Science Worksheets

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• Explain the principles of collision theory and its relation to reaction rates.
• Identify factors affecting molecular collision frequency and energy.
• Describe how catalysts lower activation energy to facilitate reactions.+ Show more

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• Explain how the kidney maintains fluid volume, osmolarity, and electrolyte balance.
• Describe how filtration, selective reabsorption, secretion, and concentration work together across nephron segments.
• Summarize the roles of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) and aldosterone in fluid balance.

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• Explain how standard units and instrument choice affect measurement accuracy and precision.
• Read scales correctly and report results using significant figures.
• Differentiate systematic and random error and describe how each affects measurements.+ Show more

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• Explain how changes in one Earth's sphere can influence others through energy and matter transfer.
• Identify examples of interactions among Earth's spheres such as atmosphere, land, water, and biosphere.
• Analyze data and models that connect quantities like temperature, rainfall, and aerosol levels to environmental outcomes.+ Show more

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• Explain what a protected area is and how it helps conserve forest biodiversity.
• Identify key details about habitat, ecosystem services, and species at risk.
• Use information from a reading passage to answer questions accurately.

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• Identify the different types of RNA and their functions in protein synthesis.
• Explain how RNA substitutes uracil for thymine and pairs with DNA during transcription.
• Describe the roles of messenger RNA, transfer RNA, and ribosomal RNA in translating genetic information.

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• Understand how to articulate hypotheses in measurable terms for controlled tests.
• Identify key elements needed for designing valid experiments, including control groups and replication strategies.
• Recognize ethical and safety considerations involved in testing physical or biological materials.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of limiting reagents in a chemical reaction.
• Differentiate between theoretical yield and actual yield.
• Calculate percent yield of a reaction.+ Show more

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• Identify properties of melting and describe energy transfer during melting
• Recognize examples of melting in everyday life
• Explain the energy changes involved in phase changes+ Show more

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• Identify different types of plate boundaries
• Understand how tectonic forces shape Earth's surface
• Explain evidence supporting plate tectonics

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• Explain how conservation approaches like protected areas, restoration, and habitat corridors help maintain biodiversity and ecosystem stability.
• Describe how sustainable resource management and threat reduction (pollution, overharvesting) increase long-term resilience.
• Evaluate conservation effectiveness using monitoring and adaptive management.

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• Explain how thermal energy is transferred through conduction, convection, and radiation
• Predict how material thermal properties and insulation strategies affect the rate of heat flow
• Relate macroscopic temperature changes to microscopic particle energy and motion

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• Explain how thermal energy transfers through conduction, convection, and radiation
• Identify which thermal energy transfer mechanism is occurring in everyday scenarios
• Use particle and fluid ideas to justify answers about heat movement

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• Describe the different types of genetic mutations and their effects on DNA and proteins.
• Explain how mutations can influence phenotypes and contribute to genetic variation.
• Identify sources of mutations, including replication errors and environmental factors.+ Show more

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• Explain how hydrogen bonding forms between an H atom (covalently bonded to a highly electronegative atom) and a lone pair on an acceptor atom.
• Describe how hydrogen bonding affects physical properties such as boiling/melting points and density changes in water.
• Connect hydrogen bonding to biological and material behaviours (proteins and polymers) and to ice formation and hydrology.

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• Understand how urbanization and deforestation influence watershed processes
• Identify environmental consequences of human modifications to watersheds
• Evaluate measurement indicators used to assess watershed health+ Show more

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• Explain how water moves through the water cycle among the atmosphere, land, and oceans
• Describe energy and gravity roles in evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
• Differentiate runoff from infiltration and subsurface storage+ Show more

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• Explain how position, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration describe motion in words and equations
• Interpret motion using reference frames and time intervals, including predictions for constant acceleration
• Distinguish scalar and vector quantities and connect kinematics variables to motion graphs

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• Describe the main components of the solar system, including planets, moons, asteroids, and comets.
• Explain the relative scale and composition of different celestial bodies in the solar system.
• Understand the orbital characteristics and gravitational interactions governing planetary motion.+ Show more

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• Explain the overall purpose of the Calvin cycle in photosynthesis, including carbon fixation and sugar production.
• Describe the roles of ATP and NADPH in the reduction steps of the Calvin cycle.
• Identify the key enzyme RuBisCO and summarize how the cycle regenerates its starting molecule.

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• Understand the structure of evidence-based scientific arguments
• Identify claims, warrants, and backing in scientific texts
• Analyze case studies related to species distribution and atmospheric CO2+ Show more

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• Explain the concept of homeostasis and its importance in maintaining stable internal conditions.
• Describe how feedback mechanisms, particularly negative feedback, regulate variables such as temperature and blood chemistry.
• Identify signals like hormones and neural pathways involved in homeostatic regulation.+ Show more

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• Explain how hazard management combines geological understanding with risk assessment to prioritize mitigation actions.
• Describe key hazard-management techniques such as hazard susceptibility mapping and recurrence interval estimation.
• Evaluate trade-offs between safety, economic benefits, and cultural values using cost-benefit reasoning and probability-impact thinking.+ Show more

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• Understand the decomposition of projectile motion into horizontal and vertical components.
• Apply equations for horizontal and vertical motion to solve problems related to range, height, and time of flight.
• Analyze launch scenarios such as soccer kicks and launched projectiles using vector components and symmetry properties.+ Show more

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• Explain how demand management, source protection, riparian buffers, agricultural best management practices, and wetland preservation support freshwater sustainability.
• Analyze trade-offs between water supply, ecological integrity, and economic uses when selecting conservation strategies.
• Describe how catchment-level actions can change flow regimes and reduce pollutant loads over time.

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• Understand the components and significance of stratigraphic columns in geology.
• Interpret depositional histories and environmental changes from stratigraphic data.
• Identify features such as unconformities, facies, and correlation techniques in stratigraphy.+ Show more

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• Understand the principle of mass conservation in closed systems during physical and chemical processes.
• Identify examples of mass conservation in sealed reactions and phase changes within closed containers.
• Explain how measurements before and after transformations support conservation conclusions.+ Show more

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• Explain the principles of segregation and independent assortment
• Identify dominant and recessive traits from genetic crosses
• Predict offspring genotypes and phenotypes using Punnett squares+ Show more

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• Evaluate different management strategies for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
• Analyze case examples of wetland restoration and corridor establishment.
• Assess the ecological, economic, and social trade-offs involved in biodiversity management.+ Show more

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• Identify components of a food web: producers, consumers, decomposers
• Describe energy transfer between trophic levels
• Explain the concept of ecological efficiency and energy loss in food chains+ Show more

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• Understand how water moves through Earth's systems
• Identify the processes involved in the water cycle
• Recognize the role of solar energy in driving Earth's processes+ Show more

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• Describe how scientific inquiry and technology work together in different science careers.
• Match common workplace tasks to specific roles in science and engineering.
• Explain how data collection and instrument use support interpreting measurement results.+ Show more

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• Differentiate weather and climate using evidence from observations over time
• Explain how energy from the Sun, air-mass movement, and Earth’s surface affect typical conditions
• Use temperature and precipitation patterns to interpret regional atmospheric behavior

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• Explain how electric and magnetic fields create forces on moving charges and on current-carrying conductors.
• Use vector ideas (direction, perpendicular components, right-hand rule) to predict the direction of the magnetic force.
• Apply the Lorentz force law to simple cases and connect field strength to force magnitude and motion.+ Show more

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• Explain semi-conservative DNA replication and how each new DNA molecule contains one parental strand and one newly synthesized strand.
• Describe the roles of helicase, DNA polymerase, and ligase at the replication fork, including leading vs. lagging strand synthesis.
• Evaluate how proofreading and repair reduce mutation rates while still allowing rare errors that contribute to genetic variation.

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• Distinguish physical changes from chemical changes using observable evidence.
• Identify evidence of chemical change such as new substances, colour shifts, energy transfer, and gas production.
• Apply evidence-based reasoning to examples common in Alberta environments.

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• Explain the basic principles of electric motors and generators.
• Identify different types of motors and their operating principles.
• Match performance characteristics to various load requirements.+ Show more

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• Frame a senior design research question and define measurable variables for field or laboratory testing.
• Apply controlled comparisons by managing variables and choosing appropriate instrumentation for air or water monitoring.
• Use statistical reasoning to assess significance, quantify error/uncertainty, and document reproducible, ethical data handling.

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• Identify basic components of the immune system and their functions
• Understand the difference between innate and adaptive immunity
• Explain how the immune system interacts with other body systems

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• Explain how kinetic and potential energy are related through energy transfer in mechanical systems.
• Use conservation of mechanical energy to predict how changes in height, mass, and speed affect motion (ignoring friction).
• Describe how safety and structural loading depend on how energy changes with speed and elevation.

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• Explain how nuclear fusion inside stars produces new elements
• Describe how explosive stellar events disperse elements into space
• Connect stellar life cycles to the chemical inventory needed for planet formation+ Show more

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• Explain how specialists and generalists differ in fitness across changing environments
• Describe adaptation tradeoffs using niche specialization and tolerance examples
• Use vocabulary such as niche, tradeoff, fitness, and ecological conditions to answer questions

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• Define physical change and identify its signs
• Recognize examples of physical changes in daily life
• Differentiate between physical and chemical changes+ Show more

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• Interpret patterns in graphs such as scatter plots, histograms, and line graphs to support scientific claims
• Use summary measures (range and averages) to compare data sets and describe variability
• Evaluate outliers and explain how uncertainty or random variation affects conclusions

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• Distinguish elements, compounds, and mixtures using examples such as hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, and sodium chloride
• Explain how atoms combine to form formulas and how that relates to chemical bonding
• Use ideas from simple atomic models (protons, neutrons, electrons) to describe atomic structure+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of isotopes and how they differ in neutron count and atomic mass.
• Identify the formation of ions through gain or loss of electrons and their impact on charge and reactivity.
• Distinguish between isotopic variations and ionic states in atomic behavior and spectral signatures.+ Show more

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• Identify different structural adaptations animals have for protection
• Understand how body parts assist in survival
• Recognize examples of adaptations like shells, webbed feet, and camouflage

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• Analyze scale relationships among solar system objects using size and distance data.
• Interpret quantitative data including diameters, masses, and orbital periods.
• Use astronomical units and relative scaling to compare planets, dwarf planets, and moons.+ Show more