Science Worksheets

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• Differentiate endothermic and exothermic reactions using evidence from the surroundings’ temperature changes.
• Explain energy changes using a particle and bonding model (breaking bonds vs. forming bonds) rather than an external energy “source.”
• Use correct vocabulary (thermal energy, surroundings, bonds, reactants, products) to describe energy flow in reactions.

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• Identify the independent variable, dependent variable, and controlled variables in an investigation plan.
• Explain how measurable evidence links to a scientific question.
• Use consistent measurement methods to make fair comparisons across trials.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy changes in chemical reactions can be detected through temperature changes.
• Differentiate exothermic and endothermic reactions using the idea of bond breaking and bond formation.
• Use energy evidence along with other signs to distinguish chemical change from physical change.

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• Explain how the heart and lungs work together to supply oxygen and remove carbon dioxide.
• Identify the roles of pulmonary ventilation and cardiovascular transport in maintaining homeostasis.
• Describe how chemoreceptors regulate respiratory and circulatory responses to blood gas levels.+ Show more

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• Explain how melting, crystallization, weathering, erosion, deposition, and metamorphism connect to form the rock cycle.
• Describe how energy sources and relative rates influence transitions in the rock cycle.
• Use observable field evidence (foliation, sedimentary layering, igneous intrusions) to identify rock-cycle processes.

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• Explain how technology choices can affect people and the environment across a product’s life cycle.
• Identify trade-offs between benefits and harms when evaluating technological solutions.
• Use evidence to justify whether a technology decision is responsible and sustainable.

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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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• Understand the components of projectile motion and their independence.
• Analyze how initial velocity and launch angle affect the trajectory of a projectile.
• Apply kinematic equations to determine time of flight, maximum height, and range.+ Show more

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• Explain how net force relates to changes in velocity and acceleration
• Differentiate gravity, contact forces, and friction as forces that affect motion
• Use qualitative reasoning to predict the direction of acceleration from the direction of the net force+ Show more

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• Describe how nutrient runoff, hydrocarbons, and airborne deposition can enter ecosystems.
• Explain how pollutants can affect organism health and alter food web interactions.
• Identify the role of bioaccumulation and biomagnification in aquatic and terrestrial systems.+ Show more

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• Use oxidation-state conventions to identify which species is oxidized and which is reduced
• Form and systematically balance half-reactions and overall redox equations
• Connect standard reduction potentials to cell spontaneity and calculate or interpret cell voltage+ Show more

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• Explain how DNA sequence information becomes expressed as a trait through genes, transcription, and translation
• Describe how genes are located on chromosomes within the nucleus
• Connect allele inheritance patterns to chromosome behavior during cell division+ Show more

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• Understand the different types of genetic mutations.
• Recognize the causes and effects of mutations.
• Learn how mutations contribute to genetic diversity.+ Show more

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• Explain how particle kinetic and potential energy change during melting
• Describe energy absorption during melting using the idea of latent heat
• Distinguish physical phase changes from chemical changes

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• Understand how energy transfer occurs during phase changes such as melting, boiling, freezing, and condensation.
• Explain the connection between latent heat and particle interactions during phase changes.
• Describe why temperature can remain constant during a phase change despite energy input.+ Show more

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• Identify clues that show whether a change is physical or chemical.
• Classify described evidence from a text using the properties of matter.
• Explain how physical and chemical changes differ using evidence such as state, new substances, and observable energy or gas effects.

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• Describe the major Earth subsystems and their interconnections.
• Explain the energy and mass exchanges among atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.
• Use conceptual models and box-and-arrow diagrams to illustrate fluxes and reservoirs.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea of a passage about how materials respond to magnetic fields
• Use key vocabulary terms related to diamagnetic, paramagnetic, and ferromagnetic materials
• Explain, using evidence from a passage, how domain alignment affects remanence and coercivity

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• Explain how enzymes lower activation energy to speed up reactions
• Use key vocabulary (enzyme, substrate, active site, activation energy, catalyst, transition state)
• Describe how enzyme–substrate specificity depends on protein structure+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of trade-offs in engineering systems.
• Identify various factors affected by engineering decisions.
• Analyze how improvements in one area can lead to drawbacks in another.+ Show more

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• Understand the relationships among Earth's, Sun's, and Moon's orbits that produce lunar phases, seasons, and tides.
• Explain how Earth's axial tilt and orbital eccentricity influence climate and seasonal variations.
• Describe the gravitational interactions between Earth, Moon, and Sun that generate tidal patterns.+ Show more

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• Define species richness and evenness from a text
• Explain how community composition relates to biodiversity
• Identify key ideas about factors that shape community structure

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• Understand what coefficients in balanced chemical equations represent
• Interpret ratios of coefficients to determine relative amounts of reactants and products
• Relate symbolic coefficients to real-world mass relationships in chemical reactions+ Show more

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• Explain how mutation, natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow change allele frequencies in populations
• Analyze how different evolutionary mechanisms interact to shape genetic diversity and adaptation
• Evaluate evidence for evolution using allele-frequency thinking and population-size/environment factors

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• Understand the fundamental principle that total energy in a closed system remains constant.
• Identify and differentiate between kinetic, potential, and dissipative energy forms.
• Interpret energy diagrams and understand energy conversion during motion.+ Show more

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• Distinguish kinetic, potential, thermal, and other common energy forms in everyday and physical situations
• Explain how total mechanical energy changes when non-conservative forces (like friction) do work
• Connect conservation of energy with quantitative relationships for kinetic energy and speed

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• Explain how hybridization (sp, sp2, sp3) accounts for molecular geometry and bond angles in covalent bonding.
• Differentiate sigma (σ) and pi (π) bonds and describe how orbital overlap leads to bond multiplicity.
• Compare localized bonding models (valence bond theory) with delocalized molecular orbital (MO) descriptions in conjugated and aromatic systems.+ Show more

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• Understand Mendelian inheritance and dominant-recessive traits.
• Identify and analyze different inheritance patterns such as linkage, sex linkage, incomplete dominance, and polygenic traits.
• Interpret pedigrees to determine modes of inheritance and carrier status.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy flows through food webs using trophic relationships (producers, consumers, decomposers).
• Identify how changes in an ecosystem (seasonal changes, migration, invasive species) can affect food web structure.
• Use food-web vocabulary (predator, herbivore, decomposer, energy transfer) to describe trophic interactions.

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• Identify and describe major carbon reservoirs on Earth
• Understand the fluxes that transfer carbon among different reservoirs
• Explain the role of biological processes like photosynthesis and respiration+ Show more

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• Explain how mutation changes allele frequencies over generations
• Describe how selection alters allele frequencies in populations
• Explain how gene flow affects population allele frequencies+ Show more

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• Describe the hierarchy of cell organization from cells to organ systems
• Explain how similar cells form tissues with shared functions
• Connect how tissues combine to form organs and how organs work within systems

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• Explain how transcription and translation convert DNA information into a functional protein.
• Identify the roles of key molecules involved in gene expression (RNA polymerase, mRNA, ribosome, tRNA).
• Describe how regulation at transcriptional and translational stages affects when and how much a gene is expressed.+ Show more

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• Describe how qualitative and quantitative models represent relationships suggested by data.
• Use model predictions and expected variation to evaluate whether a claim is supported or refuted.
• Identify assumptions and explain how they affect the validity range of a model.+ Show more

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• Identify key components of an electrical circuit and describe their roles.
• Explain how energy is transformed within simple electrical circuits.
• Distinguish between different circuit components such as sources, conductors, loads, and switches.+ Show more

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• Understand the differences between solids and liquids in terms of shape and volume.
• Link observable behaviors to the arrangement and motion of particles in matter.
• Describe how particle arrangement affects the properties of solids and liquids.+ Show more

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• Use kinematic relations to describe motion with acceleration along a straight line
• Apply net force reasoning (force balances) to predict changes in velocity and stopping behavior
• Combine energy considerations with friction and incline/grade effects to estimate stopping distance+ Show more

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• Explain how particle arrangement affects the properties of solids, liquids, and gases
• Use evidence from bonding strength and energy to describe why states behave differently
• Relate state properties to everyday Alberta examples (ice on lakes, oil viscosity, and atmospheric gas behavior)

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• Define and distinguish between different types of energy such as kinetic, potential, and thermal.
• Explain how total mechanical energy changes in systems with non-conservative forces.
• Describe energy transfer during motion, collisions, and deformation.+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth systems move and transform resources through cycle pathways and reservoirs
• Interpret residence time and flux as factors that influence ecosystem function and resource availability
• Connect examples from Alberta (snowpack runoff, peat carbon storage, prairie nitrogen flux, and mineral sources) to resource cycles

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• Use SI units and dimensional analysis to report and convert measurements correctly.
• Explain and apply significant figures to numerical reporting with instrument resolution.
• Differentiate accuracy vs. precision and identify systematic vs. random error in measurement scenarios.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea of an adaptive radiation passage.
• Use key vocabulary (lineage, niche, specialization, competition, key innovation, phylogeny) in context.
• Explain how ecological niches and speciation patterns relate to diversification.+ Show more

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• Describe chemical properties as tendencies to undergo specific chemical changes.
• Identify evidence of chemical change (gas evolution, precipitate formation, permanent color change, and energy exchange).
• Differentiate chemical changes from physical changes using observation-based reasoning.+ Show more

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• Understand the main modern molecular techniques used in genetic research and biotech applications.
• Identify key processes such as PCR, gel electrophoresis, sequencing, and genome editing.
• Describe how recombinant DNA and viral vectors are used in medicine and research.+ Show more

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• Explain how model evaluation compares predicted outcomes to evidence.
• Identify assumptions and missing factors that can cause a model to disagree with data.
• Describe how changing input parameters in a simulation can change outputs.+ Show more

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• Understand the basic concepts of gravity
• Learn how gravity influences the motion of planets and moons
• Recognize the patterns of orbit in the solar system+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea and key details about human impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
• Explain how human actions can change habitats and species interactions.
• Describe how changes in biodiversity can affect ecosystem services such as pollination and water purification.

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• Describe the main phases of the eukaryotic cell cycle and the transitions controlled by checkpoints.
• Explain how cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) and regulatory factors coordinate DNA replication and mitosis.
• Evaluate how DNA damage responses, apoptosis, and tumor suppressor pathways help maintain genome integrity.