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Grade 6 Reading — Science
1.
a few centimeters each year (about as fast as fingernails grow)
2.
mountain ranges / the Himalayas (accept crumpled upward rock)
3.
identical fossils on separated continents / magnetic stripes on seafloor / GPS measurements (any one)
4.
plates sliding past each other
5.
prepare for hazards such as earthquakes / building codes / early-warning systems / tsunami monitors (any one)
6.
energy is not created or destroyed—it changes form
7.
examples include sunlight to evaporation / gravitational potential to kinetic / kinetic to electricity (any two)
8.
heat loss at every transfer means less energy reaches higher levels
9.
greenhouse gases
10.
energy shifts into forms harder to harness (such as thermal energy)
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