by the page.+ Show more

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• Identify relationships among ideas (cause and effect, problem and solution, comparison) within a text.
• Synthesize information by combining key points to answer a guiding purpose without copying sections.
• Use evidence from a single text to form a larger understanding, and recognize when additional texts would strengthen the synthesis.

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• Explain how evidence from a text supports an inference
• Differentiate between what a text states directly and what it strongly implies
• Connect character actions, setting details, and information from data to a reasoned conclusion+ Show more

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• Explain when to use direct quotation versus paraphrase to support a claim accurately.
• Identify how to introduce evidence with context and follow it with an explanation of meaning and relevance.
• Revise sentences so quotation or paraphrase evidence creates coherence and connects clearly to the writer’s claim.

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• Identify the effects of using simple, compound, complex, and expanded sentence patterns in writing.
• Revise sentences to create clearer relationships using coordination and subordination (cause, contrast, condition).
• Strengthen persuasive writing by varying sentence openings and controlling rhythm through length and structure.

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• Identify independent clauses and dependent clauses in sentences that use subordinating words (subordinators).
• Choose correct punctuation for complex sentences, avoiding run-ons and fragments.
• Combine clauses to form complex sentences that clearly show relationships such as time, cause, contrast, condition, and purpose.

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• Explain how pronouns must match their antecedents in person, number, and clarity
• Identify and revise misleading or unclear pronoun references in sentences and paragraphs
• Use demonstrative and relative pronouns effectively to prevent confusing shifts

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• Explain how Earth’s water, land, and air resources are limited and not evenly available.
• Describe how natural processes (such as precipitation, drought, and flooding) affect resource availability.
• Analyze how human use and ecosystem capacity influence stress on shared resources.

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• Explain how atoms move through an ecosystem via processes like photosynthesis, feeding, respiration, and decomposition.
• Describe how decomposers return nutrients to soil and water and how this supports new plant growth.
• Distinguish matter cycling from energy flow in ecosystems, emphasizing that energy moves one direction from the Sun.

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• Describe the components of a food web, including producers, consumers, and decomposers.
• Explain the flow of energy among different organisms within a food web.
• Identify regional examples of food webs in Alberta wetlands and river systems.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of adaptive traits and how they contribute to survival.
• Identify different types of adaptations in various species.
• Analyze how traits are influenced by environmental pressures.+ Show more

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• Explain how natural selection works using the ideas of heritable variation and differential survival and reproduction
• Describe how natural selection changes allele frequencies over many generations
• Use real-world examples (such as antibiotic resistance) to illustrate natural selection+ Show more

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• Analyze integrated systems by understanding forces, machine functions, and structural evaluation.
• Compare alternative design solutions based on criteria such as mechanical advantage, material choice, and safety.
• Synthesize motion data, mechanical calculations, and structural assessments for regional applications.+ Show more

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• Explain how waves transfer energy without permanently moving matter
• Distinguish transverse waves from longitudinal waves using particle motion
• Identify how amplitude and wavelength relate to energy and spacing in a wave pattern+ Show more

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• Explain how scientific evidence supports a claim by connecting observations, data, and reasoning in a clear chain.
• Identify whether an argument uses specific evidence (data values, graph features, or direct observations) rather than unsupported statements.
• Revise an evidence argument to address limitations and avoid incorrect cause-and-effect claims.

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• Explain how Earth’s rotation and axial tilt create daily and seasonal patterns.
• Describe how changes in daylight length are linked to the equinoxes and solstices.
• Use astronomical ideas to understand basic calendar and timekeeping conventions.

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• Understand the importance of measurement precision and uncertainty in scientific observations.
• Apply proper calibration techniques for balances and graduated cylinders.
• Use repetition of measurements to assess variability and estimate measurement error.+ Show more

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• Understand the components of evidence-based arguments including claims, evidence, and reasoning.
• Critically analyze and construct logical, coherent arguments supported by data and graphical representations.
• Evaluate alternative models and recognize limits of inference in argumentation.+ Show more

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• Identify how transition words and reference words create coherence by showing relationships among ideas
• Choose appropriate transitions to signal cause/effect, sequence, contrast, and addition
• Revise sentences and paragraphs so connections between evidence, explanation, and conclusions are clear

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• Understand the key indicators of physical changes in substances.
• Identify examples of physical changes in real-world contexts.
• Differentiate between physical and chemical changes based on observable signs.+ Show more

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• Explain how decomposers (fungi and bacteria) break down dead organisms and waste
• Describe how decomposition returns nutrients to soil and water for producers to use
• Analyze how environmental conditions affect the rate of decomposition+ Show more

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• Explain how energy captured by producers flows through food chains and webs to consumers and decomposers.
• Describe how matter is recycled in ecosystems through decomposition and nutrient return.
• Distinguish between energy transfer (with energy loss as heat) and matter cycling (with elements reused).

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• Explain how evolutionary change involves shifts in heritable traits across generations rather than individual lifetime changes
• Use the ideas of variation, heredity, and differential survival/reproduction to describe population-level evolution
• Distinguish between adaptation within a lifetime and evolutionary change over long time scales

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• Explain the difference between genotype and phenotype in terms of genes and observable traits
• Use dominant and recessive allele ideas to predict how genotype can affect phenotype
• Describe how environmental factors can influence phenotype even when genotype is known

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• Explain how the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere interact through the movement of matter and energy
• Use examples (erosion, precipitation, evaporation, and transpiration) to describe cause-and-effect links between Earth systems
• Identify how changes in one Earth system can lead to changes in another over time

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• Explain how rapid processes (storms, heavy rainfall, earthquakes, and volcanic activity) can change Earth’s surface locally.
• Describe how gradual processes can also reshape landscapes over longer times.
• Use evidence from surface changes (erosion, deposition, flooding, dunes and beaches) to connect causes to observable effects.

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• Identify observable signs that indicate a chemical reaction has occurred
• Differentiate chemical change evidence from physical change evidence
• Connect particle rearrangement to macroscopic observations such as gas, precipitates, and color change

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• Understand the key quantities used to measure motion: distance, time, and speed.
• Learn how to accurately compute average speed from given data.
• Identify common sources of measurement error in motion experiments.+ Show more

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• Interpret position–time graphs to determine velocity using slope and identify changing velocity using curve shape
• Interpret velocity–time graphs to determine acceleration using slope and identify zero acceleration using horizontal lines
• Use data tables with motion graphs to confirm whether motion is constant or changing

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• Identify how a scientific claim must be supported by specific data and observations.
• Explain why evidence implies a claim using appropriate comparisons, units, and relationships.
• Evaluate alternative explanations by stating which evidence supports one explanation more strongly.

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• Identify independent, dependent, and controlled variables in an investigation scenario.
• Explain how measurable evidence connects to the dependent variable.
• Determine what must be kept constant to make cause-and-effect conclusions more reliable.

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• Understand the purpose and types of systems models used in science and engineering.
• Identify various diagrams and visual representations such as free-body diagrams, circuit schematics, and block diagrams.
• Explain the importance of assumptions, scaling effects, and simplifications when creating models.+ Show more

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• Explain how predator and prey populations influence each other through feedback loops over time
• Describe how predator-prey changes can ripple through a community and alter ecosystem interactions
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to predict what may happen when one population increases or decreases

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• Explain how the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere interact as Earth’s systems
• Describe how matter and energy move between spheres through processes like evaporation, precipitation, weathering, and transpiration
• Predict how changes in one sphere can cause effects in other spheres using cause-and-effect reasoning+ Show more

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• Explain how plate tectonics can cause rapid geologic hazards such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
• Describe how weathering, erosion, and deposition gradually reshape Earth’s surface
• Use geologic evidence (fault features, lava flows, and ash or sediment layers) to connect past processes to present landforms

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• Interpret experimental data using patterns, variability, and measurement quality
• Explain how reliability increases when repeated measurements are similar
• Identify common sources of error and how they affect confidence in conclusions+ Show more

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• Understand how friction opposes motion and how surface roughness influences resistance.
• Describe how gravity affects objects in free fall and on inclined planes.
• Differentiate between contact forces like friction and long-range forces like gravity.+ 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