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• Identify the main idea of how circular motion changes direction
• Explain how centripetal force, radius, and mass relate to the needed inward force
• Describe what happens when inward force is not sufficient for a curve

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• Identify key cause-and-effect details about collision forces from a science text.
• Explain how contact time and peak force can affect changes in motion.
• Describe how deformation can help absorb collision energy.

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• Explain the purpose of filtration in separating mixtures
• Identify how particle size affects which materials pass through a filter
• Use physical property clues to predict filter results

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• Define a closed system in terms of matter exchange
• Identify examples of what can change and what stays the same in a closed system
• Use mass conservation ideas to interpret reactants and products in a contained process

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• Define voltage as electric potential difference and relate it to energy per unit charge.
• Explain how voltage influences electric current using the ideas of energy, charge, and resistance.
• Identify common voltage sources and understand the role of reference points in circuit analysis.

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• Explain how load paths help structures resist forces.
• Identify the roles of compression, tension, and shear in common structures.
• Use material properties such as stiffness, strength, and durability to judge safety.

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• Describe how energy is transferred between trophic levels in a food chain
• Use typical efficiency ranges to explain why less energy reaches higher trophic levels
• Connect energy availability to population size and ecosystem biomass patterns

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• Extract key numbers and energy terms from an energy-budget text.
• Identify how conduction, convection, and radiation move energy in a passive solar house.
• Use conservation of energy ideas to interpret net heat gain and losses.

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• Explain inertia using Newton’s First Law
• Identify evidence of inertia in everyday situations
• Describe how forces change motion in terms of net force and acceleration

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• Identify claims about ecological risks and benefits from evidence in a passage
• Explain how gene flow can affect wild populations and why monitoring matters
• Use risk language (uncertainty, likelihood, mitigation) to evaluate ecological trade-offs

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• Identify a specific ethical issue related to genetic technologies.
• Support claims with evidence from a text about genetic privacy and consent.
• Explain how control of genetic information affects stakeholders and public trust.

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• Explain the mass conservation principle for closed chemical reactions
• Identify evidence of constant mass in sealed systems and in particle rearrangements
• Use mass accounting to describe what changes and what stays the same during reactions

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• Define solubility using simple scientific language
• Identify factors that affect how much solute dissolves
• Explain how temperature and surface area can change the amount dissolved

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• Identify system components in a force problem
• Distinguish internal forces from external forces
• Use force accounting to predict whether a system is in equilibrium or accelerating

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• Identify how distance changes over time on a distance–time graph
• Interpret whether motion speeds up, slows down, or stays constant by reading slope
• Use graph features to explain meaning of increasing, flattening, and decreasing sections

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• Identify signs of a physical change from a text
• Explain how melting and freezing can be reversible
• Connect particle behavior to changes in observable properties

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• Describe what makes a homogeneous mixture uniform at the macroscopic scale
• Distinguish homogeneous mixtures from heterogeneous mixtures using observable evidence
• Explain how concentration and solubility relate to forming and measuring solutions

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• Identify how temperature changes can signal a chemical reaction.
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to match evidence to chemical change.
• Explain why multiple reaction indicators can strengthen conclusions.

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• Define speed as the scalar magnitude of motion
• Distinguish speed from velocity and acceleration using a scenario
• Use distance and time to calculate and interpret speed

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• Describe how invasive species spread to new habitats and why they can become established.
• Explain how invasive species compete for resources and affect native species over time.
• Use key vocabulary (non-native, competition, resources, biodiversity, food web) in context.

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• Distinguish between pure substances and mixtures based on composition
• Use classification criteria to explain why samples can have different properties
• Justify whether a material is an element, a compound, or a mixture using evidence about composition

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• Explain the relationship between voltage and electric current
• Define current, resistance, and the role of electric potential
• Use key vocabulary from a science passage to answer questions

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• Explain how charge, current, voltage, and resistance relate in electrical systems.
• Apply Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s rules to analyze simple series and parallel circuits.
• Calculate power in electric circuits and interpret practical measurement constraints for voltage and current.+ Show more

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• Explain how angular quantities relate to linear speed in uniform circular motion.
• Use v = rω and a_c = v^2/r to calculate speed and centripetal acceleration.
• Apply Newton’s second law to argue why a net inward (centripetal) force is required for curved motion.

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• Identify major eukaryotic cellular organelles and describe key structural features visible with electron microscopy.
• Compare internal cell organization of prokaryotes and eukaryotes in terms of membrane-bound compartments and ultrastructure.
• Explain how compartmentalization supports cellular complexity without focusing on specific metabolic pathways.

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• Resolve an initial velocity into independent horizontal and vertical components for projectile motion analysis
• Use kinematic equations and trigonometry to determine time of flight, maximum height, and range under uniform gravity
• Interpret and apply vector addition of displacements and relative motion concepts in two dimensions

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• Explain how transects, quadrats, timed searches, and mark–recapture can be used to sample populations and communities.
• Apply sampling design principles such as replication, randomization, and stratification to reduce bias.
• Identify sources of error related to detectability and sample effort and describe how they affect quantitative indices.

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• Interpret displacement–time, velocity–time, and acceleration–time graphs to determine kinematic quantities.
• Relate slope and area on kinematic graphs to acceleration, velocity, and displacement.
• Compare piecewise motion and uniformly accelerating motion using graphical representations.+ Show more

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• Describe how photosynthesis captures light energy and converts it into chemical energy.
• Explain the roles of chloroplast thylakoid membranes, pigments, photophosphorylation, and the Calvin cycle.
• Identify how light intensity, carbon dioxide availability, and temperature can limit net carbon fixation.+ Show more

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• Describe the roles of protons, neutrons, and electrons in determining atomic number and mass number.
• Explain isotopes and how average atomic mass reflects the natural abundance of different isotopes.
• Use nuclear notation and basic electron configuration ideas to predict valence electrons and typical chemical behavior.

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• Describe how chemical properties relate to observable reactions such as reactivity, flammability, corrosion, and redox behavior.
• Use evidence such as pH change and gas evolution to distinguish physical changes from chemical changes.
• Predict likely reaction outcomes by comparing how different substances react and by considering safety and containment.

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• Explain energy transfer in terms of work, heat, and radiation and identify the direction of transfer
• Apply the first law of thermodynamics to closed and open systems using energy budgeting
• Use quantitative relationships from calorimetry and work–energy analysis to solve for heat and work+ Show more

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• Interpret scientific information using graphs, data tables, and mathematical models across disciplines.
• Translate findings between disciplinary languages while clearly stating assumptions and uncertainties.
• Evaluate evidence quality and compare alternative models using structured scientific reasoning.

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• Construct free-body diagrams that correctly identify all forces acting on an isolated object.
• Resolve forces into components and apply a consistent sign convention to compute net (resultant) force.
• Relate the direction and magnitude of resultant force to the expected acceleration of an object.

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• Compare filtration, distillation, chromatography, and centrifugation using key particle or property differences.
• Differentiate homogeneous solutions, colloids, and suspensions based on particle dispersion and optical behavior.
• Explain how qualitative and quantitative purity checks connect to recovery efficiency and classification.

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• Summarize the steps of scientific methods, including hypothesis formation and testing
• Explain how measurement technologies and calibration improve reliability of evidence
• Identify how variables are controlled and how uncertainty and statistics are used in interpreting data+ Show more

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• Explain how ethical responsibilities such as honesty, consent, and humane treatment relate to safety in scientific work.
• Describe why researchers must report unsafe conditions and how oversight and certification support a safety culture.
• Apply ethical principles to methodological choices and evaluate how ethics affects the credibility and trustworthiness of evidence.

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• Identify key laboratory safety protocols for PPE, including eyewear, glove selection, and ventilation practices.
• Explain how to store and segregate incompatible reagents and properly label chemicals to prevent accidents.
• Apply waste-handling and emergency response procedures to support personal safety and environmental protection.

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• Identify hazards in laboratory and field sampling scenarios using labels and hazard information sources (e.g., SDS).
• Perform a qualitative risk assessment by considering likelihood and consequence and ranking residual risk.
• Apply the hierarchy of controls (elimination, substitution, engineering, and administrative controls) to reduce risk.+ Show more

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• Use descriptive statistics (center and spread) to summarize classroom-scale data and assess variability
• Interpret confidence intervals and p-values while distinguishing statistical significance from practical significance
• Evaluate evidence strength by considering uncertainty, sample size, and assumptions in comparative tests

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• Compare major microbial groups (bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, protists) by cellular organization and genetic material.
• Explain how reproduction strategies differ across microbes, especially the host dependence of viruses.
• Identify how microbial niches relate to ecosystem roles and human-relevant contexts.

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• Describe adaptive management and ecosystem-based management as frameworks for sustainable resource use and ecosystem stewardship.
• Evaluate trade-offs among economic, social, and ecological objectives in sustainability planning.
• Use sustainability indicators (e.g., ecological footprints, carrying capacity, ecosystem service valuation) to support monitoring and decision-making.

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• Define linear momentum and impulse and relate them using the impulse–momentum idea
• Explain conservation of momentum for an isolated two-body system
• Distinguish elastic, inelastic, and perfectly inelastic collisions using momentum and kinetic energy ideas+ Show more

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• Explain how cellular specialization allows cells to perform specific functions at the structural level
• Identify morphological adaptations in muscle, neurons, root hairs, and xylem vessels and match them to their roles
• Describe stem cell potential and how differentiation cues relate to gene expression and structural change+ Show more

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• Classify chemical reactions as synthesis, decomposition, single displacement, double displacement, or combustion based on reactant–product patterns.
• Predict the product class for common reaction types using reaction templates and basic conservation of atoms.
• Explain how redox (oxidation and reduction) can occur during displacement-type reactions.+ Show more

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• Identify the limiting reagent in a chemical reaction using conservation of mass and stoichiometric reasoning.
• Distinguish theoretical yield from actual yield and compute percent yield from mass data.
• Explain how incomplete reactions, side reactions, and mass loss (e.g., gas evolution) affect reaction yield.

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• Explain how adenosine triphosphate (ATP) stores and releases usable energy through phosphate bond hydrolysis.
• Describe how ATP couples energy-releasing reactions to energy-requiring (endergonic) cellular work.
• Compare phosphorylation and ATP regeneration pathways at a conceptual level (substrate-level and oxidative).+ Show more

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• Identify how scientific inquiry and laboratory practice relate to specific career roles
• Describe credential and certification pathways for laboratory- and data-focused science careers
• Explain transferable technical and communication skills used in laboratory work and evidence-based reporting+ Show more