CHAPTER 11: COMMON THEMES
A. SYSTEMS
B. MODELS
C. CONSTANCY AND CHANGE
K-2
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Things change in some ways and stay the same in some
ways.
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People can keep track of some things, seeing where
they come from...
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Things can change in different ways, such as in size,
weight, color, and...
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Some changes are so slow or so fast that they are
hard to see.
3-5
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Some features of things may stay the same even when
other features...
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Things change in steady, repetitive, or irregular
ways--or sometimes in...
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A system may stay the same because nothing is happening
or because...
6-8
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Physical and biological systems tend to change until
they become...
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A system may stay the same because nothing is happening
or because...
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Many systems contain feedback mechanisms that serve
to keep...
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Symbolic equations can be used to summarize how the
quantity of...
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Symmetry (or the lack of it) may determine properties
of many...
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Things that change in cycles, such as the seasons
or body temperature,...
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A system in equilibrium may return to the same state
of equilibrium if...
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Along with the theory of atoms, the concept of the
conservation of...
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Things can change in detail but remain the same in
general (the...
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Graphs and equations are useful (and often equivalent)
ways for...
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In many physical, biological, and social systems,
changes in one...
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In evolutionary change, the present arises from the
materials and...
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Most systems above the molecular level involve so
many parts and...
D. SCALE
