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• Understand how statistical and probabilistic methods are applied to allele frequencies and trait distributions.
• Develop and interpret Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium models and calculate expected genotype frequencies.
• Use chi-square tests and confidence intervals to assess deviations from expected genetic distributions.+ Show more

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• Understand principles of Mendelian inheritance and how they predict trait distribution.
• Identify patterns such as incomplete dominance, codominance, sex linkage, and polygenic inheritance.
• Interpret pedigrees and analyze inheritance of traits like blood groups and color vision.+ Show more

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• Explain how DNA sequences determine the structure and function of proteins.
• Describe the processes of DNA replication, transcription, and translation.
• Understand how genetic code and chromosomal organization influence observable traits.+ Show more

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• Understand the sources and mechanisms of genetic mutations and chromosomal alterations.
• Identify different types of mutations and their effects on protein function.
• Analyze how mutation-driven variation contributes to trait diversity and disease.+ Show more

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• Understand how temperature, concentration, surface area, and catalysts influence reaction rates.
• Explain the role of collision frequency and activation energy in reaction kinetics.
• Interpret rate laws and their dependence on concentration for elementary steps.+ Show more

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• Evaluate proposed solutions against multiple criteria such as cost, safety, and environmental impact.
• Apply systems thinking to analyze component interactions, emergent behavior, and unintended consequences.
• Quantify performance metrics like throughput, factor-of-safety, and life-cycle assessment to compare designs.+ Show more

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• Understand the biochemical processes involved in cellular signaling pathways.
• Identify key molecular mechanisms such as phosphorylation, ubiquitination, and gene regulation motifs.
• Explain how intracellular compartmentalization and membrane transport influence cellular responses.+ Show more

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• Understand how conceptual and quantitative models represent energy and matter flows in ecosystems.
• Interpret model predictions of system responses to perturbations such as species loss or flux alterations.
• Explore approaches like Lotka–Volterra equations, mass-balance nutrient models, and carbon budget estimations in ecosystem analysis.+ Show more

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• Explain how Kepler's laws and Newtonian gravitation describe planetary orbits.
• Analyze the role of conservation of angular momentum in orbital dynamics.
• Interpret observational data such as orbital elements and spectral lines to understand planetary motion.+ Show more

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• Describe circulation patterns driven by density contrasts, wind forcing, and Earth's rotation.
• Explain the roles of thermohaline circulation, gyres, and coastal upwelling in ocean dynamics.
• Analyze how observations from ARGO floats, satellite altimetry, and salinity-temperature profiles contribute to understanding ocean processes.+ Show more

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• Classify materials as diamagnetic, paramagnetic, or ferromagnetic based on how they respond to magnetic fields
• Explain how domain alignment affects remanence and coercivity in permanent magnets and soft magnetic cores
• Connect magnetic material properties to real-world uses such as electromagnets, transformers, magnetic lifting, and industrial separation

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• Describe the observational evidence supporting models of the universe's cosmic origin.
• Explain how cosmic microwave background radiation, galactic redshifts, and elemental abundances inform our understanding of the universe's expansion and early conditions.
• Analyze large-scale structures and spectral data to interpret the universe's evolution over cosmological timescales.

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• Analyze the quantitative relationships between net force, mass, and acceleration using Newton's second law.
• Interpret motion graphs and understand their relation to constant acceleration and force.
• Apply vector summation to determine net force in various scenarios including inclined planes and frictional effects.+ Show more

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• Explain how changing magnetic flux can induce an electromotive force (emf) in a closed circuit
• Describe how induced voltage depends on the rate of flux change and the number of turns in a coil
• Connect electromagnetic induction to real devices such as transformers and generators

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• Understand the relationship between impulse and momentum and their mathematical formulations.
• Explain the impulse-momentum theorem and its application in analyzing collisions and interactions.
• Describe conservation of momentum in closed systems during elastic and inelastic collisions.+ Show more

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• Describe how corrosion is a chemical change that produces new substances on materials.
• Explain how moisture, oxygen, and salt (salinity) can speed up corrosion in everyday infrastructure.
• Identify evidence that corrosion has occurred and predict how protective measures can reduce degradation.+ Show more

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• Explain the interactions among precipitation, surface runoff, infiltration, and groundwater storage within watersheds.
• Describe processes such as aquifer recharge, water-table fluctuation, and stream hydrographs.
• Analyze how human activities influence basin-scale water budgets and landscape responses.+ Show more

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• Understand the purpose and methods of geologic mapping in earth sciences.
• Identify the types of data sets used in geoscience mapping and their significance.
• Interpret stratigraphic contacts, fault systems, and basin architecture from cross-sections and models.+ Show more

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• Classify contact and noncontact forces and understand their vector representations.
• Explain Newton's third law and identify action-reaction force pairs.
• Interpret free-body diagrams and apply vector addition to analyze concurrent forces.+ Show more

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• Explain how electric and magnetic fields interact with charges and currents.
• Describe the Lorentz force law and its application in simple contexts.
• Analyze phenomena such as charged particle deflection and magnetic interactions between currents.+ Show more

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• Explain how DNA sequences determine amino acid sequences through transcription and translation.
• Describe how mutations, such as point mutations and frameshifts, affect protein structure and function.
• Understand the processes of protein folding and post-translational modifications in creating functional proteins.+ Show more

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• Explain what makes a system “closed” and how that affects matter conservation during chemical changes.
• Use conservation of mass to interpret how reactants relate to products in sealed or contained processes.
• Identify examples of closed-system analysis in real-world laboratory and environmental contexts.

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• Understand the mechanisms of homeostasis and feedback loops in the human body.
• Identify examples of negative and positive feedback in physiological processes.
• Explain the roles of sensors, control centers, and effectors in maintaining internal stability.+ Show more

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• Understand the principles of exponential and logistic population growth models.
• Identify factors affecting population dynamics, including density-dependent and density-independent factors.
• Analyze real-world data such as fisheries harvests and algal bloom records to interpret population trends.+ Show more

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• Explain how elastic forces can be restorative and relate to displacement in many springs
• Identify when a spring or elastic material behaves approximately linearly and when that relationship breaks down
• Use force-balance ideas to describe how elastic components affect mechanical systems

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• Analyze biotic and abiotic components in ecosystems and understand energy flow and trophic levels.
• Describe the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in sustaining biomass and nutrient cycling.
• Examine ecosystem dynamics such as stability, feedback loops, and habitat heterogeneity in terrestrial and aquatic systems.+ Show more

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• Explain how particle motion relates to temperature and thermal energy.
• Distinguish heat from temperature and describe heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation.
• Apply thermal transfer concepts to real-world Alberta climate examples.

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• Explain how solar energy input and surface conditions (like snow cover) affect seasonal temperature change.
• Describe how energy is stored and released through radiative, sensible, and latent heat processes.
• Connect seasonal thermal cycles to real-world effects such as soil freeze–thaw, snowpack insulation, and lake stratification.

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• Use the quantitative heat relationship to calculate energy changes using mass, specific heat, and temperature change
• Convert between joules (J) and kilojoules (kJ) to support correct thermal calculations
• Interpret and compare thermal processes using temperature change and energy budgets

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• Resolve an object’s weight into perpendicular and parallel components relative to an incline.
• Predict how changing the incline angle affects the downslope (parallel) component and motion tendency.
• Explain the role of friction in balancing the parallel component on a slope.+ Show more

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• Explain how thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity, density, and phase change influence heat transfer in materials.
• Compare common building insulation materials and construction components using their material properties and practical trade-offs.
• Use property vocabulary (porosity, moisture content, thermal bridging, conductivity) to justify material selection for seasonal performance.

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• Understand how instrumental records, proxy data, and climate models are used to analyze climate trends.
• Identify the sources and types of data used in climate projections.
• Interpret the uncertainty and variability in climate model outputs and projections.+ Show more

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• Describe the processes involved in stellar evolution, including nuclear fusion, energy transport, and changes in luminosity and temperature.
• Interpret the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram to understand stellar stages and outcomes.
• Explain nucleosynthesis pathways and how stars contribute to elemental enrichment of the interstellar medium.+ Show more

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• Explain energy transformations using the idea that total energy is conserved.
• Identify common forms of energy (mechanical, chemical, electrical, and thermal) and describe how they change during real processes.
• Use simple energy bookkeeping to predict what energy form increases or decreases in a system.

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• Analyze different energy and mineral resource options considering economic, environmental, and sustainability criteria.
• Evaluate trade-offs among resource development strategies such as fossil fuels, solar, wind, and mining reclamation.
• Apply criteria like resource depletion, ecosystem impact, and emissions to compare resource management strategies.+ Show more

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• Define solution concentration and describe how solute and solvent relate to it
• Identify and use common concentration measures such as mass percent and grams per litre
• Explain how concentration affects physical properties like boiling point elevation and freezing point depression+ Show more

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• Understand how changes in pressure, concentration, and temperature shift chemical equilibria.
• Describe the role of catalysts in reaching equilibrium faster.
• Explain the significance of equilibrium constants as quantitative descriptors.+ Show more

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• Explain how separation methods use differences in physical properties to separate mixtures
• Identify which separation method best matches a mixture based on properties such as size, solubility, magnetism, and boiling point
• Connect observable outcomes (what remains or what collects) to the underlying classification of the mixture components

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• Explain what saturation means in terms of dissolved solute and solubility limits at a given temperature and pressure.
• Describe how supersaturation can form and why precipitation may occur suddenly.
• Identify real-world examples of saturation and crystallization, including evaporation and road salt effects.+ Show more

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• Understand the mechanisms involved in speciation, including geographic, ecological, polyploidy, and behavioral barriers.
• Identify empirical examples of speciation such as island finches, cichlid fishes, and plant chromosomal doubling.
• Analyze phylogenetic patterns and reproductive barriers to determine mechanisms of lineage splitting.+ Show more

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• Understand the molecular and population-level processes that lead to heritable trait variation.
• Identify examples of mutations, recombination, gene flow, and chromosomal changes in traits.
• Explain how population processes like genetic drift and nonrandom mating influence trait distribution.+ Show more

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• Identify signs of physical changes using particle behavior and observable properties
• Explain why physical changes do not create new substances
• Use the idea of conservation of mass in a closed system to evaluate evidence

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• Explain how particle kinetic and potential energy change during melting, freezing, evaporation, and condensation.
• Describe how energy is absorbed or released during phase changes without changing chemical identity.
• Connect microscopic particle motion to macroscopic energy budgets and real-world examples such as snowmelt and wetland evaporation.

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• Explain how the particle model describes matter as particles that have spaces and are in constant motion
• Use particle ideas to account for macroscopic properties and states of matter
• Describe how diffusion and density changes can be explained by particle arrangement and motion+ Show more

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• Differentiate between pure substances, mixtures, and solutions using measurable properties and uniformity.
• Explain why pure substances have characteristic melting points while mixtures do not.
• Describe solutions as homogeneous mixtures in which solute particles are dispersed at the molecular scale.+ Show more

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• Explain how predictive models represent Earth–Sun geometry to forecast observable sky events.
• Use seasonal geometry ideas (axial tilt and orbital position) to predict changes in daylight and solar angle.
• Interpret simple model outputs and connect them to real observations such as sunrise, sunset, and lunar phases.

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• Explain how truss geometry (triangles) helps distribute loads through tension and compression instead of bending.
• Use qualitative reasoning with the method of joints to identify whether members are likely in tension or compression.
• Compare truss designs using efficiency and redundancy criteria for real bridge and roof applications.+ Show more

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• Explain how incremental design changes can improve aerodynamic performance and safety.
• Use criteria and trade-offs to evaluate design modifications related to speed, stability, and payload.
• Describe simple ways to measure and observe flight path consistency during refinement.