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LA.910.2.2.3:
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The student will organize information to show understanding or relationships among facts, ideas, and events (e.g., representing key points within text through charting, mapping, paraphrasing, summarizing, comparing, contrasting, or outlining);
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LA.910.4.2.2:
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The student will record information and ideas from primary and/or secondary sources accurately and coherently, noting the validity and reliability of these sources and attributing sources of information;
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MA.912.S.1.2:
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Determine appropriate and consistent standards of measurement for the data to be collected in a survey or experiment.
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Moderate
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MA.912.S.3.2:
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Collect, organize, and analyze data sets, determine the best format for the data and present visual summaries from the following:
bar graph s line graphs stem and leaf plots circle graph s histograms box and whisker plots scatter plots cumulative frequency (ogive) graphs
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High
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SC.912.E.5.1:
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Cite evidence used to develop and verify the scientific theory of the Big Bang (also known as the Big Bang Theory ) of the origin of the universe.
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High
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SC.912.L.15.2:
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Discuss the use of molecular clocks to estimate how long ago various groups of organisms diverged evolutionarily from one another.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.16.10:
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Evaluate the impact of biotechnology on the individual, society and the environment, including medical and ethical issues.
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High
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SC.912.L.17.11:
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Evaluate the costs and benefits of renewable and nonrenewable resource s, such as water, energy, fossil fuels, wildlife, and forests.
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High
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SC.912.L.17.15:
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Discuss the effects of technology on environmental quality.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.17.16:
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Discuss the large-scale environmental impacts resulting from human activity, including waste spills, oil spills, runoff, greenhouse gases, ozone depletion, and surface and groundwater pollution.
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High
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SC.912.L.17.19:
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Describe how different natural resource s are produced and how their rates of use and renewal limit availability.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.17.20:
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Predict the impact of individuals on environmental systems and examine how human lifestyles affect sustainability.
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High
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SC.912.L.18.12:
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Discuss the special properties of water that contribute to Earth's suitability as an environment for life: cohesive behavior, ability to moderate temperature, expansion upon freezing, and versatility as a solvent.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.1.1:
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Define a problem based on a specific body of knowledge, for example: biology, chemistry, physics, and earth/space science, and do the following:
- pose questions about the natural world,
- conduct systematic observations,
- examine books and other sources of information to see what is already known,
- review what is known in light of empirical evidence,
- plan investigations,
- use tools to gather, analyze, and interpret data (this includes the use of measurement in metric and other systems, and also the generation and interpretation of graphical representations of data, including data tables and graphs),
- pose answers, explanations, or descriptions of events,
- generate explanations that explicate or describe natural phenomena (inferences),
- use appropriate evidence and reasoning to justify these explanations to others,
- communicate results of scientific investigations, and
- evaluate the merits of the explanations produced by others.
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High
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SC.912.N.1.2:
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Describe and explain what characterizes science and its methods.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.1.3:
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Recognize that the strength or usefulness of a scientific claim is evaluated through scientific argumentation, which depends on critical and logical thinking, and the active consideration of alternative scientific explanations to explain the data presented.
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Low
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SC.912.N.1.4:
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Identify sources of information and assess their reliability according to the strict standards of scientific investigation.
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High
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SC.912.N.1.5:
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Describe and provide examples of how similar investigations conducted in many parts of the world result in the same outcome.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.1.6:
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Describe how scientific inferences are drawn from scientific observations and provide examples from the content being studied.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.1.7:
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Recognize the role of creativity in constructing scientific questions, methods and explanations.
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Low
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SC.912.N.2.1:
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Identify what is science, what clearly is not science, and what superficially resembles science (but fails to meet the criteria for science).
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High
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SC.912.N.2.2:
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Identify which questions can be answered through science and which questions are outside the boundaries of scientific investigation, such as questions addressed by other ways of knowing, such as art, philosophy, and religion.
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High
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SC.912.N.2.3:
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Identify examples of pseudoscience (such as astrology, phrenology) in society.
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Low
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SC.912.N.2.4:
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Explain that scientific knowledge is both durable and robust and open to change. Scientific knowledge can change because it is often examined and re-examined by new investigations and scientific argumentation. Because of these frequent examinations, scientific knowledge becomes stronger, leading to its durability.
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High
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SC.912.N.2.5:
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Describe instances in which scientists' varied backgrounds, talents, interests, and goals influence the inferences and thus the explanations that they make about observations of natural phenomena and describe that competing interpretations (explanations) of scientists are a strength of science as they are a source of new, testable ideas that have the potential to add new evidence to support one or another of the explanations.
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High
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SC.912.N.3.1:
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Explain that a scientific theory is the culmination of many scientific investigations drawing together all the current evidence concerning a substantial range of phenomena thus, a scientific theory represents the most powerful explanation scientists have to offer.
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High
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SC.912.N.3.2:
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Describe the role consensus plays in the historical development of a theory in any one of the disciplines of science.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.3.3:
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Explain that scientific laws are descriptions of specific relationships under given conditions in nature, but do not offer explanations for those relationships.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.3.4:
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Recognize that theories do not become laws, nor do laws become theories theories are well supported explanations and laws are well supported descriptions.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.3.5:
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Describe the function of models in science, and identify the wide range of models used in science.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.4.1:
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Explain how scientific knowledge and reasoning provide an empirically-based perspective to inform society's decision making.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.4.2:
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Weigh the merits of alternative strategies for solving a specific societal problem by comparing a number of different costs and benefits, such as human, economic, and environmental.
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High
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SC.912.P.8.1:
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Differentiate among the four states of matter.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.8.2:
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Differentiate between physical and chemical properties and physical and chemical change s of matter.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.8.3:
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Explore the scientific theory of atoms (also known as atomic theory) by describing changes in the atomic model over time and why those changes were necessitated by experimental evidence.
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High
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SC.912.P.8.4:
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Explore the scientific theory of atoms (also known as atomic theory) by describing the structure of atoms in terms of protons, neutrons and electrons, and differentiate among these particles in terms of their mass, electrical charges and locations within the atom.
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High
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SC.912.P.8.5:
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Relate properties of atoms and their position in the periodic table to the arrangement of their electrons.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.8.6:
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Distinguish between bonding forces holding compounds together and other attractive forces, including hydrogen bonding and van der Waals force s.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.8.7:
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Interpret formula representations of molecules and compounds in terms of composition and structure.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.8.8:
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Characterize types of chemical reactions, for example: redox, acid-base, synthesis, and single and double replacement reactions.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.8.9:
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Apply the mole concept and the law of conservation of mass to calculate quantities of chemicals participating in reactions.
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High
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SC.912.P.8.10:
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Describe oxidation-reduction reactions in living and non-living systems.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.8.11:
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Relate acidity and basicity to hydronium and hydroxyl ion concentration and pH.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.8.12:
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Describe the properties of the carbon atom that make the diversity of carbon compounds possible.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.1:
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Differentiate among the various forms of energy and recognize that they can be transformed from one form to others.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.2:
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Explore the Law of Conservation of Energy by differentiating among open, closed, and isolated systems and explain that the total energy in an isolated system is a conserved quantity.
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High
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SC.912.P.10.5:
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Relate temperature to the average molecular kinetic energy.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.6:
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Create and interpret potential energy diagrams, for example: chemical reactions, orbits around a central body, motion of a pendulum.
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High
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SC.912.P.10.7:
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Distinguish between endothermic and exothermic chemical processes.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.9:
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Describe the quantization of energy at the atomic level.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.10:
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Compare the magnitude and range of the four fundamental forces (gravitational, electromagnetic, weak nuclear, strong nuclear).
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.11:
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Explain and compare nuclear reaction s (radioactive decay, fission and fusion), the energy changes associated with them and their associated safety issues.
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High
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SC.912.P.10.12:
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Differentiate between chemical and nuclear reaction s.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.18:
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Explore the theory of electromagnetism by comparing and contrasting the different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum in terms of wavelength, frequency, and energy, and relate them to phenomena and applications.
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High
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SC.912.P.12.10:
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Interpret the behavior of ideal gases in terms of kinetic molecular theory.
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High
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SC.912.P.12.11:
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Describe phase transitions in terms of kinetic molecular theory.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.12.12:
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Explain how various factors, such as concentration, temperature, and presence of a catalyst affect the rate of a chemical reaction.
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High
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SC.912.P.12.13:
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Explain the concept of dynamic equilibrium in terms of reversible processes occurring at the same rates.
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High
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