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Question: Which metal is not a solid even at room temperature? Options: A. copper B. aluminum C. mercury D. iron Answer:
C
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Question: Along with dna, what is the other main type of nucleic acid? Options: A. cytoplasm B. protein C. nucleotides D. rna Answer:
D
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Question: Energy is the capacity to do work or to produce what? Options: A. heat B. light C. vibration D. humidity Answer:
A
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Question: The a in atp is short for what? Options: A. adenosine B. acetic C. acid D. amino Answer:
A
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Question: What is a vector quantity with the same direction as the force called? Options: A. impulse B. simple C. accelerated D. inverted Answer:
A
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Question: What type of mining is used to recover ores that are deeper into earth’s surface? Options: A. explosive mining B. underwater mining C. deep mining D. underground Answer:
D
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Question: What blood-carrying structures contain one-way valves that contribute to the return of blood to the heart? Options: A. brains B. veins C. clots D. glands Answer:
B
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Question: Transferring what from sodium to chlorine decreases the radius of sodium by about 50%? Options: A. proton B. quark C. electron D. neutron Answer:
C
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Question: What can be switched off by a protein called the trp repressor? Options: A. the chaperone protein B. the operon C. the cytokine D. the genetic precursor Answer:
B
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Question: Where does the development of a fetus take place? Options: A. The kidney B. the female reproductive system C. The vagina D. The bladder Answer:
B
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Question: The entropy is decreasing because a gas is becoming a what? Options: A. liquid B. vapor cloud C. swirl D. solid Answer:
A
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Question: Potassium hydroxide in soap is an example of what? Options: A. catalyst B. enzyme C. acid D. base Answer:
D
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Question: Arguably the most important ingredient in saliva for digestion is a type of what, which initiates the breakdown of carbohydrates? Options: A. genes B. fatty C. enzyme D. amino Answer:
C
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Question: On the atomic level, the dissolution of an ionic compound occurs when water interacts with the what in the crystal lattice? Options: A. atoms B. fractals C. particles D. ions Answer:
D
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Question: What property of fluids causes something to stay on or near the surface of water? Options: A. weight B. strength C. buoyancy D. density Answer:
C
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Question: The pressurized gas of earth's atmosphere is contained by what force? Options: A. plasma B. light C. variation D. gravity Answer:
D
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Question: What controls all five senses? Options: A. circulatory system B. endocrine system C. skin cells D. nervous system Answer:
D
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Question: How the individuals in a population are spread throughout their habitat is referred to as what? Options: A. population habitation B. population spread C. population distribution D. habitual distribution Answer:
C
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Question: The process in which organ systems work to maintain a stable internal environment is called what? Options: A. ketosis B. thrombosis C. homeostasis D. consciousness Answer:
C
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Question: When lava flows over a large area and cools, it creates a large, flat surface of what type of rock? Options: A. metamorphic B. tidal C. igneous D. sedimentary Answer:
C
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Question: What is the basic unit of structure and function of living things? Options: A. molecule B. cell C. atom D. particle Answer:
B
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Question: What are observable patterns of stars found in the night sky called? Options: A. latitudes B. deformations C. deviations D. constellations Answer:
D
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Question: What type of relationship occurs between organisms when one member benefits without affecting the other? Options: A. parasitic B. commensalism C. bilateral D. cooperative Answer:
B
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Question: Ripe fruits are usually red, orange, yellow, or what? Options: A. white B. black C. purple D. blue Answer:
C
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Question: The two main fundamental particles that make up neutrons are quarks and what else? Options: A. gluons B. prions C. atoms D. leptons Answer:
A
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Question: What is the only animal phyla that does not consist exclusively of invertebrates? Options: A. chordates B. eukaryotes C. arthropods D. bacteria Answer:
A
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Question: What can exposure to chemical or biological agents cause later in life? Options: A. regression B. adaptation C. an acquired immunodeficiency D. spontaneous mutation Answer:
C
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Question: What do you call the patterns and groups of stars in the sky that ancient people observed and made stories about? Options: A. meteors B. constellations C. planets D. asteroid fields Answer:
B
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Question: What layer is below the lithosphere and in the upper mantle? Options: A. asthenosphere B. magnetosphere C. hydrosphere D. troposphere Answer:
A
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Question: Oxygen is essentially just a waste product of the light reactions of what? Options: A. photosynthesis B. electrolysis C. glycolysis D. Fibrinolysis Answer:
A
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Question: What phenomenon, which is most important in small populations, occurs because the alleles in an offspring generation are a random sample of the alleles in the parent generation? Options: A. genetic drift B. genetic code C. genetic mutation D. genetic DNA Answer:
A
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Question: Flatworms reproduce sexually. in most species, the same individuals produce both what? Options: A. heart and sperm B. gametes C. eggs and sperm D. diploid and haploid Answer:
C
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Question: What scientist created the modern system for classifying organisms? Options: A. linnaeus B. Pasteur C. Newton D. Bohr Answer:
A
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Question: What appears in autumn when cool air moves over a warm lake? Options: A. misty fog B. feature fog C. movement fog D. steam fog Answer:
D
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Question: Electromagnetic specturm is the full spectrum of raidant energy, which is energy emitted and transmitted as what? Options: A. tides B. waves C. currents D. flows Answer:
B
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Question: What helps fungus digest cellulose and other materials found in rotting matter? Options: A. soil B. enzymes C. hormones D. carbohydrates Answer:
B
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Question: In a model of a hemoglobin molecule, the purple part indicates the presence of what element? Options: A. gold B. helium C. silver D. iron Answer:
D
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Question: The bond between the two nitrogen atoms is a what? Options: A. quadruple bond B. single bond C. triple bond D. double bond Answer:
C
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Question: Steel, bronze, and brass are examples of what? Options: A. oxides B. compounds C. alloys D. chemicals Answer:
C
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Question: What are the most common forms of lasers today made of? Options: A. light B. silcon C. spirogyra D. prisms Answer:
B
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Question: Ice floats because it is less what than liquid water? Options: A. heavy B. dense C. gaseous D. warm Answer:
B
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Question: Exemplified by cesium, which ignites spontaneously in air, pure elements with a high metallic character tend to be very what? Options: A. reactive B. radiactive C. inactive D. proactive Answer:
A
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Question: What is a pure substance that cannot be separated into any other substances called? Options: A. Cells B. Spears C. light D. element Answer:
D
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Question: What occurs when force is applied to a moving object? Options: A. inertia B. acceleration C. stimulation D. transmission Answer:
B
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Question: Oceans help control global warming by absorbing what? Options: A. ozone B. methane C. carbon dioxide D. hydrogen Answer:
C
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Question: What is the turning effectiveness of a force? Options: A. gravitational pull B. velocity C. torque D. intake Answer:
C
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Question: What is common in muscles that have become exhausted by use? Options: A. lactic acid fermentation B. Blood Acid Fermentation C. vibration acid fermentation D. clumps acid fermentation Answer:
A
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Question: A catalyst decreases the amount of what resource that is required in order to begin a chemical reaction? Options: A. kinetic energy B. positive energy C. activation energy D. motion energy Answer:
C
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Question: What helps push the fetus from the uterus during birth? Options: A. contractions B. Shaking C. glands D. tremors Answer:
A
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Question: Producing light without a high temperature is called? Options: A. fluorescence B. effervescence C. plasma D. luminescence Answer:
D
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Question: What is the term for the study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment? Options: A. ecology B. anthropology C. radiology D. biology Answer:
A
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Question: What is the time interval required for one complete wave to pass a point called? Options: A. period B. cycle C. half-life D. minute Answer:
A
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Question: When atoms gain or lose electrons, they can form electrically charged particles called what? Options: A. ions B. eons C. crystals D. toxins Answer:
A
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Question: Natural gas burns cleaner and produces less carbon dioxide than fuels of what type? Options: A. fossil fuels B. solar energy C. biofuels D. renewable fuels Answer:
A
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Question: What is the major cause of outdoor air pollution? Options: A. agricultural equipment B. burning fossil fuels C. electric lines D. manufacturing industry Answer:
B
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Question: What is a controlled scientific study of specific variables called? Options: A. experiment B. practicum C. example D. variation Answer:
A
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Question: What is the the basic si unit for mass? Options: A. pound B. volume C. density D. kilogram (kg) Answer:
D
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Question: What happens when turgid cells in a nonwoody tissue push against each other? Options: A. the tissue dies B. the tissue stiffens C. the tissue melts D. the tissues merge Answer:
B
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Question: Isothermal expansion is a process occurring without a change in? Options: A. precipitation B. variation C. temperature D. weight Answer:
C
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Question: Both the initiation and inhibition of cell division are triggered by events external to the cell when it is about to begin which process? Options: A. replication B. extraction C. isolation D. mutation Answer:
A
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Question: Some isotopes are stable indefinitely, while others are radioactive and do what through a characteristic form of emission? Options: A. replicate B. expand C. bond D. decay Answer:
D
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Question: What organ eliminates solid wastes that remain after the digestion of food? Options: A. the large intestine B. the appendix C. the bladder D. the spleen Answer:
A
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Question: Electronegativities are used to determine the polarity of covalent bonds. the polarity of a covalent bond can be judged by determining the difference of the electronegativities of what involved in the covalent bond? Options: A. six atoms B. seven atoms C. two atoms D. three atoms Answer:
C
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Question: Momentum is directly related to both mass and? Options: A. velocity B. mass C. speed D. intensity Answer:
A
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Question: What do concentric circles on a topographic map indicate? Options: A. a lake B. a forest C. a hill D. a crater Answer:
C
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Question: What is another term for all eukaryotic organisms that are neither animals, nor plants, nor fungi? Options: A. protists B. paramecium C. arthropods D. prokaryotes Answer:
A
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Question: What is the body of a roundworm covered with? Options: A. slime B. thin epidermis C. thick scales D. tough cuticle Answer:
D
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Question: What determines the strength of a base when dissolved in water? Options: A. amount of phosphorus ions produced B. amount of hydroxide ions produced C. pH level D. saline content Answer:
B
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Question: Galaxies can be spiral, elliptical, or which other type? Options: A. simple B. irregular C. vertical D. oblong Answer:
B
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Question: What is water falling from the sky called? Options: A. erosion B. precipitation C. vaporization D. distillation Answer:
B
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Question: What characteristics of an organism help it survive? Options: A. systems B. additions C. Changes D. adaptations Answer:
D
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Question: What are the two possible reduction products for brf3? Options: A. brf2 and brf4 B. brf and br2 C. brg and brf D. brf and brf4 Answer:
B
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Question: Materials such as metals have low resistance to electric current, what are they called? Options: A. electric conduit B. electric conductors C. electric channel D. electric channels Answer:
B
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Question: Why do waves travel faster through solids? Options: A. particles fuse together B. particles closer together C. particles range together D. particles pipe together Answer:
B
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Question: What do herbivores eat? Options: A. plants B. animals C. minerals D. meat and plants Answer:
A
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Question: In which ways may sponges reproduce? Options: A. sexually and vertically B. sexually and asexually C. internally and externally D. meiosis and mitosis Answer:
B
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Question: What's the term for a piece of an organism breaking off and forming a new organism? Options: A. extinction B. improvization C. depletion D. fragmentation Answer:
D
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Question: What is considered a good source of calcium? Options: A. wheat B. corn C. milk D. egg Answer:
C
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Question: Deserts are generally dry ecosystems having very little what? Options: A. mountains B. heat C. snowfall D. rainfall Answer:
D
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Question: What molecule can be used by the body to synthesize cholesterol ? Options: A. hydroxide coa B. ethylene coa C. chloride coa D. acetyl coa Answer:
D
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Question: The magnet field of earth is called what? Options: A. troposphere B. atmosphere C. magnetosphere D. ionosphere Answer:
C
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Question: What are hollow cylinders and are the thickest of the cytoskeleton structures? Options: A. vesicles B. microtubules C. cytoplasm D. nucleotides Answer:
B
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Question: What in mammalian lungs, increases the surface area for gas exchange? Options: A. alveoli B. bronchioles C. bronchi D. thorax Answer:
A
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Question: The three layers of protective coverings of the spinal cord is called what? Options: A. dermis B. muscles C. tendons D. meninges Answer:
D
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Question: What is the term for buildup of cell debris and cholesterol inside the arteries? Options: A. sclerosis B. atherosclerosis C. fibrosis D. phimosis Answer:
B
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Question: The normal response of the respiratory system to elevated ph is to increase the amount of what in the blood? Options: A. red blood cells B. acid C. co2 D. glucose Answer:
C
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Question: What includes all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area and how they interact? Options: A. habitat B. tundra C. ecosystem D. biome Answer:
C
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Question: Convex lenses are thicker in the middle than at the edges so they cause rays of light to converge, or meet, at a point called what? Options: A. the base B. focus C. the apex D. the center Answer:
B
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Question: What do we call scientists who study and forecast the weather? Options: A. TV hosts B. forecasters C. Climate predictors D. meteorologists Answer:
D
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Question: The physical sciences can be divided into physics and what other science? Options: A. phsycology B. biology C. chemistry D. astrology Answer:
C
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Question: If you examine eyeglasses for nearsighted people, you will find the lenses are thinnest in the center and of what shape? Options: A. concave B. convex C. asymmetrical D. square Answer:
A
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Question: What do we call the recycling of inorganic matter between living organisms and their environment? Options: A. water cycle B. phosphorus cycle C. biogeochemical cycle D. nutrient cycle Answer:
C
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Question: Chemical signals are received by the target cell on what? Options: A. acidic proteins B. parent proteins C. inceptor proteins D. receptor proteins Answer:
D
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Question: What term is used to describe when a liquid is the temperature at which its equilibrium vapor pressure is equal to the pressure exerted on the liquid by its gaseous surroundings? Options: A. boiling point B. freezing point C. evaporating point D. burning point Answer:
A
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Question: What is the pair of bean-shaped organs that filters blood and produces urine? Options: A. kidneys B. lungs C. heart D. arteries Answer:
A
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Question: What is the name of matter that mechanical wave energy can only travel through? Options: A. medium B. solid C. form D. weight Answer:
A
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Question: What kind of muscle is responsible for making the human heart beat? Options: A. cardiac muscle B. teres minor C. deltoid D. respiratory muscle Answer:
A
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Question: When the number of electrons and the number of protons are equal, the object is what? Options: A. neutral B. Positive C. static D. Negative Answer:
A
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Question: Which glands sit atop the kidneys and are composed of an outer cortex and an inner medulla, all surrounded by a connective tissue capsule? Options: A. thyroid glands B. salivary C. gonads D. adrenal Answer:
D
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Question: What type of plate is an island arc found on? Options: A. coastal B. shear C. continental D. oceanic Answer:
D