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• Describe the molecular basis of light absorption in photosynthesis, including pigment spectra.
• Explain energy transfer among pigments and the conversion into chemical energy via photosystems.
• Analyze how environmental factors influence photosynthetic efficiency and productivity.+ Show more

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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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• Explain how working conditions and urban living changed between 1900 and 1929, and what stayed the same.
• Evaluate persistent inequalities in labor rights and housing during this period.
• Analyze how technology and social movements influenced both reforms and ongoing patterns of change.

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• Identify examples of continuity and change in history across time.
• Explain how technology, governance, and social norms can shift over generations while some traditions persist.
• Compare how patterns of continuity and change affect communities and regions.+ Show more

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• Identify abiotic and biotic components of a habitat.
• Explain how shelter, food, water, space, and light are habitat components.
• Distinguish habitat from niche using simple examples.+ Show more

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• Read ratio relationships from tape (strip) diagrams by using the part counts as equal ratio groups.
• Scale a diagram to find equivalent ratios and missing quantities while keeping the same comparison units.
• Use diagram reasoning to determine missing values in totals and part-to-part comparisons.

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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 domain-specific vocabulary to communicate precise ideas within a text’s topic and purpose.
• Integrate technical terms clearly by adding nearby clarification and maintaining consistent usage.
• Revise sentences to replace general words with accurate field-specific terminology.

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• Analyze how back-to-school routines can build personal and academic connections after a holiday.
• Identify grammar and vocabulary that describe planning, adjustment, and goal setting.
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to explain how preparation actions lead to learning outcomes.

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• Explain how relative dating methods (superposition and cross-cutting relationships) help order geologic events.
• Describe how unconformities reveal gaps in deposition or erosion within the rock record.
• Use the fossil record, including index fossils, to connect rock layers to specific geologic intervals.+ Show more

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• Understand how wind and solar resources are integrated into electrical grids.
• Identify challenges such as intermittency and grid balancing associated with renewable energy sources.
• Describe infrastructure and planning considerations for renewable energy deployment.+ Show more

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• Explain how fiscal policy (spending and taxes) and monetary policy (money supply and interest rates) influence economic activity
• Differentiate between expansionary and contractionary policy goals during recessions and booms
• Analyze how policy tools can affect inflation, employment, and overall demand through transmission mechanisms

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• Plan a fair test by isolating one variable and keeping other conditions the same
• Collect and record quantitative data such as time, displacement, or load
• Interpret results to identify likely failure modes and choose an improved design change+ Show more

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• Explain how internal heat drives mantle convection and influences plate motion
• Differentiate divergent, convergent, and transform plate boundaries and their characteristic landforms
• Interpret how earthquakes and volcanism provide evidence for ongoing tectonic activity+ 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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• Understand the levels of organization in multicellular organisms from cells to organ systems.
• Describe the functions and structures at each level of biological organization.
• Explain how interactions between levels contribute to organism health and response.+ Show more

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• Explain how the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere exchange matter and energy
• Describe cause-and-effect relationships between Earth systems (e.g., erosion affecting waterways and habitats)
• Use evidence from observations to support an explanation of Earth system interactions over time

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• Use commutative and associative properties to rewrite expressions as equivalent expressions.
• Use identity properties (0 and 1) and inverse operations to replace parts of an expression without changing its value.
• Check that two expressions are equivalent by showing the operation changes preserve the overall value.

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• Explain how housing supply and infrastructure capacity affect community sustainability and resilience
• Describe how demographic change, market dynamics, and policy choices can influence affordability and infrastructure strain
• Analyze how housing, transit, health services, and environmental risk interact to shape service delivery

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• Identify figurative language (metaphors, similes, idioms) and explain its meaning beyond literal definitions.
• Analyze how figurative wording affects tone and mood in a text.
• Use word relationships (synonyms, antonyms, and categories) to interpret meaning precisely.

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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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• Identify examples of the six simple machines and describe how each one changes force magnitude or direction
• Explain mechanical advantage as a comparison of output force to input force, using appropriate units and reasoning
• Apply relationships among force, distance, and machine geometry to predict outcomes for everyday tools

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• Define and use spreadsheet vocabulary including worksheet, cell, row, and column.
• Identify rows, columns, and cells in a simple spreadsheet layout.
• Use sorting to reorganize information while keeping related data together.+ Show more

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• Explain how evaporation can separate a soluble solid from a liquid
• Identify the evidence that suggests evaporation occurred in a separation experiment
• Compare evaporation to size-based separation methods

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• Describe how stars form and progress through major evolutionary stages
• Interpret Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams using stellar properties
• Explain how stellar mass influences lifetimes and terminal outcomes+ Show more

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• Explain activation energy using reactants and the transition state
• Describe how catalysts change activation energy pathways
• Compare catalyzed and uncatalyzed energy profiles+ Show more

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• Distinguish short-term weather variability from long-term climate patterns using data and graphs.
• Interpret temperature, precipitation, and storm-frequency data to describe variability and trends over time.
• Explain how summary statistics (averages and typical ranges) help identify change versus fluctuation.+ Show more

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• Explain how igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks form in the rock cycle.
• Describe the roles of heat, pressure, weathering, and mineral cementation in rock transformations.
• Use rock-cycle ideas to make connections between surface and subsurface Earth processes.

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• Explain how heritable variation affects survival and reproduction
• Interpret allele frequency changes across multiple generations
• Distinguish directional, stabilizing, and disruptive selection patterns+ Show more

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• Describe how carrying capacity limits population growth using logistic models.
• Differentiate exponential growth from logistic growth on population graphs.
• Identify limiting factors and explain how density-dependent and density-independent effects differ.+ Show more

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• Describe how models represent energy and matter flows in ecosystems
• Interpret model predictions of ecosystem responses to disturbances
• Compare steady-state and transient ecosystem dynamics+ Show more

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• Define adaptive radiation and explain why it leads to multiple closely related species
• Describe how ecological niches and natural selection contribute to divergent adaptations
• Interpret how phylogenetic patterns can show the timing and branching of diversification

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• Explain how net work on an object changes its kinetic energy using the work–energy theorem
• Calculate average and instantaneous power from energy transfer and work–energy relationships
• Convert between common units of energy and power (joules, watts, and kW) during problem solving

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• Distinguish connotative meaning from dictionary (denotative) meaning.
• Analyze how word choice creates tone (for example, suspense, humor, anger, regret, or admiration).
• Use textual evidence such as imagery, sensory details, and comparisons to explain emotional impact.

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• Describe the main stages of cellular energy transformations, including glycolysis, pyruvate oxidation, the citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation.
• Explain the role of electron transport chains and proton gradients in ATP synthesis.
• Quantify the energy yield per substrate and analyze its impact on organismal metabolic rates.+ Show more

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• Understand how models are used to represent complex systems in science.
• Identify different types of scientific models and their purposes.
• Evaluate the limitations of models by comparing them with real measurements.+ Show more

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• Explain how protected areas, buffer zones, and habitat corridors help reduce harm to habitats and species.
• Distinguish passive protection from active restoration and creation of connected habitats.
• Describe how monitoring ecological indicators can show whether conservation efforts are working.

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• Describe the direction of association in a scatter plot (positive, negative, or none).
• Judge the strength of association by how tightly points cluster around a general trend.
• Read coordinates from a scatter plot and use them to support conclusions about the pattern.

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• Explain how photosynthesis and respiration transfer energy between organisms
• Describe NPP and its relationship to biomass accumulation
• Use GPP and respiration to predict energy available to consumers+ Show more

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• Understand key biotechnological methods used in agriculture, diagnostics, and environmental cleanup.
• Identify ethical, regulatory, and socioeconomic considerations in biotech deployment.
• Explain genetic improvement strategies for crop resilience.+ Show more

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• Use academic and domain-specific vocabulary to clarify claims, describe evidence, and explain reasoning in informational writing.
• Distinguish technical terms from everyday synonyms by focusing on precise meaning and context.
• Strengthen coherence by applying vocabulary that signals relationships, processes, and categories.+ Show more

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• Identify the major Earth system reservoirs: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
• Explain how the water cycle redistributes water through evaporation, precipitation, runoff, and groundwater.
• Describe how carbon moves through biological processes and exchanges with the atmosphere and oceans.+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth’s geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere interact through energy flow.
• Describe how matter cycles among Earth systems using examples such as the water cycle and biogeochemical cycling.
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning to connect surface physical changes to regional or global patterns.

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• Differentiate thermal energy transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation using real-world examples.
• Predict how temperature will change based on the dominant heat-transfer mechanism in a given scenario.
• Explain why heat transfer can occur even without direct contact (radiation) or without a solid medium (convection).

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• Describe how physical properties such as solubility, boiling point, particle size, density, and magnetic susceptibility can be used to separate mixtures.
• Identify which separation method best fits a given situation by matching it to the relevant property difference.
• Use accurate vocabulary (filtration, evaporation, distillation, density, solubility) to explain separation steps.+ Show more

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• Explain the historical context and key events of the Battle of Puebla in 1862 and why they matter to Mexican and Mexican-American communities.
• Analyze how historical memory and national identity are shaped through shared stories, symbols, and civic traditions.
• Use and interpret history-related vocabulary (e.g., resilience, colonization, national identity) in context.

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• Understand key concepts of reaction stoichiometry, mass conservation, and rate control in industrial chemical processes.
• Analyze Alberta-specific examples such as bitumen upgrading, hydrogen production, and ammonia synthesis.
• Apply principles of mass-accounting practices, yield estimation, and the interplay of kinetics and thermodynamics in process design.

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• Distinguish independent, dependent, and controlled variables in a fair science investigation.
• Use operational definitions to define how variables are measured or identified during an experiment.
• Design fair tests using replication and controls to reduce confounding and sampling bias.