Science Worksheets

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• Differentiate physical changes from chemical changes based on observable evidence.
• Identify indicators of chemical change such as color change, gas production, precipitate formation, and temperature change.
• Apply particle and matter concepts to predict whether a process is likely physical or chemical.

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• Distinguish physical changes from chemical changes by identifying evidence of new substances.
• Describe common indicators of chemical change (gas formation, color change, temperature change, permanent texture change).
• Classify everyday examples of matter changes and justify the classification using observable evidence.

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• Identify how competition, predation, and mutualism affect population sizes and community composition
• Explain how resource use overlap can lead to competitive exclusion and how niches allow coexistence
• Use examples to predict likely outcomes for population trajectories under different interaction types

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• Explain how primary productivity, decomposition, and nutrient cycling influence energy flow and ecosystem turnover.
• Describe biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus and how they connect organisms to the atmosphere, soils, and hydrosphere.
• Apply Alberta-specific ecosystem examples to predict how land-use change and climate variability affect productivity and resilience.

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• Explain how reflection, refraction, interference, and absorption affect electromagnetic radiation in devices.
• Analyze how wavelength and wave behavior influence imaging resolution and sensor detection.
• Use radiation interaction principles to justify design choices in communication and optical sensing systems.

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• Explain how different types of genetic mutations change nucleotide sequences
• Predict how mutations can alter gene expression and protein structure or function
• Connect mutation types to possible effects on traits, disorders, and fitness

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• Explain how fossil records provide evidence for evolutionary change over geologic time.
• Use comparative anatomy and biogeography to infer relationships among species.
• Describe how DNA sequence comparisons support common ancestry.+ Show more

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• Explain how species interactions (competition, predation, herbivory, mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism) affect community structure and population sizes.
• Analyze how trophic interactions can create top-down and bottom-up controls and produce cascading effects.
• Evaluate how abiotic factors (temperature, moisture, nutrients) modulate interaction strength and outcomes in terrestrial and aquatic systems.

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• Identify the main components of a simple electrical circuit (battery, conductors, loads, and switches).
• Describe the role of each component in allowing charge to flow and using electrical energy.
• Explain how electrical energy is transformed into other forms of energy in common circuit loads (like bulbs or resistors).+ Show more

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• Compare sexual and asexual reproduction in terms of genetic variation
• Identify examples of reproductive strategies found in Alberta ecosystems
• Explain ecological trade-offs between population growth and genetic diversity

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• Explain how natural selection acts on heritable variation within a population to change allele frequencies over generations.
• Identify and distinguish directional, stabilizing, and disruptive selection using trait distributions and real-world examples.
• Analyze how mutation, gene flow, and genetic drift interact with selection to influence evolutionary outcomes.

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• Explain how barrier defenses (skin and mucous membranes) help prevent pathogens from entering the body.
• Describe how innate immune responses (including inflammation) help remove pathogens quickly.
• Summarize how adaptive immune responses produce antibodies and create long-term immune memory.+ Show more

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• Explain how the nucleus houses genetic material and how it influences cell activities
• Describe the roles of the nuclear envelope and nuclear pores in regulating traffic between nucleus and cytoplasm
• Connect DNA, genes, transcription, translation, and protein synthesis to nucleus function

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• Explain how the center of mass and center of pressure affect longitudinal and lateral static stability.
• Describe how design features such as dihedral angles and tail volume influence an object’s tendency to return to a steady attitude after a disturbance.
• Apply balance ideas to real contexts such as aircraft payload placement and small glider flight in changing wind.

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• Identify the roles of a power source, conductors, loads, and control elements in a simple electric circuit.
• Interpret common circuit schematic symbols and explain how they relate to circuit behavior.
• Predict what happens to current and continuity when switches are open or closed in series and parallel circuits.

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• Use the VSEPR model to predict molecular shapes from bonding pairs and lone pairs around a central atom.
• Identify how electron-pair geometry differs from molecular geometry and how each affects molecular properties.
• Explain connections between molecular geometry and polarity, dipole moments, and intermolecular forces.

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• Distinguish between position, displacement, speed, and velocity and explain how scalar/vector ideas apply to motion.
• Use time intervals and reference frames to interpret numerical motion values and motion graphs.
• Apply constant-acceleration relationships to predict future motion and explain acceleration using kinematic descriptions.+ Show more

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• Distinguish scientific claims from pseudoscientific claims by evaluating evidence quality and reasoning.
• Apply criteria for credibility: transparency, empirical support, and alignment between data and interpretation.
• Assess bias, assumptions, and overgeneralization in scientific explanations.+ Show more

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• Explain how chemical bonds break and form during reactions and how this relates to energy changes.
• Interpret symbolic chemical equations using states, subscripts, and stoichiometric coefficients.
• Use the relative amounts indicated by coefficients to reason about reactants and products in simple reactions.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy is transferred and lost across trophic levels using trophic pyramids and ecological efficiency.
• Describe how food webs are structured and how predators and prey can influence energy flow through top-down and bottom-up control.
• Quantify relationships among production, biomass, and ecological efficiency using kelp-forest and grassland style examples.

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• Explain how genetic information in DNA is used to produce messenger RNA (transcription).
• Describe how ribosomes translate mRNA codons into a polypeptide using tRNA and amino acids.
• Connect changes in the DNA sequence to possible effects on protein function and traits.

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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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• Identify observable evidence that indicates a chemical reaction is forming new substances
• Explain how reaction evidence connects to atom rearrangement and bonding changes
• Distinguish chemical changes from physical changes using specific clues such as gas, precipitate, color, temperature, and odor

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• Explain how Kepler’s laws describe relationships between a planet’s orbital period and its distance from the star.
• Connect orbital motion to gravitational forces and centripetal acceleration in circular and elliptical approximations.
• Evaluate evidence from multiple planetary systems to support the idea of consistent underlying physics.

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• Explain how the direction of net force determines the direction of acceleration
• Use vector addition to predict how multiple forces combine into a single net effect
• Relate force diagrams to observed changes in velocity, including speeding up, slowing down, and turning

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• Classify common chemical reactions into synthesis, decomposition, single replacement, and double replacement
• Use conservation of atoms and typical reaction patterns to predict likely products
• Interpret evidence such as gas, precipitate, temperature change, and color change to identify reaction types+ Show more

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• Explain Newton’s third law as force pairs that act on different objects and have equal magnitude and opposite direction.
• Analyze collision scenarios using action–reaction force pairs to predict momentum change and recoil.
• Differentiate how mass differences lead to different accelerations from the same interaction force pair.

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• Explain how promoters, enhancers, and transcription factors regulate transcription initiation and the activity of RNA polymerase.
• Describe how alternative splicing and RNA interference change the final mRNA (and thus protein) outcomes after transcription.
• Compare how DNA methylation and histone modifications affect chromatin accessibility and long-term gene expression.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy is conserved during energy conversions in real systems
• Describe why some energy becomes less useful as thermal energy during conversions
• Calculate or reason about efficiency using useful output and total input energy+ Show more

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• Differentiate the goals of science and technology when they use overlapping tools and evidence.
• Explain how scientific knowledge can be used as one constraint or input in engineering design.
• Analyze real-world examples (like electricity and medical imaging) to identify science vs technology contributions.

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• Explain how reaction energy changes from reactants to products and distinguish endothermic and exothermic reactions.
• Use energy profiles to interpret bond breaking, bond forming, and overall energy change.
• Describe the role of activation energy and connect it to the energy barrier between reactants and products.

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• Explain the purpose of ethical review in research and how it supports public trust and participant safety.
• Identify common research-integrity issues (conflicts of interest, data mismanagement, authorship problems) and their consequences.
• Apply ethical principles to situations involving reproducibility, transparent reporting, peer review, and anomalous or negative results.+ Show more

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• Explain the difference between balanced and unbalanced forces using the idea of net force.
• Predict how an object’s speed and/or direction changes when forces do or do not cancel out.
• Connect the direction of the net force to the observable change in motion.

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• Explain how genes located on chromosomes influence inherited traits.
• Describe how chromosome behavior during cell division supports the transmission of genetic information.
• Use evidence from gene and chromosome structure to interpret patterns of inheritance and variation.

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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 energy transfer during phase changes affects particle arrangement and motion.
• Distinguish melting, freezing, evaporation, condensation, and boiling using particle behavior and energy changes.
• Use evidence from temperature trends to describe when energy is being used for rearranging particles versus changing temperature.

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• Explain how heat energy transfers through conduction, convection, and radiation
• Predict how material properties and surface area affect the rate of heat transfer
• Analyze real-world situations involving thermal equilibrium and temperature change

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• Explain how El Niño and La Niña relate to changes in ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific.
• Describe how altered sea surface temperatures can influence evaporation, cloud formation, and wind circulation.
• Use evidence from precipitation and wind trends to connect ocean changes to broader climate impacts.

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• Explain how energy transfers from producers to consumers in a food chain.
• Identify producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and higher trophic levels.
• Interpret food chain arrows to determine who eats whom.

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• Construct phylogenetic trees from morphological characters and molecular sequence data using cladistic principles.
• Interpret branching diagrams by identifying shared derived characters, sister taxa, and implied evolutionary relationships.
• Compare tree-building approaches (parsimony and molecular distance) and explain how molecular clocks calibrate time.+ Show more

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• Explain how cells, tissues, and organ systems work together to maintain homeostasis in the human body.
• Describe how transport proteins and membrane pumps regulate nutrient levels, ion concentrations, and water balance.
• Connect hormone signaling and coordinated transport processes to maintaining stable internal conditions (such as blood glucose).

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• Explain density and use density comparisons to predict whether an object sinks or floats in a fluid
• Describe buoyancy as a result of pressure differences in fluids and relate it to displaced fluid volume
• Apply density and buoyancy ideas to real-world situations such as ships, hot air balloons, and floating objects

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• Identify and describe major forms of energy (kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, radiant, and nuclear) and where they are found.
• Explain how energy transfers and transforms during common real-world processes such as heating, movement, and respiration.
• Use energy form reasoning to interpret questions about stored energy, energy in motion, and energy release.

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• Define carrying capacity and explain why populations cannot grow indefinitely in an ecosystem.
• Identify limiting factors that regulate population size and relate them to ecosystem equilibrium.
• Use evidence and reasoning to predict how changes in limiting factors affect population growth.

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• Explain how tectonic activity creates landforms that can store valuable resources over time
• Describe how erosion and sedimentation redistribute Earth materials to form basins and river deposits
• Connect weathering, soil formation, and mineral release to ecosystems and groundwater+ Show more

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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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• 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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• Describe how igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks change through the rock cycle.
• Explain how weathering, erosion, and deposition rebuild sediment layers over time.
• Connect lithospheric recycling and plate tectonics to rock formation and transformation.+ Show more