[Q]: What is the missing first step of the following process: - Ocean water pulls sand off of beaches - Ocean water breaks rocks off of cliffs - Ocean water carries sand and rocks into the ocean - Sand and rocks go to other land or the bottom of the ocean.
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[A]: Ocean waves hit land

input: Please answer the following: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The sound travels in waves, as sound does - The sound "bounces" off of a nearby object - The sound wave returns to the bat - The bat hears the echoed sound - Folds in the bat's ear and adaptations in the bat's brain enable it to determine the size, shape, and position of the other object via the properties of the returned sound waves - Other animals use echolocation in generally similar ways -
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output: Bats and other animals produce a high-pitched tone

Please answer this: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The air goes down the esophagus - The air moves into the lungs - The carbon dioxide is removed - The remaining oxygen enters the body - The remaining carbon dioxide is expelled through the mouth.
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Answer: Air is drawn in through the mouth

Problem: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The sediment breaks down into small particles - Wind or water picks up the sediment - The sediment travels along the same route as the wind or water - The sediment is deposited at new locations by the wind or water - The sediment is picked up again by new wind or water - The sediment travels further - The sediment is deposited again in a new place.

A: Sediment settles in a place due to gravity

Problem: Given the question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The egg hatches to form a larva, also called a caterpillar - The carterpillar molts (loses its skin) many times as it grows - The caterpillar then forms itself into a pupa, or chrysalis - The caterpillar in the chrysalis begins change, a process called mmetaphorphosis - The caterpillar completes its metamorphosis and has turned into a butterfly - The adult butterfly emerges out of the chrysalis and flys away! -
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The answer is:
The butterfly starts as an egg

Problem: What is the missing first step of the following process: - They are born and are a baby - The baby grows into a child - Puberty turns the child into an adolescent - The adolescent becomes an adult - An adult becomes an elderly person - The elderly person dies.

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There is a fetus in the womb