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Question: What is the name for the process of insects transforming from a young insect to an adult? Options: A. maturation B. spontaneous mutation C. parthenogenesis D. metamorphosis Answer:
D
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Question: E. histolytica causes what kind of dysentery? Options: A. cocklebur B. Spastic C. amebic D. spicule Answer:
C
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Question: The variety of cell shapes seen in prokaryotes and eukaryotes reflects the functions that each what has? Options: A. cell B. organ C. life D. proteins Answer:
A
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Question: In a hot water heater, burning fuel causes the water to get hot because combustion is what type of reaction? Options: A. geothermal B. endothermic C. biochemical D. exothermic Answer:
D
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Question: Four haploid spermatids form during meiosis from what? Options: A. the primary spermatocyte B. the sister chromatic C. the ova D. the zygote Answer:
A
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Question: What are non-steroid hormones made of? Options: A. fats B. Molecules C. proteins D. amino acids Answer:
D
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Question: How many eyelid membranes do frogs have? Options: A. three B. one C. two D. four Answer:
A
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Question: Which form of digestion is a purely physical process that does not change the chemical nature of the food? Options: A. slow B. electromagnetic C. mechanical D. simple Answer:
C
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Question: When plant type alternates from generation to generation what is this called? Options: A. alternation of generation B. turbidity of generation C. change in generation D. differentiation of generation Answer:
A
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Question: Varicella zoster virus causes what two illnesses? Options: A. flu and shingles B. chicken pox and shingles C. syphilis and lyme D. german measles and flu Answer:
B
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Question: What are the two most common silicates? Options: A. Petalite and Analcime B. Analcime and Feldspar C. Petalite and Quartz D. feldspar and quartz Answer:
D
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Question: What is composed of a calcium cation and a nitrate anion? Options: A. dynamite B. nitrous oxide C. calcium nitrate D. calcium carbonate Answer:
C
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Question: Cardiac veins parallel the small cardiac arteries and generally drain into what sinus? Options: A. Veins B. lungs C. heart D. coronary Answer:
D
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Question: What type of bonds between the bases at the center of the dna double helix hold the helix together? Options: A. ionic bonds B. electron bonds C. hydrogen bonds D. helium bonds Answer:
C
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Question: Fruit fly and brine shrimp hox genes have evolved independently for how long? Options: A. one billion B. 100.32 million years C. 60.000 million years D. 400 million years Answer:
D
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Question: What is the process whereby excess water and waste is removed from the body? Options: A. diffusion B. filtration C. excretion D. exhalation Answer:
C
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Question: Structural rearrangements of what include partial duplications, deletions, inversions, and translocations; duplications and deletions often produce offspring that survive but exhibit physical and mental abnormalities? Options: A. cells B. neutrons C. chromosomes D. phenotypes Answer:
C
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Question: This heat is used to convert water into steam, which is then used to turn a turbine, thus generating what? Options: A. heating power B. electrical power C. solar power D. radiation power Answer:
B
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Question: Milk is usually subjected to what process, where high temperatures denature the proteins in bacteria so they cannot carry out functions needed to grow and multiply? Options: A. crystallization B. Cleaning C. pasteurization D. vaporization Answer:
C
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Question: Concentration of what, the substance left behind when ocean water evaporates, is about 3.5 percent? Options: A. salts B. hydrogen C. quartz D. sugar Answer:
A
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Question: What receives blood in the heart? Options: A. the epidermis B. ventricle C. the atria D. chamber Answer:
C
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Question: Energy that the sun and other stars release into space is called what? Options: A. electromagnetic energy B. mechanical energy C. static energy D. kinetic energy Answer:
A
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Question: What is the force that pulls particles at the exposed surface of a liquid toward other liquid particles called? Options: A. shinking tension B. conservative tension C. transfer tension D. surface tension Answer:
D
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Question: What kind of muscle is found in the heart? Options: A. cord B. respiratory C. cardiac D. pulminary Answer:
C
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Question: What is the term for an ionic compound that produces positive hydrogen ions when dissolved in water? Options: A. sulfur B. base C. acid D. hydrocarbon Answer:
C
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Question: How is flowing water and blowing wind similar? Options: A. transports particles B. stocks particles C. phases particles D. processes particles Answer:
A
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Question: After what life stage does the fusion inside a star end? Options: A. yellow dwarf B. blue giant C. white dwarf D. red giant Answer:
D
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Question: What are the 3 types of volcanoes? Options: A. composite , atop , cinder cones B. crude , shield , cinder cones C. composite, seismic, fault D. composite, shield, cinder cones Answer:
D
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Question: What is the name for the sinking of the dense, salty seawater in cold climates? Options: A. downwelling B. tidal activity C. cyclones D. jet stream Answer:
A
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Question: Electrons can move from one atom to another; when they do, specimens called what, with overall electric charges, are formed? Options: A. atoms B. cations C. ions D. molecules Answer:
C
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Question: High decibel sounds can damage your? Options: A. brain B. eyes C. nose D. ears Answer:
D
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Question: Electrons are always added to which energy level first? Options: A. the second B. the major C. the lowest D. the highest Answer:
C
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Question: What will you see if you look at a star through a prism? Options: A. kaleidoscope B. spots C. spectrum D. rainbow Answer:
C
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Question: What are nutrients the body needs in relatively large amounts called? Options: A. adulterants B. macronutrients C. abundances D. vitamins Answer:
B
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Question: What is the developmental process of gastropods called? Options: A. occlusion B. modulation C. torsion D. regeneration Answer:
C
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Question: What blood component serves both structural and molecular functions in blood clotting? Options: A. platelets B. plasma C. molecules D. proteins Answer:
A
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Question: Alkenes can react with what to form alcohols? Options: A. water B. sugars C. air D. proteins Answer:
A
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Question: What do scientists use to search other planets suitable for living? Options: A. lasers B. telescopes C. microscopes D. optics Answer:
B
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Question: The small, rocky bodies that orbit the sun are called what? Options: A. asteroids B. meteorites C. comets D. fossils Answer:
A
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Question: How many cycles do cells have? Options: A. four B. two C. seven D. six Answer:
A
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Question: Why are the stems of many xerophytes fleshy? Options: A. stores water B. drains water C. pressures water D. collects water Answer:
A
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Question: Mitosis and meiosis are both forms of division of the nucleus in these? Options: A. endogenous cells B. reproduction cells C. converts cells D. eukaryotic cells Answer:
D
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Question: What term means a representation of an object, system, or process? Options: A. icon B. model C. pattern D. presentation Answer:
B
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Question: What force explains why objects may float in water? Options: A. buoyant force B. gravity force C. warm force D. cool force Answer:
A
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Question: What orifice in the body is particularly helpful in both digestion and respiration? Options: A. nose B. nostril C. mouth D. anus Answer:
C
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Question: What eukaryotic organisms cannot make their own food and do not technically eat? Options: A. cells B. proteins C. plankton D. fungi Answer:
D
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Question: What is the main reason for weather change? Options: A. climate change B. seasons C. moving air masses D. moving energy masses Answer:
C
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Question: In vertebrates, what tissue is a type of connective tissue that supports the entire body structure? Options: A. blood B. cartilage C. collagen D. bone Answer:
D
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Question: The first living cells may have evolved around how long ago? Options: A. 900,000 years B. 6 billion years C. 4 billion years D. 2.2 billion years Answer:
C
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Question: What tells you how much of the food you should eat to get the nutrients listed on the label? Options: A. scoop size B. serving size C. longer size D. regular size Answer:
B
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Question: Which is a more reliable trait or measure to identify minerals? Options: A. streak B. color C. shape D. weight Answer:
A
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Question: The common cold and flu are examples of human diseases caused by what tiny particles? Options: A. viruses B. bacteria C. parasites D. infections Answer:
A
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Question: What are materials that are poor thermal conductors called? Options: A. thermal insulators B. warmth insulators C. sunlight insulators D. pollution insulators Answer:
A
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Question: Adding the number of protons plus the number of neutrons in an atom, decides it's approximate mass, what is another word for this value? Options: A. atomic number B. real number C. electron count D. atomic mass Answer:
A
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Question: The outer surface of the heart changes from positive to negative during what? Options: A. permeability B. inflammation C. depolarization D. reproduction Answer:
C
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Question: What is the division of the cytoplasm in eukaryotic cells? Options: A. electrolysis B. cytokinesis C. andronisis D. metamorphosis Answer:
B
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Question: The cell body contains what central structure along with other organelles? Options: A. neutron B. electron C. protons D. nucleus Answer:
D
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Question: Ultimately, most life forms get their energy from this? Options: A. heat B. sun C. food D. earth Answer:
B
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Question: What unit are atomic radii typically measured in? Options: A. picometers B. powers C. radons D. sporozoans Answer:
A
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Question: What term is used to describe the cellular structures responsible for protein synthesis? Options: A. nuclei B. chloroplasts C. ribosomes D. chromosomes Answer:
C
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Question: Organisms such as goldfish that can tolerate only a relatively narrow range of salinity are referred to as what? Options: A. trichina B. stenohaline C. saline intolerant D. antisaline Answer:
B
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Question: What can have complex effects on soil nutrient concentrations? Options: A. eukaryotes B. prokaryotes C. sediments D. the sun Answer:
B
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Question: Adipose is a connective tissue made up of cells called what? Options: A. hepatocytes B. adipocytes C. oocytes D. keratinocytes Answer:
B
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Question: Which members of the food chain break down remains of plants and other organisms when they die? Options: A. nematodes B. fluxes C. decomposers D. Respiration Answer:
C
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Question: What takes both the shape and the volume of their container? Options: A. gases B. tissues C. solids D. fluids Answer:
A
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Question: What's the name for a cluster of genes, where one promoter serves adjacent genes? Options: A. opteron B. proton C. plasma D. nucleus Answer:
A
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Question: What takes the shape of the container they are placed in and have a definite volume? Options: A. solids B. loads C. liquids D. gases Answer:
C
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Question: Tropomyosin is a type of what, that winds around the chains of the actin filament and covers the myosin-binding sites to prevent actin from binding to myosin? Options: A. amine B. protein C. bacteria D. enzyme Answer:
B
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Question: What ear structure has three fluid filled ducts, including the organ of corti, where sound waves in air go to vibration? Options: A. utricle B. cochlea C. saccule D. semicirciular canal Answer:
B
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Question: What is the disease in which bronchioles in the lungs periodically swell and fill with mucus? Options: A. asthma B. allergy C. nausea D. leukemia Answer:
A
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Question: Light with the longest wavelengths is called what? Options: A. visible light B. X-rays C. UV light D. infrared light Answer:
D
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Question: Meningitis is an infection of the membranes that cover the brain and what else? Options: A. umbilical cord B. spinal cord C. notochord D. liver Answer:
B
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Question: What simple machine consists of two connected rings or cylinders, one inside the other, which both turn in the same direction around a single center point? Options: A. pully B. bloom and axle C. spoke D. wheel and axle Answer:
D
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Question: Glycolysis harvests chemical energy by oxidizing glucose to what? Options: A. chlorophyll B. pyruvate C. oxygen D. cellulose Answer:
B
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Question: The process of breaking down food into nutrients is known as __________ Options: A. filtration B. absorption C. energy D. digestion Answer:
D
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Question: Light with the shortest wavelength appears as what color? Options: A. red B. violet C. green D. blue Answer:
B
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Question: Which feature in maps allows users to make corrections between magnetic north and true north? Options: A. inset B. double compass rose C. scale D. key Answer:
B
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Question: What process is the synthesis of glucose from pyruvate, lactate and glycerol? Options: A. photosynthesis B. glycolysis C. gluconeogenesis D. hydrolysis Answer:
C
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Question: Genetic variation produced in sexual life cycles contributes to what process? Options: A. maturity B. generation C. deconstruction D. evolution Answer:
D
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Question: What is the term for animal-like protists that are usually single-celled? Options: A. larvae B. vertebrates C. eukaryotes D. protozoa Answer:
D
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Question: What term is defined as a way of writing very large or small numbers that uses exponents? Options: A. quadratic notation B. scientific notation C. exponential notation D. certain notation Answer:
B
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Question: Energy is lost as heat between each trophic level due to the second law of what? Options: A. particles B. thermodynamics C. reactions D. chemistry Answer:
B
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Question: What has a bigger impact on water quality, natural events or human activity? Options: A. all of the above B. human activity C. water quality D. natural events Answer:
B
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Question: When the smooth muscle relaxes, the arterioles dilate, allowing blood to enter the what? Options: A. capillaries B. bones C. arteries D. veins Answer:
A
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Question: Spermatogonia are the stem cells of what male sex organs? Options: A. Epididymis B. testes C. ovaries D. Prostate Answer:
B
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Question: What occurs when light interacts with our atmosphere? Options: A. prism effect B. rainbow formation C. rayleigh scattering D. eclipse Answer:
C
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Question: What two things are excess proteins converted into? Options: A. fructose or triglycerides B. glucose or sucrose C. glucose or triglycerides D. sucrose or triglycerides Answer:
C
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Question: What is a simple carbohydrate with the chemical formula c 6 h 12 o 6 better known as? Options: A. glucose B. alcohol C. fructose D. glutamate Answer:
A
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Question: There are how many visual clues to indicate a chemical reaction? Options: A. five B. four C. three D. seven Answer:
B
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Question: Water is formed from oxygen and what other element? Options: A. hydrogen B. helium C. calcium D. lead Answer:
A
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Question: Which process or force pulls rocks apart? Options: A. friction stress B. tactile stress C. composition stress D. tension stress Answer:
D
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Question: Any sample of matter that has the same physical and chemical properties throughout the sample is called what? Options: A. molecule B. substance C. type D. element Answer:
B
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Question: Dietary proteins are broken down into amino acids during what process? Options: A. digestion B. accumulation C. filtration D. photosynthesis Answer:
A
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Question: What class of animals, translated as “head foot”, includes octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and nautilus? Options: A. mollusks B. cephalopods C. bivalves D. crustaceans Answer:
B
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Question: Carbon and what are the second and third most abundant elements in your body? Options: A. hydrogen B. helium C. calcium D. mercury Answer:
A
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Question: What is aggravated by practices such as logging, mining, construction, and paving surfaces? Options: A. global warming B. soil erosion C. seismic activity D. water pollution Answer:
B
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Question: A solenoid wrapped around a bar of iron or other ferromagnetic material forms what? Options: A. compass B. impoundment C. compress D. electromagnet Answer:
D
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Question: What of a electromagnetic wave can be calculated using the wave equation due to their speed always being constant? Options: A. resonance B. sound C. oscillation D. frequency Answer:
D
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Question: What is the type of cancer where bone marrow produces abnormal white blood cells? Options: A. anemia B. leukemia C. liver D. kidney Answer:
B
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Question: Acids are molecular compounds that dissolve in water to produce hydronium ions and what else? Options: A. an alkali B. a proton C. a neutron D. an anion Answer:
D