Grade 7 Worksheets

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• Use Q = mcΔT to calculate thermal energy needed to change a substance’s temperature
• Identify and convert key units (joules and watts) used in heat and power problems
• Explain how heat-transfer rate depends on area, temperature gradient, and time+ Show more

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• Explain how extraction industries (mining, forestry, and energy development) affect ecosystems, economies, and communities.
• Analyze how extraction decisions can create long-term local and global impacts through causes and consequences.
• Describe how regulation and community rights (including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives) can shape outcomes.

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• Describe how population density gradients, clustering, and sparse regions appear on maps
• Explain how migration and fertility shifts change population patterns over time
• Connect population patterns to services, infrastructure, land use, economy, and the environment

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• Explain how maps and spatial data show where resources are located and why those locations matter for industry.
• Describe how transportation networks connect resource regions to markets and global commodity chains.
• Analyze how resource extraction can cause environmental and social consequences in different places.

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• Identify major environmental risks and explain how they affect human health and communities.
• Describe ways to reduce environmental risks using individual, community, and policy-level actions.
• Evaluate claims about environmental risk using evidence from a passage and real-world examples.

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• Organize categorical and numerical data in clear table formats with accurate units and consistent column headings.
• Use metadata, sampling-frame documentation, and observational logs to preserve provenance and support later validation.
• Apply timestamp conventions and replication records to strengthen credibility in time-series data.

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• Identify observable indicators that a chemical reaction has occurred, including gas production, precipitate formation, color change, and temperature change.
• Explain irreversibility and how it differs from reversible physical changes.
• Use mass measurements from sealed systems to connect reaction evidence to the conservation of matter.

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• Explain how historical context can change how people interpret the same event.
• Compare multiple perspectives from different groups to identify possible bias and missing information.
• Use evidence to support claims about why interpretations differ.

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• Use microscope observations to explain how cells are discrete units in living organisms.
• Compare unicellular and multicellular organization using examples like paramecium and onion epidermis.
• Identify evidence of cell boundaries (plasma membranes, cell walls) and describe how cells form tissues and organs.

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• Explain how energy can be converted from one form to another in common devices.
• Use energy transfer and conservation ideas to track energy in a conversion sequence.
• Describe why thermal energy losses occur and how efficiency is affected.

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• Explain why people should evaluate health information before using it to make decisions.
• Apply simple criteria (source credibility, evidence, bias, and recency) to judge whether health claims are reliable.
• Identify common signs of misinformation in health product and advice claims.

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• Explain how births, deaths, immigration, and emigration change population size
• Use population density and distribution patterns to predict how individuals interact
• Describe how reproductive capacity and survival affect growth rates+ Show more

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• Explain how protons, neutrons, and electrons determine an atom’s properties.
• Use atomic number and mass number to identify elements and describe isotopes.
• Describe how historical atomic models and electron arrangements help explain periodic trends.+ Show more

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• Explain how standardized long-term ecological monitoring helps detect directional change in species and habitats.
• Identify and compare common monitoring methods used in Alberta (fixed-site surveys, point counts, remote sensing, and water quality sampling).
• Describe how sampling design, temporal replication, and data quality improve the reliability of conclusions.

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• Explain how distance, time, and speed are related and identify appropriate units.
• Calculate average speed using distance and time and interpret results in context.
• Recognize common sources of measurement error and describe how they affect motion data.+ Show more

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• Explain recoil and thrust using action-reaction (Newton’s third law) forces.
• Compare how interaction forces are equal and opposite while accelerations can differ because of mass.
• Predict motion changes by reasoning about momentum and force pairs during interactions.

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• Explain how control methods reduce the influence of unrelated factors in an investigation.
• Identify control and comparison conditions and describe how they should be kept consistent.
• Use proper timing, calibration, and standardized procedures to support credible conclusions.+ Show more

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• Explain the difference between design criteria and design constraints in a solution design.
• Write clear, testable design criteria using measurable success targets.
• Use constraints (materials, safety, cost, and science principles) to narrow possible solutions.+ Show more

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• Explain how weather data (temperature, wind, humidity, and precipitation) can reveal patterns across time and location
• Differentiate weather from climate and describe how climate change can occur over long periods
• Use examples of air pressure and air mass movement to interpret weather data patterns+ Show more

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• Explain how technologies create trade-offs between benefits and costs for people and the environment
• Evaluate ethical issues in technology such as fairness, privacy, and product responsibility across the life cycle
• Connect engineering and design choices to real-world impacts on ecosystems and communities

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• Explain how energy moves through an ecosystem using producers, consumers, and decomposers
• Describe how matter cycles while energy flows one-way through trophic levels
• Identify factors that can change ecosystem populations and balance

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• Identify how technological innovations, migration, and government policy can cause changes in communities over time
• Evaluate historical evidence to explain both continuity and change in community life
• Analyze impacts of urbanization and immigration policies on social practices and services

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• Explain how digital communication, cultural links, and economic partnerships create interdependence among communities
• Evaluate how global and regional interdependence can affect local well-being and social cohesion
• Use evidence to justify policy ideas that support sustainable development and fair exchange

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• Explain how invasive, non-native species can harm ecosystems through competition, changed food webs, and habitat structure.
• Describe common pathways by which non-native species are introduced and identify factors that help them become established.
• Evaluate how invasive species can create economic costs and increased long-term management needs.+ Show more

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• Identify key structural failure modes such as buckling, fatigue cracking, fracture, and connection/foundation failures.
• Explain how geometry, material properties, and loading conditions affect which failure mode occurs.
• Describe limit states design thinking using safety factors, redundancy, and risk reduction strategies.

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• Explain how functional requirements and constraints guide engineering design choices from problem definition to solution selection.
• Describe how performance objectives (such as load capacity, stiffness, and serviceability) influence design decisions.
• Use a simple decision matrix and sketches to compare concept options and justify a preferred solution using criteria and trade-offs.+ Show more

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• Describe how engineers map primary and secondary load paths in multi-span bridge and building systems
• Explain how diaphragms, shear walls, and moment frames change stiffness and redirect loads
• Predict how openings, re-entrant corners, and irregular geometry can redistribute gravity, lateral, and dynamic loads+ Show more

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• Explain how urban heat island effects raise night-time temperatures and alter local microclimates.
• Describe how surface materials, vegetation, evapotranspiration, and building geometry influence heat retention and airflow.
• Evaluate mitigation strategies such as cool pavements, added urban greenery, and strategic shading.

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• Explain how evaporation and controlled cooling can create supersaturation and lead to crystallization.
• Describe nucleation and crystal growth and how these steps affect crystal size and shape.
• Identify factors such as evaporation rate, temperature profile, and impurities that influence crystal purity and yield.+ Show more

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• Explain how fur trade, subsistence and market agriculture, and early commerce shaped colonial economies between 1713 and 1850.
• Analyze cause-and-effect relationships involving market demand, credit systems, and migration and how they changed labor patterns.
• Compare continuity and change in household economic choices over time.+ Show more

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• Explain how ports, inland trading posts, and Atlantic markets were connected between 1713 and 1850.
• Describe how merchant networks supported credit, supply, and regional specialization.
• Analyze how tariff and navigation policies affected local economies and trade patterns.+ Show more

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• Compare fossil-fuel–based energy systems with renewable energy options using evidence about emissions and land use
• Explain how energy transitions affect economic stability and community decision-making
• Assess trade-offs among technology, policy, and environmental stewardship, including Indigenous participation+ Show more

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• Explain how trade routes, transportation, and resources connect places across the world.
• Describe how communication networks and cultural exchange affect relationships between regions.
• Analyze how geographic location can shape opportunities and vulnerabilities in global connections.

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• Explain how economic restructuring, land-use alteration, and demographic shifts can reshape a region over time.
• Analyze causes and consequences of regional change, including industrial decline and policy shifts.
• Compare continuity and change across decades using evidence from a text and real-world examples.+ Show more

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• Explain how transportation and industrialization influence the pattern and speed of urban growth.
• Describe how changes in density affect housing, employment, and public services in metropolitan areas.
• Evaluate how urban policies and market forces can create different growth trajectories for cities and surrounding rural areas.+ Show more

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• Explain how inland waterways and rail lines function as transport corridors and support regional access and trade.
• Describe causes and consequences of corridor development, including how networks can change over time.
• Analyze how corridor placement affects settlement patterns, economic activity, environmental constraints, and equity.

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• Explain how filtration separates mixtures based on particle size and pore structure
• Compare filtration with sedimentation and centrifugation in terms of what each method can remove
• Identify limitations of filtration for dissolved solutes and very small colloids+ Show more

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• Define physical properties and describe how they are measured without changing a substance’s chemical identity
• Use physical properties (mass, volume, density, melting/boiling points, conductivity, and optical clarity) to classify materials
• Explain how phase-change temperatures and density can help identify purity and differentiate substances

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• Classify mixtures as solutions, colloids, or suspensions using particle size and uniformity.
• Explain how light scattering and stability help distinguish mixture types at the macroscopic scale.
• Predict how different mixtures behave during separation methods such as filtration and settling.

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• Explain how digital tools collect, store, and describe data so it can be reused and compared.
• Use spreadsheet functions and basic cleaning ideas to prepare sensor data for analysis.
• Interpret metadata such as timestamps, sampling rates, and tags to understand measurement quality.

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• Explain how melting point, boiling point, conductivity, refractive index, and gravimetric residue can indicate purity or contamination.
• Use “multiple lines of evidence” to justify whether a sample is likely pure.
• Compare how different tests respond to different kinds of impurities and describe trade-offs.

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• Identify the criteria that make a scientific question testable and measurable
• Form a clear hypothesis and define variables with operational definitions
• Explain how measurement precision, reproducibility, and documentation improve reliability+ Show more

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• Explain how physical geographic factors (mountains, rivers, and climate) influence where early societies formed.
• Describe how physical features affect trade routes and agricultural practices.
• Analyze how human geographic factors interact with physical geography to shape settlement and land use.+ Show more

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• Explain how early embryonic structures can be conserved across different animal groups
• Compare embryonic features (pharyngeal pouches, limb buds, and body-plan patterns) across taxa
• Use developmental timing to support ideas about evolutionary relationships

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• Explain how geographic location can create strategic advantages for cities and regions.
• Describe how coastal and inland locations can shape political and economic development.
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to connect “place” to power and economic activity over time.+ Show more

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• Explain how geographic features like waterways and mountain passes connect regions through economic, social, and environmental systems.
• Analyze how shared resources can lead to cooperation or conflict between regions.
• Use evidence from maps and historical examples to describe patterns of cultural exchange and political alliances.

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• Explain how fossil patterns in stratigraphic layers provide evidence for common ancestry and evolutionary change over geologic time.
• Use index fossils and correlations between sedimentary layers to infer relative ages and interpret changes in fossil assemblages.
• Analyze how transitional fossils and morphological trends support ideas about lineage continuity, radiations, and mass extinctions.

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• Explain how 19th-century imperialism expanded European and other powers’ influence through political, economic, and cultural control
• Describe major effects of imperialism on Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, including exploitation and resistance movements
• Analyze how imperialism helped shape modern global boundaries, trade patterns, and international relationships