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• Explain how cause-and-effect relationships can help predict health outcomes.
• Compare short-term and long-term effects of food and activity choices on the body.
• Use realistic examples to decide which choice is likely to improve health.

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• Explain how adaptations can change over generations in populations.
• Describe how reproductive isolation can lead to speciation.
• Identify evidence that supports speciation using morphology, compatibility, and biogeography.+ Show more

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• Explain how water, ice, and wind can cause erosion and move sediment
• Describe how deposition forms landforms such as valleys, deltas, beaches, and moraines
• Use cause-and-effect language to explain how sediment patterns can record past environmental changes+ Show more

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• Interpret frequency tables and allele frequencies to describe how traits change in populations over generations
• Read and compare time-series graphs of population size to identify increasing, decreasing, and bottleneck patterns
• Use proportional reasoning to calculate how allele frequencies change and to predict outcomes for a simple scenario+ Show more

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• Explain how fossil occurrences and stratigraphic order support ideas about evolution, diversification, and extinction.
• Identify how relative dating and radiometric dating help establish the age order of rock layers.
• Use fossil assemblage comparisons to infer changes in biodiversity and environments.

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• Compare appliance energy labels and explain what they indicate about energy use
• Describe how standby power and maintenance affect total energy use over time
• Explain how smart controls like programmable thermostats can reduce wasted energy+ Show more

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• Explain how durability, modular repairability, and material choices can reduce resource use
• Identify circular economy strategies such as remanufacturing, product-as-service, and design for disassembly
• Describe how energy recovery from waste and industrial symbiosis can lower net resource extraction+ Show more

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• Explain how heritable variation and differential reproductive success can change trait frequencies over generations
• Identify examples of natural selection driven by environmental pressures
• Match key vocabulary terms to correct definitions related to natural selection+ Show more

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• Describe how species richness and species occurrence can show biodiversity patterns across space and time
• Compare island faunas, latitudinal gradients, and habitat heterogeneity as examples of biodiversity variation
• Explain how turnover and community composition can be assessed using historical records and present-day surveys+ Show more

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• Describe how a battery transfers energy to a circuit so devices can work
• Differentiate conductors and insulators and predict where current can flow
• Compare series and parallel circuits based on brightness and how energy is shared+ Show more

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• Define energy efficiency as the ratio of useful output energy to input energy
• Explain how apparent energy losses become thermal dissipation or friction in real systems
• Compare appliances using percent efficiency and relate it to reduced energy demand

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• Explain how sound reflection creates echoes in open and enclosed spaces
• Describe how distance to a reflecting surface affects the time between direct and reflected sound
• Compare how soft and hard surfaces influence sound absorption and reverberation+ Show more

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• Explain how wheel-and-axle and pulley systems can change the direction and size of an applied force
• Compare fixed pulleys and movable pulleys in terms of mechanical advantage and how they affect effort
• Describe how wheel radius and axle radius relate to speed versus force trade-offs+ Show more

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• Identify examples of simple machines in everyday life.
• Classify simple machines by how they change force, distance, or direction.
• Explain how levers, inclined planes, wedges, screws, wheel-and-axles, and pulleys affect an input force.

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• Describe how smooth surfaces create mirror images using the relationship between incident and reflected directions.
• Explain where a plane mirror image appears to be located and how lateral inversion affects that image.
• Compare specular and diffuse reflection and predict how surface texture changes image clarity.+ Show more

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• Explain how mechanical advantage relates input force and output force using a ratio.
• Use distance ratios (or gear tooth counts) to predict output distance.
• Identify correct units and representations for force, distance, and rotation.

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• Identify the fulcrum, input arm, and output arm in a simple lever situation.
• Explain how input force and output force relate to arm lengths for each class of lever.
• Compare mechanical advantage and trade-offs in levers (force amplification vs. distance moved).+ Show more

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• Explain how meshing gear teeth transfer motion from one gear to another
• Describe how gear size and tooth count affect output rotational speed and direction
• Compare the roles of idler gears and compound gear trains in changing motion

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• Explain how slope and screw pitch can reduce the input force needed to move an object
• Compare ramps and screw threads as examples of inclined planes
• Describe how friction and surface contact can limit the mechanical advantage

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• Explain how material choice and safety margins affect the reliability of simple mechanisms
• Describe how tolerance and fit influence whether gears, pulleys, and linkages work smoothly
• Evaluate design options using performance criteria such as mechanical advantage, strength, cost, and intended function+ Show more

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• Describe how water depth, soil saturation, and flooding shape wetland communities
• Identify plant and animal adaptations that help organisms live in wetlands
• Compare marshes, swamps, and bogs using dominant vegetation and hydrology+ Show more

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• Describe how pulleys transfer motion to move a load.
• Compare single fixed pulleys with block-and-tackle systems in terms of mechanical advantage and rope distance.
• Explain how compound pulley arrangements and linkages can control motion and direction.

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• Identify mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism from short scenarios
• Explain how symbiotic relationships can affect survival and reproduction in a community
• Use evidence from a passage to describe how organisms benefit, are unaffected, or are harmed

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• Explain how wave frequency relates to pitch and how wave amplitude relates to loudness.
• Describe how changing tension, length, mass per unit length, and air-column conditions can change frequency.
• Identify factors that affect how loud a sound is, such as excitation force, surface area, and coupling.

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• Explain how friction reduces the efficiency of a mechanism by increasing the input force needed.
• Compare ideal mechanical advantage and actual mechanical advantage in real machines.
• Identify materials and surface features that affect wear, lubrication, and long-term performance.

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• Use ray models to describe how light travels in straight lines.
• Predict areas of full illumination and darkness using intersecting and extended rays.
• Explain how angle relationships determine reflected directions from smooth surfaces.

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• Use a particle model to explain how particle motion and spacing relate to phases of matter.
• Describe how collisions and particle kinetic energy change when temperature changes.
• Predict qualitative changes in pressure and volume in gases using the particle model.

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• Model how total mass is conserved in physical and chemical changes by tracking atoms and particle counts in a closed system
• Use mass measurements before and after a process to support claims about conservation of matter
• Explain why atoms can rearrange while the total number of atoms of each element stays the same

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• Compare how series and parallel circuits distribute current and voltage across components.
• Predict brightness changes for loads connected in series versus parallel.
• Identify which circuit arrangement supports reliability when one component fails.

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• Identify indicators of chemical reactions from qualitative observations such as color change, gas production, and precipitate formation.
• Use quantitative data (mass and temperature changes) to determine whether new substances were formed.
• Interpret pre-reaction and post-reaction measurements to decide if a reaction produced new chemical species.

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• Use models to describe how atoms combine to form simple molecules such as H2O and extended structures such as NaCl
• Interpret chemical formulas to determine relative atom types and counts in a compound
• Explain how repeating units form polymer chains and how charged particles arrange into ionic lattices+ Show more

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• Explain how homologous structures and conserved DNA sequences support common ancestry.
• Use phylogenetic trees to describe divergence among related taxa over generations.
• Interpret vestigial organs and morphological gradients as clues about ancestral traits.

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• Explain why welcoming new students helps a positive classroom environment
• Identify kind and inclusive ways people greet one another in a community
• Use classroom routines and shared goals to support teamwork

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• Define personal and academic goals using clear, achievable steps
• Explain how planning and perseverance help students reach goals over time
• Use a growth mindset by celebrating small successes

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• Explain how classroom routines help people feel safe and organized.
• Identify ways students can welcome others using empathy and respect.
• Describe simple school traditions and how they build community.

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• Explain how classroom routines help the class feel safe and organized
• Identify behaviors that support listening, cooperation, and responsibility during the day
• Practice choosing the correct routine action when a common classroom situation happens

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• Identify ways people celebrate different holidays and traditions within a community
• Explain how inclusion and empathy help classmates feel welcome
• Use respectful language when describing traditions that are new to you

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• Identify different options in a health-related scenario
• Explain how choices can lead to different short-term and long-term outcomes
• Choose actions that support healthy well-being

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• Explain how cooperation and a positive attitude help a class succeed at the start of the school year.
• Describe perseverance as trying again when something is hard.
• Use story details to identify actions that support goals and growth.

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• Explain how classroom routines create structure and reduce confusion
• Identify examples of daily routines that help students become more independent
• Use sequence words to describe steps in a routine+ Show more

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• Identify friendship qualities such as kindness, understanding, and cooperation.
• Use story details to explain how people can build a supportive classroom community.
• Describe respectful ways to include others and work toward shared goals.

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• Explain how disturbances can change habitat, resource timing, and species presence
• Describe how population sizes can shift and communities can reorganize after a disturbance
• Use population growth and decline patterns to predict possible stability outcomes+ Show more

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• Explain how predator and prey populations can change over time through cause-and-effect feedbacks.
• Describe how changes in one population can ripple to affect other organisms in a community.
• Use models or scenarios to predict what happens when predators increase or decrease.

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• Explain how external features and internal systems help organisms survive in their environments.
• Identify functional relationships between traits and survival needs such as protection, feeding, and movement.
• Use evidence from a text passage to fill in key vocabulary about survival structures.

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• Identify and describe competition, predation, and symbiosis as ecological interaction types.
• Explain how species interactions affect population sizes and resource availability over time.
• Match key terms to accurate definitions related to ecological interactions.

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• Describe how energy moves through a food web from producers to consumers.
• Explain how decomposition cycles matter by returning nutrients to the environment.
• Use trophic levels to predict how changes in one population affect others.

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• Describe how carbon cycles between air, organisms, and soils.
• Explain the roles of bacteria in the nitrogen cycle.
• Trace how phosphorus moves through water, soil, and organisms.+ Show more

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• Explain how changes in temperature, rainfall, light, and habitat structure can alter resource availability in an ecosystem.
• Describe how pollution or poor water quality can affect organism growth and survival.
• Use examples to show how changes in one species can alter predation, competition, and symbiosis.+ Show more