[Q]: What is the missing first step of the following process: - Some is reflected back into space - The rest of the energy is absorbed by land and oceans, heating the Earth - Heat radiates from Earth to space - Some of this heat is trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - Human activities such as burning fuel are increasing the amount of greenhouses gases - This causes more heat radiation to stay trapped in our atmosphere - The Earth's temperature rises -
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[A]: Solar radiation reaches Earth's atmosphere

[Q]: What is the missing first step of the following process: - These substances rise into the high atmosphere - They react with water and oxygen - This creates a more acidic rain - The rain with the high acid content falls.
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[A]: Chemicals like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen are released into the air

[Q]: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The star burns until it runs out of fuel - The star can no longer support its weight - The layers of hydrogen press down on the core - The core gets smaller and smaller under the pressure - The pressure causes gravity to get stronger - The gravity becomes so powerful that nothing can escape it - Anything that gets close to it, is drawn into it by its gravity - Light is drawn into it - Light can not escape -
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[A]: Stars burn mass

[Q]: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The flashlight is turned on - Two contact strips touch one another - A circuit is completed between the batteries and the lamp - The lamp in the flashlight begins to glow - The reflector in the flashlight directs the lamp's beam - A straight beam of light is generated - The flashlight is turned off - The circuit is broken - The beam is no longer visible.
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[A]:
Batteries are put in a flashlight