Grade 7 Science Worksheets

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• Identify key geological evidence supporting plate tectonics and continental movement.
• Understand the significance of seafloor structures like mid-ocean ridges and trenches.
• Explain how fossils, rock types, and geologic features record Earth's past continents.+ 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 locations.
• Evaluate the impacts of resource extraction and sustainability considerations.

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• Understand how solar heating influences regional climate patterns.
• Identify key atmospheric and oceanic circulation features affecting climate.
• Analyze how topography and ocean currents modify local climates.+ Show more

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• Understand the basic components and flow of Earth's atmospheric and oceanic circulation.
• Identify the roles of different circulation cells and their impact on climate.
• Explain the Coriolis effect and its influence on wind and ocean current directions.+ Show more

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• Explain how particle arrangement, spacing, and movement define solids, liquids, and gases
• Describe how temperature and pressure can cause transitions between states of matter
• Use observable properties (shape, volume, flow, compressibility) to identify the state of a substance

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• Understand the processes involved in the rock cycle, including melting, crystallization, weathering, and metamorphism.
• Identify the transformations among igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.
• Explain how Earth's energy flow drives the rock cycle processes.+ Show more

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• Describe the key geologic surface processes such as weathering, erosion, transport, and deposition.
• Differentiate between mechanical and chemical weathering and their signatures.
• Explain how landforms like canyons, deltas, and moraines are created by surface processes over time.+ Show more

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• Define net force as the vector sum of all forces acting on an object.
• Explain how unbalanced forces cause changes in motion.
• Describe the relationship between net force, mass, and acceleration using diagrams and reasoning.+ Show more

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• Describe the processes involved in the water cycle, including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and groundwater flow.
• Explain how water moves among Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere driven by solar energy and gravity.
• Identify interactions such as river discharge to oceans and groundwater contributions to springs.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of equilibrium as the balance of forces resulting in constant velocity or rest.
• Identify the differences between static and dynamic equilibrium.
• Apply qualitative and simple quantitative analyses to predict outcomes of objects at rest or moving uniformly.+ Show more

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• Describe the nature of gravitational, electric, and magnetic interactions as long-range forces.
• Explain how gravity acts universally and how electromagnetic forces can attract or repel.
• Relate gravitational attraction to mass and distance qualitatively.+ Show more

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• Understand how astronomical units, planetary diameters, and light-years are used to compare cosmic distances and sizes.
• Interpret scaled diagrams and logarithmic representations of the solar system and galaxy.
• Analyze orders of magnitude differences and their effects on observational limits and apparent motion.+ Show more

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• Understand the role of gravity in orbital motion within the solar system and galaxies.
• Identify mathematical relationships that describe orbital velocity and centripetal effects.
• Analyze observational evidence such as orbital trajectories and Keplerian patterns.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of relative dating such as superposition, original horizontality, and cross-cutting relationships.
• Identify key features like fossils, unconformities, and intrusions as markers for correlating rock layers.
• Analyze stratigraphic data to interpret the sequence of Earth's geological events.+ Show more

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• Analyze test data and parameters to refine and improve design solutions.
• Compare quantitative results to determine the most effective modifications.
• Apply iterative adjustment techniques to optimize performance within constraints.+ Show more

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• Understand different models that represent potential energy stored in systems.
• Identify how changes in object arrangement affect stored energy.
• Recognize examples of gravitational, elastic, and magnetic potential energy.+ Show more

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• Describe the 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.
• Connect observational records to predictable patterns in the solar system.+ Show more

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• Understand how to define design problems with clear criteria and constraints.
• Identify measurable performance metrics and limits for proposed solutions.
• Translate societal and environmental needs into quantitative targets.+ Show more

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• Understand how to systematically evaluate different design solutions using modeling and analysis.
• Identify and quantify trade-offs among performance, cost, durability, and manufacturability.
• Apply consistent metrics and model-based reasoning to compare options.+ Show more

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• Explain how DNA molecules are organized into chromosomes and how they encode genes.
• Describe the process of chromosome segregation during gamete formation and fusion.
• Understand how genetic variation in DNA sequences leads to observable traits.+ Show more

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• Understand how environmental factors influence phenotypic traits.
• Distinguish between inherited genetic traits and environmentally modulated traits.
• Identify examples of traits affected by environment such as nutrition, UV exposure, and temperature.+ Show more

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• Understand how probability concepts predict genetic variation among offspring.
• Apply Punnett squares to determine genotype and phenotype ratios.
• Interpret probability outcomes in monohybrid crosses and larger populations.+ Show more

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• Explain how changes in an object's motion energy are linked to energy transfers in various scenarios.
• Identify examples of energy transfer during braking, collisions, and bouncing.
• Describe the concept of energy bookkeeping in analyzing energy changes in objects.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of energy transfer and conservation in devices.
• Identify different types of energy conversions such as mechanical to electrical, light to electrical, and electrical to thermal.
• Explain the concept of energy efficiency and dissipative processes in energy transformations.+ Show more

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• Describe the mechanisms of heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation.
• Identify examples of heat transfer in real-world situations.
• Explain measurable evidence of energy transfer such as temperature change and rate differences.+ Show more

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• Construct and interpret graphs showing the relationship between kinetic energy, potential energy, mass, and speed.
• Analyze how changes in mass and speed affect kinetic energy using real-world examples.
• Calculate kinetic energy based on given mass and velocity data.+ Show more

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• Explain how magnitude and direction of forces combine to produce a net force.
• Predict how balanced and unbalanced forces change an object’s motion (speed and/or direction).
• Use everyday examples (pushing a cart, stopping a moving object) to describe net force effects.

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• Explain how heritable variation and environmental pressures can change trait frequencies over generations.
• Describe how differential survival and reproduction lead to adaptation.
• Use examples (e.g., island finches, antibiotic resistance) to identify selective pressures and advantageous traits.

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• Explain how internal transport systems move nutrients from where they are obtained to body tissues that use them.
• Describe the roles of digestion, circulation, and cellular use of nutrients in maintaining organism function.
• Identify how organisms remove unusable materials as waste during transport.

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• Explain how environmental and human health effects can become part of science-based constraints in design.
• Identify ways materials and processes can impact air, water, soil, and local communities.
• Distinguish solutions that are technically feasible from solutions that are socially and environmentally responsible.

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• Explain how abiotic factors (sunlight, water, temperature, soil, topography) affect living organisms in an ecosystem.
• Describe cause-and-effect relationships between abiotic conditions and biotic community patterns.
• Identify how plants, animals, and microbes respond to non-living environmental gradients in Alberta landscapes.

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• Define adaptations as structural, physiological, and behavioural traits that improve survival and reproduction in specific environments
• Explain how selective pressures influence which traits become more common in a population
• Describe how trade-offs in resource allocation can affect the success of an adaptation+ Show more

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• Explain how energy flows through organisms in a food web from producers to consumers and decomposers.
• Identify how removing or adding a species can change trophic connections and affect ecosystem stability.
• Use vocabulary from food webs (producer, consumer, decomposer, trophic level) to describe feeding relationships.

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• Identify ecological organization levels from individual organisms to ecosystems
• Explain how properties at higher levels emerge from interactions among organisms and their environment
• Use examples from Alberta (trout, fish communities, Bow River ecosystem) to compare levels

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• Identify major sources of anthropogenic pollution relevant to Alberta (nutrient runoff, hydrocarbons, and airborne deposition).
• Explain how pollutants move through ecosystems (runoff, atmospheric deposition, and food-web transfer).
• Describe how pollution can change organism health and ecosystem chemistry, including risks from bioaccumulation.+ Show more

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• Explain how birth rate, death rate, immigration, and emigration interact to change population size.
• Describe how abiotic constraints and resource availability influence where populations can persist.
• Interpret population trends to understand local extirpations and range expansions.+ Show more

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• Analyze how forces, machine function, and structural safety work together in an integrated design.
• Use criteria to compare alternative design options for real-world conditions such as wind, snow, and loads.
• Apply basic calculations and evidence to justify a reasoned choice among design alternatives.

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• Explain how free-body diagrams (FBDs) represent forces acting on an object
• Determine net force magnitude and direction by combining perpendicular force components
• Decompose forces on inclined surfaces into perpendicular (normal) and parallel (friction/gravity) components+ Show more

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• Explain how the conservation of mass applies to closed-system chemical and physical changes
• Use mass accounting to relate reactant masses to product masses in sealed systems
• Distinguish theoretical yield from measured yield using evidence about incomplete reactions or measurement differences+ Show more

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• Explain how temperature relates to the average random kinetic energy of particles
• Describe how microscopic particle motion and particle number influence thermal energy
• Use molecular speed ideas to interpret differences in air mass temperatures+ Show more

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• Describe how population size changes using births, deaths, immigration, and emigration.
• Explain how population density and distribution affect competition and mating.
• Use population growth concepts to interpret short-term fluctuations and long-term trends.

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• Explain how active transport moves substances against concentration gradients using cellular energy
• Identify roles of membrane proteins (pumps) and ATP in active transport
• Describe how vesicular transport (endocytosis and exocytosis) supports cell functions

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• Explain how diffusion and osmosis move substances across a selectively permeable cell membrane
• Describe how active transport uses energy to move molecules against concentration gradients
• Identify roles of membrane proteins in selective transport and maintaining ion balance

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• Explain how orogeny forms mountains through crustal shortening, thickening, and uplift at convergent plate boundaries.
• Describe how different plate interactions (continental collision and subduction) produce distinct mountain-belt features.
• Connect erosion and isostatic adjustment to how mountain landscapes change over time.

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• Explain how the particle model describes matter as atoms and molecules in constant motion
• Use the particle model to describe what happens during chemical changes (bond breaking and forming)
• Predict why total mass is conserved in a closed system during chemical reactions

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• Understand the principles of momentum conservation during collisions.
• Differentiate between elastic and inelastic collisions.
• Analyze how mass and velocity influence momentum transfer in impacts.+ Show more

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• Explain how gravity provides the centripetal force that keeps objects moving in curved orbital paths
• Compare circular and elliptical orbits using the idea of continuously changing direction
• Describe how inertia and gravity work together to keep planets bound to the Sun or orbiting companions+ Show more

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• Explain how groundwater is stored and how it moves through aquifers.
• Describe how recharge and infiltration affect groundwater availability over time.
• Analyze how groundwater pumping can change surface water flow and water quality.