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null | Question: What bonds form because they give atoms a more stable arrangement of electrons?
Options:
A. Polar bond
B. Ionic bond
C. covalent
D. Hydrogen bond
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What is the process of oxidized iron that has been exposed to air and water?
Options:
A. crust
B. bark
C. crystallization
D. rust
Answer: | D |
null | Question: In a solution, what is the substance present in the lesser amount called?
Options:
A. compound
B. fluids
C. molecules
D. solute
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What part of the plant holds the plant upright?
Options:
A. roots
B. notochord
C. the stem
D. leaves
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What are the building blocks of dna?
Options:
A. prokaryotes
B. genes
C. nucleotides
D. peptides
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What is the name of the project concerning genetics that is one of the landmark scientific events of the last 50 years?
Options:
A. human organism project
B. blue beam project
C. manhattan project
D. human genome project
Answer: | D |
null | Question: The primary motor cortex is located in which lobe of the brain?
Options:
A. Parietal
B. frontal
C. Temporal lobe
D. Occipital
Answer: | B |
null | Question: In an experiment, what is the affected variable called?
Options:
A. dependent variable
B. independent variable
C. control variable
D. form variable
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What are materials that cannot conduct thermal energy efficiently known as?
Options:
A. convection insulators
B. physical insulators
C. thermal insulators
D. atmospheric insulators
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What part of a cell do proteins travel to to be modified for the specific job they will do?
Options:
A. nucleus
B. lysosome
C. golgi apparatus
D. plasma membrane
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Cranial nerves convey specific sensory information from the head and neck directly to what organ?
Options:
A. brain
B. eye
C. heart
D. nose
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Mammals may either be herbivores, omnivores or what else?
Options:
A. polyvores
B. herbivores
C. carnivores
D. neither
Answer: | B |
null | Question: How is thermal energy transferred in every-day, real life situations, such as holding a warm cup?
Options:
A. decomposition
B. oxidation
C. condensation
D. conduction
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What form does water take on the planet mars?
Options:
A. liquid
B. gas
C. ice
D. plasma
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What is the name for the amount of energy that is required in order to begin a chemical reaction?
Options:
A. activation
B. conduction
C. function
D. catalytic
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Calcium ion is an example of what kind of messenger?
Options:
A. fourth
B. third
C. first
D. second
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Each species has a characteristic number of what coiled structures made of dna and proteins?
Options:
A. prokaryotes
B. ribosomes
C. genes
D. chromosomes
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Which law relates the pressure, volume, and temperature of a gas?
Options:
A. directions gas law
B. combines gas law
C. newton's law
D. shifts gas law
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Prokaryotes are successful because of the ________ of reproduction in favorable environments
Options:
A. volume
B. order
C. cycle
D. speed
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Smooth, cardiac, and skeletal are all types of what?
Options:
A. muscle
B. bone
C. hormones
D. teeth
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What does an underwater spider use to breathe and keep alive?
Options:
A. metallic air bubble
B. gills
C. shiny air bubble
D. forehead air bubble
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What is the name for membrane-bound sacs that function in storage and transport?
Options:
A. alleles
B. cells
C. vacuoles
D. tubules
Answer: | C |
null | Question: A cartilaginous joint where the bones are joined by fibrocartilage is called a what?
Options:
A. Testes
B. vesicles
C. mitosis
D. symphysis
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Amphibians may attract mates with what?
Options:
A. neither
B. only calls
C. only scents
D. calls or scents
Answer: | D |
null | Question: In projectile motion, the horizontal displacement of an object is called its what?
Options:
A. width
B. height
C. variety
D. range
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Which kind of vertebrates are amphibians?
Options:
A. arachnids vertebrates
B. ectothermic vertebrates
C. enterococci vertebrates
D. endothermic vertebrates
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Where do most of the digestion reactions occur?
Options:
A. liver
B. mouth
C. large intestine
D. small intestine
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What is studied to understand gene expression patterns in cells?
Options:
A. rna
B. protein
C. dna
D. mutations
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Fitness and natural selection are parts of what theory that might describe how organisms change over time?
Options:
A. evolution
B. implementation
C. dessication
D. gravity
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What collect sunlight on the roof of a house for energy?
Options:
A. clay tiles
B. asphalt shingles
C. solar panels
D. infrared panels
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Electrons in the "outer shell" are also known as what kind of electrons?
Options:
A. intermediate
B. valence
C. charged
D. static
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Meaning a disease that spreads from person to person, what term is synonymous with "contagious"?
Options:
A. harmless
B. noncommunicable
C. benign
D. infectious
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Plane mirrors work because the light rays create what behind the mirror?
Options:
A. a mirror image
B. a virtual example
C. a virtual image
D. a entire image
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What is the study of the chemical elements necessary for plant growth called?
Options:
A. plant nutrition
B. photosynthesis
C. phototropism
D. plant propagation
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Carbonic anhydrase plays what role to achieve a variety of results involving different organs?
Options:
A. inhibition
B. enzyme
C. sequence
D. blocker
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What do light emitters do to what you see?
Options:
A. subtract frequencies
B. add frequencies
C. block frequencies
D. divide frequencies
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Neurons are classified based on the direction in which they carry what?
Options:
A. nerve impulses
B. neurotransmitters
C. energy
D. metabolism impulses
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What is the name of a tough, fibrous membrane which protects the outer layer of bone?
Options:
A. marrow
B. the epithelium
C. cartilage
D. the periosteum
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What is the process by which plants and animals increase in size?
Options:
A. grafting
B. splicing
C. reproduction
D. growth
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What are drumlins, eskers, and kettle lakes formed by?
Options:
A. meteors
B. tsunamis
C. glaciers
D. earthquakes
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What two things determine how much kinetic energy an object has?
Options:
A. its mass and direction
B. its weight and volume
C. its mass and velocity
D. its height and speed
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Transform faults are the site of massive what?
Options:
A. storms
B. tornadoes
C. vibrations
D. earthquakes
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What type of electricity is formed when a negative charge builds up and are transferred?
Options:
A. direct current
B. alternating current
C. static electricity
D. neutron energy
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What term describes weathering that occurs as water expands when it freezes, wedging apart rock?
Options:
A. erosion
B. mechanical weathering
C. chemical weathering
D. cleavage
Answer: | B |
null | Question: A nerve cell that carries messages is called a?
Options:
A. stem cell
B. neuron
C. mitochondria
D. platelet
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What do you call the basic units of the structure and function of living things?
Options:
A. molecules
B. cells
C. enzymes
D. proteins
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What important function do bees perform on garden plants and many commercial fruit trees?
Options:
A. condensation
B. hibernation
C. pollination
D. ruination
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Coxal glands collect liquid waste from what?
Options:
A. plasma
B. heart
C. blood
D. lungs
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Earth's temperature will increase further as more of what colorfully nicknamed gases are put into the atmosphere?
Options:
A. blue dioxide gases
B. bluehouse gases
C. greenhouse gases
D. green dioxide gases
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What helps the cell continually renew itself?
Options:
A. lysosomes
B. vacuole
C. centrosome
D. lymphocytes
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Which disease afflicts children who don't get enough calcium during their bone formation stage?
Options:
A. cancer
B. rickets
C. rabies
D. sids
Answer: | B |
null | Question: The ideal gas law does not require that the properties of what?
Options:
A. gas change
B. copper change
C. liquid change
D. transit change
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What type of activity in the brain causes epilepsy?
Options:
A. bleeding
B. hormone imbalance
C. abnormal electrical activity
D. toxic overload
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What type of reproduction involves combining genetic material from two parents to create distinct offspring?
Options:
A. bsexual reproduction
B. sexual reproduction
C. mild reproduction
D. asexual reproduction
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What are two nonliving things that all living things need for survival?
Options:
A. methane
B. sunlight
C. calcium
D. water and air
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Which organ's diseases include kidney stones, infections, and kidney failure due to diabetes?
Options:
A. lungs
B. kidney
C. heart
D. pancreas
Answer: | B |
null | Question: The genome of an organism consists of one or more what?
Options:
A. rna molecules
B. require molecules
C. hemoglobin molecules
D. dna molecules
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What muscles are used to pump water over the gills?
Options:
A. muscles and pharynx
B. pharynx and tonsils
C. jaws and pharynx
D. lungs and pharynx
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Some microorganisms can digest cellulose, breaking it down into what?
Options:
A. glucose monomers
B. fructose polymers
C. fructose monomers
D. gluclose polymers
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What science specialty, with a set of like-named scientific laws, refers to the study of energy and energy transfer involving physical matter?
Options:
A. geology
B. meteorology
C. thermodynamics
D. chemistry
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Pressure relationships inspiration (or inhalation) and expiration (or exhalation) are dependent on the differences in pressure between the atmosphere and these?
Options:
A. bones
B. salts
C. enzymes
D. lungs
Answer: | D |
null | Question: The primary role of leaves is to collect what?
Options:
A. sunlight
B. pollen
C. precipitation
D. insects
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Bacteria may become untreatable if they develop what in response to multiple antibiotics?
Options:
A. affinity
B. acceptance
C. resistance
D. weakness
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What does the driving of turbines by the heating of water to steam accomplish?
Options:
A. depletion of electricity
B. diffusion of electricity
C. generation of electricity
D. absorption of electricity
Answer: | C |
null | Question: The first photosynthetic organisms were not plants, but types of what that lived in the water?
Options:
A. bacteria
B. algae
C. fungi
D. pathogens
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What causes acid rain, ozone depletion, and global warming?
Options:
A. water pollution
B. ozone layer
C. air pollution
D. radiation
Answer: | C |
null | Question: When plants are shut off from environmental cues they become?
Options:
A. desynchronized
B. pollinated
C. synchronized
D. extinct
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What is the cause of behavioral difference between populations?
Options:
A. electromagnetic differences
B. environmental factors
C. genetic differences
D. genetic wavelengths
Answer: | C |
null | Question: While numerous elements can undergo fission, only a few can be used as fuels in what nuclear devices?
Options:
A. laser beams
B. colliders
C. reactors
D. accelerators
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Farming practices leave some soil exposed and vulnerable to what natural process?
Options:
A. migration
B. erosion
C. rust
D. sediment
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Land could not be colonized by other organisms until what became established?
Options:
A. gases
B. carbon dioxide
C. oxygen
D. plants
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Platinum and gold are useful materials for constructing circuits because of their ability to resist what?
Options:
A. Electricity
B. oxidation
C. decomposition
D. nitrogen
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Systemic mycoses spread to internal organs, most commonly entering the body through this?
Options:
A. respiratory system
B. skeletal system
C. infestation system
D. digestive system
Answer: | A |
null | Question: All living organisms must have what ability, in order to make more organisms like themselves?
Options:
A. cloning
B. absorption
C. variation
D. reproduction
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What is the color of the powder of a mineral called?
Options:
A. streak
B. pigment
C. dye
D. hue
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Graphite is a form of elemental carbon what is another form?
Options:
A. diamond
B. carbonite
C. iron
D. magnite
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What type of bonds are formed between atoms sharing electrons?
Options:
A. ionic
B. covalent
C. hydroxyl
D. neutron bonds
Answer: | B |
null | Question: In contrast to precision, this term means how close a measurement is to the correct or accepted value of the quantity being measured?
Options:
A. frequency
B. diversity
C. deviant
D. accuracy
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What organisms known as decomposers break down wastes and dead organisms into smaller molecules?
Options:
A. trees
B. herbivores
C. consumers
D. bacteria
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Alkenes react with what to form dihalides?
Options:
A. amines
B. antioxidants
C. halogens
D. oxides
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What are the only living organisms that can make their own food?
Options:
A. animals
B. plants
C. protozoa
D. bacteria
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What occurs when a parent cell splits into two identical daughter cells of the same size?
Options:
A. fusion
B. division
C. fission
D. diffusion
Answer: | C |
null | Question: All the bones of the skull, except for the mandible, are joined to each other by a fibrous joint called what?
Options:
A. stucco
B. aperture
C. suture
D. blade
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What is the broadest category in the linnaean system?
Options:
A. class
B. domain
C. phylum
D. kingdom
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Furthermore, most of the proteins within membranes have both hydrophobic and which other regions?
Options:
A. cytosolic
B. atmospheric
C. lymphatic
D. hydrophilic
Answer: | D |
null | Question: The nuclei of radioisotopes are unstable, so they constantly decay and emit what?
Options:
A. radiation
B. moisture
C. acid
D. chemicals
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What is the suns innermost layer called?
Options:
A. core
B. surface
C. flare
D. solar
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Lava erupts through long cracks in the ground, also called what?
Options:
A. crevasses
B. faults
C. fissures
D. ridges
Answer: | C |
null | Question: When the sun is below the horizon and thus not visible on a direct line, the light path will bend slightly and thus make the sun visible by what?
Options:
A. infrared
B. refraction
C. reflection
D. thermal
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What is an advantage of brightly colored fruits?
Options:
A. make pretty paintings
B. warning of poisons
C. dyes for clothing
D. attract animals to disperse their seeds
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What are the smallest type of blood vessel?
Options:
A. arteries
B. capillaries
C. varicose veins
D. spider veins
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What two things are a phospholipid molecules composed of?
Options:
A. hydrophillic head , and hydrophobic tails
B. hydrophillic head , and adhesion tails
C. hydrophillic head , and substrate tails
D. hemophillic head, and substrate tails
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Where does the earth gets its energy from?
Options:
A. heat
B. precipitation
C. sun
D. decomposers
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What process refers to the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia?
Options:
A. biological respiratory fixation
B. biological nitrogen fixation
C. biological ammonia fixation
D. biological nutrient fixation
Answer: | B |
null | Question: The logistics of carrying out cellular metabolism sets limits on what physical property of the cell?
Options:
A. size
B. layer
C. surface
D. composition
Answer: | A |
null | Question: The force that pulls objects toward the earth is what?
Options:
A. Friction
B. Tension
C. Magnetic force
D. gravity
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What is defined as a change in the inherited traits of organisms over time?
Options:
A. evolution
B. variation
C. generation
D. divergence
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What hormone affects developent and maturation in animals?
Options:
A. thyroid
B. dopamine
C. melatonin
D. insulin
Answer: | A |
null | Question: In what energy industry process are fluids pumped through a borehole, creating fractures in the rock that contains the natural gas?
Options:
A. strip mining
B. grinding
C. fracking
D. oil wells
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What do you call the daily changes in the level of ocean water?
Options:
A. tides
B. currents
C. shores
D. waves
Answer: | A |
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