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Explain that models are used to understand processes and predict change in many situations: where it may take several years to collect the data firsthand (e.g., sea floor spreading, etc.) where the event has already occurred and evidence has been lost or is limited (e.g., asteroid impact, fossil record, etc.) when a process is dangerous to study (e.g., volcanoes, earthquakes, tornados, etc.) when a process is very slow (e.g., erosion, continental drift, rock cycle, climate change, etc.) when the scale of size is difficult to replicate and makes observations difficult (e.g., atoms, cells, solar system, etc.) to make an abstract more understandable (e.g., Newton’s Laws and amusement park physics, etc.) Understand that models are developed to explain and predict natural phenomena that cannot be directly observed because they happen over long periods of time. Some aspects of this assessment objective are not explicit referenced in the CAS; however, there are many content/context-specific examples in the nature of science throughout the standards that refer to using models to explain a variety of topics.