Science Worksheets

Learning Objectives

• Describe how observable properties can be used to identify and classify substances
• Differentiate between physical properties and changes that require chemical evidence
• Use vocabulary (e.g., colour, hardness, solubility, density, conductivity) to explain material behavior

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• Identify criteria for success and explain how they can be tested using observable results.
• Recognize constraints and describe how they limit materials, time, or cost in a design problem.
• Sort statements into criteria or constraints and use both to evaluate and improve a solution.

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• Identify signs that a physical change has occurred, such as reversible phase changes and changes in shape or size.
• Explain how particle rearrangement and energy changes can produce physical changes without forming new substances.
• Use evidence from mass measurements in closed systems to support whether a change is physical or chemical.

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• Explain how calibration, repeatability, and uncertainty affect the precision of motion and force measurements.
• Estimate measurement error and report results with appropriate significant figures and units.
• Interpret time intervals, distance measurements, and force sensor readings to make valid comparisons.

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• Explain equilibrium as having zero net force and describe how it affects an object’s motion
• Identify common force pairs (such as gravity and normal force) and state whether they are balanced or unbalanced
• Interpret and describe free-body diagrams using arrow direction and relative length+ Show more

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• Identify how rock layers (superposition) and rock features can provide evidence about changes in Earth’s past.
• Explain how fossils and their environments help scientists infer past habitats and climate conditions.
• Use evidence from multiple layers and fossil records to support a claim about environmental change over time.

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• Identify ways human activities alter Earth's systems and cycles.
• Explain the causal links between human actions and environmental changes.
• Analyze examples of land-use change, fossil fuel use, agriculture, and waste management impacts.+ Show more

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• Define molecular geometry using electron-domain (VSEPR) models and identify how bonding and nonbonding domains affect shape.
• Use simple orbital hybridization ideas to predict 3D molecular arrangements and approximate bond angles.
• Relate molecular geometry to polarity and to intermolecular forces that influence macroscopic properties.

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• Explain how particle motion and arrangement relate to phase changes and energy transfer
• Describe melting, freezing, evaporation, and condensation as energy-absorbing or energy-releasing processes
• Use particle-level phase reasoning to interpret macroscopic energy changes (including latent heat)+ Show more

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• Identify Earth system reservoirs and fluxes among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.
• Explain how mass and energy exchanges can be represented using box-and-arrow models.
• Use key evidence and terminology to describe subsystem interactions and feedbacks.

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• Explain how innate and adaptive immune defenses work together to protect the body from pathogens.
• Identify the roles of key immune cells (phagocytes, lymphocytes, and antigen-presenting cells) in the immune response.
• Describe how lymphoid organs and circulatory pathways help organize immune cell interactions during infection.

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• Explain how allosteric control, covalent modification, compartmentalization, and hormonal signaling regulate metabolic pathway flux.
• Use quantitative rate ideas (feedback inhibition and branch-point control) to predict how metabolic pathways respond to changing conditions.
• Describe thermodynamic and enzyme-kinetic constraints that help cells balance anabolic and catabolic demands to maintain homeostasis.

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• Characterize dispersion, dipole–dipole, and hydrogen bonding interactions and explain how they affect boiling point, vapor pressure, and solubility.
• Use molecular polarity and intermolecular (surface) interactions to predict phase behavior and macroscopic trends.
• Interpret potential-energy curves and comparative property tables to justify how intermolecular forces influence cohesive versus adhesive tendencies.

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• Assign electron configurations using the orbital-filling order (Aufbau principle) and understand the role of quantum numbers (n and l) in determining subshells and orbitals.
• Apply Hund’s rule to predict how electrons distribute among degenerate orbitals and connect this to magnetic behavior and valence structure.
• Identify common exceptions in transition elements and use configuration notation to predict ion electron configurations and oxidation-state trends.

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• Explain how lift, drag, and stability are affected by wing shape, smoothness, and orientation.
• Identify how design changes such as aspect ratio and surface area can improve or reduce flight performance.
• Use evidence from a passage to select main ideas and evaluate statements about aerodynamic principles.

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• Define work, kinetic energy, potential energy, and energy conservation for a closed system
• Differentiate conservative and nonconservative forces and predict how they affect mechanical energy
• Interpret and construct energy bar charts using scalar energy concepts+ Show more

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• Explain how microscopic particle kinetic energy and interparticle potential energy combine to produce internal energy
• Relate temperature to average microscopic kinetic energy and predict how particle motion changes with temperature
• Describe how energy storage mechanisms differ in gases (translational/kinetic), solids (vibrational), and collisions (energy redistribution)

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• Explain how genes (DNA segments) determine protein structure and function
• Describe transcription and translation as processes that link DNA to protein production
• Interpret how promoter and regulatory elements control gene expression and phenotype+ Show more

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• Use the mole concept and molar mass to convert between grams and moles in chemical reactions
• Apply balanced chemical equations to perform mass-to-mass stoichiometric calculations using mole ratios
• Identify the limiting reagent and estimate theoretical yield from balanced equations+ Show more

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• Explain how element symbols represent atoms using one- or two-letter notation.
• Interpret chemical formulas by reading subscripts as numbers of atoms.
• Connect symbolic representations to the composition of common substances.+ Show more

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• Explain how dominant and recessive alleles influence genotype and phenotype in single-gene traits.
• Use simple Punnett square logic to predict genotype and phenotype ratios from allele crosses.
• Distinguish probability statements from guaranteed outcomes in inheritance predictions.

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• Explain how grounding and overcurrent protection reduce electrical shock and fire risk.
• Interpret common electrical safety labels to identify protective features and installation requirements.
• Describe how insulation, approved equipment, and environmental conditions affect electrical safety in Alberta.

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• Explain how incremental design changes (shape, mass distribution, and control surfaces) can improve aerodynamic performance and safety.
• Identify criteria and trade-offs involved in refining a design for speed, stability, and payload.
• Describe how consistent observation of flight paths and simple measurements can support design decisions.

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• Distinguish ionic, covalent, and metallic bonding using electron-transfer and electron-sharing models
• Use Lewis structures and basic bonding ideas to explain structure and observable properties (conductivity, melting point, solubility)
• Connect macroscopic material behaviors to microscopic bonding frameworks

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• Explain how changing magnetic flux can produce an induced electromotive force (voltage) in a conductor
• Describe how relative motion and coil properties (turns, area, and circuit connections) affect induced current
• Differentiate how generators and transformers use electromagnetic induction+ Show more

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• Explain how static stability depends on the relationship between the center of mass and the center of pressure.
• Describe how design features such as dihedral angles and tail volume can improve longitudinal and lateral stability.
• Apply balance ideas to real situations involving changing payloads and changing wind conditions.

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• Analyze how energy transfers through radiative balance, conduction, convection, and latent heat within Earth systems.
• Use conservation of energy to build and interpret simple energy budgets and relate them to weather, ocean currents, and geothermal anomalies.
• Connect microscale processes (e.g., heat fluxes at the surface) to macroscale patterns (e.g., sea surface temperature gradients and tectonic heat flow).

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• Explain how particle motion relates to the states of matter and phase changes.
• Describe the transfer of energy during melting, boiling, and condensation.
• Relate macroscopic temperature changes to microscopic particle behavior.+ Show more

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• Explain how human land use and resource extraction can change habitat structure and species interactions in Alberta landscapes.
• Describe how human actions can alter nutrient cycles and water quality in river systems.
• Evaluate mitigation strategies such as reclamation, protected areas, and land-management planning.

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• Explain how weathering, erosion, transport, and deposition interact to shape landscapes and produce sedimentary records.
• Use sediment budgets and process-response ideas to relate climate, vegetation, and tectonic uplift to surface-change rates.
• Evaluate how landscape stability thresholds and feedbacks between erosion and uplift affect depositional environments and stratigraphic architecture.+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth’s global energy balance connects incoming solar radiation, reflected light, and outgoing infrared radiation.
• Interpret radiative forcing and relate it to changes in net radiation using simple energy budget models.
• Use albedo, radiative flux ideas, and feedback mechanisms to describe seasonal cycles and polar amplification.+ Show more

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• Define electric current, voltage, and resistance and relate each to how charges behave in circuits.
• Use correct units, symbols, and typical magnitudes to interpret electrical situations and instrument readings.
• Apply comparisons of current, voltage, and resistance to real-world contexts such as household wiring and heating elements.

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• Explain how pressure patterns, moisture transport, and thermal gradients drive weather systems.
• Describe regional atmospheric phenomena in Alberta, including chinook winds, frontal passages, and convective storms.
• Evaluate how atmospheric composition, aerosols, and surface albedo influence Earth’s energy balance and precipitation outcomes.+ Show more

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• Explain how ATP is produced and used through coupling between catabolic and anabolic reactions
• Compare electron transport chains in photosynthesis and cellular respiration and predict effects on ATP yield
• Use simplified quantitative stoichiometry and energy diagrams to connect molecular processes to cellular energy budgets+ Show more

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• Explain how allele frequencies change under selection, genetic drift, migration, and mutation.
• Use Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium as a null model to predict allele and genotype frequencies in the absence of evolutionary forces.
• Interpret how selection coefficients, effective population size, bottlenecks, and founder effects can shift allele frequencies over time.+ Show more

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• Explain how to choose appropriate graph types and conventions for different kinds of data (quantitative vs. qualitative).
• Interpret scatterplots, histograms, boxplots, and residual plots to identify patterns, variability, and outliers.
• Use axes, scale choices, trend lines, and uncertainty displays (error bars or confidence intervals) to evaluate evidence.

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• Explain the conservation of mass principle using particle/atom reasoning
• Use mass conservation to interpret measurements in closed chemical systems
• Apply mass conservation to balance real-world material accounting (e.g., combustion and gas collection)

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• Convert between pH/pOH and hydrogen-ion/hydroxide-ion concentrations using logarithmic relationships.
• Determine unknown ionic concentrations from given pH or pOH values and apply scientific notation with correct units.
• Use the ion product of water (Kw) to interrelate [H+] and [OH-] in aquatic samples.

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• Identify common forms of energy (light, thermal, motion, electrical) and describe how they can change during interactions.
• Explain energy transfer and energy transformation using real-world examples.
• Use evidence from statements or scenarios to classify whether energy changes form or transfers to a new location.+ Show more

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• Evaluate how adaptation strategies can reduce Earth-system risks under changing climate and other environmental stressors.
• Compare trade-offs among carbon management, engineered resilience, conservation, and land-use policy using scenario reasoning.
• Use systems thinking (feedbacks and interconnections) to anticipate unintended consequences and monitoring needs.+ Show more

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• Explain how trophic modeling uses compartments and environmental pools to represent energy and matter movement.
• Describe mass-balance ideas and how production, respiration, and decomposition relate in simple models.
• Use model assumptions and sensitivity reasoning to interpret what changes in a system could mean.

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• Describe physical changes as changes in form or phase that do not create new substances
• Use the idea of conservation of identity to explain why particles stay the same during physical changes
• Distinguish physical changes from chemical changes using observable evidence

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• Explain how grounding, insulation, and overload protection reduce the risk of electrical shock and fire.
• Describe responsible electrical system design choices that protect equipment and people.
• Evaluate environmental implications of electricity generation and infrastructure in relation to local regulations.

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• Explain how dimensional analysis and nondimensional parameters connect models across spatial and temporal scales
• Compare diffusion-dominated and advection-dominated transport using appropriate scaling ideas
• Interpret metabolic scaling relationships and identify when nonlinear effects emerge at different body sizes+ Show more

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• Explain how hazard frequency, magnitude, and landscape vulnerability interact to shape risk.
• Interpret probabilistic hazard characterization and describe how exposure mapping supports impact assessment.
• Evaluate strategies for hazard resilience, including land-use planning, early-warning interpretation, and engineered interventions.+ Show more

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• Explain how fertilization leads to zygote formation and early developmental stages.
• Compare internal and external fertilization using specific ecological examples.
• Describe how temperature, moisture, and habitat quality influence embryonic development and reproductive success.+ Show more

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• Compare the particle models of solids, liquids, and gases based on shape, volume, and particle motion.
• Explain phase changes (melting, freezing, evaporation, condensation, and deposition) using energy changes and particle behavior.
• Predict how temperature and pressure changes can influence the state of matter in real-world examples.

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• Represent and connect quantitative evidence to support or refute scientific hypotheses.
• Use model-based inference while accounting for uncertainty and validation results.
• Synthesize empirical findings with design constraints to form defensible scientific arguments.+ Show more