Table of Contents
UNIT 1: SUSTAINING ECOSYSTEMS
Chapter 1: Diversity in Ecosystems
Chapter 2: Change and Stability in
Ecosystems
Chapter 3: Sustaining Terrestrial Ecosystems
Chapter 4: Sustaining Aquatic Ecosystems
UNIT 2: CHEMICAL PROCESSES
Chapter 5: Chemicals in Action
Chapter 6: Understanding Chemical Reactions
Chapter 7: Controlling Chemical Reactions
Chapter 8: Acids and Bases
UNIT 3: MOTION
Chapter 9: Distance and Speed
Chapter 10: Distance, Speed and Acceleration
Chapter 11: Displacement and Velocity
Chapter 12: Displacement, Velocity
and Acceleration
UNIT 4: WEATHER DYNAMICS
Chapter 13: Global Weather Dynamics
Chapter 14: Forecasting the Weather
Chapter 15: Extreme Weather Events
Chapter 16: Forecasting the Future
SKILLS HANDBOOK
UNIT 1: SUSTAINING ECOSYSTEMS
UNIT 1 OVERVIEW
Chapter 1: Diversity in Ecosystems
| Getting Started |
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
1.10
1.11
1.12
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The Silence of the Frogs
Canada's Endangered Species
Extinction in the Modern World
Explore an Issue: What Is the Value of Wolves?
Ecology
Investigation: A Schoolyard Ecosystem
Career Profile: Science Teacher
Case Study: Comparing Ecosystems
Investigation: A Natural Ecosystem
Energy in Ecosystems
Following Energy Movement in Ecosystems
Roles in Ecosystems |
Chapter 1 Summary
Chapter 1 Review |
Chapter 2: Change and Stability in
Ecosystems
| Getting Started |
| 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 |
Cycling of Matter in Ecosystems
Case Study:
Pesticides
Career Profile: Planner
Case Study:
The Interaction of Living Things
The Carbon Cycle
The Nitrogen Cycle
Agriculture and Nutrient Cycles
Case Study: Effects
of Deforestation on Cycling
Monitoring Changes in Populations
Limits on Populations
Expore an Issue: Should We Use
Pesticides to Control Pests? |
Chapter 2 Summary
Chapter 2 Review |
Chapter 3: Sustaining Terrestrial Ecosystems
| Getting Started |
3.1 3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
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Canadian Biomes
Case Study: Biogeography
Soil and Its Formation
Investigation: Selecting Soil
for a Sports Field
Investigation: Soil Nutrients and
Plant Growth
Investigation: The Animal Community in
Soils
Agriculture and Food Production
Career Profile: Plant
Manager
Explore an Issue: How Many Potatoes Are Enough?
Logging Forests
Acid Deposition and Forest Ecosystems
Investigation:
Assessing the Effects of Acid Rain |
Chapter 3 Summary
Chapter 3 Review |
Chapter 4: Sustaining Aquatic Ecosystems
| Getting Started |
4.1 4.2 4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
4.9
4.10
4.11
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Abiotic Factors in Lakes
Sources of Water Pollution
Investigation: Phosphate
Identification
Investigation: Oxygen Demand and Organic
Pollutants
Case Study: The Great Lakes
Investigation: Biological
Indicators of Pollution in Streams
Marine Ecosystems
Crude Oil in Marine Ecosystems
Case Study: Managing
Fish Populations
Explore an Issue: Can We Create a
Sustainable Fishery?
Career Profile: Great Lakes Activist |
Chapter 4 Summary
Chapter 4 Review |
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| Unit 1 Challenge |
| Unit 1 Review |
UNIT 2: CHEMICAL PROCESSES
UNIT 2 OVERVIEW
Chapter 5: Chemicals in Action
| Getting Started |
5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7
5.8 5.9 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13
5.14 |
Chemicals and Chemical Change
Case Study: Hazardous Household Chemicals
Investigation: Testing Properties of Substances
Career Profile: Chemical Engineer
Elements and the Periodic Table
How Elements Form Compounds
Activity: Ionic charges and Chemical Families
Ionic Compounds
Polyatomic Compounds
Investigation: Testing for Ions
Molecular Compounds
Hydrocarbons: A Special Group of Molecules
Chemical Wizardry: Synthetic Substances
Explore an Issue: Is “Natural” Better than
Synthetic? |
Chapter 5 Summary
Chapter 5 Review |
Chapter 6: Understanding Chemical Reactions
| Getting Started |
6.1
6.2 6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9
6.10
6.11
6.12
6.13
6.14
6.15 |
Word Equations
Investigation: Measuring
Masses in Chemical Changes
Conserving Mass
Investigation: Finding the Missing
Mass
Balancing Chemical Equations
Combustion
Types of Chemical Reactions: Synthesis and Decomposition
Investigation:
Putting Things Together
Investigation: Taking Things
Apart
Types of Chemical Reactions: Single and Double Displacement
Investigation: Single Displacement Reactions
Investigation:
Double Displacement Reactions
Activity: Putting It
All Together
Explore an Issue: Is Pollution Necessary?
Career Profile: Hospital Pharmacist |
Chapter 6 Summary
Chapter 6 Review |
Chapter 7: Controlling Chemical Reactions
| Getting Started |
7.1 7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7
7.8 7.9 7.10 7.11
7.12 |
Investigation: Temperature and Rate
Investigation:
Concentration and Rate
Factors that Affect Rates of Reaction
Case Study: Explosives
and Air Bags
Investigation: Surface Area and Rate of
Reaction
Catalysts and Enzymes
Investigation: Catalyst or Reactant?
Explore an Issue: Rates and Automobiles
Investigation:
Blast Off!
Case Study: Food Preservation
Investigation:
Exothermic and Endorthermic Reactions
Career Profile:
Explosives Expert |
Chapter 7 Summary
Chapter 7 Review |
Chapter 8: Acids and Bases
| Getting Started |
8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6
8.7 8.8 8.9 8.10
8.11
8.12
8.13 |
Investigation: Recognizing Acids and Bases
Properties of Acids and Bases
The pH Scale
Investigation: Household Products and
pH
Investigation: Making Acids and Bases
Elements and Oxides
Case Study: Air Pollution and Acid
Precipitation
Investigation: Acid Precipitation and
Buildings
Investigation: Reacting Acids and Bases
Neutralization Reactions
Investigation: Testing Antacids
Case Study: Putting It All Together: Acids and Bases in
Industry
Career Profile: Environmental
Specialist |
Chapter 8 Summary
Chapter 8 Review |
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| Unit 2 Challenge |
| Unit 2 Review |
UNIT 3: MOTION
UNIT 3 OVERVIEW
Chapter 9: Distance and Speed
| Getting Started |
9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7
9.8 9.9 9.10 9.11 |
Explore an Issue: Progress and Speed on our
Highways
Measurement and Calculations
Case Study: Measuring
Large and Small Distances
Investigation: Your Speed
Relating Speed to Distance and Time
Investigation:
Balloon Car Contest
Distance–Time Graphs
Case Study: Smart Highways
Activity: Simulation: Average Speed on an Air Table
Investigation: Determining an Average Speed
Career
Profile: Police Constable |
Chapter 9 Summary
Chapter 9 Review |
Chapter 10: Distance, Speed, and Acceleration
| Getting Started |
10.1 10.2 10.3
10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.9 10.10 10.11 |
Explore an Issue: Travelling Off-Road
Activity: Speed Comparisons
Defining Acceleration
Speed–Time Graphs for Acceleration
Investigation:
Graphing Distances During Acceleration
Case Study:
Buying a Car?
Instantaneous Speed
Analyzing Distance–Time Evidence
Investigation:
Constant Acceleration
Investigation: Acceleration of
Different Vehicles
Career Profile: Coaching Educator |
Chapter 10 Summary
Chapter 10 Review |
Chapter 11: Displacement and Velocity
| Getting Started |
| 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 |
Vectors: Position and Displacement
Activity:
Walk the Graph
Adding Vectors Along a Straight Line
Activity: Adding
Displacement Vectors
Adding Vectors at an Angle
Explore an Issue: Athletes
on the Edge
Velocity
Career Profile: Pilot and Flight Instructor
Case Study: Tracking and Position |
Chapter 11 Summary
Chapter 11 Review |
Chapter 12: Displacement, Velocity,
and Acceleration
| Getting Started |
12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7
12.8 12.9 12.10
12.11 |
Position–Time Graphs
Velocity–Time Graphs
Case Study: Technology and
Skiing
Investigation: Speeding Up and Slowing Down
Acceleration and Velocity
Displacement from Velocity–Time Graphs
Acceleration Due to Gravity
Investigation: Gravitational
Acceleration Near Earth
Investigation: Acceleration
of Different Masses
Explore an Issue: “Nothing
by Authority”
Career Profile: Air Traffic Controller |
Chapter 12 Summary
Chapter 12 Review |
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| Unit 3 Challenge |
| Unit 3 Review |
UNIT 4: WEATHER DYNAMICS
UNIT 4 OVERVIEW
Chapter 13: Global Weather Dynamics
| Getting Started |
13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 13.9 13.10
13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14
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A Closer Look at Earth
Earth's Energy Balance
Investigation: Seasons and the
Angle of Sunlight
The Atmosphere
Activity: Pressure of the Atmosphere
Prevailing Wind Patterns
Case Study: The First Round-the-World
Balloon Flight
The Hydrosphere
Major Ocean Currents
Explore an Issue: The Costs of
Rescue Operations
Clouds and Fog
Investigation: What Affects the Evaporation
of Water?
A Global Weather Model
Career Profile: Atmospheric
Chemist |
Chapter 13 Summary
Chapter 13 Review |
Chapter 14: Forecasting the Weather
| Getting Started |
14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6
14.7 14.8 14.9 14.10 14.11 |
Activity: Air Speed and Air Pressure
North American Weather Systems
Case Study: Three Days
of Canadian Weather
Regional Weather
Precipitation
Humidity
Investigation: Measuring Relative Humidity
Weather Heritage
Weather Forecasting Technology
Investigation: Forecasting
the Weather
Explore an Issue: The Weather Forecasting
Business
Career Profile: Forecast Meteorologist |
Chapter 14 Summary
Chapter 14 Review |
Chapter 15: Extreme Weather Events
| Getting Started |
15.1 15.2
15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10
15.11
15.12
15.13
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Weather Records and Events
Weather in the News
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
Floods and Droughts
Investigation: Water-Wise Plant
Growth
Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Tropical Cyclones
Blizzards
Case Study: Surviving the 1998 Ice Storm
Extreme Heat and Cold
Explore an Issue: Winter Shelters
for the Homeless
Activity: Reporting an Extreme Weather
Event
El Nino and La Nina
Career Profile: Paramedic |
Chapter 15 Summary
Chapter 15 Review |
Chapter 16: Forecasting the Future
| Getting Started |
16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 16.7
16.8
16.9
16.10
16.11 |
Evidence of Change
The Greenhouse Effect and Ozone Depletion
Career Profile:
Fire Ranger
Investigation: Observing Pollution
Microclimates
Investigation: Temperature and Materials
Our Disappearing Forests
Canada's Fragile North
Case Study: Monsoons in Bangladesh
Weather of the Future
Explore an Issue: The Human Impact
on Global
Temperatures |
Chapter 16 Summary
Chapter 16 Review |
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| Unit 4 Challenge |
| Unit 4 Review |
SKILLS HANDBOOK
| Safety in Science |
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Safety Conventions and Symbols
Safety in the Laboratory |
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| Decision-Making Skills |
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D.
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Defining the Issue
Identifying Alternatives/Positions
Researching the Issue
Analyzing the Issue
Defending the Decision
Evaluating |
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| Research |
I.
J. |
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General Research
Internet Research |
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| Inquiry Skills |
K.
L.
M.
N.
O. |
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Planning an Investigation
Conducting the Experiment
Observing and Recording
Analyzing Results
Evaluating |
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| Communication Skills |
P.
Q.
R.
S.
T. |
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SI Units
Lab Reports
Writing for Specific Audiences
Oral Presentations
Electronic Communication |
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| Math Skills |
U.
V.
W. |
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Using the Calculator
Graphing
Calculating |
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| Study Skills |
X.
Y. |
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Working Together
Graphic Organizers |
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