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Question: In certain populations, some of the chromosomes have become what? Options: A. fused B. elongated C. dissolved D. composed Answer:
A
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Question: Where is the pituitary gland? Options: A. heart B. thyroid C. lung D. brain Answer:
D
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Question: Which part of the axon has a higher membrane potential? Options: A. canals hillock B. biofilm hillock C. muscular hillock D. axon hillock Answer:
D
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Question: The penis, testes and epididymes are structures in what male anatomical system? Options: A. immune B. reproductive C. endocrine D. protective Answer:
B
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Question: The turbine of a windmill spins and creates what? Options: A. lightning B. grains C. pollution D. electricity Answer:
D
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Question: What type of matter in the spinal cord has the appearance of an ink-blot test and is subdivided into regions that are referred to as horns? Options: A. gray matter B. dark matter C. wet matter D. bright matter Answer:
A
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Question: For a given amount of solute, do smaller particles have a greater or lesser surface area? Options: A. equal B. greater C. lesser D. neither Answer:
B
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Question: Name the plant considered to be the ancestor of plants? Options: A. ferns B. green algae C. grass D. brown algae Answer:
B
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Question: How many protons do all atoms of a particular element have in their nuclei? Options: A. varying number B. three C. same number D. zero Answer:
C
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Question: Objects moving at different speeds, in different directions have different what? Options: A. vibrations B. velocities C. protons D. electrons Answer:
B
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Question: What is an example of a metaloid element? Options: A. fluorine B. argon C. silicon D. chlorine Answer:
C
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Question: The energy for an ecosystem can come from sunlight or _________? Options: A. rain B. radiation compounds C. fossil fuels D. chemical compounds Answer:
D
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Question: What do mammals have under the skin to help insulate the body? Options: A. a layer of fat B. nerve cells C. bone D. cartilage Answer:
A
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Question: Soil erosion is a natural process, but what can increase it unnaturally? Options: A. human activities B. animal activies C. volcanic eruption D. human preservation Answer:
A
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Question: A comparison of the human arm with a bat's wing demonstrates what principle of biology? Options: A. form follows function B. motion follows function C. attachment follows function D. size follows function Answer:
A
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Question: The name of a simple covalent compound can be determined from its chemical this? Options: A. models B. configuration C. formula D. map Answer:
C
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Question: Which are the three most important temperature scales? Options: A. thermoelectric , celsius , kelvin B. fahrenheit, celsius, kelvin C. Kelvin, celcius, richter D. temperatures , celsius , kelvin Answer:
B
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Question: Which energy is momentarily stored in tendons after each leap provides a boost for the next leap? Options: A. alternating B. kinetic C. magnetic D. thermal Answer:
B
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Question: What structure passes oxygen and nutrients to a growing fetus in mammals? Options: A. vas deferens B. placenta C. spinal cord D. uterus Answer:
B
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Question: Compounds containing which element are the basis of all known life? Options: A. hydrogen B. helium C. oxygen D. carbon Answer:
D
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Question: What do we call the locations where electrons are likely to be located around the nucleus? Options: A. cores B. radials C. orbitals D. isotopes Answer:
C
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Question: John dalton thought that what unit, which means "indivisible", could not be divided into smaller, simpler particles? Options: A. neutron B. electron C. nucleus D. atom Answer:
D
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Question: Which is the fourth planet from the sun? Options: A. mars B. mars C. jupiter D. earth Answer:
A
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Question: The heat capacity of an object depends on its chemical composition and what other property? Options: A. concentrations B. weight C. volume D. mass Answer:
D
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Question: Homologous chromosomes move toward what poles? Options: A. opposite B. octogonal C. interior D. parallel Answer:
A
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Question: What is the largest cartilaginous fish? Options: A. sturgeon B. whale shark C. dolphin D. blue whale Answer:
B
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Question: What consists of one or two closed loops through which current can flow? Options: A. magnetic poles B. electric circuit C. cooling circuit D. thermal reaction Answer:
B
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Question: When a liquid is heated, molecules with enough kinetic energy escape the liquid and become what? Options: A. atoms B. vapor C. solid D. invisible Answer:
B
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Question: What system protects the soft organs of the body? Options: A. digestive system B. nervous system C. Cardiovascular system D. skeletal system Answer:
D
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Question: What is the only mechanism that consistently causes adaptive evolution? Options: A. neutral selection B. genetic drift C. artificial selection D. natural selection Answer:
D
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Question: The neck of the uterus, called the cervix, opens into what? Options: A. vagina B. testicle C. bladder D. retina Answer:
A
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Question: Dentists occasionally use metallic mixtures called amalgams for what? Options: A. braces B. tools C. anesthesia D. fillings Answer:
D
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Question: What makes up the mass number of an atom? Options: A. electrons and neutrons B. atoms and neutrons C. molecules and electrons D. protons and neutrons Answer:
D
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Question: What is the term for sediment deposited by a glacier? Options: A. holocene B. plateau C. crater D. moraine Answer:
D
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Question: Average speed is equal to distance divided by what? Options: A. time B. weight C. magnitude D. height Answer:
A
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Question: Boyle discovered that what property of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume? Options: A. pressure B. amount C. mass D. temperature Answer:
A
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Question: What is the ability of an atom to emit, or give off, charged particles and energy from the nucleus? Options: A. radioactivity B. magnetism C. electrolysis D. electromagnetism Answer:
A
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Question: After cell division what are the two new cells called? Options: A. step cells B. offspring cells C. daughter cells D. production cells Answer:
C
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Question: Angiosperms are also known as what? Options: A. dry plants B. dead plants C. flowering plants D. uncommon plants Answer:
C
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Question: What force pulls object downwards to the earth? Options: A. motion B. gravity C. momentum D. kinetic energy Answer:
B
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Question: What forms when water vapor condenses around particles in the air? Options: A. humididty B. storms C. clouds D. wind Answer:
C
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Question: The name of a spinal cord region corresponds to the level at which spinal nerves pass through the what? Options: A. notochord B. synovial fluid C. lumbar foramina D. intervertebral foramina Answer:
D
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Question: What term is used to describe the electrostatic process used by most copy machines? Options: A. microphotography B. xerography C. titanomachy D. electrography Answer:
B
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Question: The evaporative loss of the most energetic water molecules does what to a surface? Options: A. heats it B. cools it C. charges it D. vents it Answer:
B
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Question: What are the two groups that tripoblastic eucoelomates can be divided into based on early embryonic development differences? Options: A. odontoblasts and deuterostomes B. protostomes and deuterostomes C. heterodimers and deuterostomes D. protostomes and eurostomes Answer:
B
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Question: In the past, biologists grouped living organisms into five kingdoms: animals, plants, fungi, protists, and what? Options: A. trees B. lizards C. pathogens D. bacteria Answer:
D
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Question: What are ionic compounds that produce hydroxide ions when dissolved in water? Options: A. acids B. isotopes C. bases D. enzymes Answer:
C
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Question: What term is used to describe the total spread of values in a sample? Options: A. scale B. axis C. variety D. range Answer:
D
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Question: What is categorized by the forces holding the individual atoms, ions, or molecules together? Options: A. oils B. gases C. solids D. liquids Answer:
C
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Question: Light reactions occur during which stage of photosynthesis? Options: A. intermediate stage B. first stage C. final stage D. third stage Answer:
B
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Question: Although they are as different as deserts and wetlands, all of these ecosystem units have populations of interacting species? Options: A. continents B. zoos C. corals D. biomes Answer:
D
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Question: Food chains and what describe the transfer of energy within an ecosystem, from one organism to another? Options: A. fuel webs B. the webs C. food webs D. spider webs Answer:
C
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Question: What is the study of the similarities and differences in the embryos of different species? Options: A. example embryology B. comparative embryology C. diversified embryology D. prenatal biology Answer:
B
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Question: What biome is located between the temperate and tropical biomes? Options: A. mountainous B. Desert C. Tropical D. subtropical Answer:
D
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Question: Which proteins bind to the surfaces of microorganisms and are particularly attracted to pathogens that are already tagged by the adaptive immune system? Options: A. complement proteins B. mobilize proteins C. whereby proteins D. attractive proteins Answer:
A
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Question: The fundamental unit of time, the second, is based on what type of clock? Options: A. atomic clock B. gravity clock C. quantum clock D. eternal clock Answer:
A
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Question: Frogs and toads have long back legs which are specialized for what action? Options: A. sprinting B. jumping C. flying D. swimming Answer:
B
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Question: Reducing the production of what gas, or removing it from the air, are practices that could reduce global warming? Options: A. hydrogen B. oxygen C. carbon dioxide D. helium Answer:
C
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Question: What prevents soil erosion on a hillside that is being farmed? Options: A. irrigation B. slash-and-burn C. no-till farming D. terracing Answer:
D
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Question: Catenulids typically reproduce asexually by budding where? Options: A. their posterior end B. their anterior end C. their neuronal end D. their analogous end Answer:
A
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Question: Radioactive decay can give off energy and what else? Options: A. particles B. light C. ions D. atoms Answer:
A
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Question: Which virus causes cold sores? Options: A. herpes virus B. microbes virus C. stilts virus D. flu virus Answer:
A
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Question: The full range of wavelengths and frequencies of electromagnetic radiation make up the ____________ Options: A. electromagnetic spectrum B. electronic spectrum C. anomalous spectrum D. mechanical spectrum Answer:
A
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Question: Like other bryophytes, moss plants spend most of their life cycle as what? Options: A. zygotes B. protozoa C. copepods D. gametophytes Answer:
D
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Question: Energy cannot be created or destroyed - it can only change what? Options: A. kind B. form C. fluid D. shape Answer:
B
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Question: All matter is composed of tiny indivisible particles called atoms. all atoms of an element are identical in mass and this? Options: A. electrical properties B. acid properties C. chemical properties D. liquid properties Answer:
C
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Question: Distinct from a suspension, a solution is considered what type of mixture? Options: A. heterogeneous B. continuous C. homogeneous D. gaseous Answer:
C
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Question: Slabs of continents moving around on earth's surface is called what? Options: A. fault tectonics B. edge tectonics C. plate tectonics D. crator tectonics Answer:
C
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Question: Each female of a particular species can produce millions of these per year? Options: A. eggs B. seeds C. sperms D. fetuses Answer:
A
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Question: What is the process in which a liquid changes to a solid? Options: A. condensation B. boiling C. freezing D. melting Answer:
C
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Question: Where does the purple color in quartz come from? Options: A. iron B. dirt C. bronze D. aluminum Answer:
A
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Question: When someone falls, the kinetic energy the person has upon reaching the floor is the amount of what energy lost by falling through height? Options: A. gravitational energy B. thermal energy C. potential energy D. nuclear energy Answer:
C
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Question: What abbreviated form refers to oxidation-reduction reactions, which are part of respiration and photosynthesis? Options: A. oxid reactions B. morph reactions C. redox reactions D. reflex reactions Answer:
C
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Question: What process does not cause a rock to melt completely, instead causing the minerals to change by heat or pressure? Options: A. sedimentation B. metamorphism C. oxidation D. igneous extrusion Answer:
B
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Question: What is the relationship of multiple action potentials from a single cell resulting in a significant change in the membrane potential? Options: A. temporal summation B. nature summation C. distinct summation D. bipolar summation Answer:
A
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Question: Biochemical reactions are optimal at physiological temperatures because many what lose function at lower and higher temperatures? Options: A. carbohydrates B. neurons C. enzymes D. hormones Answer:
C
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Question: What important organelle (that would otherwise be centrally located and crucial to the cell's survival) do prokaryotic cells lack? Options: A. molecules B. nucleus C. electrons D. protons Answer:
B
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Question: Diffusion can occur across a semipermeable membrane, such as the cell membrane, as long as a what exists? Options: A. concentration gradient B. polarity C. parity D. differential Answer:
A
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Question: Which of newton's law shows that there is a direct relationship between force and acceleration? Options: A. second B. first C. third D. none of the above Answer:
A
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Question: What happens to the total energy of the system when heat is positive? Options: A. it increases B. it remains constant C. nothing D. it decreases Answer:
A
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Question: Where is the most significant connection between the cerebellum and the rest of the brain? Options: A. at the meninges B. at the cerebrum C. at the medulla oblongata D. at the pons Answer:
D
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Question: What is the permanent prevention of gamete production or release called? Options: A. insemination B. restoration C. fertilization D. sterilization Answer:
D
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Question: What do you call materials able to conduct electricity with 100% efficiency, meaning that no energy is lost during the electrical transmission? Options: A. super-insulators B. electromagnets C. poor conductors D. superconductors Answer:
D
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Question: Biomass, solar, wind, water, and geothermal power are examples of what kinds of energy resources? Options: A. mechanical B. electrical C. fossil fuel D. renewable Answer:
D
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Question: Does pressure increase or decrease when gas particles heat up? Options: A. decreases B. increase C. stagnates D. stays constant Answer:
B
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Question: Light waves differ based on their frequency and what else? Options: A. density B. amplitude C. weight D. voltage Answer:
B
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Question: A crow that becomes used to a scarecrow and lands on it is an example of what? Options: A. dissociation B. assimilation C. habituation D. adaptation Answer:
C
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Question: What is the name of the elongated bony structure that anchors the anterior thoracic cage? Options: A. tibia B. collar bone C. pelvis D. sternum Answer:
D
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Question: What is a protein containing four subunits that transports oxygen throughout the body? Options: A. keratin B. collagen C. hemoglobin D. insulin Answer:
C
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Question: What general property of an earthquake is used to describe its relative strength? Options: A. resonance B. amplitude C. latitude D. magnitude Answer:
D
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Question: What word do get from the arabic al-qili, meaning “ashes of the saltwort plant from salt marshes”? Options: A. metals B. crystals C. alkali D. water Answer:
C
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Question: Protists play critically important ecological roles as producers and, on the other end of food webs, as what? Options: A. dissolvers B. probiotics C. absorbers D. decomposers Answer:
D
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Question: Gene duplications that are able to persist over many generations without causing too much harm to an organism or species can lead to what? Options: A. permutations B. characteristics C. mutations D. parasites Answer:
C
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Question: Which phylum is made up of segmented worms such as earthworms? Options: A. arthropod B. nematoda C. chordata D. annelida Answer:
D
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Question: Europa and titan are names of what kind of celestial objects? Options: A. stars B. asteroids C. galaxies D. moons Answer:
D
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Question: What type of ecosystem do polar bears live in? Options: A. natural B. arctic C. tropical D. oceanic Answer:
B
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Question: Dragonflies were one of the first insects to do what? Options: A. swim B. fight C. fly D. sexually reproduce Answer:
C
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Question: The right side of the heart collects what type of blood from the body? Options: A. oxygen-rich B. dioxide-poor C. oxygen-poor D. potassium-rich Answer:
C
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Question: Fossil fuels and nuclear power are what type of resource? Options: A. reusable B. renewable C. nonrenewable D. recurring Answer:
C
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Question: What is the term for the steep sloped side of a sand dune? Options: A. slip face B. slide face C. break face D. front face Answer:
A