input: Please answer the following: What is the missing first step of the following process: - These plants die - The soil gains organic material - The soil becomes more fertile - Larger plants are able to be supported - Trees eventually grow.
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output: Grass and small plants grow in an area

Please answer this: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The animals living in the forest have fewer places to hide - Predators can now find their prey eaiser - Birds will fly away from the area - Waters warm up which hurts the fish swimming in them.
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Answer: Forest fires burn forests

Problem: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The cans are transported to a facility - The cans are shredded by a machine - The cans are heated to 1400 degrees to melt them - The molten metal is poured into molds - The molds are flattened and rolled into sheets to reuse.

A: Put the aluminum can into a recycle bin

Problem: Given the question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The boiler produces steam under high pressure - The steam generated in the boiler flows down into a cylinder - Just ahead of the wheels, pushing a tight-fitting plunger, the piston - The piston is connected to one or more of the locomotive's wheels through a kind of arm-elbow-shoulder joint called a crank and connecting rod - As the piston pushes, the crank and connecting rod turn the locomotive's wheels and power the train along - An outlet valve opens and the piston pushes the steam back through the cylinder and out up the locomotive's chimney -
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The answer is:
Coal is loaded into the firebox

input question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The spore lands on a piece of bread - The spore grows hyphae into the bread - The mold forms a colony - Sporangiophores grow upward - The mold sends out spores.???
output answer: A mold spore floats through the air

input question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The sediment rolls down hill towards a river - The heavy items sink to the bottom - The lighter items float on the top and in convection cycles - As the river flows the sediment is moved - The sediment gets dumped through tributaries into lakes and the ocean - The sediment keeps moving around the world in convection currents.???
output answer:
Sediment becomes loose from the rest of the soil