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• Identify evidence of chemical change in a text about corrosion
• Explain how moisture and salinity can affect the rate and products of corrosion
• Connect protective measures to the chemical reactions involved in corrosion

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• Distinguish heterogeneous mixtures from homogeneous solutions using uniformity
• Identify solvent, solute, and concentration in everyday examples
• Explain how physical properties can separate components without chemical change

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• Explain how food webs combine many feeding relationships into a connected system.
• Describe how indirect interactions and redundancy can affect community stability.
• Use the ideas of energy pathways and link strength to predict effects of species loss.

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• Identify how ecosystem diagrams represent biomass stocks and energy or nutrient flows.
• Distinguish between assumptions in a model and real observations in an ecosystem.
• Explain, using simple language, how conservation ideas guide ecosystem model structure.

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• Explain how producers capture energy to make organic matter
• Describe factors that affect primary productivity
• Compare how different plant types and environments influence energy flow+ Show more

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• Identify whether a circuit measurement is voltage or current
• Choose the correct meter type and connection for each measurement
• Explain why meter settings and placement affect readings

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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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• Explain how population growth depends on birth rates and death rates
• Identify cause-and-effect in descriptions of population change
• Describe why exponential growth cannot continue forever

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• Explain the main components of an electric power grid and how electricity moves from generators to homes.
• Identify how supply and demand are balanced in real time.
• Describe how regional resources affect the generation mix in a grid.+ Show more

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• Identify clues that show whether a change is physical or chemical.
• Classify described evidence from a text using the properties of matter.
• Explain how physical and chemical changes differ using evidence such as state, new substances, and observable energy or gas effects.

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• Use particle theory to explain how substances can mix and move in environmental systems.
• Interpret chemical signatures (patterns of ions or elements) as evidence for sources and sinks.
• Connect mass conservation ideas to how a closed or semi-closed system can store and transfer matter.

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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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• Explain the cause-and-effect chain in convection using temperature, density, and fluid motion
• Identify natural convection patterns in air based on density differences
• Use convection vocabulary (buoyancy, boundary layer, density) to describe heat transfer

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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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• Define a genetic mutation as a change in a DNA nucleotide sequence
• Identify where mutations occur in a DNA molecule and how they can affect genes
• Distinguish silent, missense, and nonsense point mutations by their effects on protein sequences

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• Identify key ideas about thermal conductivity and specific heat capacity from a science text
• Use evidence from a text to explain how material properties affect heat flow
• Compare material choices using vocabulary such as density, porosity, and phase change

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• Identify key prokaryote cell features described in a text.
• Compare prokaryote and eukaryote cell organization using vocabulary from the passage.
• Use textual evidence to answer statements about nucleoid DNA and organelle membranes.

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• Explain how temperature change relates to energy transfer in heating and cooling
• Use energy units (J and kJ) and temperature scales to describe thermal processes
• Identify key variables in heat calculations: specific heat, mass, and temperature change

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• Explain how radiant transfer moves energy using electromagnetic waves
• Identify factors that affect net radiative heating
• Use emissivity and absorptivity ideas to predict heating and cooling patterns

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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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• Identify the main idea of an informational text about human effects on ecosystems.
• Describe supporting details about how land use changes habitats, nutrients, and species interactions.
• Explain one ecosystem mitigation approach used to reduce harm.

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• Identify the main parts of the circulatory system and their roles
• Explain how pressure gradients and blood flow relate to tissue perfusion
• Describe how blood composition supports clotting and immune defense+ Show more

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• Explain how birth and death rates change population size using cause-and-effect.
• Identify how resource availability and abiotic constraints can increase deaths or limit births.
• Use measurement of population trends to describe whether a population is growing, shrinking, or fluctuating.

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• Explain how nutrients move between biotic and abiotic pools in an ecosystem
• Describe roles of decomposers and processes such as mineralization, nitrogen fixation, and sedimentation
• Connect cycling rates to temperature and moisture+ Show more

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• Explain how abiotic factors and biotic factors affect population growth
• Describe carrying capacity and density-dependent limits
• Use cause-and-effect language to interpret population changes

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• Describe a free-body diagram as a set of forces acting on one object
• Identify common forces (gravity, normal, friction, and applied force) and the direction of each arrow
• Use the idea of net force to reason about likely motion without heavy computation

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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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• Explain conservation of mass in a sealed system using cause-and-effect language.
• Identify how inputs and outputs relate to total mass in a closed container.
• Use mass accounting ideas to predict what should happen to product mass when no matter can enter or leave.

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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 key variables in a calorimetry situation (mass, temperature change, and specific heat) and explain what each one means
• Relate rising or falling temperature to heat absorbed or released in a calorimetry setup

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• Identify how building orientation changes solar heat entering a home.
• Explain what passive solar gains are and how they affect seasonal heating needs.
• Describe trade-offs between comfort and energy demand in cold climates.

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• Identify what producers are and why they are the starting point for energy flow in food webs.
• Explain how consumers and decomposers connect to producers through feeding relationships.
• Describe how removing or adding a species can change trophic connections in an ecosystem.

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• Explain how particle motion relates to gas pressure and temperature.
• Describe how gases expand or compress in response to temperature changes.
• Use diffusion to predict how gases spread through air over time.

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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 common SI units used to measure distance and time
• Use unit names correctly when describing motion
• Recognize that speed is distance divided by time

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• Define solution concentration and identify key vocabulary in context.
• Explain how mass percent and grams per litre describe concentration.
• Use concentration ideas to predict how dilution changes a solution.

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• Explain the main idea of conduction in solids
• Describe how particle motion transfers kinetic energy during conduction
• Use key vocabulary (kinetic energy, particles, conductivity, interface) to answer questions about heat flow+ Show more

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• Explain temperature as related to average random kinetic energy of particles.
• Use evidence from a text to describe how particle motion connects to thermal energy and pressure.
• Distinguish how different factors (particle number and phase) can change thermal energy even when particles move randomly.

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• Define temperature as a measure of average kinetic energy of particles
• Explain heat as energy transfer due to a temperature difference
• Describe heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation

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• Distinguish mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism using defining evidence
• Explain how symbiotic relationships can change population size and resource use
• Use an example to describe a likely ecological consequence of each symbiosis type

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• Identify evidence that a chemical change has occurred based on observable observations.
• Distinguish chemical changes from physical changes using particle-level reasoning.
• Explain how bond changes and energy transfer lead to new substances.

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• Explain how quantum numbers and orbital notation describe where electrons are located in atoms
• Apply Aufbau order, Hund’s rule, and the Pauli exclusion principle to build electron configurations
• Use valence electron patterns to predict ion formation and likely chemical behavior and periodic placement+ Show more

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• Represent motion using vectors (position, velocity, acceleration) and interpret components in kinematics problems.
• Apply Newton’s laws to analyze forces, including friction, and use impulse-momentum when forces act over short times.
• Use energy methods and conservation principles to compute speeds and predict motion efficiently.+ Show more

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• Use SI units and unit conversion to report measurements consistently
• Apply rules for significant figures, precision, and accuracy when recording data
• Determine and interpret uncertainty, including distinguishing random vs. systematic error+ Show more

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• Explain how hybridization (sp, sp2, sp3) accounts for molecular geometry and bond angles in covalent bonding.
• Differentiate sigma (σ) and pi (π) bonds and describe how orbital overlap leads to bond multiplicity.
• Compare localized bonding models (valence bond theory) with delocalized molecular orbital (MO) descriptions in conjugated and aromatic systems.+ Show more

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• Explain how mechanical, thermal, and chemical properties influence material selection and performance in real-world designs.
• Analyze stress–strain behavior and relate key metrics (e.g., Young’s modulus and toughness) to material structure and usability.
• Describe degradation mechanisms such as corrosion and how thermal and chemical changes can alter material performance.+ 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.