Grade 7 Worksheets

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• Compare the core beliefs and practices of major world religions, including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism.
• Explain how religious beliefs and values can influence culture, holidays, laws, and social behavior.
• Use examples to describe how religion can shape community identity and cohesion over time.

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• Explain how trade routes, conquests, and exploration spread cultural practices, beliefs, and technologies.
• Identify examples of cultural diffusion and describe how they created cultural blends and adaptations.
• Analyze how the movement of ideas can influence social structures and artistic expression.

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• Explain how art and literature can reflect societal values and challenge existing norms
• Describe how creative expression can influence cultural identity and inspire social or political change
• Connect historical examples (Renaissance art and Enlightenment writing) to modern social movements

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• Explain how geographic features like rivers and mountain passes create economic and social connections between regions.
• Analyze how environmental conditions in one place can affect resources and decision-making in connected regions.
• Evaluate how interdependence influences alliances, shared resource use, and cultural exchange.

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• Explain how physical geographic factors (mountains, rivers, and climate) influence where civilizations develop.
• Describe how human geographic factors (settlement patterns and land use) interact with physical features.
• Analyze how geography affects trade routes, agriculture, and the long-term resilience of societies.

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• Explain how medieval and early modern trade networks connected distant regions and supported economic growth
• Describe how goods, ideas, and technologies spread through routes such as the Silk Road, trans-Saharan routes, and Indian Ocean trade
• Evaluate how trade networks contributed to cultural diffusion and changes in societies

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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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• Explain how nationalism and imperialism influenced international relations during the age of empires.
• Describe how imperial competition contributed to alliances, rivalries, and shifting political boundaries.
• Analyze how colonial conflicts and nationalist movements affected diplomacy and world politics.

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• Explain the main causes of nineteenth-century imperialism, including industrial needs and national ambitions.
• Describe how imperial powers expanded control politically, economically, and culturally.
• Analyze the impacts of imperialism on colonies, including resistance, resource exploitation, and long-term global effects.

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• Explain how mechanized manufacturing and chemical processes changed industrial labor and production
• Analyze how industrial innovations influenced urbanization, employment patterns, and economic growth
• Evaluate how technology can reshape social class structures and cultural norms over time

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• Explain how advances in transportation increased global connectivity and economic interdependence.
• Describe how communication innovations changed the speed and reach of information worldwide.
• Analyze how improved transportation and communication promoted cultural exchange and integration.+ Show more

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• Explain the difference between what a text states directly and what it strongly implies.
• Make supported inferences by using textual evidence to justify a logical conclusion.
• Apply inference skills to both informational texts and literary situations (conflict and resolution).

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• Define theme as a central idea about life, society, or human behavior that develops across a text.
• Identify how theme is supported by evidence such as character decisions, conflicts, recurring ideas, and supporting details.
• Write a clear theme statement and connect it to specific events from a text.

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• Identify the main idea and the most important supporting details in a text.
• Write summaries that are shorter than the original while preserving the author’s meaning.
• Use accurate phrasing and avoid adding new interpretations not supported by the text.+ Show more

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• Understand the physical and chemical processes involved in separating bitumen from oil sands.
• Identify the differences between physical separation techniques and chemical treatments in mixture processing.
• Explain how temperature, density, and additives influence mixture separation.+ Show more

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• Explain how a writer’s purpose and audience shape the focus, tone, and organization of a piece of writing.
• Identify key points that match an audience’s needs and prior knowledge.
• Use notes to organize ideas into a clear direction that supports drafting and revision.

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• Identify key structural and stylistic features of different text forms (narrative retellings, informational reports, persuasive responses, and explanatory pieces).
• Refine drafts by adjusting introductions, supporting development, and conclusions to fit the purpose of the chosen text form.
• Use targeted editing strategies to improve language choices, transitions, and formatting conventions.

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• Identify the purpose of a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a closing sentence in an organized paragraph.
• Use transitions and focused details to develop a controlling idea with clarity.
• Revise paragraphs so each one stays on a single focus and prepares the reader for what comes next.

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• Identify independent and dependent clauses in complex sentences.
• Use subordinators (such as because, although, when, if, while) to show relationships like cause, contrast, time, and condition.
• Apply correct comma placement to prevent run-ons and fragments when writing complex sentences.

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• Explain how relevant, specific evidence supports a claim in a short informational response.
• Select strong textual details (facts, examples, quotations) that match the point being made.
• Write an explanation that connects evidence to the claim and clarifies the reader’s understanding.+ Show more

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• Identify how word choice, sentence clarity, and organization affect a reader’s understanding.
• Edit informational writing to improve precision without changing the central meaning.
• Maintain consistent viewpoint, tense, and pronoun references while revising for clarity.

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• Identify how technological innovations, migration, and government policy can cause historical changes in Canadian communities.
• Use evidence from sources to explain both continuity and change in community life over time.
• Evaluate cause-and-effect relationships between key events (such as urbanization and immigration policies) and their impacts on social practices.

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• Explain how regional change includes economic restructuring, land-use alteration, and demographic shifts.
• Analyze causes and consequences of regional change, including industrial decline and policy shifts.
• Evaluate how migration, resource economies, and environmental adaptation connect across decades.+ Show more

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• Explain how political reforms and revolutions can change governments and laws
• Identify common causes that lead people to demand constitutional or systemic change
• Evaluate the effects of revolutionary movements on authority and governance

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• Explain how population density, clustering, and sparse regions create different population patterns on maps
• Describe how physical geography and human decisions influence where people settle
• Analyze how migration and fertility changes affect population growth and service planning+ Show more

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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 trade routes connected Islamic regions with Africa, Asia, and Europe
• Describe how trade supported cultural exchange and the spread of scientific and scholarly knowledge
• Identify the role of centers of learning, such as Baghdad, in medieval scientific and cultural achievements

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• Explain how Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Huldrych Zwingli emphasized scripture authority and individual faith.
• Describe how the Reformation led to new Christian traditions such as Lutheranism and Calvinism.
• Analyze how reform ideas influenced religious practices, conflicts, and political debates about authority and governance.

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• Explain key features of Renaissance humanism, including classical learning and the value of individual potential.
• Describe how humanist ideas influenced education, the arts, and scientific inquiry in Renaissance Europe.
• Analyze how humanism shifted cultural focus toward secular achievements and ethical reasoning.

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• Explain how feudal relationships connected land, power, and military service in medieval Europe
• Describe how manorialism shaped rural life through the roles of lords, vassals, and peasants
• Analyze how the feudal-manorial system supported social stability and local economies

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• Describe how major caliphates (such as the Umayyads and Abbasids) organized centralized authority and administration
• Explain how legal systems and public institutions (like courts and judges) supported social order
• Analyze how governance practices affected economic growth and cultural/scientific development

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• Explain how Mesoamerican city-states and empires were governed, including hierarchies of rulers and local leaders.
• Describe how religion influenced political authority and ceremonial life in civilizations such as the Maya and Aztec.
• Compare political organization and social classes in ways that supported regional stability and expansion.

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• Explain how religious reform movements increased conflict between monarchies, states, and religious groups.
• Describe how wars of religion changed governance and territorial boundaries in early modern Europe.
• Analyze how declining papal authority and the idea of state independence affected European political balance and unity.

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• Explain how feudal relationships in medieval Japan shifted political power from the imperial court to military leaders.
• Identify the roles of the shogun, daimyo, and samurai and describe how they connected in a hierarchy.
• Describe how decentralized rule influenced Japan’s economy and military organization during feudal times.

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• Explain how centralized governments in the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties helped maintain stability.
• Describe how imperial bureaucracy integrated regional administrations into a cohesive empire.
• Analyze how infrastructure, administration, and policy systems supported economic and social development.

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• Explain how Japan’s island geography influenced economic development and cultural exchange during medieval times.
• Identify examples of cultural borrowing from China and Korea, including religion, art, and government ideas.
• Describe how Japan adapted outside influences to fit local traditions and needs.

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• Identify a speaker’s main claim and locate counter evidence or plausible counterarguments.
• Explain how counterevidence can strengthen or weaken a claim through comparison of examples.
• Refine a viewpoint in response to new information and adjust language to fit the discussion purpose.

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• Explain how kinship ties and diplomatic protocols influenced Indigenous interactions with European newcomers between 1713 and 1850.
• Describe cause-and-effect relationships involving epidemics, alliances, and displacement during colonial contact.
• Analyze continuity and change in Indigenous governance under increasing colonial pressure.+ Show more

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• Maintain consistent verb tense within a sentence and across nearby sentences in a paragraph.
• Use intentional tense shifts to show flashbacks, changes in state, or general truths.
• Form correct verb tenses, including perfect and progressive combinations, and match them to context.

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• Explain how a text’s organization helps an audience follow a purpose (inform, persuade, or summarize).
• Identify how transitions and paragraph structure show relationships between ideas (sequence, cause/effect, and contrast).
• Use audience-aware strategies such as defining key terms and selecting examples that match listeners’ background knowledge.

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• Use subject-verb agreement to match singular and plural subjects with the correct verb form.
• Apply agreement rules when prepositional or intervening phrases appear between the subject and verb.
• Recognize how collective nouns and indefinite pronouns affect verb number.

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• Explain how Métis communities emerged through relationships linking Indigenous and European peoples in the fur trade frontier
• Describe the economic roles of Métis buffalo hunters and intermediaries and how these roles affected community growth
• Analyze how westward trade expansion influenced identity formation and cultural synthesis+ 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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• Describe environmental, economic, and social consequences of extraction activities such as mining, forestry, and energy development.
• Explain how government regulation and changes over time can affect the intensity and impacts of extraction.
• Analyze how extraction decisions can affect ecosystem health and community rights, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives.

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• Explain how merchant networks linked Atlantic ports, inland trading posts, and Atlantic markets between 1713 and 1850.
• Analyze how tariff and navigation policies affected local economies and trading opportunities.
• Describe continuity and change in trading practices, including the roles of company agents, independent traders, Indigenous suppliers, and colonial governments.

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• Compare fossil fuels and renewable energy in terms of emissions, land use, and energy reliability.
• Explain how energy transitions involve trade-offs among technology, policy, and community impacts.
• Describe ways First Nations, Métis, and Inuit participation can shape energy projects and decisions.

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• Explain how migration and land grant policies shaped settlement patterns and political culture in Upper Canada
• Describe causes and consequences of settlement for Indigenous dispossession and social stratification
• Compare continuity and change in community governance and militia organization over time

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• Explain how maritime industries and fisheries affected livelihoods and settlement patterns in the Atlantic region from 1713 to 1850.
• Describe how transatlantic migration and imperial competition influenced labor, density, and economic networks.
• Analyze how Indigenous Mi'kmaq, Acadian populations, British authorities, and merchants interacted within changing imperial trade patterns.