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• Explain mass conservation using balanced chemical equations and atomic accounting.
• Use coefficients, mole concepts, and molar masses to relate reactant and product amounts.
• Verify that total mass of reactants equals total mass of products by tracking atom counts in examples.

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• Explain how protons and the atomic number determine an element
• Describe how neutrons and protons combine to form the mass number
• Relate electron shell placement to how atoms tend to behave chemically+ Show more

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• Describe the main parts of a cell and the basic functions they support
• Explain how the cell membrane regulates what enters and leaves the cell
• Connect genetic material in cells to heredity and cellular activity+ Show more

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• Explain how net external force relates to acceleration using Newton’s second law
• Use free-body diagrams to identify and sum all forces acting on an object
• Predict changes in motion for scenarios involving contact forces and field forces (including tension and friction)

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• Explain how chlorophyll-containing chloroplasts convert light energy into chemical energy during photosynthesis.
• Describe the roles of light-dependent reactions, the Calvin cycle, and energy carriers (ATP and NADPH).
• Analyze how environmental factors (light intensity, wavelength, temperature, and water availability) influence the rate of energy capture.+ Show more

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• Explain how bond formation and bond breaking relate to energy changes in chemical reactions.
• Distinguish exothermic and endothermic processes using bond enthalpy and potential energy ideas.
• Use qualitative bond strength trends (single < double < triple) to predict relative energy flow and temperature/phase changes.+ Show more

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• Explain how electron configuration determines valence electrons, ion formation, and periodic trends
• Describe nuclear composition (protons, neutrons, isotopes) and how atomic mass relates to isotopic abundance
• Use energy-level and sublevel occupancy ideas to predict properties and oxidation states

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• Explain how aerobic and anaerobic respiration release energy by oxidizing organic molecules to produce ATP.
• Describe the role of glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and the electron transport chain in cellular energy release.
• Compare how oxygen availability affects which respiration pathway dominates in different environments.

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• Explain how negative feedback stabilizes physiological variables in organisms
• Compare positive feedback to negative feedback in terms of system change and amplification
• Use feedback control concepts to interpret real biological examples such as thermoregulation and blood glucose control+ Show more

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• Explain how homeostasis maintains internal conditions within a narrow range using set points, tolerances, and feedback.
• Identify sensor, control center, and effector roles in a homeostatic loop and predict likely responses to disturbances.
• Analyze trade-offs involved in maintaining stability (energy use, slowed growth, or constrained transport).

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• Evaluate energy and mineral resource options using multiple criteria (cost, environmental impacts, and long-term availability).
• Analyze sustainability tradeoffs by comparing extraction, infrastructure limits, and lifecycle emissions.
• Explain how resource management choices affect depletion rates, ecosystem disturbance, and future access to resources.

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• Evaluate different greenhouse gas mitigation strategies by effectiveness, feasibility, and trade-offs.
• Analyze co-benefits and potential unintended consequences of mitigation measures across sectors and scales.
• Apply mitigation vocabulary (renewables, carbon capture, afforestation, demand-side efficiency, emissions pricing) to real-world scenarios.+ Show more

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• Explain how land-cover change can alter ecosystem function, hydrologic cycles, and biodiversity
• Interpret indicators such as habitat fragmentation, nutrient loading, soil erosion rates, and coral reef degradation
• Use evidence from land-use maps, remote sensing, and biotic surveys to connect human land changes to ecological outcomes

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• Analyze how freshwater availability, natural hazards, and climate variability influence where people live and how they use land.
• Explain relationships among resource distribution, hazard occurrence, and societal responses using spatial and temporal evidence.
• Evaluate how data sources (paleoclimate records, flood frequency, and historical migration) support claims about human–environment interactions.

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• Differentiate between membrane-bound and non-membrane-bound organelles in eukaryotic cells
• Explain how organelle structure supports its specific function (e.g., mitochondria, chloroplasts, ribosomes)
• Connect organelle abundance and adaptations to tissue type and environmental conditions in real organisms

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• Interpret trends in temperature, precipitation, and sea level using instrumental, proxy, and satellite records
• Explain how radiative forcing contributes to observed climate change and influences future projections
• Evaluate uncertainty in climate projections by comparing scenarios and interpreting ensemble spread

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• Explain how biological systems exchange matter and information to produce emergent properties.
• Analyze system coupling using examples such as pollination networks, predator–prey dynamics, and plant–microbe partnerships.
• Evaluate how interconnected relationships can increase ecosystem resilience and function.

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• Explain how cellular signaling and organ-level changes work together to produce adaptive responses
• Describe how environmental cues trigger signaling networks and resource reallocation in complex biological systems
• Evaluate trade-offs and limits of phenotypic plasticity, including impacts on long-term fitness and resilience

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• Explain major carbon reservoirs and identify key sources and sinks that regulate atmospheric CO2
• Interpret and describe carbon fluxes, residence times, and feedback loops in simplified models
• Evaluate how ocean uptake, ocean acidification, and permafrost thaw can influence climate forcing

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• Explain how electrical power relates to voltage and current using P = IV.
• Calculate electrical energy used over time using E = Pt and connect units to real-world consumption.
• Evaluate how efficiency and power losses affect operational cost and energy use in practical systems.

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• Evaluate adaptation options by comparing economic, social, and ecological trade-offs.
• Use risk maps and hazard-frequency information to justify proposed adaptations.
• Assess feasibility, equity, and long-term resilience under uncertainty in hazard projections.+ Show more

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• Explain how environmental and human health effects can become part of science-based constraints in design.
• Identify ways materials and processes can impact air, water, soil, and local communities.
• Distinguish solutions that are technically feasible from solutions that are socially and environmentally responsible.

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• Describe the structure of Earth’s atmosphere and how vertical temperature changes affect stability.
• Explain how pressure systems and wind patterns drive weather and regional climate.
• Use atmospheric diagrams (pressure, winds, and vertical profiles) to infer fronts, storm tracks, and precipitation outcomes.

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• Differentiate systematic bias, random error, and conceptual model uncertainty in scientific measurements and models.
• Interpret uncertainty representations such as confidence intervals, error bars, and qualitative uncertainty statements.
• Explain how uncertainty affects the credibility of quantitative comparisons and model-based predictions.

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• Identify observable properties of common materials (color, texture, hardness, and whether they are solid or liquid).
• Explain how a substance’s properties can help distinguish it from other substances.
• Describe how some properties stay the same even when a material changes state.+ Show more

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• Explain why impact evaluation must consider benefits, risks, tradeoffs, and unintended consequences over time.
• Identify common categories of impacts (environmental, health, resource use) and how engineers can mitigate harm.
• Use evidence-based criteria to compare alternatives and make a reasoned recommendation.

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• Apply conservation of energy to combined mechanical-and-electrical systems and account for energy losses.
• Connect work–energy ideas and kinematics to how motion drives electrical generation or power delivery.
• Explain how electromagnetic conversion (generator/motor) relates mechanical motion to electrical energy flow.

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• Explain redox reactions as processes involving electron transfer and changes in oxidation states.
• Use oxidation numbers to identify which species is oxidized and which is reduced.
• Connect redox behavior to periodic trends and real-world examples such as corrosion and combustion.

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• Trace energy transfer pathways between atmosphere, land, ice, and oceans using radiative, sensible heat, and latent heat fluxes
• Use simplified energy-budget ideas and quantitative balances to connect radiative inputs to surface temperature and phase change
• Explain how thermodynamic constraints help determine seasonal temperature cycles and regional climate variability

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• Explain how ionic, covalent, and metallic bonding influence physical properties such as hardness, electrical conductivity, melting point, and solubility.
• Use evidence from everyday materials (e.g., salt, steel, carbon materials) to connect bonding type to observed behavior.
• Predict how changes in bonding or structure could affect a material’s physical properties.

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• Analyze how forces, machine function, and structural safety work together in an integrated design.
• Use criteria to compare alternative design options for real-world conditions such as wind, snow, and loads.
• Apply basic calculations and evidence to justify a reasoned choice among design alternatives.

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• Compare how kites, gliders, and round canopies use lift, drag, and control surfaces to stay in flight.
• Explain how design choices affect glide ratio, lift-to-drag performance, and maneuverability.
• Use quantitative and qualitative evidence to predict likely flight outcomes in Alberta-like conditions.

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• Explain how the circulatory, respiratory, and digestive systems work together to support life functions
• Describe how specialized structures (capillaries and alveoli) increase the efficiency of gas and nutrient exchange
• Use scientific vocabulary to connect organ system roles to cellular needs for oxygen, nutrients, and removal of wastes

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• Identify how cloud cover and cloud type can provide clues about likely weather changes.
• Describe how precipitation appearance and wind or calm conditions relate to what weather may happen next.
• Use sky observations to make simple, evidence-based predictions about short-term weather.

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• Explain how free-body diagrams (FBDs) represent forces acting on an object
• Determine net force magnitude and direction by combining perpendicular force components
• Decompose forces on inclined surfaces into perpendicular (normal) and parallel (friction/gravity) components+ Show more

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• Identify the functions of ailerons, elevators, and rudders in changing an aircraft’s motion
• Explain how control surface deflection changes lift, drag, and aerodynamic moments
• Describe how roll, pitch, and yaw relate to aircraft attitude changes+ Show more

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• Explain how evolution leads to changes in populations through inherited traits over many generations
• Identify multiple types of evidence for evolution, including fossils, biogeography, comparative anatomy, and molecular data
• Use scientific reasoning to describe mechanisms that contribute to evolutionary change

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• Explain how genetic information in DNA is used to produce proteins through transcription and translation.
• Describe how protein structure influences protein function inside cells.
• Connect changes in DNA (mutations) to changes in proteins and potential effects on genotype and phenotype.

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• Explain how discrete time stepping is used to model changes in a dynamic system
• Use computational simulation ideas such as parameter sweeps and sensitivity analysis to test predictions
• Interpret simulation results while considering numerical stability, assumptions, and uncertainty

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• Explain that combining materials can create a new substance with new properties.
• Identify evidence of new substance formation such as color change, new smell, temperature change, or new behavior.
• Compare initial and final materials to decide whether a chemical change likely occurred.

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• Explain how interval estimates and confidence levels communicate uncertainty in scientific measurements.
• Use likelihood language and effect sizes to report inferential results more clearly.
• Interpret visualizations that show variability (e.g., error bars, confidence bands, and distributions).+ Show more

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• Identify key properties of solids, liquids, and gases (shape, volume, and how they move).
• Use evidence from observations to describe how matter changes behavior in different states.
• Explain how gases spread out, liquids keep volume but change shape, and solids keep both shape and volume.

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• Explain the difference between parasitic drag and induced drag using evidence from flight and design examples
• Identify how surface roughness, frontal area, and lift-related wingtip vortices affect total drag
• Describe how drag influences required thrust and overall energy demands of flight

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• Explain how the conservation of mass applies to closed-system chemical and physical changes
• Use mass accounting to relate reactant masses to product masses in sealed systems
• Distinguish theoretical yield from measured yield using evidence about incomplete reactions or measurement differences+ Show more

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• Apply dimensional analysis to verify that equations are unit-consistent when multiplying or dividing quantities.
• Use unit checking to detect algebraic and model-form errors when deriving relationships and scaling laws.
• Compute derived measurement units (such as density and rate) and evaluate whether numerical results are plausible.+ Show more

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• Compare model predictions to observed data using residuals and quantitative measures of fit
• Interpret patterns in residuals to diagnose systematic model errors or missing effects
• Evaluate model adequacy by considering goodness-of-fit ideas and uncertainty in parameters and measurements+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth’s climate is shaped by energy balance and the interaction of Earth system spheres.
• Identify key external and internal drivers of climate variability, including aerosols, greenhouse gases, and ocean circulation.
• Evaluate claims about climate drivers using evidence from scientific reasoning.

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• Explain how particle arrangement, spacing, and movement define solids, liquids, and gases
• Describe how temperature and pressure can cause transitions between states of matter
• Use observable properties (shape, volume, flow, compressibility) to identify the state of a substance