AP Biology: FRQ Task Verbs (CED)

Provide relevant characteristics of a specified topic.

• Describe

• Determine

• Explain

• Represent

Provide info about how/why a relationship, process, pattern, position, situation, or outcome occurs, using evidence

• Describe

• Determine

• Explain

• Represent

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-3

Decide or conclude after reasoning, observation, or applying mathematical routines (calculations).

• Describe

• Determine

• Explain

• Represent

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-4

NGSS.HS-PS2-1

Use appropriate graphs, symbols, words, illustrations, and/or tables of numerical values to describe biological concepts

• Describe

• Determine

• Explain

• Represent

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-2

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

• State

• Make a claim

• Support a claim

• Justify

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

Provide reasoning to explain how evidence qualifies a claim

• State

• Make a claim

• Support a claim

• Justify

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Make an assertion that is based on evidence or knowledge

• State

• Make a claim

• Support a claim

• Justify

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

Provide evidence to support, qualify, or defend a claim, or provide reasoning to explain how evidence qualifies claim

• State

• Make a claim

• Support a claim

• Justify

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

Perform mathematical steps to arrive at a final answer

• Calculate

• Identify

• Construct

• Evaluate

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-4

NGSS.HS-PS2-2

NGSS.HS-PS3-1

Create a diagram, graph, representation, or model that illustrates or explains relationships

• Calculate

• Identify

• Construct

• Evaluate

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

NGSS.HS-ETS1-4

NGSS.HS-LS2-5