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Grade 4 · Stretch challenge · 10 questions · Version PG-Y8BQQR-DBMY

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1.What is the role of chlorophyll?
2.Which blood cells fight infection?
3.What is the difference between weather and climate?
4.Why are food webs more realistic than single food chains?
5.What is the pH of a neutral solution?
6.How do greenhouse gases warm Earth?
7.What type of boundary forms when plates move apart?
8.What does conservation of energy mean?
9.Why does salt lower water's freezing point?
10.What transfers traits from parents to offspring?

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  1. What is the role of chlorophyll?Absorb light for photosynthesis
  2. Which blood cells fight infection?White blood cells
  3. What is the difference between weather and climate?Weather is short-term; climate is long-term patterns
  4. Why are food webs more realistic than single food chains?Organisms have multiple food sources and predators
  5. What is the pH of a neutral solution?7
  6. How do greenhouse gases warm Earth?They absorb and re-emit infrared energy
  7. What type of boundary forms when plates move apart?Divergent boundary
  8. What does conservation of energy mean?Energy changes form but is not created or destroyed
  9. Why does salt lower water's freezing point?It disrupts ice crystal formation
  10. What transfers traits from parents to offspring?Genes

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