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• Explain how habitat fragmentation from land use can change resources, edges, and species survival.
• Describe how land use can alter hydrology, soil conditions, and connectivity in an ecosystem.
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to predict how fragmentation can isolate populations and affect biodiversity.

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• Explain how introduced species become invasive and describe the steps involved (establish, spread, outcompete).
• Identify ecological traits and missing predators that can make invasive species successful.
• Describe multiple ecosystem impacts of invasions, including changes to biodiversity, nutrient cycling, and habitat structure.+ Show more

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• Explain how genetic diversity within and among populations helps species adapt to changing conditions.
• Describe how mutation, gene flow, population size, and selective pressure shape genetic variation.
• Evaluate how low genetic diversity can increase vulnerability, including inbreeding depression.+ Show more

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• Explain how human activities can affect Earth systems (land, water, air, and living things).
• Describe solution strategies that reduce harmful impacts, such as reducing waste and preventing contamination.
• Apply cause-and-effect reasoning to predict how certain actions can lessen pollution and protect ecosystems.

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• Distinguish physical changes from chemical changes using observable evidence
• Identify common evidence of chemical reactions such as gas formation, precipitate, temperature change, and color change
• Explain why irreversible changes usually indicate a chemical change

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• Explain how temperature, concentration, and surface area affect reaction rate using the particle-collision model
• Describe the role of catalysts in changing reaction rate without being used up
• Connect macroscopic changes (what you measure) to microscopic particle behavior (collisions and rearrangements)

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• Explain the hierarchy of reduce, reuse, and recycle and describe how each choice conserves resources.
• Identify how recycling systems and household actions (like composting and repairing) support material reuse and waste reduction.
• Distinguish closed-loop recycling from downcycling and describe how policies such as deposit-return and extended producer responsibility can improve resource recovery.

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• Explain why scientific claims become credible when supported by evidence.
• Use scientific language to describe a claim, the evidence, and how patterns were interpreted.
• Describe how methods and uncertainties affect the trustworthiness of results.

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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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• Explain how submarine ballast tanks change buoyancy by adjusting displaced volume and internal mass
• Identify conditions for neutral buoyancy and describe what happens when water is taken in or ejected
• Use simple calculations involving tank volume, fluid density, and net buoyant force to predict buoyancy changes+ Show more

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• Explain how extracting energy resources can change land, water, and air
• Identify cause-and-effect relationships between extraction activities and environmental impacts
• Describe trade-offs between short-term energy benefits and long-term ecological costs+ Show more

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• Use particle diagrams and atom counting to show that atoms of each element are conserved in a chemical reaction.
• Explain how rearranging atoms into new combinations can produce new substances without changing the total number of atoms of each element.
• Use evidence from reactant and product particle models to make accurate claims about reaction outcomes.

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• Explain how cell culture, stem cell differentiation, and tissue engineering work in clinical and research settings
• Identify common molecular markers and describe how scaffold interactions can support controlled differentiation
• Evaluate trade-offs and limitations, including ethical, safety, and regulatory considerations+ Show more

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• Describe how water moves through the atmosphere, land, and oceans during the water cycle.
• Explain how energy from the Sun and the role of cooling and gravity drive major water-cycle processes.
• Compare pathways such as evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, and infiltration/groundwater storage.+ Show more

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• Explain the three core ideas of cell theory and what they mean for living organisms
• Describe how microscopy and modern imaging provide evidence for cell theory
• Connect the idea that cells arise from pre-existing cells to cell reproduction

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• Compare plant and animal cells by identifying key structures and their functions
• Contrast prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell organization and explain how organization affects metabolism
• Explain how structural differences support ecological roles and physiological needs

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• Describe lithospheric plates and how they move on the mantle
• Explain how divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries differ
• Connect plate boundary interactions to earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain building+ Show more

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• Explain how negative and positive feedback help maintain internal stability (homeostasis).
• Describe how cells and organ systems use sensors, control centers, and effectors to regulate variables at a set point.
• Use examples such as blood glucose regulation, thermoregulation, and osmoregulation to trace signal integration to bodily responses.

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• Explain how mantle convection, slab pull, and ridge push contribute to plate motion
• Describe the role of density differences and buoyancy in driving convection cells
• Use evidence and vocabulary to compare the relative effects of different plate mechanisms

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• Explain how gear ratios affect torque and angular velocity in simple and compound gear trains.
• Determine direction changes and overall gear ratio in gear trains that use spur gears and idler gears.
• Use tooth counts to predict mechanical advantage and describe speed–torque trade-offs.

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• Explain how Pascal’s principle allows pressure to be transmitted through a confined fluid
• Calculate and interpret force multiplication using piston area and hydraulic pressure
• Describe how hydraulic systems apply force remotely and why seals and fluid properties matter+ Show more

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• Explain how tectonics, magmatism, weathering, erosion, burial, and metamorphism connect within the rock cycle.
• Use rock cycle terms to describe how rocks change forms over geologic time.
• Interpret how uplift and plate motion create the conditions for recycling crustal materials.

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• Explain how producers, consumers, and decomposers move matter through a terrestrial ecosystem
• Describe how carbon and nutrients cycle as organisms grow, eat, and decompose
• Use evidence from an ecosystem example to trace the path of matter from soil to living things and back

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• Explain how Earth’s rotation on its axis causes the daily cycle of day and night.
• Describe how Earth’s rotation changes the Sun’s apparent position in the sky over the course of a day.
• Use evidence from shadows and sunlight to predict what time of day it is.

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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 apparent diurnal motion of celestial objects as a consequence of Earth’s rotation from an Earth-based viewpoint.
• Describe how Earth’s revolution produces apparent changes in the night sky across seasons.
• Use celestial coordinate ideas (altitude, azimuth, rising/setting) to predict how objects appear to move.+ Show more

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• Explain how greenhouse gases, aerosols, albedo changes, and land-use feedbacks influence Earth’s energy balance and climate forcing.
• Use basic radiative transfer and energy budget ideas to describe why surface temperature responds to changes in atmospheric composition.
• Connect human emissions to carbon cycle perturbations and projected climatic responses.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy from the Sun and Earth’s interior is transferred through Earth systems using radiation, conduction, and convection
• Describe how energy gradients drive atmospheric and ocean circulation and influence weather and climate patterns
• Connect radioactive heat production in Earth’s mantle to long-term mantle convection and volcanic activity

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• Identify diagnostic physical and chemical properties of common rock-forming minerals
• Explain how crystal structure and atomic bonding relate to hardness, cleavage, lustre, streak, and specific gravity
• Connect mineral composition to formation environments and predict stability under changing temperature and pressure+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth’s concentric layers (crust, mantle, core) differ in composition and behavior
• Describe how density, temperature, and pressure change with depth and how those changes affect material phase and motion
• Interpret how seismic waves and gravity measurements provide evidence about Earth’s internal structure+ Show more

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• Explain how the rock cycle connects igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks through interconnected processes.
• Describe how energy sources and rates (heat, pressure, erosion) influence transitions in the rock cycle.
• Use plate tectonics and observable field evidence (layering, foliation, intrusions) to infer rock-cycle pathways.+ Show more

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• Explain the law of conservation of mass using particle-level reasoning (atoms rearrange but are not created or destroyed).
• Use the idea of a closed system to predict whether total mass will stay the same before and after a chemical reaction.
• Identify reactants and products at the particle level and describe what happens to bonds during a reaction.

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• Explain how exothermic and endothermic chemical reactions change temperature through energy transfer
• Describe how bond breaking requires energy and how bond formation releases energy
• Use energy evidence, along with other signs, to distinguish chemical change from physical change

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• Explain how bond breaking and bond forming relate to energy changes in chemical reactions
• Differentiate endothermic and exothermic reactions using the net energy change
• Use energy profiles and bond enthalpies to predict and interpret temperature changes+ Show more

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• Explain how mutations, recombination, and chromosomal changes create genetic variation in populations.
• Distinguish between single-gene (Mendelian) inheritance and polygenic inheritance with gene interactions.
• Interpret how molecular mechanisms (DNA replication errors and recombination rates) influence heritable variation and trait distributions.

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• Explain the hydrologic (water) cycle as the movement and exchange of water among atmosphere, surface water, and subsurface reservoirs.
• Describe how evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and groundwater flow contribute to water availability.
• Analyze how residence time and water fluxes differ among reservoirs and affect how quickly water returns to ecosystems.+ Show more

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• Identify reactants and products in a chemical equation and interpret chemical formulas using subscripts
• Explain why chemical equations must be balanced to reflect conservation of atoms and mass
• Use coefficients to represent relative quantities of reactants and products in a reaction+ Show more

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• Describe chemical properties as tendencies to undergo specific chemical changes.
• Identify evidence of chemical change (gas evolution, precipitate formation, permanent color change, and energy exchange).
• Differentiate chemical changes from physical changes using observation-based reasoning.+ Show more

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• Explain how the number of protons determines an element’s identity and relates to its chemical symbol.
• Describe how atomic models represent atomic identity, including the meaning of subatomic particles in those models.
• Differentiate metallic and nonmetallic characteristics using representative elements (iron, carbon, oxygen).+ Show more

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• State the principle of conservation of mass in closed systems during chemical reactions
• Use mass accounting to predict that total mass of reactants equals total mass of products
• Distinguish true mass conservation in closed environments from apparent changes caused by gas exchange in open systems+ Show more

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• Assess how everyday chemicals provide benefits and also pose risks to health and the environment.
• Explain how chemical properties and persistence influence exposure pathways and long-term effects.
• Use evidence-based reasoning to compare safe handling, disposal, and regulatory decisions for chemical use.

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• Explain how dissolution occurs through solute–solvent interactions and relate solvation to solution formation
• Describe how temperature and agitation qualitatively affect solubility and the rate of dissolving
• Differentiate saturated, unsaturated, and supersaturated solutions using everyday examples+ Show more

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• Describe how glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation work together to produce ATP
• Explain how mitochondrial structure supports a proton gradient and ATP synthase activity
• Compare aerobic and anaerobic pathways and relate them to tissue energy demands+ Show more

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• Explain how the cardiovascular system functions as a transport network for oxygen, nutrients, and waste removal
• Describe the roles of the heart, valves, and blood vessel hierarchy in blood flow
• Model how haemodynamics (pressure, flow, and resistance) helps regulate tissue oxygen delivery+ Show more

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• Explain that adaptations are inherited traits that improve survival or reproduction in specific environments.
• Identify evidence for adaptation from population differences, fossil records, and documented environmental change.
• Use scientific reasoning to connect trait evidence to selection pressures in an environment.

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• Explain that living things grow through predictable life cycle stages.
• Identify common stages such as egg, juvenile, and adult in familiar organisms.
• Describe how life cycle patterns connect one generation to the next.

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• Explain how energy transfer causes phase changes between solid, liquid, and gas
• Identify examples of melting, freezing, vaporization, condensation, sublimation, and deposition
• Use particle motion and arrangement to describe temperature and pressure effects on phases+ Show more

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• Explain what constraints are and how they limit possible designs
• Identify examples of constraints such as time, cost, materials, safety rules, and size
• Describe tradeoffs and how improving one goal can reduce another+ Show more