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Question: Water molecules are polar, so they form what type of bonds? Options: A. helium B. oxygen C. carbon D. hydrogen Answer:
D
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Question: What component of cells is present in plant and bacterial cells but not animal cells? Options: A. nucleus B. mitochondria C. plasma D. cell wall Answer:
D
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Question: What is the water that falls from the sky called? Options: A. condensation B. evaporation C. precipitation D. moisture Answer:
C
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Question: Through which process do behaviors that improve fitness increase? Options: A. succession B. mutation C. adaptation D. natural selection Answer:
D
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Question: A simple sugar such as fructose or glucose is also called a what? Options: A. monosaccharide B. disaccharide C. galactose D. carbohydrate Answer:
A
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Question: What are regular changes in biology or behavior that occur in a 24 hour cycle? Options: A. auditory rhythm B. circadian rhythm C. life cycle D. cognitive rhythm Answer:
B
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Question: Which important decomposers are known to live just about anywhere on earth? Options: A. archeans B. sporozoans C. viruses D. protazoas Answer:
A
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Question: What is the result when two monosaccharides are bound together? Options: A. polyketide B. Peroxide C. hydrolysis D. disaccharide Answer:
D
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Question: Through which organ do hookworm larvae enter the human body? Options: A. through the mouth B. through the skin C. through the rectum D. through the lungs Answer:
B
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Question: What is the lowest layer of the atmosphere? Options: A. chromosphere B. troposphere C. ionosphere D. lithosphere Answer:
B
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Question: Involved in balance, the semicircular canals are parts of what organs? Options: A. eyes B. ovaries C. lungs D. ears Answer:
D
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Question: What affects the boiling point of water? Options: A. internal pressure B. latter pressure C. heat source D. external pressure Answer:
D
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Question: Whether the organism is a bacterium, plant, or animal, all living things access energy by breaking down these? Options: A. lipid molecules B. protein molecules C. carbohydrate molecules D. oxygen molecules Answer:
C
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Question: During the early paleozoic, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere compared to today was? Options: A. the same B. much lower C. none D. much greater Answer:
D
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Question: Which group of species is defined as having moist skin without scales? Options: A. mammals B. amphibians C. fish D. reptiles Answer:
B
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Question: What rock group offers the richest source of fossils? Options: A. sedimentary B. geode C. igneous D. metamorphic Answer:
A
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Question: Which zone is located below 200 meters from the surface? Options: A. epipelagic B. mesopelagic C. aphotic zone D. observable zone Answer:
C
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Question: What are the only plants with a life cycle in which the gametophyte generation is dominant? Options: A. vascular plants B. nonvascular C. nonpermeable D. photoreactive Answer:
B
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Question: Specific antigens on the surface of red blood cells determine what, which is important in cases of transfusion? Options: A. blood count B. blood type C. blood amount D. blood form Answer:
B
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Question: What is another term for scale worms? Options: A. trichina B. spirogyra C. wormidanopis D. halkieria Answer:
D
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Question: What is the main cause of recent global warming? Options: A. human beings B. ice ages C. solar flares D. insect overpopulation Answer:
A
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Question: The term science comes from a latin word that means? Options: A. only knowledge B. having knowledge C. were knowledge D. having information Answer:
B
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Question: Chemical reactions always involve what? Options: A. physical change B. fuel C. heating D. energy Answer:
D
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Question: Some spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of chromosomes and move the chromosomes to what plate? Options: A. boundary plate B. metaphase plate C. interstitium plate D. prophase plate Answer:
B
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Question: What do we call forces that act on the system from outside? Options: A. static B. external C. material D. internal Answer:
B
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Question: A major disturbance in what results in an episode of severe weather called a storm? Options: A. the core B. the ozone layer C. the atmosphere D. the oceans Answer:
C
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Question: What happens if a molecule forms strong bonds to the catalyst? Options: A. molecules gets poisoned B. catalyst gets poisoned C. membrane gets poisoned D. surface gets poisoned Answer:
B
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Question: When the air temperature reaches the dew point, water vapor starts to do what? Options: A. evaporate B. condense C. dissipate D. germinate Answer:
B
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Question: Where are pressure receptors mainly found? Options: A. the skin B. the muscles C. the nerves D. the tissue Answer:
A
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Question: The renal hilum is the entry and exit site for structures servicing which organs? Options: A. kidneys B. ovaries C. lungs D. brains Answer:
A
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Question: What element do plants use to store energy as atp? Options: A. carbon B. nitrogen C. oxygen D. chlorophyll Answer:
C
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Question: Fruit begins to ripen because what gas is released? Options: A. hydrogen B. chloride C. ethylene D. sulfur Answer:
C
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Question: Species distributions are a consequence of both ecological and evolutionary what? Options: A. isolation B. particles C. fluctuations D. interactions Answer:
D
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Question: Although some have suggested that the uvula is what type of organ, it actually serves an important purpose? Options: A. parietal B. essential C. vestigial D. remnant Answer:
C
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Question: In science, what can be described as a set of steps that help us to answer questions? Options: A. hypothesis B. theory C. scientific controls D. scientific method Answer:
D
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Question: What is beneath the cerebrum and includes the thalamus and hypothalamus? Options: A. rendalen B. brain stem C. diencephalon D. subvocalization Answer:
C
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Question: Recent evidence indicates some of what type of cells remain within the heart, continuing to divide and potentially replace dead cells? Options: A. osteoclast cells B. human cells C. dendritic cells D. stem cells Answer:
D
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Question: Insects are arthropods in which class? Options: A. xerophyte B. lexapoda C. trichina D. hexapoda Answer:
D
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Question: What type of joint is the knee joint? Options: A. ball joint B. condyloid joint C. hinge joint D. pivot joint Answer:
C
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Question: The nitrogen that enters living systems by nitrogen fixation is successively converted from organic nitrogen back into nitrogen gas by what? Options: A. viruses B. algae C. pollen D. bacteria Answer:
D
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Question: Both mitosis and meiosis result in eukaryotic cells doing what? Options: A. multiplication B. friction C. dividing D. limiting Answer:
C
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Question: Where can composite volcanoes most frequently be found? Options: A. divergent boundaries B. astatine boundaries C. transform boundaries D. convergent boundaries Answer:
D
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Question: A symporter carries how many different molecules or ions in the same direction? Options: A. three B. one C. four D. two Answer:
D
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Question: Ecology is a major branch of what higher-level "classification" of science? Options: A. physics B. geology C. chemistry D. biology Answer:
D
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Question: Nearly all protists exist in some type of aquatic environment, including freshwater and marine environments, damp soil, and even snow. several protist species are parasites that infect animals or plants. a few protist species live on dead organisms or their wastes, and contribute to what? Options: A. greenhouse gas B. spontaneous mutation C. habitat loss D. their decay Answer:
D
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Question: Unlike ammonia, oxygen cannot be liquefied at room temperature because its what is below room temperature? Options: A. leading temperature B. critical temperature C. particular temperature D. relaxed temperature Answer:
B
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Question: What are diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits examples of? Options: A. radio parts B. computer parts C. machine parts D. electronic components Answer:
D
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Question: Both alpha and beta decay change the number of what in an atom's nucleus? Options: A. protons B. Gamma decay C. neutrons D. electrons Answer:
A
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Question: Which of the electromagnetic waves have the shortest wavelengths and highest frequencies? Options: A. ultraviolet B. gamma C. plasma D. beta Answer:
B
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Question: No-till farming is one effort to combat what, caused by typical farming practices? Options: A. pollution B. drought C. soil erosion D. habitat destruction Answer:
C
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Question: The process in which dna is copied is called what? Options: A. dna transfer B. dna replication C. dna splicing D. dna duplication Answer:
B
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Question: What kind of metals have perplexing patterns of electron distribution that don’t always follow the electron filling rules? Options: A. transition B. transformation C. variating D. solution Answer:
A
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Question: Weight refers to what force acting on a mass? Options: A. electronic B. solar C. gravitational D. magnetic Answer:
C
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Question: Where are protons and neutrons located? Options: A. secondary nucleus B. orbitals C. central nucleus D. outside the nucleus Answer:
C
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Question: What is the standard measurement for mass? Options: A. calories B. volume C. BMI D. grams Answer:
D
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Question: Wearing clothes that trap air next to your body on a cold day helps you retain what type of energy? Options: A. adjacent energy B. alumal energy C. thermal energy D. caloric energy Answer:
C
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Question: Pure nonpolar covalent bonds exist only between what? Options: A. two altered atoms B. two identical atoms C. two producing atoms D. three altered atoms Answer:
B
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Question: What chemicals in the liver support glucose homeostasis? Options: A. Force and insulin B. lactobacilli and insulin C. cytosol and insulin D. glucagon and insulin Answer:
D
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Question: Manganin is made up of metals that include copper, manganese and nickel - what do you generally call a metal of this type? Options: A. silicon B. complex metal C. alloy D. mixed metal Answer:
C
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Question: Not getting enough calcium may cause what health problem? Options: A. blindness B. diabetes C. osteoporosis D. arthritis Answer:
C
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Question: Hydrostatic skeletons are well suited for life in what kind of environments? Options: A. surface B. bacterial C. pelagic D. aquatic Answer:
D
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Question: What is the major source of warmth for earth? Options: A. seasons B. the sun C. the Moon D. equator Answer:
B
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Question: What are are organisms that feed on small pieces of organic matter? Options: A. difference feeders B. deposit feeders C. waste feeders D. bottom feeders Answer:
B
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Question: What do you call the lightless part of the ocean? Options: A. photic zone B. Davy Jones' Locker C. photoreactive zone D. aphotic zone Answer:
D
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Question: What kind of change occurs whenever matter changes into an entirely different substance with different chemical properties? Options: A. chemical change B. reversible change C. physical change D. carbon change Answer:
A
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Question: What is the term for the attraction between oppositely charged atoms or ions? Options: A. covalent bond B. neutron bond C. ionic bond D. magnetic bond Answer:
C
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Question: What is the health-threatening smoke exhaled by a cigarette smoker or released from tobacco products? Options: A. secondhand smoke B. contamination smoke C. secondary smoke D. primary smoke Answer:
A
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Question: In what area of the body are sutural bones found? Options: A. tooth B. skin C. skull D. legs Answer:
C
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Question: When a solute dissolves into a solvent what is that called? Options: A. mixing B. viscosity C. solubility D. enthalpy Answer:
D
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Question: Many cancers, as well as autism, are thought to have what component, which is certainly a factor in asthma? Options: A. critical B. environmental C. emotional D. ecological Answer:
B
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Question: Metals, metalloids, and nonmetals are the different classes of what? Options: A. elements B. compounds C. structures D. ions Answer:
A
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Question: Fluoride ion is widely used in water supplies to help prevent what? Options: A. rust B. chlorine taste C. tooth decay D. bacteria Answer:
C
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Question: Mixtures of materials called alloys contain at least one of what type of material? Options: A. coal B. liquid C. metal D. steel Answer:
C
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Question: What is the term for a system maintaining a stable internal environment in a changeable external environment? Options: A. homeostasis B. fetus C. Pregnant D. hypothesis Answer:
A
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Question: What term is used to describe the change in size or volume of a given mass with temperature? Options: A. thermal contraction B. thermal expansion C. freezing D. atmospheric expansion Answer:
B
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Question: Vinegar is an example of what type of acid? Options: A. carboxylic B. ascorbic C. acetic D. carbonic Answer:
A
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Question: Gravitropism ensures that roots grow into the soil and that shoots grow toward what? Options: A. the south pole B. trees C. the north pole D. sunlight Answer:
D
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Question: What term is used for any combination of two or more atoms? Options: A. molecule B. nucleus C. synthesis D. element Answer:
A
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Question: What is the atomic number of magnesium? Options: A. 8 B. 12 C. 17 D. 25 Answer:
B
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Question: Due to the difference in the distribution of charge, water is what type of molecule? Options: A. uneven B. crooked C. polar D. ionic Answer:
C
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Question: The leaves of what plant genus are the source of the compound ephedrine, which is used in medicine as a potent decongestant and is similar to amphetamines? Options: A. ephedra B. Stimulant C. additive D. dietary Answer:
A
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Question: What type of hydrocarbon is coal? Options: A. liqued B. solid C. gas D. mineral Answer:
B
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Question: What is an individual with more than the correct number of chromosome sets called? Options: A. diploid B. polyploid C. autosome D. autotrophs Answer:
B
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Question: Carbon released by burning fossil fuels contributes to what effect in the atmosphere? Options: A. shielding effect B. cloud effect C. smog effect D. greenhouse effect Answer:
D
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Question: Ocean water appears cyan because microbes in the water preferentially absorb what color of light? Options: A. yellow B. blue C. red D. green Answer:
C
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Question: What are atoms of the same element that differ in their numbers of neutrons called? Options: A. organisms B. isotopes C. opposites D. reactions Answer:
B
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Question: In their processes of gene expression, archael cells show similarties to both bacterial cells and which other type of cell? Options: A. chloroplasts B. Prokaryotic C. eukaryotic D. plant cells Answer:
C
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Question: What is another term for blood clotting? Options: A. oxidation B. adulation C. differentiation D. coagulation Answer:
D
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Question: What type of joint has the greatest range of motion? Options: A. Gliding B. Pivot C. ball-and-socket D. Hinge Answer:
C
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Question: When na 2 hpo 24 − (the weak acid) comes into contact with a strong base, such as sodium hydroxide (naoh), the weak acid reverts back to the weak base and produces what? Options: A. rock B. water C. air D. plasma Answer:
B
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Question: In the human body, what do you call the intersection where the paths for air and food cross.? Options: A. cloaca B. pharynx C. larynx D. esophagus Answer:
B
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Question: The cecum is the first part of what structure, where wastes in a liquid state enter from the small intestine? Options: A. large intestine B. appendix C. duodenum D. esophagus Answer:
A
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Question: Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur are basic elements that form what type of compounds, which are vital to life? Options: A. hydrocarbons B. amino acids C. organic compounds D. inorganic compounds Answer:
C
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Question: What gas can be generated by reacting sodium bromide with elemental chlorine? Options: A. photons bromine gas B. elemental bromine gas C. gaseous bromine gas D. Molecular Bromine Gas Answer:
B
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Question: Sister chromatids separate as part of anaphase in what process? Options: A. mitosis B. vesicles C. osmosis D. angiogenesis Answer:
A
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Question: If pressure is exerted on the rock from one direction, the rock forms layers. this is called what? Options: A. foliation B. protonation C. sedimentation D. stratification Answer:
A
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Question: What type of tissue is blood? Options: A. nervous B. connective C. epithelial D. muscular Answer:
B
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Question: Fish have a circulatory system with a two-chambered what? Options: A. brain B. heart C. stomach D. lung Answer:
B
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Question: A diagram in which the numerical values of variables are represented by the height or length of lines or rectangles of equal width is called? Options: A. bar graph B. pie chart C. venn diagram D. circle graph Answer:
A
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Question: Name the closest living relatives of tetrapods? Options: A. shrimp B. lumpfishes C. spinefishes D. lungfishes Answer:
D