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• Explain what it means to run a fair test by changing only one design variable while keeping all other conditions the same.
• Select appropriate measurement tools, units, and scales for collecting data during an investigation.
• Describe how consistent measurement and repeated trials help ensure differences come from the design rather than the testing setup.

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• Distinguish weather from climate using data about temperature, wind, humidity, and precipitation
• Interpret how pressure changes and air mass movement can explain weather patterns over time and across locations
• Connect long-term climate trends to major factors such as greenhouse gases, ocean circulation, land cover, volcanic aerosols, and solar energy

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• Explain how mixing simple, compound, and complex sentences can improve emphasis and pacing in writing.
• Identify restrictive vs. nonrestrictive elements and use punctuation to match meaning.
• Revise sentences to improve clarity by changing clause placement and sentence structure.

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• Explain how human activities can change Earth’s spheres (atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere).
• Describe cause-and-effect relationships and identify examples of positive and negative feedbacks.
• Use evidence from a text to support claims about how environmental changes affect ecosystems.

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• Identify how internal systems (transport, digestion, coordination) help organisms survive and function.
• Describe how external structures (shells, spines, coloration, beak forms) support protection, feeding, and movement.
• Explain functional relationships between traits and increased chances of obtaining resources, maintaining balance, and reproducing.

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• Explain how predator and prey populations influence each other through feedback over time.
• Describe how predator-prey cycles can change resources and affect other species in a community.
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to predict outcomes when predator or prey populations increase or decrease.+ Show more

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• Explain how subject verb agreement works by matching verb tense and form to the subject’s number and person.
• Identify and correct agreement errors involving compound subjects and intervening phrases.
• Apply agreement rules to collective nouns and tricky subject forms in grade-appropriate sentences.

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• Distinguish literal meanings from figurative meanings in context
• Infer connotation by using surrounding details and sentence-level relationships
• Explain how word choice and figurative language shape tone, mood, or the author’s attitude

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• Understand the principles of radiometric dating and how decay rates are used to determine the age of rocks and minerals.
• Identify different radiometric dating methods such as uranium–lead, potassium–argon, and carbon-14, and their applications.
• Explain concepts like half-life, closure temperature, and isotope systematics in the context of geological dating.+ Show more

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• Understand the process of sea-floor spreading and how it creates new oceanic crust.
• Explain how magnetic stripe patterns record Earth's magnetic field history.
• Analyze the evidence supporting seafloor spreading, including magnetic anomalies and radiometric dating.+ Show more

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• Explain how narrative detail can support a central claim or thesis in explanatory and argumentative writing.
• Identify effective narrative techniques (selection of details, pacing, and meaningful transitions) that keep a story moment aligned to purpose.
• Revise writing by strengthening the connection between a short narrative scene and the larger explanation or argument.

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• Explain the difference between position, distance, speed, velocity, and acceleration
• Classify quantities as scalars or vectors and justify why velocity is a vector
• Interpret distance–time and velocity–time graphs using basic features like slope and straight-line behavior+ Show more

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• Identify textual evidence anchors that support a theme or central idea.
• Distinguish between using an accurate quotation and an accurate paraphrase.
• Select details that directly connect to a claim and explain how they shape meaning at key moments in a text.

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• Explain how heritable variation and fitness lead to changes in allele frequencies over generations
• Differentiate directional selection from selection that varies across habitats
• Analyze how ecological context influences the specific traits favored by natural selection

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• Explain how fossil records, comparative anatomy, biogeography, and genetics provide evidence for evolution.
• Describe how patterns of similarity and difference among organisms support common descent.
• Use multiple lines of evidence to justify the conclusion that evolution continues to shape biodiversity.

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• Explain how transcription factors and regulatory DNA elements control when genes are transcribed
• Describe how chromatin state and epigenetic marks influence gene accessibility and expression
• Analyze post-transcriptional and translational mechanisms that affect protein production+ Show more

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• Explain how allele segregation during meiosis affects the allele combinations in gametes and offspring.
• Use Punnett squares to determine genotype and phenotype probabilities in monohybrid crosses.
• Distinguish genotype from phenotype and interpret dominance using genetic ratios.

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• Explain how meiosis maintains chromosome number while producing genetically diverse gametes
• Describe how crossing over and independent assortment generate allele combinations
• Analyze how genetic diversity from meiosis supports inheritance patterns and evolution

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• Explain how different types of mutations (substitutions, insertions/deletions, and chromosomal changes) can alter genetic information
• Analyze how DNA changes can affect RNA/protein production and lead to phenotypic variation
• Evaluate how mutation provides raw material for evolution and how environmental pressures change allele frequencies over time

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• Explain how Earth’s internal energy drives tectonic plate movement over geologic time
• Compare the main types of plate boundaries (divergent, convergent, transform) and their characteristic geologic features
• Use evidence such as seafloor magnetic stripes, rock age patterns, and earthquake distribution to support the plate motion model+ Show more

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• Explain how incoming solar radiation is absorbed, reflected, and transformed into heat within Earth’s system.
• Describe how radiation, conduction, and convection redistribute energy across the surface and atmosphere.
• Analyze how latitude, season, and surface properties change the solar energy balance and affect temperatures.+ Show more

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• Explain how endothermic reactions exchange energy with their surroundings and predict temperature changes.
• Connect endothermic/exothermic behavior to bond breaking and bond formation using bond energy ideas.
• Interpret energy profiles to determine whether products have higher or lower energy than reactants (ΔH sign).

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• Explain the impulse–momentum theorem using vector ideas of force, impulse, and momentum
• Interpret force–time information to determine impulse and relate it to changes in momentum
• Analyze why longer contact times reduce peak force while producing the same momentum change

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• Explain momentum as a vector quantity and use direction in collision analysis
• Apply conservation of momentum to predict post-collision velocities when net external force is zero
• Differentiate elastic and inelastic collisions using kinetic energy changes while momentum remains conserved

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• Explain Newton’s Second Law using the relationship between net force, mass, and acceleration.
• Determine how the direction and magnitude of net force affect the direction and change of an object’s motion.
• Use vector addition of multiple forces to find the net force and predict acceleration.+ Show more

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• Describe how energy transfer drives convection and influences weather and climate at Earth’s surface.
• Explain how pressure gradients and prevailing winds relate to air mass movement and large-scale circulation.
• Interpret how fronts and jet streams contribute to weather variability, and how greenhouse gases affect radiative balance.

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• Explain how work depends on force magnitude and the angle between force and displacement.
• Calculate work and interpret its sign in physical situations.
• Relate power to the rate of energy transfer and compare how quickly work is done.+ Show more

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• Evaluate scientific claims by identifying the role of empirical evidence and transparency.
• Distinguish strong scientific reasoning from weak arguments, bias, and overgeneralization.
• Explain how peer evaluation and replication increase confidence in results.+ Show more

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• Explain how matter moves through ecosystems using nutrient cycles (carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus).
• Describe the roles of photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, and bacteria in nutrient transformations.
• Use nutrient-cycle ideas to explain how limiting nutrients affect ecosystem productivity.

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• Explain how energy flows through trophic levels in a food web.
• Describe how matter cycles through ecosystems via decomposition and nutrient release.
• Use examples to predict how changes in one population affect other organisms.

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• Explain how changes in temperature, rainfall, light, habitat structure, and water quality can affect ecosystems
• Describe how shifts in populations of key species can alter relationships such as predation, competition, and symbiosis
• Use evidence from a passage to answer questions about environmental change and ecosystem impacts

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• Explain how adaptive traits can increase survival and reproduction in specific environments
• Analyze fitness tradeoffs and why an advantage in one condition can become a disadvantage in another
• Evaluate how resource availability and predation pressure shape selection outcomes+ Show more

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• Identify and compare how two texts develop a shared theme using structure, evidence, and tone
• Synthesize ideas into a single, coherent explanation that includes evidence-based comparisons
• Write a cross-text claim and support it with specific details from each text

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• Explain how mutations generate new alleles in a population.
• Describe how recombination during meiosis increases genetic variation.
• Analyze how sexual reproduction and natural selection affect allele frequencies over time.+ Show more

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• Evaluate whether a scientific claim is supported by evidence, controls, and appropriate reasoning.
• Identify missing links between data patterns and conclusions in scientific arguments.
• Assess how uncertainty is treated and whether counterarguments are addressed with the same evidence standard.

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• Construct evidence-based explanations by linking claims to specific observations, data summaries, and patterns predicted by models.
• Use variables, controls, and causal reasoning to justify why evidence supports (or does not support) a cause-and-effect claim.
• Evaluate alternative explanations by comparing what additional evidence would confirm or rule them out.

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• Explain how measurements are organized into tables with consistent units and meaningful labels.
• Describe how graphs represent data using correctly labeled axes, appropriate scales, and clear categories.
• Interpret graphs by using trends, clusters, and comparisons of groups based on the direction and shape of relationships.

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• Identify independent and dependent variables in experimental scenarios and explain the causal relationship.
• Explain why controls and constant conditions are necessary to reduce alternative explanations.
• Evaluate whether experimental designs support trustworthy conclusions based on clear comparisons.

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• Define control conditions and comparison conditions in an experiment.
• Explain how keeping variables the same (except the independent variable) improves credibility of results.
• Describe practical steps such as consistent timing, tool calibration, and standardized handling to reduce unrelated factors.+ Show more

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• Identify how grammar, usage, mechanics, and formatting conventions transfer across oral, written, and visual texts.
• Analyze how consistent tone and register support claims and evidence across formats.
• Apply cross-text conventions to revise a transcript, an analytical response, and multimodal materials for clarity and accessibility.

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• Explain how vibrating objects produce sound through pressure waves in a medium.
• Relate frequency to pitch and amplitude to loudness.
• Describe how sound transmission depends on the presence of matter (not vacuum).

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• Explain how protons, neutrons, and electrons determine atomic number, mass number, and element identity
• Describe isotopes and relate isotopic variation to differences in mass number while keeping atomic number the same
• Use simple electron arrangements and historical atomic models to understand patterns in periodic trends+ Show more

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• Explain the stages of public policy creation from agenda setting through policy evaluation.
• Identify key institutional roles in the legislative and implementation process.
• Analyze how stakeholders influence policy outcomes.+ Show more

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• Compare and contrast Arrhenius, Brønsted–Lowry, and Lewis definitions of acids and bases using examples.
• Use strong vs. weak acid/base behavior to predict equilibrium and interpret conjugate acid-base pairs.
• Relate pH and pOH using logarithmic relationships and apply them to solution acidity.+ Show more

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• Classify ionic, covalent, and metallic bonding using electrostatic interactions and electron models.
• Use Lewis structures, formal charge, and VSEPR to predict molecular polarity and shape.
• Relate bonding type and bond order to macroscopic properties such as melting point and electrical conductivity.

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• Explain how the four quantum numbers describe an electron’s position and spin in an atom
• Use the Aufbau principle, Pauli exclusion principle, and Hund’s rule to derive electron configurations and orbital diagrams
• Interpret photoelectron spectroscopy ideas to connect electronic structure with chemical reactivity+ Show more

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• Connect the first and second laws of thermodynamics to chemical systems using internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, and Gibbs free energy.
• Predict spontaneity and equilibrium direction using temperature-dependent free energy changes.
• Interpret relationships between Gibbs free energy changes and equilibrium constants, including how sign and magnitude relate to reaction direction.

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• Explain how energy moves through matter by conduction, convection, and radiation.
• Relate thermal energy flow to temperature differences (temperature gradients).
• Describe how specific heat affects warming and cooling of materials.+ Show more