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Question: When a solid substance is involved in a chemical reaction, only the matter from which part of the solid is exposed to other reactants? Options: A. the base B. the top C. the interior D. the surface Answer:
D
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Question: Electromagnetic waves are generally caused by magnetic fields doing what (or moving in what way)? Options: A. revolving B. vibrating C. rippling D. folding Answer:
B
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Question: In which direction does heat always flow through objects? Options: A. from low to high B. from cooler to hotter C. from hotter to cooler D. from left to right Answer:
C
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Question: An unbalanced force on an object in motion causes what? Options: A. velocity B. vibration C. acceleration D. agitation Answer:
C
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Question: Fog disappears when the water droplets change back to what? Options: A. cold vapor B. solid vapor C. ice vapor D. water vapor Answer:
D
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Question: What term is used to describe the parts of the brain involved in the reception and interpretation of sensory stimuli collectively? Options: A. sensorium B. neurons C. glial cells D. medulla oblongata Answer:
A
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Question: Ringworm and athlete’s foot are common human diseases caused by types of what? Options: A. viruses B. multicellular bacteria C. acids D. fungi Answer:
D
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Question: What is the goal of science? Options: A. improve knowledge B. improve life expectancy C. increase knowledge D. gain scholarships Answer:
C
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Question: The vegetal pole refers to the concentration of what toward one pole of an egg? Options: A. embryo B. yolk C. shell D. light Answer:
B
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Question: What is the term for tough, flexible connective tissue that contains the protein collagen? Options: A. membrane B. cartilage C. cuticle D. muscle Answer:
B
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Question: What is the study of the interaction between matter and energy called? Options: A. geology B. chemistry C. astronomy D. climatology Answer:
B
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Question: What direction are sediments deposited? Options: A. horizontally B. magnetic poles C. diagonally D. vertically Answer:
A
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Question: Fertilization occurs if a sperm enters the egg while it is passing through what tube? Options: A. fallopian B. vaginal C. anterior D. ovarian Answer:
A
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Question: The average length of a woman’s menstrual cycle is what? Options: A. 19 days B. 5 days C. 28 days D. 16 days Answer:
C
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Question: In heart muscle, what released by neurons activates a signal transduction pathway? Options: A. glucose B. dopamine C. glutamate D. acetylcholine Answer:
D
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Question: Many carbohydrates can enter glycolysis, most often after conversion to what? Options: A. glucose B. insulin C. sucrose D. fructose Answer:
A
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Question: What effect occurs when a few individuals start, or found, a new population? Options: A. convergent B. founder C. divergent D. pioneer Answer:
B
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Question: What part of a plant protects the plant cell, maintains its shape, and prevents excessive uptake of water? Options: A. wall B. stem C. chloroplasm D. root Answer:
A
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Question: What causes a voltage to exist across the membrane in cells? Options: A. same charge B. insulators C. increase in energy D. difference in charges Answer:
D
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Question: What type of bonds are formed by the side-to-side overlap of p orbitals? Options: A. sigma bonds B. omega bonds C. theta bonds D. pi bonds Answer:
D
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Question: What is the term for the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum? Options: A. electricity B. gravity C. chroma D. light Answer:
D
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Question: What is the term for rain consisting of water with a ph below 5? Options: A. Hot Rain B. carbon rain C. acid rain D. produce rain Answer:
C
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Question: Because it produces oxygen, what plant process was necessary for the evolution of animals? Options: A. germination B. reproduction C. photosynthesis D. death Answer:
C
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Question: The most common curved mirrors are what? Options: A. spherical B. concave C. convex D. solid Answer:
A
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Question: What is the biggest group of animals on the planet? Options: A. herbivores B. arthropods C. carnivores D. mammles Answer:
B
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Question: Despite their name, what scientists study the atmosphere rather than colliding space rocks? Options: A. forecasters B. astronomers C. meteorologists D. astronauts Answer:
C
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Question: The galápagos islands are a group of 16 volcanic islands 600 miles off the west coast of what continent? Options: A. south america B. europe C. north america D. asia Answer:
A
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Question: What structure supports the body, protects internal organs, produces blood cells, and maintains mineral homeostasis? Options: A. fossil B. skin C. skeleton D. cuticle Answer:
C
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Question: What is it called when something is unable to move from place to place? Options: A. obovate B. sessile C. ovate D. Undrate Answer:
B
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Question: What are the three types of muscle tissue in the body? Options: A. proliferating , cardiac , smooth B. spongy, cardiac, skeletal C. skeletal, cardiac, smooth D. topography , cardiac , smooth Answer:
C
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Question: How often should women perform a breast self-exam? Options: A. yearly B. weekly C. quarterly D. monthly Answer:
D
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Question: What term is used to describe the full range of electromagnetic waves? Options: A. mechanical spectrum B. electromagnetic series C. electromagnetic scale D. electromagnetic spectrum Answer:
D
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Question: What type of generations do plants alternate between during a life cycle? Options: A. algal and diploid B. vitro and diploid C. haploid and clump D. haploid and diploid Answer:
D
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Question: What are biochemical compounds, such as fats and oils, that consist of fatty acids and store energy? Options: A. lipids B. tissues C. oils D. proteins Answer:
A
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Question: What is the term for a fold that arches upward? Options: A. anticline B. underlain C. tailslide D. tailplane Answer:
A
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Question: Arthropods change into the adult form in a process called what? Options: A. budding B. parthenogenesis C. spontaneous mutation D. metamorphosis Answer:
D
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Question: Vascular plants all have roots, stems, and what? Options: A. leaves B. fruits C. beans D. flowers Answer:
A
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Question: Comets that have periods of 200 years or less are knows as what-period comets? Options: A. old B. fast C. short D. long Answer:
C
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Question: An electrical motor changes electrical energy into what? Options: A. chemical energy B. thermal energy C. mechanical energy D. solar energy Answer:
C
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Question: What part of the cell holds cell organelles in place within the cytoplasm? Options: A. nucleus B. call wall C. exoskeleton D. cytoskeleton Answer:
D
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Question: Many organisms look very similar to other organisms because they may be from the same what? Options: A. nutrients B. species C. parasites D. area Answer:
B
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Question: What consists of all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area and their interactions? Options: A. community B. habitat C. macroevolution D. ecosystem Answer:
D
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Question: Circadian rhythms and migration are examples of which behaviors? Options: A. periodic B. natural C. cyclic D. regular Answer:
C
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Question: What is the source of energy for photosynthesis? Options: A. carbon B. gravity C. light D. air Answer:
C
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Question: What are genes located on the sex chromosomes called? Options: A. dimorphism - linked genes B. autosomes C. sex-linked genes D. diploid genes Answer:
C
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Question: What is absorbed from food waste in the large intestine before it passes out of the body as feces? Options: A. distilled water B. dependent water C. inactive water D. excess water Answer:
D
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Question: What organ breaks down excess amino acids and toxins in the blood? Options: A. lungs B. liver C. heart D. kidney Answer:
B
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Question: How do plants obtain their energy? Options: A. Sugar Transfer B. photosynthesis C. HETEROTROPHS D. glycolysis Answer:
B
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Question: Sudden changes in geologic and climatic conditions can spur what process? Options: A. symbiosis B. generation C. evolution D. cloning Answer:
C
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Question: The brain is said to contain gray matter, while what related structure contains white matter separated into columns? Options: A. brain stem B. spinal cord C. orbital lobe D. amygdala Answer:
B
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Question: What is a compound that can form ions when it dissolves in water called? Options: A. compound B. sulfate C. electrolyte D. isolate Answer:
C
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Question: Lava that enters the water is called what? Options: A. saltwater lava B. pillow lava C. lava flow D. magma runoff Answer:
B
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Question: What quality of sound makes a tuba and a piccolo very different to a listener? Options: A. wavelength B. pitch C. curve D. tune Answer:
B
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Question: What type of feeders are sponges? Options: A. layer feeders B. bottom feeders C. surface feeders D. filter feeders Answer:
D
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Question: Oil and water do not mix, instead forming two distinct layers called what? Options: A. surfaces B. changes C. stages D. phases Answer:
D
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Question: What is anything that causes cancer called? Options: A. chemical B. carcinogen C. pesticide D. bacteria Answer:
B
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Question: At what temperatures do crystals formed by covalent molecular solids melt at? Options: A. scorching B. hot C. low D. high Answer:
C
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Question: Where does groundwater primarily come from? Options: A. evaporation B. erosion C. sediment D. precipitation Answer:
D
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Question: What developmental stage do alligators lack that most other amphibians have? Options: A. metamorphosis B. Tadpole stage C. Egg Stage D. larval stage Answer:
D
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Question: Prior to ovulation, ovarian steroid hormones stimulate the uterus to prepare for support of what? Options: A. embryo B. fetus C. childbirth D. fertilization Answer:
A
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Question: Colliding-beam accelerators create matter from what? Options: A. sound B. magnetism C. energy D. minerals Answer:
C
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Question: What do industries use water to generate? Options: A. refrigeration B. light C. electricity D. pollution Answer:
C
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Question: Like the marketplace, the metabolic economy is regulated by what basic principle? Options: A. jobs and demand B. price and demand C. industrial and demand D. supply and demand Answer:
D
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Question: What are these examples of: a person riding a carousel and a skydiver in free fall? Options: A. centripetal force B. centrifugal force C. vibration D. acceleration Answer:
D
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Question: As per the kinetic-molecular theory, in what direction do the molecules and ions of liquids move? Options: A. opposite direction B. alter directions C. same direction D. random directions Answer:
D
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Question: What device changes kinetic energy to electrical energy through electromagnetic induction? Options: A. Emission generator B. electric generator C. due generator D. real generator Answer:
B
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Question: What regulates the thyroid gland in a body? Options: A. negative feedback loop B. normal feedback loop C. upper feedback loop D. positive feedback loop Answer:
A
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Question: How many fingers do apes have on each hand? Options: A. four B. six C. seven D. five Answer:
D
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Question: What percentage of the field is tilled in traditional plowing? Options: A. 60 % B. 50 % C. 100% D. 75% Answer:
C
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Question: What is the most commonly used source of energy in the world? Options: A. electricity B. wind C. water D. oil Answer:
D
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Question: Damages and deaths are directly affected by what in an earthquake? Options: A. structures B. natural C. shaking D. construction Answer:
D
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Question: What protects reptiles from drying out? Options: A. skin B. sweat C. hairs D. scales Answer:
D
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Question: In mammals, what layer protects the egg? Options: A. Albumen B. Choloza C. Germinal Disc D. zona pellucida Answer:
D
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Question: Birds are thought to have evolved from a group of bipedal dinosaurs called what? Options: A. therapods B. sporozoans C. pteradactyls D. staurikosaurus Answer:
A
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Question: Huge calderas form when the mountain above an empty chamber of what collapses? Options: A. gas B. magma C. coal D. mercury Answer:
B
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Question: What are the two divisions of vascular plants? Options: A. aquatic and terrestrial B. root and seed C. seedless and semi-seeded D. seedless and seed Answer:
D
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Question: An excessive posterior curvature of the thoracic region is also known as what? Options: A. kyphosis B. osmosis C. babesiosis D. lordosis Answer:
A
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Question: What is the term for the force applied to a wheel and axle? Options: A. momentum B. input force C. velocity force D. output force Answer:
B
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Question: What is one way of classifying organisms called? Options: A. spasm B. clade C. tuck D. cluster Answer:
B
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Question: How many mass distinctions have radically altered the history of life? Options: A. one B. four C. five D. six Answer:
C
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Question: The electronic components in electronic devices, used to transmit and change electricity are made of? Options: A. resistors B. semiconductors C. microchips D. inverters Answer:
B
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Question: What is produced when sulfur and oxygen combine? Options: A. sulfur oxide B. hydrogen oxide C. Acidic oxides D. Basic Oxides Answer:
A
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Question: Mass can be destroyed to release what? Options: A. acceleration B. energy C. mass D. velocity Answer:
B
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Question: Soluble minerals and clays accumulate in what soil layer, allowing it to hold more water? Options: A. subsoil B. silt C. topsoil D. subsurface Answer:
A
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Question: What is the name for the organs behind the head of a fish that absorb oxygen from water? Options: A. alveoli B. pores C. lungs D. gills Answer:
D
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Question: Prions are slow-acting, virtually indestructible infectious proteins that cause diseases of what vital organ in mammals? Options: A. heart B. brain C. lung D. liver Answer:
B
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Question: What kind of planet do we consider ceres to be? Options: A. gas planet B. binary planet C. dwarf planet D. minor planet Answer:
C
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Question: The changing of a light ray’s direction (loosely called bending) when it passes through variations in matter is called this? Options: A. vibration B. refraction C. wavelength D. resonance Answer:
B
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Question: What is the name of the smaller molecules that make up proteins? Options: A. rna acids B. fundamental acids C. amino acids D. DNA acids Answer:
C
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Question: Shield volcanoes often form along which locations? Options: A. fault lines B. convergent boundaries C. divergent plate boundaries D. tectonic plates Answer:
C
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Question: What do you call a substance that cannot be broken down to other substances by chemical reactions.? Options: A. a compound B. an element C. a participate D. a molecule Answer:
B
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Question: The bone matrix consists of tough protein fibers—mainly what? Options: A. tendons B. collagen C. tissues D. hemoglobin Answer:
B
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Question: What is the largest artery in the body called? Options: A. aorta B. ventricular C. radial D. carotid Answer:
A
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Question: How many vertebrae make up the human vertebral column? Options: A. 35 B. 35 C. 33 D. 32 Answer:
C
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Question: What is the smallest part of a compound? Options: A. electron B. nucleus C. molecule D. dna Answer:
C
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Question: How does uric acid react to water? Options: A. mixes B. explodes C. does not form D. does not dissolve Answer:
D
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Question: What happens to the volume of a balloon when you add moles of gas to it by blowing up? Options: A. stays the same B. decreases C. increases D. changes randomly Answer:
C
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Question: What tissue do clubmosses have that mosses do not? Options: A. dioxide tissue B. chorophyll C. nuclei D. vascular tissue Answer:
D
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Question: Which continent is the only one that reptiles don't inhabit? Options: A. antartica B. Africa C. South America D. Europe Answer:
A
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Question: What is the term for the number of covalent bonds an atom can form? Options: A. gradient B. valence C. atomic number D. covalent number Answer:
B