Science Worksheets

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• Frame senior design research questions that can be tested with controlled comparisons and clear success criteria.
• Manage variables and sampling strategies for air or water monitoring in field and laboratory contexts.
• Apply basic statistical reasoning to interpret significance, error sources, and uncertainty characterization.+ Show more

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• Distinguish homogeneous mixtures from heterogeneous mixtures using observable properties.
• Select an appropriate separation method based on differences in solubility, particle size, and boiling point.
• Explain how physical separation can produce distinct fractions without changing chemical identities.

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• Explain how atmospheric composition, pressure gradients, and thermal structure drive large-scale circulation patterns
• Use the Coriolis force and idealized circulation cells (Hadley and Ferrel) to interpret wind and pressure behavior
• Relate jet streams, frontal systems, and atmospheric stability (lapse rates and radiative heating) to weather regimes and climate patterns+ Show more

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• Explain how forces can change an object’s motion, including starting, stopping, and changing direction
• Describe how net force (the overall force) affects acceleration and motion over time
• Use magnitude and direction to predict how motion will change in real-life situations

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• Explain how natural selection changes trait frequencies in a population over many generations.
• Describe the difference between heritable traits and traits gained during an individual’s lifetime.
• Use examples (such as antibiotic resistance) to identify variation, selection, survival, and reproduction.

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• Explain how recrystallization uses solubility differences at different temperatures to purify a dissolved solid
• Describe the role of saturation and solute-particle/solvent interactions during heating and cooling
• Predict how cooling speed affects crystal size and purity+ Show more

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• Explain how resistive power dissipation depends on current, voltage, and resistance in real circuits.
• Describe how internal resistance reduces terminal voltage and changes load performance.
• Analyze how multiple loads and component limits affect heating and safe circuit operation.

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• Explain how chromosomes are transmitted from parents to offspring and how this affects allele distribution.
• Describe the relationship between gene loci on chromosomes and observed inheritance patterns.
• Use dominance and gene combinations to predict potential offspring phenotypes.

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• Explain how catabolic and anabolic metabolic pathways differ in energy use and products.
• Describe how enzyme regulation (feedback, compartmentalization, and substrate availability) controls metabolic flux.
• Use pathway concepts to predict how changes in substrates or enzymes affect ATP production and biosynthesis.

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• Explain how competition, predation, and symbiosis affect survival and reproduction in ecosystems.
• Analyze how species interactions can influence community composition over time.
• Use ecological terminology to describe real-world examples of interactions among organisms.

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• Explain how transcription and translation connect DNA instructions to protein products
• Describe how gene expression regulation affects which traits appear in different cells and environments
• Use evidence from examples to predict how changes in gene expression could affect phenotypes

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• Explain why scientific knowledge and theories can change when new evidence or improved reasoning becomes available.
• Describe how scientists evaluate competing explanations using the quality and consistency of supporting evidence.
• Use examples to predict how updated evidence could change a theory or refine its predictions.

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• Explain how inherited variation, environmental pressures, and differential survival/reproduction drive natural selection
• Use the idea of fitness to predict how traits become more or less common over generations
• Describe how populations change through time and relate adaptation to current environmental conditions

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• Explain how balanced forces produce zero net force and constant velocity
• Describe how unbalanced forces produce nonzero net force and acceleration
• Use real-world examples (such as tug-of-war) to predict motion outcomes

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• Describe how material properties such as strength, stiffness, density, and durability affect load-bearing design
• Explain how materials behave under compression, tension, and bending and why that matters for long-term performance
• Evaluate material choices for frost and snow resilience in a Canadian prairie climate

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• Explain how scientific inquiry connects observations to evidence-based explanations.
• Describe why scientific investigations often proceed in non-linear ways and use prior knowledge carefully.
• Identify what makes an explanation scientific: natural causes, testability, evidence support, and peer evaluation.

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• Explain the difference between genotype and phenotype using genetics vocabulary
• Predict how dominant and recessive alleles can lead to observable traits
• Describe how environmental factors can influence phenotype even when genotype is the same

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• Explain how the fossil record shows life changing over long periods of time
• Describe how fossil layers (older vs. younger) provide evidence for different organisms
• Use fossil and anatomical evidence to support evolutionary relationships+ Show more

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• Explain the relationship between fitness, survival, and reproduction in a specific environment
• Describe how natural selection depends on both environmental conditions and heritable traits
• Analyze how changes in environment can change which traits increase fitness+ Show more

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• Explain how evidence and data support or challenge scientific explanations
• Evaluate evidence for relevance, precision, reliability, and reproducibility
• Distinguish what is known from what is uncertain and determine what additional evidence is needed

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• Explain how scientific measurements use appropriate tools, units, and consistent reference standards to create usable data.
• Distinguish between precision and accuracy and interpret what each term implies about measurement results.
• Describe how repeatability and calibration improve the reliability of experimental data.

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• Explain how energy flows through trophic levels from producers to higher-level consumers
• Describe why biomass and population size generally decrease at higher trophic levels
• Interpret how energy loss (as heat) affects ecosystem productivity and the number of steps in food chains

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• Explain how DNA stores hereditary information in cells.
• Describe how genes and chromosomes relate to protein production.
• Connect DNA changes (mutations) to possible differences in traits across generations.

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• Explain how variation and environmental conditions affect which traits survive and reproduce
• Describe how advantageous traits become more common over successive generations
• Use an example, such as antibiotic resistance, to connect natural selection to real-world outcomes

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• Explain how engineering solutions communicate design choices using criteria, constraints, and expected performance.
• Interpret models and diagrams that represent relationships among subsystems in a complex system.
• Use technical language to justify trade-offs and clarify assumptions in an engineering design.

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• Explain how reproductive isolation leads to speciation by preventing gene flow between populations.
• Compare geographic, ecological, and temporal isolation mechanisms and describe how each limits interbreeding.
• Describe how accumulated genetic changes (mutation and natural selection) can eventually produce reduced fitness in hybrids.+ Show more

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• Explain centripetal acceleration and how it changes velocity direction in circular motion.
• Apply the relationship between net inward force, speed, radius, and mass for orbits and rotating systems.
• Interpret and predict how changes in speed or radius affect centripetal force and acceleration.

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• Explain momentum and how it depends on mass and velocity.
• Use conservation of total momentum to analyze collisions and explosions with internal forces.
• Differentiate elastic and inelastic collisions by comparing how kinetic energy behaves.

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• Explain how energy enters an ecosystem through producers and moves through feeding relationships.
• Describe how decomposers contribute to ecosystem matter recycling.
• Compare food chains and food webs and interpret energy decreases across trophic levels.+ Show more

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• Explain how a star forms from collapsing clouds of gas and dust and how gravity and pressure balance over time.
• Describe how core fusion links to a star’s brightness and surface temperature across evolutionary stages.
• Compare the main-sequence, red giant, and remnant phases and predict observable differences based on those stages.+ Show more

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• Explain how heat energy transfers through conduction, convection, and radiation
• Identify evidence in everyday situations that supports each heat transfer mode
• Compare and contrast conduction, convection, and radiation using key physical ideas

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• Explain how ecosystems include living organisms and nonliving physical components that interact
• Differentiate producers, consumers, and decomposers and describe their roles in nutrient and energy flow
• Analyze how climate and habitat structure affect species distributions and population support+ Show more

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• Explain how DNA structure supports accurate replication and inheritance of genetic information.
• Describe how transcriptional regulation and translation mechanics convert DNA sequence into functional proteins.
• Analyze how mutation types and DNA repair pathways create genotype-to-phenotype outcomes.+ Show more

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• Identify trends, patterns, and relationships in data and graphs
• Distinguish correlation from causation and explain uncertainty
• Use outliers appropriately when forming evidence-based scientific explanations+ Show more

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• Explain how element symbols represent elements and how their capitalization affects meaning.
• Interpret chemical formulas using subscripts to determine relative numbers of atoms.
• Convert between written descriptions and formulas for common substances.

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• Explain how resistive losses, power factor, and device selection affect electrical system efficiency.
• Use key metrics (e.g., real vs apparent power, efficiency, and loss mechanisms) to compare design options.
• Evaluate energy-saving strategies while considering real-world constraints such as infrastructure and operating requirements.

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• Explain why correct citation, authorship criteria, and data provenance are essential for scientific integrity.
• Apply ethical rules for citing sources, reporting methods, archiving data, and using persistent identifiers to improve reproducibility.
• Recognize responsible practices for negative results, sensitive data handling, and avoiding plagiarism.

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• Describe key mechanisms of asexual reproduction (binary fission, budding, spore formation, and vegetative propagation).
• Explain genetic and ecological consequences of producing clones compared with sexual reproduction.
• Apply concepts to Alberta examples such as aspen root-sucker groves and horticultural propagation.

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• Determine whether a chemical equation is balanced by comparing atom counts on both sides.
• Interpret coefficients in balanced equations as relative particle amounts and connect them to moles.
• Use balanced equations for stoichiometric reasoning, focusing on conservation of atoms and consistent accounting.

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• Identify common symbols used in circuit diagrams for batteries, wires, switches, resistors/loads, and meters.
• Explain how current and voltage are represented and interpreted using labels in circuit diagrams.
• Translate between a simple physical circuit description and its circuit diagram using correct connections.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy flows through an ecosystem using trophic levels (producers, consumers, decomposers).
• Analyze why energy generally decreases at higher trophic levels and how that limits productivity.
• Describe how decomposers and matter cycling sustain ecosystem structure and biological productivity.

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• Identify major observable evidence that a chemical reaction has occurred (gas, color change, precipitate, and temperature change).
• Explain how particle-level models support reaction evidence through bond breaking and bond forming while conserving total atoms.
• Differentiate endothermic and exothermic processes using temperature changes and microscopic reasoning.+ Show more

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• Use residual plots and graphical overlays to evaluate how well a model matches empirical data
• Interpret patterns in residuals to diagnose systematic errors, heteroscedasticity, and missing variables
• Select appropriate goodness-of-fit ideas and justify whether to accept, modify, or reject a model

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• Explain how scientific evidence influenced public health and adoption of technologies across different historical periods.
• Analyze how institutions and economic incentives shaped the diffusion of scientific innovations and public perception.
• Evaluate unintended consequences of scientific and policy decisions and connect them to lessons for future adoption.

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• Calculate and interpret work done by a force using the relationship between force, displacement, and direction.
• Explain how power describes the rate of energy transfer and compare situations using work and power.
• Apply work-energy and power concepts to real-world examples such as lifting loads and comparing machines.

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• Explain how scientific explanatory models represent variables and relationships in natural phenomena
• Identify how evidence and reasoning are linked through model assumptions and predictions
• Evaluate model quality by checking scope, variables, and consistency with observations+ Show more

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• Explain how atmospheric structure, pressure systems, and circulation cells influence weather and regional climate.
• Interpret pressure-surface, wind-field, and hypsometric representations to reason about fronts, storm tracks, and vertical stability.
• Use thermodynamic and moisture ideas (temperature profiles, dew point, lapse rates, condensation) to predict precipitation patterns.

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• Translate distance–time and speed–time data into motion graphs and interpret what the graph shows.
• Explain how slope relates to rate of change in motion graphs and how to find average speed from distance–time graphs.
• Use graphs to estimate instantaneous speed and to compare two motions using quantitative evidence.