Grade 7 Worksheets

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• Identify how communities exchange goods, services, and information through local and regional economic networks.
• Explain how economic interdependence can increase community resilience during shortages or disasters.
• Analyze how trade, shared resources, and digital platforms affect social relationships between communities.

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• Understand how mass conservation principles are applied in reaction stoichiometry, waste accounting, and environmental mass balances.
• Identify practical examples of mass budgeting in closed systems and their significance.
• Analyze regional applications such as combustion monitoring and corrosion tests to understand mass distribution tracking.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy enters an ecosystem and moves through trophic levels (producers to consumers).
• Describe why energy decreases at each transfer between trophic levels.
• Compare the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in energy flow.+ Show more

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• Explain how genetic information in reproductive cells leads to inherited traits in offspring
• Compare inherited traits and environmental influences using examples
• Use simple inheritance patterns (dominant/recessive concepts) to predict trait outcomes+ Show more

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• Use periods, question marks, exclamation marks, and commas to show sentence boundaries and intended emphasis.
• Apply comma rules to separate ideas and improve coherence in writing.
• Revise sentences to correct punctuation so meaning and tone remain clear.

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• Understand how physical and chemical properties influence material suitability for different applications.
• Identify key properties such as corrosion resistance, hardness, melting point, solubility, and reactivity.
• Analyze how properties like chemical stability, density, and strength impact environmental and structural decisions.+ Show more

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• Understand the difference between mixtures and pure substances.
• Identify the types of mixtures: homogeneous and heterogeneous.
• Learn how physical properties enable separation methods like filtration, evaporation, and distillation.+ Show more

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• Explain how chromosome segregation during meiosis produces genetically different reproductive cells
• Describe how crossing over and independent assortment increase genetic variation
• Connect meiotic genetic variation to why siblings are not identical and to how selection can act over generations

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• Understand how phenotype results from interactions between genetics and environment.
• Identify examples of environmental influence on traits such as height, skin color, and temperature-sensitive pigmentation.
• Distinguish inherited genetic traits from environmentally modulated traits.+ Show more

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• Understand the roles of supports, foundations, and load paths in construction.
• Identify how compression, tension, and shear forces affect beams, columns, and foundations.
• Evaluate material properties such as stiffness, strength, and durability for safety and suitability.+ Show more

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• Identify the main factors that influence solubility in liquids and gases.
• Explain how temperature, pressure, and surface area affect the amount of solute dissolved.
• Describe real-world examples demonstrating the impact of solubility factors.

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• Understand the particle model as a representation of matter composed of atoms and molecules.
• Explain how chemical changes involve breaking and forming bonds between particles without changing mass.
• Visualize and describe particle interactions during chemical reactions to explain conservation of mass.

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• Analyze historical and instrumental data to identify patterns of natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, floods, and tsunamis.
• Interpret hazard maps, recurrence intervals, and probabilistic forecasts to assess risks and inform mitigation strategies.
• Understand the cascading impacts of natural hazards on infrastructure, ecosystems, and settlements, and differentiate between short-term event dynamics and long-term trends.

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• Understand how resource availability affects population size in ecosystems.
• Identify examples of resources that limit organism survival and reproduction.
• Explain the relationship between environmental resources and habitat health.+ Show more

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• Explain how the kinetic motion of particles relates to thermal phenomena.
• Describe how temperature measures average kinetic energy and heat measures energy transfer.
• Identify the methods of heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation.+ Show more

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• Explain how technological innovations can change economic activities over time
• Identify cause-and-effect relationships between technology, employment, and community structures
• Evaluate how technology can create opportunities and challenges for different groups in a community

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• Understand the concept of conservation of mass in chemical and physical changes.
• Identify factors that influence mass measurements and their accuracy.
• Differentiate between precise and accurate mass measurements in experiments.+ Show more

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• Understand how friction influences movement and stability.
• Identify factors that affect friction between surfaces.
• Explain the relationship between applied force, friction, and motion.+ 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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• Distinguish between primary and secondary sources in historical study
• Analyze a source by identifying its origin and purpose
• Use evidence from different sources to form a more complete interpretation of an event

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• Understand how different pollutants impact ecosystems and organisms.
• Identify sources and pathways of environmental contamination.
• Analyze ecological consequences of nutrient runoff, hydrocarbons, and airborne deposition.+ Show more

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• Understand different long-term ecological monitoring techniques used in Alberta.
• Identify considerations for sampling design, temporal replication, and data quality.
• Explain how consistent monitoring helps detect ecological trends over time.

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• Understand the hydrological, chemical, and biological functions of wetlands.
• Identify examples of Alberta wetlands and their ecological roles.
• Explain how wetlands contribute to water regulation and biodiversity.+ Show more

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• Explain the law of conservation of matter in terms of total mass before and after chemical reactions
• Connect conservation of matter to atoms being rearranged rather than created or destroyed
• Interpret real-world examples (sealed container vs. open container) using conservation of mass

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• Define and distinguish among mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.
• Identify regional examples of different symbiosis types in Alberta ecosystems.
• Explain ecological consequences of inter-species relationships on population dynamics and resource distribution.+ Show more

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• Identify a central theme by tracking repeated ideas, contrasts, and evolving decisions in a text.
• Explain how an author’s craft choices (figurative language, imagery, symbols, and irony) develop theme and create tension.
• Connect specific language and narrative/argument moves to the meaning they strengthen or the doubts they raise.

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• Understand the interactions between living organisms and non-living environmental factors in ecosystems.
• Identify how sunlight, soil, water, temperature, and topography influence plant, animal, and microbial communities.
• Explain cause-and-effect relationships that shape ecosystem patterns across Alberta landscapes.+ Show more

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• Explain how light energy is converted into chemical energy during photosynthesis.
• Describe the process of cellular respiration and how organisms harvest energy from food.
• Connect the roles of chloroplasts and mitochondria in energy transfer within cells.+ Show more

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• Identify how tone, emphasis, and key points affect a speaker’s meaning during active listening.
• Paraphrase what you hear and use relevant follow-up questions to show understanding.
• Adjust your response based on the speaker’s intent in a class discussion or story retell.

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• Understand how to interpret distance–time and speed–time graphs.
• Learn how to determine slope meanings, area under curves, and rates from graphs.
• Apply graphing techniques to real-world motion scenarios, such as downhill runs.+ Show more

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• Understand how geologic processes influence the distribution of mineral, energy, and groundwater resources.
• Connect plate tectonics, sedimentation, weathering, and biological activity to resource location.
• Analyze the impacts of resource extraction and consider renewable versus nonrenewable resources.+ Show more

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• Explain how industrialization and transportation innovations contribute to urban growth and city expansion.
• Describe changes in population density and urban form as metropolitan areas expand.
• Evaluate how urban policies and market forces can affect housing, services, employment, and environmental pressures.+ Show more

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• Understand various physical separation techniques such as filtration, decanting, evaporation, and magnetic separation.
• Identify the physical properties exploited by different separation methods.
• Analyze regional examples of separation processes and their effectiveness.+ Show more

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• Identify key signs indicating a physical change has occurred.
• Differentiate between physical and chemical changes based on observable indicators.
• Explain particle behavior during physical changes using real-world examples.+ Show more

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• Calculate average speed using distance and time with correct units
• Convert between meters per second (m/s) and kilometers per hour (km/h)
• Differentiate average speed from instantaneous speed using real-world examples+ Show more

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• Describe cyclic patterns produced by the relative motions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon.
• Explain how orbital geometry and axial tilt influence day-night cycles and phases.
• Identify observational evidence that connects positional relationships to predictable solar and lunar patterns.+ Show more

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• Understand the different forms of energy and how they transform from one to another.
• Identify real-world examples of energy transformations in Alberta's resource use.
• Explain the law of conservation of energy during various energy processes.+ Show more

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• Understand different measures of solution concentration such as mass percent and grams per litre.
• Explain how solution concentration affects physical properties like boiling point and freezing point.
• Describe real-world examples of solution concentration impacts, including salinity in lakes and water treatment.+ Show more

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• Construct and interpret graphical relationships between kinetic energy, potential energy, mass, and speed.
• Analyze how doubling mass or speed affects kinetic energy using quantitative patterns.
• Understand and apply energy calculations and interpret graphs related to motion and energy.

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• Identify and describe the mechanisms of heat transfer: conduction, convection, radiation, sound, and electric current.
• Explain how energy transfer affects temperature and rate differences in objects and environments.
• Use examples to illustrate different modes of heat transfer and measure evidence of transfer.

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• Understand the geological evidence supporting plate tectonics and continental movement.
• Identify features such as seafloor structures, earthquakes, and volcanoes that indicate plate activity.
• Explain how fossil distributions and rock types record past continental positions.+ Show more

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• Identify whether a subject is singular or plural and choose the correct verb form.
• Apply subject-verb agreement when an intervening prepositional phrase appears between the subject and verb.
• Use correct verb forms with collective nouns, and recognize common agreement errors.

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• Identify observable signs of chemical changes such as colour change, gas evolution, precipitate formation, temperature change, and odour alteration.
• Explain at particle level how bonds are reorganized during chemical changes.
• Differentiate between physical and chemical changes based on observable evidence.+ Show more

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• Explain how production context (choices about sources, timing, and distribution) affects meaning in media texts.
• Compare how different formats and platforms emphasize different details to meet audience expectations.
• Use textual evidence to identify framing, emphasis, and what information may be left out.

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• Describe different types of phase changes and how energy transfer affects them.
• Identify the effects of temperature and pressure on phase transitions.
• Explain the concepts of latent heat and particle arrangement during phase changes.+ Show more

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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 various representations convey matter interactions, including symbolic equations, graphs, and tables.
• Interpret reaction rate graphs, stoichiometric ratios, and phase diagrams to analyze matter behavior.
• Select appropriate representations for quantitative comparison and communicate relationships among measurable variables.+ Show more

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• Understand different types of species interactions such as predation, competition, parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism.
• Analyze how species interactions affect community structure and ecosystem stability.
• Identify examples of species interactions in terrestrial and aquatic systems using food web context.+ Show more