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Environmental Issues
In this environmental issues worksheet, students are given 10 current topics that are problems in our environment today. They complete sentences about each topic by filling in the blanks with the appropriate terms. Some of the issues...
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Living Sources of Weathering
In this sources of weathering worksheet, students read about the various things that cause weathering including plants and animals. They answer four critical thinking questions about weathering.
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Phase Changes
In this phase change worksheet, students read about the particles in substances that speed up and slow down for substances to change phases. They answer eight questions about phase changes, the states of matter and how changing...
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Food Safety
In this science worksheet, students read the brochure that is concerned with the concept of food safety. The dangers and advantages are discussed.
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Plant Processes
In this science worksheet, middle schoolers explore why plants grow in a certain direction by asking a question and using the scientific method to perform the lab.
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Energy, Work, and Power
In this energy worksheet, students read about work and how forces effect the work that is done to an object. Students complete 10 matching, 14 fill in the blank, and 10 word problems.
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Bicycle Design and Shock Absorption
In this shock absorption worksheet, student read about bicycle design and how it effects shock absorption. They answer three critical thinking questions about bicycle design which make a bike ride smooth.
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Sedimentation in the Grand Canyon
In this sedimentation worksheet, students use the current rate of sediment deposit by the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon to answer questions about the changes taking place in the canyon. They graph the amount of deposit over 75 years...
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Secondhand Smoke
In this health science worksheet, students complete 8 short answer questions after reading information on the "Health Effects of Exposure to Secondhand Smoke."
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Viruses: Tiny But Deadly
In this viruses worksheet, learners read given information about the effect of viruses on people throughout history. Students create a bar graph comparing the viruses and answer seven questions based on the information they have learned.
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The Impact of Human or Natural Events on the Spheres
In this hydrosphere and atmosphere worksheet, students work in groups to present an assigned topic's effects on the atmosphere and the hydrosphere. They identify the topic as human activity or natural activity and it's impact.
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Homeostasis
In this homeostasis learning exercise, students answer twelve questions about positive and negative feedback loops and how they effect homeostasis.
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The Tropopause
In this tropopause worksheet, learners read about the temperature of the air in the tropopause or the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth. They answer four critical thinking questions about this layer and the energy changes that...
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Using Land
In this using land worksheet, students determine if effects on the environment are due to natural or man-made causes. This worksheet has 10 fill in the blank and 4 short answer questions.
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Water
In this water worksheet, students read an excerpt about the effects of pollution on the life cycle of a lake. Then they describe how lakes are affected by the pollution. Students also define why pollution has become such a problem for...
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Energy from the Sun
In this energy worksheet, students complete a chart on the three types of heat transfer and their causes. Then they explain why all of the radiation directed at Earth does not reach the surface. Students also explain the factors in the...
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What Are Clouds and Rain?
In this clouds and rain worksheet, students will complete 6 statements that show how clouds and rain are formed and what effect that has to the air.
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Breathing
In this breathing worksheet, students will review vocabulary words and topics relating to the lungs and the parts of the breathing system in humans. Students will explore how exercise effects the carbon dioxide that is exhaled. This...
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Earth's Atmosphere
In this Earth's atmosphere learning exercise, students observe the effects of air pressure using an egg. They describe what happens to the egg and what makes it do what it does. Then they determine how to get the egg out of the bottle...
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Population Impact on the Environment
In this population impact learning exercise, students investigate how the growth in human population has contributed to certain effects on the environment. This learning exercise has 5 short answer and 4 fill in the blank questions.
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Movement of Air
In this movement of air worksheet, students identify and describe the purpose for convection and how it effects Earth. Then they describe what thermals are and why they occur in hot and cold air movements. Students also explain why...
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Commercial Use of Plant Hormones
In this plant hormone instructional activity, learners will read 5 statements and determine if the effect given occurs because of natural or synthetic plant hormones. Then students will complete 2 short answer questions about why...
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Fishing in the Grand Banks
In this fishing worksheet, students read about the fishing trends off of Newfoundland, Canada and how fishing has effected fish populations. Students complete 5 short answer questions based on the reading.
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Environment: Climate Change
In this climate change worksheet, 7th graders read through the ten definition about climate change and its cause and effects. Students fill in the missing word for each sentence.