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• Explain how external and internal structures help plants and animals perform life functions.
• Describe how plant structures such as roots, stems, and leaves support obtaining food, transporting materials, and making food.
• Identify animal structures (such as beaks, teeth, limbs, and organs) and match them to their functions.

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• Explain how cells, tissues, and organs are related to organ system function
• Describe how cell specialization supports tissue structure and organ performance
• Use examples from the lungs, intestines, heart, and nerves to connect microscopic features to macroscopic functions

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• Explain how positive and negative feedback mechanisms influence Earth system responses to change.
• Identify real-world examples of feedbacks involving water vapor, clouds, ice albedo, and land cover.
• Analyze how human actions can alter feedback pathways connecting surface processes to climate outcomes.

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• Explain how effective nuclear charge and electron shielding influence atomic size and ionization energy across periods and down groups.
• Predict trends in ion formation using valence electrons and typical common ion charges.
• Use periodic organization (periods and groups) to justify bonding tendencies and patterns in chemical behavior.

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• Identify the main stages of the water cycle: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection
• Explain how solar energy drives the water cycle and how water moves between Earth’s systems
• Use key vocabulary to describe how water changes state (liquid, gas, and ice) during the cycle

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• Explain how electromagnetic waves carry energy using coupled electric and magnetic fields
• Use frequency–wavelength relationships to predict how signals behave in different media
• Describe reflection, refraction, attenuation, dispersion, and polarization in signal transmission

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• Identify thermal, light, sound, and electrical energy and describe how each one can be observed in everyday situations.
• Explain how energy transfers through matter and space using examples of conduction, transmission of light, and sound through air.
• Model and describe electrical energy transfer in simple circuits using the movement of electrons.

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• Explain how radiometric dating estimates absolute geologic time using radioactive decay in minerals.
• Use half-life ideas to describe the predictable relationship between time and the fraction of parent isotopes remaining.
• Evaluate why assumptions such as closed-system behavior and initial conditions affect the reliability of radiometric dates.+ Show more

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• Explain how catchment-level actions can affect freshwater flow regimes and pollutant loads.
• Describe key conservation strategies for freshwater stewardship (demand management, source protection, riparian buffers, agricultural best management measures, and wetland preservation).
• Analyze trade-offs among water supply, ecological integrity, and economic uses.

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• Explain how vapor pressure and boiling point differences drive simple distillation
• Describe the role of condensation in collecting a more volatile component
• Compare simple distillation with fractional distillation and explain why fractional distillation can improve purity+ Show more

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• Explain how reaction conditions and particle-level collisions influence reaction rate and overall yield.
• Interpret reaction yield using stoichiometry and limiting reactants.
• Predict how competing pathways can change the amount of desired product formed.+ Show more

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• Define physical properties and distinguish them from chemical changes
• Use measurements of density, mass, volume, and phase-change temperatures to identify materials
• Explain how molecular structure and intermolecular forces influence observable physical properties

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• Identify common external and internal structures of plants and animals
• Explain how structures help organisms survive, grow, and reproduce
• Use models or drawings to show how body parts are arranged and connected

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• Classify mixtures as homogeneous or heterogeneous using particle behavior and visible phases.
• Distinguish solutions, colloids, and suspensions based on particle size and light-scattering behavior.
• Choose appropriate separation methods by predicting how mixture components interact.

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• Explain how filtration separates mixtures using particle size and pore size in porous media
• Describe how flow behavior affects filtration efficiency for suspensions and precipitates
• Evaluate limitations of filtration for dissolved solutes and colloids+ Show more

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• Explain how density differences create layered (stratified) fluids and pycnoclines
• Interpret how temperature and salinity affect density gradients in natural and engineered systems
• Describe buoyancy and vertical mixing across fluid interfaces and predict when overturning is likely

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• Compare rocks and soil using appearance and physical properties.
• Explain how rock and soil can be separated or changed by pressure and handling.
• Describe how soil is made from smaller particles and organic matter.

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• Define density as the relationship between mass and volume
• Explain how changes in volume (with mass constant) can change density during state changes
• Use density comparisons to predict whether an object will float or sink

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• Explain why organisms are placed into groups by using observable traits as evidence.
• Use classification reasoning to compare similarities and differences between organisms.
• Describe how classifications can change when new traits or evidence are considered.

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• Compare energy production methods by considering intermittency, land and habitat footprint, and resource availability.
• Explain how lifecycle impacts (construction, operation, decommissioning, and waste) affect net environmental outcomes.
• Describe trade-offs between fossil fuel power and renewable energy sources in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and reliability.

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• Explain how photosynthesis converts light energy into chemical energy stored in organic molecules
• Describe the roles of chlorophyll, light-dependent reactions, and the Calvin cycle
• Interpret how photosynthesis affects oxygen release and carbon availability in ecosystems+ Show more

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• Explain how dissolving forms a solution by describing the roles of solute and solvent.
• Identify evidence that dissolving is typically a physical change, not a new substance.
• Use particle ideas and observable properties (clarity, temperature) to describe solutions.

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• Identify examples of competition, predation, and symbiosis in real ecosystems
• Explain how species interactions affect survival, growth, and population size over time
• Distinguish between mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism within symbiosis

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• Explain how forces can change motion and pressure in matter.
• Describe how contact forces and friction can lead to physical changes such as heating, melting, or softening.
• Distinguish physical change from changes that form new substances.

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• Explain how uneven heating of Earth creates rising and sinking air that drives global wind patterns
• Describe how warm air behavior differs from cool air behavior in atmospheric circulation
• Connect atmospheric circulation to moisture transport and the development of storms+ Show more

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• Explain how camouflage helps organisms avoid predators by blending into their environment.
• Describe how warning coloration, mimicry, and physical defenses reduce the risk of harm.
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to connect defensive adaptations to survival and reproduction.

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• Explain how energy moves through trophic levels in a food web.
• Describe why only a fraction of energy becomes available at the next trophic level.
• Use the idea of trophic energy limits to predict effects on food-chain length and biomass.

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• Explain how solar energy angle and location affect heating patterns on Earth.
• Describe how unequal heating drives air movement and ocean circulation.
• Connect energy transfers in the atmosphere and oceans to daily weather and seasonal climate changes.

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• Describe the major stages in the life cycle of an animal and a plant
• Explain how evidence from body size, shape, and structures can show life cycle stages
• Compare how life cycle stages meet different needs as an organism grows

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• Explain how adding and removing heat energy affects temperature and the state of matter
• Describe how heat transfer changes the speed of physical changes such as melting and freezing
• Use particle ideas to predict how temperature changes can affect volume and flow

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• Explain how observable characteristics are used to group organisms in science.
• Use a dichotomous key to identify organisms using step-by-step choices.
• Describe how hierarchical classification categories lead from kingdom to species.+ Show more

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• Identify mechanisms of energy transfer between objects and across different media (solids, liquids, gases).
• Connect energy transfer to observable changes in motion and to changes in thermal state.
• Use evidence from temperature or motion observations to explain what energy was transferred and how.

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• Explain how temperature affects water vapor and cloud formation
• Describe how condensation and gravity lead to precipitation
• Use observations of weather to connect clouds with when rain (or snow) happens

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• Explain how light interacts with transparent, translucent, and opaque materials.
• Describe how surface and bulk properties affect color, intensity, and heat transfer.
• Use the ideas of transmission, absorption, and scattering to predict everyday phenomena.

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• Explain how Earth’s axial tilt and revolution around the Sun produce seasonal changes and variations in day length.
• Describe how the daily apparent motion of the Sun supports timekeeping and calendar conventions.
• Use models and vocabulary (axial tilt, hemisphere, day length, equinox, solstice) to make evidence-based claims about Earth-Sun cycles.

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• Identify observable and measurable properties of matter
• Compare how properties such as color, texture, state, mass, volume, and density describe substances
• Explain how properties can stay the same or change during physical transformations

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• Explain how scientific inquiry connects a question to evidence gathered from observations and measurements.
• Distinguish between evidence-based explanations and personal beliefs.
• Use inquiry ideas (patterns, fairness, and revision) to evaluate or improve an explanation.

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• Describe the stages of an animal life cycle from birth or hatching to adulthood
• Explain how juvenile stages and adult stages can have different needs and risks
• Identify examples of metamorphosis and describe how body structures and diets change+ Show more

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• Match material properties (strength, water resistance, conductivity, porosity, durability) to real-world performance needs.
• Compare design options by considering trade-offs such as cost, availability, and ease of shaping.
• Explain how water filter design choices (membrane thickness and pore size) affect contaminant reduction over time.

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• Explain how allele combinations and dominance affect predicted phenotypes in offspring
• Use probability to estimate expected trait frequencies across one or more generations
• Interpret family evidence to infer likely parental genotypes

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• Explain how heating and cooling can change matter between solid, liquid, and gas states
• Identify key terms for state changes, including melting, freezing, evaporation, and condensation
• Use temperature and particle movement/arrangement to describe why state changes happen

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• Explain how simple machines change the direction or size of forces to make tasks easier
• Describe the roles of effort force, output force, and fulcrum in a lever
• Use examples of inclined planes and levers to predict how motion changes

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• Compare how annuals, biennials, perennials, and woody plants time germination, flowering, seed set, and dormancy.
• Describe seed banking and the seasonal cues that trigger life cycle transitions and dormancy.
• Explain how environmental variability and human land use (cropping cycles and habitat alteration) can favor certain life histories and affect population persistence.

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• Identify common structural forms (arches, beams, frames) and describe how their shapes help them support loads.
• Explain how compressive and bending forces affect different structures in real-world examples.
• Compare span, curvature, and connection types to predict strength and stability.

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• Explain the basic survival needs of plants and describe how plants get them from the environment.
• Describe the basic survival needs of animals and give examples of how animals meet those needs.
• Compare how different body structures help plants and animals access the same basic needs.+ Show more

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• Identify observable features (such as body covering, leaf shape, number of legs, and seed coat type) used to classify organisms.
• Use simple, consistent classification rules that are based on visible traits.
• Compare organisms by describing how they are similar or different using shared observable features.+ Show more

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• Explain the difference between mass and volume as measurable properties of matter
• Identify appropriate units and tools used to measure mass and volume
• Compare properties across different samples, including how shape can change volume without changing mass

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• Explain how biodiversity can increase ecosystem stability through functional redundancy
• Describe how disturbances like habitat loss and invasive species can reduce biodiversity and weaken ecosystem processes
• Use evidence from a passage to identify main ideas and correctly answer questions about biodiversity