AP Bio Task Verbs

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Identify

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Indicate or provide information about a specified topic, without elaboration or explanation.

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Explain

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Provide information about how or why a relationship, process, pattern, position, situation, or outcome occurs, using evidence and/or reasoning to support or qualify a claim.

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Evaluate

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Judge or determine the significance or importance of information, or the quality or accuracy of a claim.

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State (H0/HA)

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Indicate or provide a hypothesis to support or defend a claim about a scientifically testable question.

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Justify

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Provide evidence to support, qualify, or defend a claim, and/or provide reasoning to explain how that evidence supports or qualifies the claim.

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Describe

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Provide a detailed account or representation of a process, relationship, or phenomenon.

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Determine

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Establish or conclude something after consideration or calculation.

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Make a claim

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Assert that something is true, typically without providing evidence.

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Support a claim

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Provide evidence or reasoning that backs up a claim made.

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Predict

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Make an educated guess about the outcome of a future event based on current evidence or reasoning.