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Question: A measure of the disorder of a system is called its what? Options: A. entropy B. function C. lose D. spectral Answer:
A
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Question: What is the term for the measure of the force of gravity pulling down on an object? Options: A. density B. weight C. pressure D. mass Answer:
B
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Question: What is created when energy turns a turbine? Options: A. light B. torque C. force D. electricity Answer:
D
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Question: The digestive, excretory, and reproductive systems of amphibians share a body cavity called what? Options: A. urethra B. stoma C. anus D. cloaca Answer:
D
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Question: The process when heat is released is referred to as what? Options: A. exothermic B. geothermal C. endothermic D. insular Answer:
A
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Question: Digestion and respiration are both facilitated by the pharynx, more commonly called the what? Options: A. esophagus B. nose C. sinus D. throat Answer:
D
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Question: What do you call resources that can be replaced at the rate they are being used? Options: A. renewable B. innovative C. viable D. abundant Answer:
A
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Question: More than half of all known organisms are what? Options: A. mammals B. spiders C. insects D. enzymes Answer:
C
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Question: What is the colorless gas with a sharp, pungent odor used in smelling salts? Options: A. hydrogen B. helium C. nitrogen D. ammonia Answer:
D
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Question: Which theory states that the characteristics of living things are controlled by genes? Options: A. gene theory B. string theory C. creationism D. order theory Answer:
A
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Question: What is the science that describes the ancestral and descendant connections between organisms? Options: A. organic science B. experimentally C. phylogeny D. polygamy Answer:
C
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Question: Which joint allows humans to sit, stand, and pivot? Options: A. hip B. ankle C. femur D. knee Answer:
D
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Question: What is formed when light rays diverge behind a lens? Options: A. a projection B. a hologram C. a shadow D. a virtual image Answer:
D
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Question: Which one of newton's laws describes the direct relationship between force and acceleration? Options: A. second law B. third law C. fourth law D. first law Answer:
A
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Question: What are bacteria that stain purple are called? Options: A. gram-negative bacteria B. gram-positive bacteria C. complex bacteria D. gram-neutral bacteria Answer:
B
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Question: Which chemical element is the basis of all life on earth? Options: A. carbon B. oxygen C. hydrogen D. nitrogen Answer:
A
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Question: Something supplied by nature that helps support life, including ecosystems as well as minerals and fossil fuels, is called a what? Options: A. artificial resource B. visible resource C. natural resource D. fluid resource Answer:
C
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Question: Equal and oppositely directed forces produce what kind of acceleration? Options: A. no acceleration B. greater acceleration C. faster acceleration D. steady acceleration Answer:
A
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Question: What are the outpocketings of the digestive tract that remove nitrogenous wastes and function in osmoregulation? Options: A. malpighian tubules B. intestinal tubules C. olivary tubules D. integumentary tubules Answer:
A
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Question: In biological augmentation, ecologists use what to add essential materials to ecosystems? Options: A. sediments B. organisms C. stem cells D. fluids Answer:
B
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Question: Insects can have specialized mouthparts, such as a proboscis, to siphon the nectar from what? Options: A. shrubs B. stems C. fruits D. flowers Answer:
D
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Question: What is the membrane that surrounds a fetus called? Options: A. cell membrane B. umbilical sac C. umbilicus D. amniotic sac Answer:
D
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Question: The body contains how many types of muscle tissue? Options: A. three B. two C. four D. seven Answer:
A
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Question: What is the name of the process by which plants use energy from sunlight to synthesize carbohydrates? Options: A. osmosis B. cellular respiration C. pollination D. photosynthesis Answer:
D
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Question: What is the stage called for babies that are in the first year of life after birth? Options: A. infancy B. adolescence C. original stage D. primary stage Answer:
A
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Question: The organs of female mammals that that produce eggs are called what? Options: A. testes B. Uterus C. ovaries D. fallopian tubes Answer:
C
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Question: What does urine leave the body through? Options: A. the urethra B. the skin C. the vagina D. the intestine Answer:
A
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Question: What is the study of viruses called? Options: A. immunology B. microbiology C. biotechnology D. virology Answer:
D
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Question: What type of radioactive decay is generally only dangerous when emitted inside the body? Options: A. alpha decay B. ionic decay C. nucleus decay D. variant decay Answer:
A
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Question: What term is used to describe the distance traveled divided by the time it took to travel that distance? Options: A. movement B. velocity C. speed D. motion Answer:
C
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Question: When did new plants start sprouting after the forest fire? Options: A. five months later B. two months later C. two days later D. two weeks later Answer:
B
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Question: Like bacteria, archaea can have what to assist with movement? Options: A. cilia B. antennae C. flagella D. sporangia Answer:
C
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Question: The body cannot sustain for very long the bursts of energy mediated by epinephrine and norepinephrine, hormones associated with what stress response? Options: A. do-or-die B. fainting C. fight-or-flight D. sink-or-swim Answer:
C
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Question: What is the metal part of the compound named as? Options: A. the base B. the source C. the element D. the basic Answer:
C
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Question: Air is said to reach what point, a term used by meteorologists, when humidity increases or temperature decreases? Options: A. bubble point B. its dip point C. freezing point D. its dew point Answer:
D
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Question: The shape of earlobes is an example of what kind of trait, which is influenced by genes and passed along through generations? Options: A. acquired trait B. instinct C. inherited trait D. genetic disorder Answer:
C
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Question: Unlike energy, what happens to matter in ecosystems? Options: A. it does not exist B. it is destroyed C. it is filtered D. it is recycled Answer:
D
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Question: What do you call the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into two smaller nuclei? Options: A. nuclear fission B. critical fission C. nuclear fusion D. cell division Answer:
A
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Question: What is a primary source of the hormone melatonin? Options: A. pituitary gland B. thyroid gland C. thymus D. pineal gland Answer:
D
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Question: What types of living beings have water vascular systems and unique tube feet? Options: A. diatoms B. mollusks C. Ducks D. echinoderms Answer:
D
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Question: The anodes in each cell of a rechargeable battery are plates or grids of lead containing spongy lead metal, while the cathodes are similar grids containing powdered what? Options: A. coal B. lead dioxide C. straight dioxide D. carbon dioxide Answer:
B
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Question: Sensory nerves carry nerve impulses from sensory receptors to what system? Options: A. IRCULATORY SYSTEM B. ENDOCRINE SYSTEM C. central nervous D. MUSCULAR SYSTEM Answer:
C
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Question: The mass lost in mass defect has gone into energy called what? Options: A. kinetic energy B. enthalpy C. binding energy D. momentum Answer:
C
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Question: An alternative to inclusive fitness is group selection, a type of what scenario where small groups of organisms of the same species are effectively acting as single (perhaps colonial) organisms? Options: A. molecular B. introductory C. combination D. evolutionary Answer:
D
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Question: Which type of joints do not allow any movement of the bones? Options: A. fitted B. fixed C. attached D. linked Answer:
B
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Question: Rapidly produced genetic vairants are found in organisms with what type of generation time? Options: A. repeating B. oscillating C. short D. long Answer:
C
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Question: Plant-like protists are commonly called what? Options: A. seaweed B. algae C. sponge D. fungus Answer:
B
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Question: What is the term for materials that have both a defined shape and a defined volume? Options: A. solids B. gases C. matter D. liquids Answer:
A
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Question: Continuous-flow reactors are chemical reaction vessels in which the what are mixed and allowed to react as they flow along a tube? Options: A. propellants B. reactives C. reactants D. generators Answer:
C
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Question: What are the nonliving aspects of the environment called? Options: A. metastatic factors B. nucleic factors C. antibiotic factors D. abiotic factors Answer:
D
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Question: What instrument is used to make very sensitive mass measurements in a laboratory, usually in grams? Options: A. speedometer B. thermometer C. scale D. analytical balance Answer:
D
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Question: What do red blood cells carry? Options: A. carbon dioxide B. hydrogen C. nitrogen D. oxygen Answer:
D
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Question: The bottom of the ocean is called what? Options: A. Intertidal zone B. Demersal zone C. Final zone D. the benthic zone Answer:
D
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Question: What forces the fetus out of the uterus? Options: A. deep breathing B. biological clock C. continuous strong contractions D. delayed childbirth Answer:
C
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Question: What were the first life forms found on earth similar to? Options: A. bacteria B. ferns C. mold D. viruses Answer:
A
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Question: How much distance can beta particles travel through air? Options: A. meter B. centimeters C. density D. inches Answer:
A
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Question: What kind of mutations are produced by nucleotide-pair insertions or deletions? Options: A. frameshift B. framing C. shifty D. cloned Answer:
A
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Question: What do you call a close relationship between two species that benefits both? Options: A. parasitic relationship B. symbiotic relationship C. commensalism D. primordial relationship Answer:
B
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Question: What are the winds that occur in belts that encircle the planet? Options: A. global rains B. global winds C. new winds D. galactic winds Answer:
B
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Question: What contains most of the structures found in skin? Options: A. subcutaneous layer B. basal layer C. epidermis D. dermis Answer:
D
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Question: What does the ending 'ology' refer to? Options: A. Application Of B. theory of C. study of D. focus of Answer:
C
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Question: Arteries have thinner wall layers and valves and move blood by the action of skeletal what? Options: A. hormones B. muscle C. collagen bands D. marrow Answer:
B
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Question: What is the term for a solution that resists dramatic changes in ph? Options: A. inert B. stable C. neutral D. buffer Answer:
D
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Question: Heating a gas gives its particles more of what type of energy? Options: A. nuclear energy B. residual energy C. kinetic energy D. electrostatic energy Answer:
C
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Question: Childbirth usually starts when which sac breaks? Options: A. umbilical B. amniotic C. uterine D. protein Answer:
B
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Question: What is the unit of evolution? Options: A. dna B. a phylum C. the cell D. the population Answer:
D
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Question: These microorganisms are abundant in the human digestive track and serve many roles. what are they? Options: A. tumors B. antioxidants C. bacteria D. pathogens Answer:
C
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Question: Anaerobic cellular respiration does not require the presence of what (by the very fact it is anaerobic, specifically)? Options: A. helium B. oxygen C. carbon D. nitrogen Answer:
B
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Question: What kind of decay is electron capture a type of? Options: A. alpha decay B. gamma decay C. gradual decay D. beta decay Answer:
D
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Question: The name carbon tetrachloride implies one carbon atom and four of which other atoms? Options: A. chlorine B. nitrogen C. iodine D. calcium Answer:
A
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Question: Virtually every task performed by living organisms requires this? Options: A. energy B. mineral C. solids D. metals Answer:
A
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Question: What are the three major types of blood vessels? Options: A. arteries, capilaries, tubes B. sculptures , veins , capillaries C. arteries, veins, capillaries D. arteries , pups , capillaries Answer:
C
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Question: What broad group of living things serves as the major producers in terrestrial biomes? Options: A. animals B. vases C. flowers D. plants Answer:
D
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Question: What phenomenon involves the forcing of a substance into a cell against its concentration gradient? Options: A. primary active transport B. osmosis C. active absorption D. secondary transport Answer:
A
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Question: Vibrating electric and magnetic fields make up what kinds of waves? Options: A. mechanical B. eletrical C. seismic D. electromagnetic Answer:
D
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Question: What are biofilms resistant to many common forms of? Options: A. vaccination B. assimilation C. termination D. sterilization Answer:
D
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Question: When boron10 absorbs a neutron, what does it emit? Options: A. proteins B. light C. particle D. calcium Answer:
C
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Question: Which kind of irrigation uses much less water than other methods? Options: A. mist B. drip C. constant D. solar Answer:
B
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Question: Epithelial cells are found in what body organ? Options: A. lungs B. skin C. liver D. brain Answer:
B
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Question: Strangeness, charm, bottomness, and topness are properties of what subatomic particle? Options: A. dark matter B. quarks C. molecules D. pion Answer:
B
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Question: What sort of digestion do animals engage in? Options: A. internal B. essential C. external D. poison Answer:
A
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Question: What kind of bonds are there between carbon atoms in saturated fatty acids? Options: A. electrical B. single C. double D. chemical Answer:
B
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Question: What are double sugars called? Options: A. silicates B. sodiums C. disaccharides D. monosaccharides Answer:
C
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Question: Insects are the only invertebrates that can do what? Options: A. fly B. shed C. vocalize D. reproduce Answer:
A
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Question: What are plants in the diploid generation called? Options: A. sporophytes B. keratinocytes C. haplocytes D. monocots Answer:
A
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Question: What man-made structures orbit all of the inner planets as well as jupiter and saturn? Options: A. satellites B. moons C. space shuttles D. comets Answer:
A
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Question: The unpaired ethmoid bone is located where within the central skull? Options: A. at the midline B. at the fold C. at the top D. at the point Answer:
A
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Question: What is the name of the chart that allows you to easily determine the expected percentage of different genotypes in the offspring of two parents? Options: A. punnett square B. DNA helix C. Trafalgar Square D. periodic square Answer:
A
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Question: What term is used to describe foods containing active cultures of beneficial bacteria? Options: A. carotenoids B. sembiotic C. probiotic D. antibiotics Answer:
C
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Question: Hormones vary widely in molecular size and type as well as? Options: A. local regulators B. foreign regulators C. strange regulators D. simple regulators Answer:
A
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Question: Learning to get used to something after being exposed to it for a while is associated with what kind of learning? Options: A. association B. assimilation C. habituation D. dissociation Answer:
C
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Question: All of the planets rotate on their axes in the same direction that they move around the sun, except for which one? Options: A. uranus B. Saturn C. Jupiter D. venus Answer:
A
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Question: Metabolism produces waste energy in the form of heat, which helps what type of animal conserve and maintain heat at a relatively constant body temperature? Options: A. amphibian B. cold-blooded (ectotherm) C. lizard D. warm-blooded (endotherm) Answer:
D
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Question: Many enzymes require nonprotein helpers for what activity? Options: A. functional B. catalytic C. hydrogen D. kinetic Answer:
B
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Question: The kayak’s motion in the water is an example of classical addition of what? Options: A. velocities B. momentum C. acceleration D. force Answer:
A
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Question: What do plants do to prevent water loss at night? Options: A. close their stems B. close their leaves C. open their petals D. shed their petals Answer:
B
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Question: The complement system is a series of proteins constitutively found in the what? Options: A. platelets B. organs C. blood plasma D. nucleus Answer:
C
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Question: When conditions deteriorate, hydras can reproduce sexually, forming resistant zygotes that remain dormant until when? Options: A. Spring B. Hydras choose C. Temperature rise D. conditions improve Answer:
D
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Question: What term is used to describe a process in which material travels from regions of high concentration to low concentration until equilibrium is reached? Options: A. active transport B. fission C. diffusion D. Osmosis Answer:
C
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Question: What is the lipid-rich sheath that surrounds the axon and facilitates the transmission of electrical signals along the axon? Options: A. myelin sheath B. neural sheath C. axon sheath D. receptors sheath Answer:
A