Year 7 science

IXL offers more than 100 year 7 science skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalised Recommendations wall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skill plan that aligns to your textbook, territory curriculum, or standardised test.

IXL offers more than 100 year 7 science skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalised Recommendations wall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skill plan that aligns to your textbook, territory curriculum, or standardised test.

A. Science practices and tools

  1. 1
    The process of scientific enquiry
  2. 2
    Identify laboratory tools
  3. 3
    Laboratory safety equipment

D. Mixtures

  1. 1
    Identify mixtures

E. Matter and mass

  1. 1
    Calculate density, mass and volume
  2. 2
    Understand conservation of matter using graphs

H. Force and motion

  1. 1
    Identify whether objects are accelerating
  2. 2
    How does mass affect force and acceleration?
  3. 3
    Predict forces using Newton's third law
  4. 4
    Balanced and unbalanced forces

J. Electricity and magnetism

  1. 1
    Electric forces and fields
  2. 2
    Compare magnitudes of magnetic forces

M. Solutions

  1. 1
    Compare concentrations of solutions
  2. 2
    Diffusion across membranes

N. Classification and scientific names

  1. 1
    Describe, classify and compare kingdoms
  2. 2
    Identify common and scientific names
  3. 3
    Origins of scientific names
  4. 4
    Use scientific names to classify organisms

O. Biochemistry

  1. 1
    The chemistry of cellular respiration

R. Fossils

  1. 1
    Compare ages of fossils in a rock sequence

S. Plant reproduction

  1. 1
    Angiosperm and conifer life cycles
  2. 2
    Moss and fern life cycles

T. Photosynthesis

  1. 1
    How do plants use and change energy?
  2. 2
    Identify the photosynthetic organism

U. Ecosystems

  1. 1
    Describe populations, communities and ecosystems
  2. 2
    Identify ecosystems
  3. 3
    Describe ecosystems

W. Conservation

  1. 1
    Coral reef biodiversity and human uses: explore a problem
  2. 2
    Coral reef biodiversity and human uses: evaluate solutions

X. Natural resources and human impacts

  1. 1
    Evaluate claims about natural resource use: fossil fuels

Z. Earth's layers

  1. 1
    Label Earth layers

AA. The water cycle

  1. 1
    Label parts of water cycle diagrams
  2. 2
    Select parts of water cycle diagrams

BB. The atmosphere

  1. 1
    Explore air masses
  2. 2
    Identify and compare air masses
  3. 3
    How do air masses form?

CC. Weather and climate

  1. 1
    Use data to describe climates
  2. 2
    Factors affecting climate: latitude
  3. 3
    Factors affecting climate: altitude
  4. 4
    Factors affecting climate: distance from the ocean

EE. Units and measurement

  1. 1
    Choose units of distance, mass and volume
  2. 2
    Abbreviate time, length, speed and acceleration units
  3. 3
    Abbreviate mass and volume units
  4. 4
    Abbreviate force, energy and electricity units