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Question: The release of an egg from an ovary, is part of what cycle? Options: A. stomach B. fetal C. menstrual D. life Answer:
C
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Question: Rising and falling levels of what will result in progression of the ovarian and menstrual cycles? Options: A. oxygen B. red blood cells C. hormones D. blood pressure Answer:
C
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Question: What takes place at some coastlines or along the equator and brings cool, nutrient-rich water to the surface? Options: A. flooding B. red tide C. high tide D. upwelling Answer:
D
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Question: What is first stage of cellular respiration? Options: A. electrolysis B. glycolsis C. hydrolisis D. metabolism Answer:
B
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Question: Where is glycogen created and stored in the body? Options: A. extracts and muscles B. Healing Muscles C. Sore muscle D. liver and muscles Answer:
D
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Question: Are birds and mammals mainly exothermic or endothermic? Options: A. autotrophic B. hypothermic C. endothermic D. exothermic Answer:
C
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Question: An aqueous solution is a homogeneous mixture in which the most abundant component is what? Options: A. air B. blood C. water D. oxygen Answer:
C
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Question: What is a biochemical compound that is a chain of amino acids called? Options: A. proteins B. hormones C. DNA D. lipids Answer:
A
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Question: Fires, mainly caused by what, are a natural disturbance in temperate grasslands? Options: A. lightning B. campfires C. cigarettes D. humans Answer:
A
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Question: Which waterfall series is the largest on the planet? Options: A. yosemite falls B. niagara falls C. iguassu falls D. angel falls Answer:
C
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Question: Cigarettes are a major source of what kind of chemical substances linked with cancer? Options: A. alkaloids B. chemicals C. carcinogens D. pesticides Answer:
C
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Question: Earthquakes have both longitudinal and transverse components, and these travel at what? Options: A. the speed of light B. different speeds C. the speed of sound D. identical speeds Answer:
B
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Question: What plastid makes and stores other pigments? Options: A. sporozoans B. pores C. chromoplasts D. pores Answer:
C
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Question: What can ultimately result when species are introduced to a new place and prey on other species? Options: A. depletion B. extinction C. over population D. elimination Answer:
B
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Question: What are atoms of the same element but with different numbers of neutrons called? Options: A. electrons B. masses C. variations D. isotopes Answer:
D
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Question: In science, what is supported by much evidence, widely accepted by credible scientists, and unlikely to be disproved? Options: A. law B. hypothesis C. concept D. theory Answer:
D
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Question: Chemical changes occur because of what? Options: A. toxic reactions B. liquid reactions C. chemical reactions D. evaporation Answer:
C
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Question: Pathogenic prokaryotes usually cause illness by producing what? Options: A. poisons B. organisms C. ions D. insects Answer:
A
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Question: The job of the nucleolus is to build what? Options: A. chromosomes B. ribosomes C. electrons D. cells Answer:
B
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Question: Compounds with metals and nonmetals sharing electrons are known as what kinds of compounds? Options: A. eons B. atoms C. acids D. ions Answer:
D
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Question: Like the platypus, the echnida is a what? Options: A. dugongs B. prosauropod C. monotreme D. Gives Live birth Answer:
C
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Question: What crystals consist of molecules at the lattice points of the crystal, held together by relatively weak intermolecular forces? Options: A. molecular crystals B. quartz crystals C. salt crystals D. healing crystals Answer:
A
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Question: The larger surface area of leaves allows them to capture more what? Options: A. pollen B. sunlight C. molecules D. chlorophyll Answer:
B
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Question: What is the most common cause of cancer? Options: A. cell mutations B. poor diet C. technology mutations D. smoking Answer:
A
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Question: Air temperature changes as what increases? Options: A. altitude B. pressure C. salinity D. density Answer:
A
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Question: Snakes use what anatomical structure to smell scents in the air? Options: A. branched tongue B. forked tongue C. forked eyes D. forked tails Answer:
B
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Question: A sticky, moist secretion that covers mucous membranes is called what? Options: A. saliva B. mucus C. sweat D. pus Answer:
B
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Question: Meiosis in the sporophyte produces haploid cells called what? Options: A. spores B. seeds C. ions D. fibers Answer:
A
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Question: What precious resource allows us to grow food as well as materials we turn into clothing and medicine? Options: A. mercury B. petroleum C. gasoline D. soil Answer:
D
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Question: What is the equation of power released? Options: A. uptake x current B. amplitude x current C. voltage x current D. detonation x current Answer:
C
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Question: What is the name for the term that describes deep ocean water rising the surface? Options: A. percolating B. leaking C. up-rising D. upwelling Answer:
D
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Question: Which primate group generally lives alone? Options: A. chimpanzee B. orangutan C. human D. gorilla Answer:
B
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Question: The color of an object is determined by the what of it's reflected light? Options: A. luminosity B. variation C. absorption D. wavelength Answer:
D
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Question: What event occurs between the two solstices? Options: A. summer B. Leap Year C. Christmas D. equinox Answer:
D
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Question: What does a theory need to be supported by? Options: A. many observations B. peer reviewed journals C. scientists D. facts Answer:
A
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Question: Which chromosome is associated with cri du chat syndrome? Options: A. genome 5 B. chromosome 5 C. collagen 5 D. spore 5 Answer:
B
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Question: Which disease occurs when there is not enough hemoglobin in the blood? Options: A. Respiratory B. Diabetes C. Pulmonary D. anemia Answer:
D
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Question: When does an oocyte complete meiosis? Options: A. anaphase B. metaphase C. after sperm penetration D. prophase Answer:
C
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Question: Noble gases are monatomic because they only contain one of what? Options: A. atoms B. ions C. charges D. molecules Answer:
A
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Question: In mammals, four specialized types of what serve to cut, tear, and grind food? Options: A. teeth B. spines C. scales D. plates Answer:
A
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Question: All metabolic functions carried out by a prokaryote take place in the plasma membrane or where else? Options: A. mitochondrial B. extracellular C. Shell D. cytosol Answer:
D
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Question: A complementary pair of chromosomes have genes for the same characteristics in the same location on the chromosome are known as? Options: A. analogous chromosomes B. symbiotic chromosomes C. homologous chromosomes D. endroctyne chromosomes Answer:
C
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Question: The umbilical cord connects the fetus to what structure? Options: A. Ovaries B. placenta C. uterus D. cell Answer:
B
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Question: What produces sound waves that travel outward in all directions in water? Options: A. echo sounders B. echo chamber C. amplifiers D. ultrasound machines Answer:
A
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Question: The length that an object has travelled in one or multiple directions can also be called what? Options: A. distance B. velocity C. range D. axis Answer:
A
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Question: Nonflowering vascular plants have how many basic types of leaves? Options: A. one B. four C. three D. five Answer:
C
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Question: What is created when you combine simple machines? Options: A. motors B. factories C. digital devices D. compound machines Answer:
D
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Question: Most members of what mammalian order possess opposable thumbs? Options: A. amphibians B. primates C. marsupials D. rodents Answer:
B
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Question: What two cycles make up the female reproductive cycle? Options: A. cervical and menstrual B. ovarian and menstrual C. ovarian and cesarean D. digestive and menstrual Answer:
B
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Question: Fossils themselves and the order in which they appear in are generally collectively called what? Options: A. coal record B. fossil magnitude C. fuel cycle D. fossil record Answer:
D
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Question: What is a process in which some substances change into different substances? Options: A. a thermodynamic reaction B. a chemical reaction C. a bio reaction D. a toxic reaction Answer:
B
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Question: The formula unit of sodium chloride dissociates into one sodium ion and one? Options: A. chloride ion B. oxygen ion C. electron D. magnesium ion Answer:
A
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Question: Lyme disease is caused by what kind of organim? Options: A. bacteria B. algae C. Virus D. bacterium Answer:
A
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Question: What is formed when atoms of different elements bond together? Options: A. univalent compound B. phenotype compound C. duality compound D. covalent compound Answer:
D
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Question: An estimated 99 percent of the species that have ever lived on earth no longer exist, showing that what event is common? Options: A. pollution B. extinction C. over fishing D. accumulation Answer:
B
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Question: What is the smallest particle of an element that still has the properties of that element? Options: A. neutron B. nucleus C. atom D. electron Answer:
C
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Question: Green cyanobacteria on a lake produce food through what process? Options: A. reverse transferase B. spermatogenesis C. glycolysis D. photosynthesis Answer:
D
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Question: Gene expression and what else are usually considered the same molecular process? Options: A. photosynthesis B. organism synthesis C. subtractive synthesis D. protein synthesis Answer:
D
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Question: What is the phenomenon in which light and sound waves become circular at the point source of a barrier? Options: A. refraction B. reflection C. sonic wave D. diffraction Answer:
D
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Question: Sulfate is used as a cleaning agent because it is acidic and soluble in what substance? Options: A. air B. salt C. water D. oxygen Answer:
C
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Question: What harmful substance must not be drained into s storm sewer? Options: A. debris B. motor oil C. alcohol D. water runoff Answer:
B
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Question: What system in both males and females consists of structures that produce reproductive cells, or gametes, and secrete sex hormone? Options: A. digestion B. circulatory system C. immune system D. reproductive Answer:
D
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Question: Translation is the second part of the central dogma of what? Options: A. molecular gastronomy B. string theory C. molecular biology D. relativity Answer:
C
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Question: What is the predominant stage in the life cycle of most scyphozoans? Options: A. medusa B. spore C. gamete D. hydra Answer:
A
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Question: What are the catalysts that occur naturally in living organisms and are primarily protein molecules? Options: A. carbohydrates B. hormones C. acids D. enzymes Answer:
D
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Question: What is the only substance on earth that is stable in all three states? Options: A. mercury B. carbon C. air D. water Answer:
D
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Question: The weather conditions in an area over time is also called a what? Options: A. habitat B. climate C. biome D. landscape Answer:
B
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Question: Glucagon and insulin are produced in what organ? Options: A. thymus B. thyroid C. hypothalamus D. pancreas Answer:
D
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Question: There are 20 different common amino acids needed to make what organic compound? Options: A. proteins B. nutron C. cells D. lipids Answer:
A
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Question: What substance is removed from waste as it passes through the large intestine? Options: A. air B. blood C. water D. nutrients Answer:
C
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Question: What is the term for the combined forces acting on an object? Options: A. net force B. blunt force C. total impact D. critical force Answer:
A
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Question: What are fresh water biomes defined by? Options: A. moving water B. animal species C. low salt concentration D. high salt content Answer:
C
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Question: What kind of tissue consists of trabeculae and forms the inner layer of all bones? Options: A. flotsam bone tissue B. corregated bone tissue C. denser bone tissue D. spongy bone tissue Answer:
D
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Question: What is the medical process of removing wastes and excess water from the blood by diffusion and ultrafiltration called? Options: A. arthritis B. dialysis C. digestion D. tumors Answer:
B
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Question: The sternum and 12 pairs of ribs with their costal cartilages make up what? Options: A. the core B. chest cage C. heart cage D. thoracic cage Answer:
D
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Question: What prevents loss of water from the body and keeps out microorganisms? Options: A. muscles B. the skin' C. hydration D. sweat Answer:
B
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Question: What is the name of the major sex hormone in females? Options: A. estrogen B. testosterone C. glucose D. insulin Answer:
A
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Question: The cerebellum is associated with what major human organ? Options: A. bladder B. liver C. brain D. heart Answer:
C
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Question: What are chemical messengers that control sexual development and reproduction? Options: A. neurotransmitters B. lipids C. proteins D. sex hormones Answer:
D
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Question: The atmosphere consists of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, which exerts a certain pressure referred to as what? Options: A. gravity pressure B. tidal pressure C. atmospheric pressure D. nitrogen pressure Answer:
C
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Question: What are the deepest places on earth? Options: A. deep sea caves B. deep sea resonances C. deep sea diversions D. deep sea trenches Answer:
D
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Question: In what state of matter are particles rigidly fixed in space and held tightly to neighboring particles? Options: A. energies B. solids C. liquids D. Gases Answer:
B
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Question: What type of cells does meiosis produce? Options: A. diploid daughter cells B. haploid daughter cells C. mutated cells D. child cells Answer:
B
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Question: Topographic maps have a horizontal scale to indicate what distances? Options: A. horizontal B. perpendicular C. vertical D. diagonal Answer:
A
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Question: What is the measurement for the amount of water vapor in the air? Options: A. saturation B. haze C. ambient D. humidity Answer:
D
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Question: What is the name for unsaturated hydrocarbons that contain at least one double bond? Options: A. alkenes B. acids C. lipids D. enzymes Answer:
A
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Question: What type of symmetry does an octopus have? Options: A. essential B. bilateral C. quadrilateral D. internal Answer:
B
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Question: The inside surface of the jejunum is covered with tiny projections called what? Options: A. alveoli B. mucosa C. villi D. flagella Answer:
C
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Question: In diffusion, substances tend to move from an area of high concentration to an area of what kind of concentration? Options: A. rise B. drop C. Increase D. low Answer:
D
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Question: Which state of matter has an intermediate level of entropy between solid and gas? Options: A. water B. plasma C. metal D. liquid Answer:
D
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Question: Speciation is usually due to a single instance of what? Options: A. radiation B. accumulation C. mutation D. division Answer:
C
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Question: What cellular structure is used during endocytosis to allow molecules to enter the cell? Options: A. membranes B. tissues C. vesicles D. nucleus Answer:
C
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Question: What is a form of cell division in prokaryotic organisms that produces identical offspring? Options: A. germination B. mitosis C. nuclear fission D. binary fission Answer:
D
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Question: What celestial object has been visited by manned spacecraft and is easily seen from earth? Options: A. moon B. Jupiter C. the Sun D. venus Answer:
A
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Question: What is indicated by the ratio of the output force to the input force in a machine? Options: A. magnetic force B. man hours C. momentum D. mechanical advantage Answer:
D
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Question: What are unique in having adaptive immunity in addition to innate immunity? Options: A. invertebrates B. vertebrates C. organelles D. cells Answer:
B
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Question: What is the watery fluid that bathes tissues and organs and contains protective white blood cells but does not contain erythrocytes? Options: A. lymph B. secretion C. stomach D. basil Answer:
A
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Question: What is the term for the arrangement of veins in a leaf? Options: A. dorsal pattern B. vein pattern C. cerebellum pattern D. venation pattern Answer:
D
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Question: What is the name of the effect that causes air masses to move on a diagonal? Options: A. the headwind effect B. polar effect C. aurora borealis D. the coriolis effect Answer:
D
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Question: What is another name for a reasonable explanation for something that might be formed near the beginning of a scientific inquiry into a problem? Options: A. theory B. hypothesis C. experiment D. conclusion Answer:
B