input: Please answer the following: What is the missing first step of the following process: - Preheat the oven to desired baking temperature - Grease your preferred cake pan with crisco or butter or other non-stick spray - Add eggs and vegetable oil to the dry ingredients - Stir or whisk until all the dry flour has been absorbed - Pour the batter into the greased cake pan - Place cake pan into the oven for the required time - When a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean, the cake is done baking -
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output: To bake a cake you first need to gather your ingredients

Please answer this: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The sound waves hit an object - Echoes are produced - The echo returns to the bat's ears - The bat hears the echo - The bat can figure out where the object is located.
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Answer: The bat sends out sound waves from their mouth or nose

Problem: What is the missing first step of the following process: - Cells in the pancreas release insulin - Insulin causes the body to absorb glucose from the blood - Blood sugar goes back to normal - Blood sugar is too low - The amount of insulin goes down - Cells in the pancreas release glucagon - The liver turns stored glycogen into glucose - The liver releases the glucose into the blood - Blood sugar goes back to normal.

A: Blood sugar levels increase after a meal

Problem: Given the question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The earth changes energy from the sun into heat - Heat rises from the ground - Greenhouse gas molecules in the atmosphere prevent the heat from going into space - The temperature of the earth increases - The temperature continues to rise and melts the polar ice caps - The temperature rises even faster.
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The answer is:
Greenhouse gases are released into the air by human activities

input question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - The blood is passed through the nephrons in the kidneys - The kidneys filter the waste from the blood - The clean blood is circulated out of the kidneys - Excess water and waste is expelled from the kidneys in the form of urine.???
output answer: The kidneys receive blood through the renal artery

input question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - Through warming or other methods a chunk is taken off the glacier - The chunk drifts into the sea - And it settles where it can remain in its state - It is considered an iceberg.???
output answer:
You start with a glacier