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• Explain how gravity provides the centripetal force needed for curved orbital motion.
• Describe how orbital speed and distance from a star change during a planet’s revolution.
• Use observed patterns in the sky to connect recurring positions to orbital periods.

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• Explain how Earth’s tilt, orbital eccentricity, and precession influence the distribution and timing of incoming solar energy.
• Describe how astronomical models can connect to changes in seasonal intensity and long-term insolation patterns.
• Interpret how geological and paleoclimate records provide evidence for repeating climate rhythms.

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• Explain how rocks, sediments, water, and living things are connected through material cycling
• Describe physical and chemical weathering as first steps in the cycling of Earth materials
• Use evidence from processes to explain how deposition and biological activity affect soil and landscapes+ Show more

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• Explain how design criteria describe what a solution must achieve in measurable ways.
• Differentiate design criteria from constraints and identify common examples of each.
• Use criteria and constraints to evaluate whether a design is acceptable, safe, and effective.

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• Explain how human resource use can change Earth systems (land, water, and air).
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to connect specific human actions to environmental outcomes.
• Identify evidence of system-level impacts such as habitat loss, pollution, and altered cycles.

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• Explain how engineering constraints limit what solutions are feasible
• Identify common constraint sources (power, cost, materials, regulations, and environment) in a real scenario
• Use measurable requirements to reason from constraints to design trade-offs+ Show more

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• Identify multiple lines of evidence that support the idea that Earth’s lithospheric plates have moved over long periods of time.
• Explain how geologic patterns such as rock age, mountain belt alignment, and seafloor features relate to past plate motion.
• Interpret statements about plate boundaries and Earth history as true or false based on scientific evidence.

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• Explain how genetic variation (alleles and mutations) creates differences in traits within a population.
• Describe how allele frequencies relate to the distribution of traits in the next generation.
• Analyze how natural selection changes allele frequencies over time based on survival and reproduction.+ Show more

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• Explain how heritable traits can change in frequency due to differential survival and reproduction.
• Identify how environmental conditions determine which traits are advantageous.
• Use models to connect trait variation, reproduction, and changing phenotype proportions over generations.+ Show more

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• Explain how earthquake locations form belts that relate to tectonic plate boundaries
• Describe how seismic wave observations provide indirect evidence about Earth’s internal structure
• Use evidence from seismic timing and wave behavior to connect tectonic motion to patterns of earthquakes and volcanic activity

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• Explain how meiosis and sexual reproduction form gametes that carry inherited alleles
• Describe how genetic variation arises from chromosome combinations and heritable mutations
• Connect the behavior of chromosomes and DNA information to patterns of trait inheritance

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• Explain how optimization balances performance goals with constraints to choose the best solution among alternatives.
• Identify criteria and constraints and describe how tradeoffs affect engineering and design decisions.
• Use evidence to justify why one design is superior for a specific real-world situation.

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• Explain how homeostasis maintains internal stability using feedback mechanisms.
• Differentiate negative feedback from other responses by describing how it reduces change.
• Identify common body examples of homeostasis (temperature, blood glucose, oxygen delivery).+ Show more

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• Explain the hierarchical levels of organization in multicellular organisms (cells, tissues, organs, organ systems).
• Describe how structure at one biological level supports specific functions.
• Use cause-and-effect and evidence from statements or passages to connect levels of organization to organism-level outcomes.

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• Identify the desired outcome and the real-world problem context in an engineering design challenge
• Write measurable goals and connect them to practical limitations and constraints
• Explain how framing a problem supports generating multiple viable solution approaches

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• Explain how energy flows through trophic levels in an ecosystem
• Describe how producers convert external energy into chemical energy
• Justify why energy availability decreases at higher trophic levels due to losses+ Show more

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• Explain how weather can change from day to day even within the same season.
• Describe how precipitation and temperature may arrive earlier or later than expected.
• Differentiate between weather (day-to-day conditions) and climate (typical patterns over time).+ Show more

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• Explain how common ancestry and evolutionary change produce similarities and differences among organisms.
• Use multiple lines of evidence (anatomy, fossils, and molecular data) to support evolutionary relationships.
• Interpret how shared traits and genetic information can indicate lineage divergence over time.+ Show more

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• Explain how nuclear charge, electron shielding, and subshell filling drive periodic trends
• Predict changes in atomic radius, ionization energy, and electronegativity across periods and down groups
• Use periodic trends to infer relative ionic sizes and likely bonding tendencies

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• Identify the basic survival needs of living things, including water, air/gases, food (energy), and suitable conditions like temperature and shelter.
• Explain how limited resources affect an organism’s behavior, growth, or stress level.
• Use evidence from a text to determine main ideas and to answer questions about survival needs.

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• Explain how scale and distance affect how the solar system appears from Earth
• Use basic measurement ideas (relative scale, brightness, and apparent motion) to infer orbital properties
• Distinguish between physical distance/size and observational perspective when interpreting sky observations

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• Explain how mechanical and chemical digestion work together in the mouth and stomach
• Describe how enzymes and acids help break down proteins, carbohydrates, and fats
• Explain how absorbed nutrients enter blood or lymph and support metabolism and growth+ Show more

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• Explain how biotic interactions (predation, competition, disease, and mutualism) influence population sizes.
• Describe how changes in populations can affect energy flow and matter cycling in an ecosystem.
• Use evidence from a text to identify main ideas and make claims supported by ecological concepts.

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• Explain how heating and cooling can change a material’s state (solid, liquid, gas).
• Describe observable properties that change during melting, freezing, evaporating, and condensing.
• Use evidence from state changes to argue that the material can remain the same even when its state changes.+ Show more

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• Explain why monitoring air and water quality is essential for preventing environmental harm
• Interpret how chemical indicators, flow conditions, and spatial patterns can reveal pollution sources and movement
• Apply scientific reasoning to connect measurement design with management decisions that reduce downstream effects

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• Identify multiple types of evidence for natural selection, including fossils, anatomical similarities, and genetic/function links.
• Explain how environmental pressures can increase the survival or reproductive success of certain heritable traits.
• Connect changes in trait frequency over generations to the process of adaptation.

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• Explain how current and voltage behave differently in series versus parallel circuits
• Predict how changing a circuit arrangement affects brightness, energy flow, and circuit reliability
• Use basic circuit reasoning to determine what happens when a branch or component is broken

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• Explain how matter cycles among reservoirs in Earth systems using geologic and biological processes.
• Describe how water moves through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation while linking the atmosphere, surface, and groundwater.
• Analyze how carbon and nutrients move through interactions among air, oceans, organisms, and rocks.+ Show more

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• Explain how internal structures in living organisms help with survival functions such as movement of materials, gas exchange, and digestion.
• Describe how external structures (like beaks, teeth, shells, or leaves) relate to feeding and protection.
• Use structure–function relationships to predict how an organism meets its needs in different environments.

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• Explain how climate models represent Earth’s energy balance and atmospheric circulation.
• Describe how emissions scenarios and feedbacks influence climate projections.
• Evaluate how comparing model outputs with evidence affects confidence and limitations.

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• Explain how genes and alleles influence inherited traits in offspring.
• Differentiate dominant and recessive alleles using allele-pair outcomes.
• Use evidence from observed variation to justify that inherited factors affect survival and reproduction.

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• Differentiate weather from climate and explain why climate requires long-term observations.
• Describe how Earth’s energy balance and atmospheric composition affect temperature over time.
• Use examples of natural records (ice cores, ocean sediments) to explain how scientists build climate evidence.+ Show more

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• Explain how natural selection can change a population’s trait distribution over generations
• Identify the roles of heritability and variation in adaptation
• Describe how changing environmental pressures can shift selection and lead to evolutionary change+ Show more

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• Explain how atomic number relates to the repeating patterns of element properties on the periodic table.
• Describe how electron arrangement in outer energy levels influences trends such as reactivity and typical ion charge.
• Use periodic trends to predict likely bonding tendencies for elements in the same group.+ Show more

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• Describe and distinguish conduction, convection, and radiation as three modes of thermal energy transfer.
• Use evidence from everyday situations to explain how heat moves from warmer to cooler regions.
• Connect particle motion and fluid motion to conduction and convection, and connect electromagnetic waves to radiation.+ Show more

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• Explain how observable traits can be used to group living things into classifications.
• Use multiple traits as evidence to support a consistent classification.
• Differentiate between traits that are used for classification and changes that may happen over time or due to environment.

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• Explain how nuclear fission and nuclear fusion change atomic nuclei and release or absorb energy.
• Describe how binding energy and mass-energy equivalence relate to energy outcomes in nuclear reactions.
• Connect ionizing radiation to why nuclear reactions require careful control.

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• Differentiate physical changes from chemical changes using evidence such as new substances and permanent color change.
• Explain why some changes are reversible (state or form changes) while others are not (atoms rearrange into new substances).
• Connect phase changes like melting/freezing and boiling/condensation to the idea of reversibility under different conditions.

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• Explain how adding forces (net force) affects an object's motion.
• Determine whether opposite forces cancel or add by comparing their directions and strengths.
• Use everyday examples (pushes, tug-of-war, stacked pushes) to predict motion changes.

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• Explain how light can be modeled as a wave and as a particle, depending on the phenomenon.
• Use the photoelectric effect concept to connect light frequency with electron emission.
• Interpret and apply wave ideas such as interference, diffraction, and polarization to real observations.+ Show more

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• Explain the relationship between impulse, net force, and the change in momentum over a time interval
• Use impulse-momentum ideas to predict how changing force duration affects stopping and peak forces
• Determine momentum change direction using the sign/direction of impulse+ Show more

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• Explain how gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy change as an object moves up or down under gravity.
• Use conservation of mechanical energy ideas to predict how speed changes at different heights.
• Connect a roller coaster example to energy transfers and speed without needing to track moment-by-moment forces.

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• Explain conservation of energy for a closed system using energy-transfer and energy-conversion language.
• Interpret and construct simple energy accounting models (energy diagrams) for changes in kinetic, potential, and internal energy.
• Use energy conservation to predict how motion and energy forms change when forces act.

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• Explain how electron behavior leads to ionic and covalent bond formation.
• Compare how ionic and covalent bonding affect material properties such as melting point and conductivity.
• Use an atomic model to predict how substances respond to stress (breaking apart).

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• Explain Newton’s third law using force pairs acting on different objects.
• Identify action–reaction forces in real scenarios such as recoil and collisions.
• Connect paired forces to changes in momentum for each object.

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• Explain Newton’s third law using action-reaction force pairs between two objects
• Identify how force pairs occur at the same time and act in opposite directions
• Use examples such as skaters pushing off and collisions to describe which object experiences which force

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• Explain how gravitational force, weight, and inertia relate to motion near Earth
• Differentiate gravity from support forces (normal forces) and describe when they balance or do not balance
• Use Newton’s ideas of net force to predict how objects move when support forces change

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• Explain the difference between a claim and evidence
• Use evidence to support a reasoning statement that answers a question
• Recognize patterns in observations over time and across comparisons+ Show more