Grade 7 Worksheets

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• Explain how tectonic uplift, volcanic construction, and surface processes work together to shape landforms
• Compare how uplift rates versus erosion rates affect whether topography rises or is worn down
• Describe how climate influences weathering and sediment transport over geologic time+ Show more

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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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• Identify signs of physical changes using evidence such as phase transitions, shape changes, dissolution, and consistent mass in closed systems.
• Explain how particle rearrangement and energy changes can cause observable changes without changing chemical identity.
• Distinguish physical change indicators from signs that would suggest a chemical change.

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• Explain what saturation means in a solvent at a specific temperature and pressure
• Describe how supersaturation can lead to crystallization and precipitation
• Identify real-life examples that show solubility limits and phase change behavior

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• Explain the conservation of mass law using everyday and particle-level ideas.
• Describe how atoms rearrange during chemical reactions while total mass stays the same.
• Interpret what it means for a reaction to occur in a closed system.

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• Explain how fulcrum placement and torque affect mechanical advantage in levers.
• Classify levers (first, second, and third class) and identify effort and load positions in real tools.
• Calculate ideal mechanical advantage for lever arm lengths and pulley supporting rope segments.+ Show more

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• Explain how internal structures (transport, digestion, coordination) help organisms survive and grow.
• Describe how external features (shells, spines, coloration, beak forms) support protection, feeding, and movement.
• Use functional relationships to connect traits to survival, balance, and successful reproduction.

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• Understand the roles of producers and consumers in an ecosystem.
• Explain how energy transfers through trophic levels and why it is inefficient.
• Describe how energy transfer constraints influence population sizes and community structure.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of carrying capacity and its significance in ecosystems.
• Identify limiting factors that influence population size.
• Explain how populations adjust when exceeding carrying capacity.+ Show more

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• Understand the processes involved in landscape evolution, including tectonic uplift, volcanic activity, and surface erosion.
• Describe how climate influences weathering and material transport in landscape change.
• Explain the cycle of mountain building and denudation and their effects on landscapes.+ Show more

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• Understand the roles of supports, foundations, and load paths in construction.
• Identify how compression, tension, and shear forces affect beams, columns, and foundations.
• Evaluate material properties such as stiffness, strength, and durability for safety and suitability.+ Show more

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• Understand and identify various measurable physical properties such as density, melting point, boiling point, color, hardness, solubility, and electrical conductivity.
• Explain how physical properties are used to identify and sort substances.
• Compare different physical properties and describe their significance in material selection and separation processes.

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• Understand how abiotic factors such as temperature, moisture, light, soil nutrients, and pH influence species distributions and population dynamics.
• Describe how seasonal and daily fluctuations affect organisms' stress levels and opportunities.
• Explain the interaction between abiotic conditions and biotic pressures in determining carrying capacity and resilience.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of conservation of mass in chemical reactions.
• Identify how mass is balanced in closed-system reactions.
• Predict product yields based on reactant masses.+ Show more

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• Understand the hydrological, chemical, and biological functions of wetlands.
• Identify examples of Alberta wetlands and their ecological roles.
• Explain how wetlands contribute to water regulation and biodiversity.+ Show more

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• Identify observable signs of chemical changes such as colour change, gas evolution, precipitate formation, temperature change, and odour alteration.
• Explain at particle level how bonds are reorganized during chemical changes.
• Differentiate between physical and chemical changes based on observable evidence.+ Show more

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• Explain how the kinetic motion of particles relates to thermal phenomena.
• Describe how temperature measures average kinetic energy and heat measures energy transfer.
• Identify the methods of heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation.+ Show more

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• Understand the factors that influence seasonal and annual animal migration.
• Identify examples of migration routes and behaviors in Alberta.
• Explain how migration connects ecosystems across regions and supports biodiversity.+ Show more

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• Understand how building design strategies optimize thermal performance across Alberta's climate zones.
• Identify passive solar gains, thermal barriers, and heat-recovery ventilation as key design strategies.
• Analyze case examples to evaluate trade-offs between materials, energy use, and occupant comfort.+ Show more

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• Analyze how an author’s tone, imagery, figurative language, and sentence patterns affect a reader’s understanding.
• Identify craft choices in informational and literary texts and explain how they create specific effects.
• Connect rhetorical moves (such as definitions, repetition, and shifts in focus) to the meaning they produce.+ Show more

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• Identify different types of contact and non-contact forces.
• Explain how net force affects the motion of objects.
• Use qualitative reasoning to analyze forces in regional contexts.+ Show more

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• Understand the structure and function of food webs in ecosystems.
• Identify primary producers, consumers, and decomposers in regional examples.
• Explain the flow of energy through trophic levels.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of calorimetry and how it measures energy exchange.
• Apply calorimetric reasoning to different thermal scenarios involving heat transfer.
• Connect observed temperature changes to energy transfer calculations in Joules.+ Show more

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• Understand the concept of radiant transfer and how it conveys energy through electromagnetic waves.
• Identify factors such as solar radiation intensity, surface absorptivity, and emissivity that influence radiative heating.
• Explain how different surfaces like roofs, vegetation, and snowpack affect radiative balances and local microclimates.+ Show more

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• Identify the three main boundary types and their characteristic landforms.
• Explain how divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries differ in processes and landforms.
• Describe the processes of crustal extension, subduction, and lateral motion at plate boundaries.+ Show more

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• Understand the differences between exponential and logistic population growth models.
• Identify factors that influence population dynamics, including density-dependent and density-independent factors.
• Interpret how models help predict patterns in ecosystems.+ Show more

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• Understand the core metrics used to describe populations.
• Explain how demographic factors and environmental conditions influence population trends.
• Identify the processes that cause changes in population size, such as births, deaths, immigration, and emigration.+ Show more

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• Understand the internal force paths within truss structures and how they distribute loads.
• Describe the method of joints and its application in analyzing truss members.
• Identify common truss forms used in bridges and roof structures and evaluate their efficiency.+ Show more

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• Understand the purpose and types of ecological models used in environmental science.
• Identify the inputs, limitations, and regional examples of ecological models.
• Explain how models help interpret complex ecological data and the importance of verification.

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• Explain how heat, pressure, and chemically active fluids change rocks during metamorphism without complete melting
• Compare contact metamorphism and regional metamorphism and predict resulting rock textures
• Describe how metamorphic reactions and index minerals help identify metamorphic grade+ Show more

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• Identify physical and chemical properties used to select materials for specific applications
• Explain how chemical stability and corrosion resistance affect a material’s suitability
• Use property information (e.g., density, strength, melting point, solubility, reactivity) to justify material choices+ Show more

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• Explain how magma is generated through decompression, volatile addition, and heat transfer
• Describe how cooling rate influences igneous texture and the difference between intrusive and extrusive rocks
• Compare how fractional crystallization and magma mixing change magma composition+ Show more

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• Define chemical properties and explain how they help predict chemical reactions.
• Identify observable evidence (gas, color change, temperature change, or pH change) that indicates chemical reactions.
• Differentiate reactivity with acids/bases, flammability, oxidation tendency, and pH behavior as chemical properties.

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• Explain how deposition occurs when transport energy decreases and sediments accumulate to form landforms such as deltas, alluvial fans, and floodplains
• Describe how depositional processes create evidence in rock records, including layered strata, cross-bedding, and graded beds
• Compare deposition by glaciers and wind by identifying moraines, drumlins, and dunes

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• Identify observable indicators of chemical change in real-world examples.
• Explain why multiple indicators together strengthen evidence of chemical change.
• Use measurements and observations to support claims about whether a chemical change occurred.

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• Explain how abiotic factors (temperature, moisture, light, soil nutrients, and pH) affect where organisms can live.
• Describe how daily and seasonal abiotic changes can influence survival and population growth.
• Use the ideas of tolerance, carrying capacity, and resilience to predict how populations respond to extreme events.

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• Use data and observations to support a science claim with specific references.
• Explain why evidence implies a claim using appropriate relationships and units.
• Evaluate alternative explanations by comparing which evidence supports one explanation more strongly.

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• Explain how weather data (temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation) can be compared across time and location to identify patterns.
• Distinguish weather from climate and describe how climate over time is influenced by multiple Earth systems.
• Use reading and data-based reasoning to select main ideas, judge statements as true/false, and respond to written prompts.

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• Explain how ecological inquiry uses observations and measurable variables to evaluate hypotheses.
• Identify how evidence supports conclusions while accounting for natural variability.
• Interpret ecological relationships and human impacts using data from a local context.

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• Explain how disturbances affect ecosystem structure and community relationships
• Describe how populations change during recovery and long-term shifts after disturbances
• Use evidence from population growth and decline to predict effects on ecosystem stability

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• Explain how changes in temperature, rainfall, light, and habitat structure affect ecosystems and species survival.
• Describe how water quality and pollution can influence growth, reproduction, and mortality in organisms.
• Analyze how changes in one species can shift predator-prey, competition, and symbiotic relationships.

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• Explain how beam bending, shear, and deflection occur under different loads and support conditions
• Use span-to-depth ratio and material stiffness concepts to predict beam performance under service loads
• Identify how real-world examples (e.g., overpass girders and floor joists) relate to beam stability and comfort requirements

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• Identify which steps in bitumen extraction are physical separations versus chemical treatments.
• Explain how density, particle size, temperature, and additives affect mixtures such as oil sands slurries and emulsions.
• Use classification ideas to describe how processing choices change the products made from bitumen-containing mixtures.

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• Explain how solubility depends on the nature of solute and solvent, temperature, pressure (for gases), and surface area
• Describe how agitation and particle size affect the rate and extent of dissolution
• Use examples from everyday life to predict how changes in conditions affect dissolved materials

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• Explain how free-body diagrams (FBDs) represent forces acting on an object
• Determine net force magnitude and direction by combining perpendicular force components
• Decompose forces on inclined surfaces into perpendicular (normal) and parallel (friction/gravity) components+ Show more

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• Explain how the particle model describes matter using discrete particles, spaces, and motion.
• Use particle motion and arrangement to predict and describe physical changes between states of matter.
• Connect microscopic particle behavior to observable phenomena such as diffusion, evaporation, and condensation.

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• Explain specific heat capacity as the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1°C
• Use Q = m c ΔT to calculate thermal energy changes using correct units
• Interpret temperature change (ΔT) and relate sign of ΔT to heating or cooling

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• Explain how static and kinetic friction oppose relative motion between touching surfaces
• Describe how aerodynamic drag opposes motion through air and increases with speed
• Use qualitative reasoning to predict how changing surface texture, normal force, and air conditions affect acceleration and stopping distance+ Show more