Crosscutting Concepts & Science and Engineering Practices

Giraffes use their long necks to reach up into trees for food. What crosscutting concept best describes this observation?

• cause and effect

• energy and matter

• structure and function

• stability and change

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Structures or events that repeat

• Scale

• Energy

• Patterns

• Cause and Effect

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Which one of the following is an example of a system model?

• a cookie jar

• a notebook

• a box of carrots

• a poster of the human body

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Why do scientists study cause and effect relationships?

• to learn about hurricanes

• to write a research paper

• to open a museum

• to find solutions to problems

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Time, space, and energy, can be observed at different scales.

• scale, proportion, quantity

• stability and change

• obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

• using mathematics and computational thinking.

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Tracking how _____ and ______ flows, into, out of, and within systems helps one understand a system's behavior.

• structure and function

• energy and matter

• stability and change

• observations

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This is an example of a

• diagram

• simulation

• movie

• graph

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This is an example of a

• castle

• mathematical representation

• diagram

• drawing

Which cross cutting concept do these key words describe?

• system and system models

• structure and function

• energy and matter

• scale, proportion, and quantity

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Which cross cutting concept do these key words describe?

• energy and matter

• structure and function

• patterns

• systems

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