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Question: What common ailment is typically caused by tense muscles in the shoulders, head and neck? Options: A. disturbances B. fever C. headache D. pollution Answer:
C
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Question: What are natural sponges made of? Options: A. sea plants B. sand C. sea animals D. sea shells Answer:
C
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Question: If an electric current passes through water, water molecules break down into molecules of what? Options: A. oxygen and methane B. hydrogen and carbon C. carbon and oxygen D. hydrogen and oxygen Answer:
D
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Question: What is the term for the simplest form of matter that has a unique set of properties? Options: A. an element B. an atom C. an electron D. a neutron Answer:
A
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Question: Antibiotics can cure most infections that are caused by what? Options: A. algae B. bacteria C. bile D. bacterium Answer:
B
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Question: What kind of reaction adds water to an organic molecule and breaks the large molecule into smaller molecules? Options: A. aerobic reaction B. heat reaction C. supplementation reaction D. hydration reaction Answer:
D
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Question: Which blood leaves the placenta through veins leading back to the fetus? Options: A. molecular B. immunity C. fetal D. pelvic Answer:
C
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Question: What is the largest and most complex algae Options: A. open algae B. green algae C. brown algae D. strange algae Answer:
C
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Question: Strong bands of dense, regular connective tissue that connect muscles to bones are called what? Options: A. tendons B. membranes C. cartilage D. veins Answer:
A
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Question: How do parathyroid hormones react as a body ages? Options: A. use with age B. help with age C. decrease with age D. increase with age Answer:
D
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Question: What type of weathering breaks rock into smaller pieces? Options: A. chemical weathering B. fluid weathering C. chemical erosion D. mechanical weathering Answer:
D
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Question: Arrows and cannon balls are examples of objects with what kind of motion? Options: A. projectile B. velocity C. accelerating D. fluid Answer:
A
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Question: What done ozone help protect against? Options: A. x-rays B. ultraviolet rays C. helium rays D. gamma rays Answer:
B
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Question: What helps form the walls of internal organs such as the heart and stomach? Options: A. tissues B. valves C. blood D. muscles Answer:
D
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Question: What type of energy causes erosion at the shore? Options: A. potential B. tidal C. kinetic D. wave Answer:
D
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Question: What is the term for rain that has a ph less than 5, due to carbon dioxide dissolving? Options: A. acid rain B. frozen rain C. basic rain D. carbon rain Answer:
A
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Question: What is caused by atoms or ions when they share or transfer valance electrons? Options: A. gain of charge B. force of attraction C. force of repulsion D. loss of charge Answer:
B
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Question: In what process is atp created by glycolysis, without oxygen? Options: A. sedimentation B. fermentation C. oxidation D. condensation Answer:
B
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Question: Irrigation can waste a lot of what natural resource? Options: A. water B. fertilizer C. money D. habitat Answer:
A
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Question: The number of particles of a substance in a given volume is known as? Options: A. concentration B. mass C. frequency D. range Answer:
A
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Question: What keeps various species from mating and reproducing outside their own species? Options: A. cancer organ incompatibility B. digestive system incompatibility C. reproductive organ incompatibility D. brain organ incompatibility Answer:
C
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Question: In what unit is frequency measured in? Options: A. hertz B. mole C. gram D. centimeter Answer:
A
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Question: What is the most common plant-like protist? Options: A. mundane algae B. esoteric algae C. invasive algae D. unicellular algae Answer:
D
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Question: What system of the body is responsible for producing hormones? Options: A. regulatory system B. nervous system C. homeostasis system D. endocrine system Answer:
D
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Question: What are all scientific explanations and interpretations based on? Options: A. facts B. theories C. changes D. controls Answer:
A
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Question: What organ do mammals have that is exceptionally large for their body size? Options: A. lungs B. liver C. heart D. brain Answer:
D
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Question: What can be calculated by solving the average speed formula? Options: A. distance or time B. mass or time C. distance or mass D. accelaration Answer:
A
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Question: What is the product of microfilament movement powered by chemical energy? Options: A. muscle contraction B. nerve stimulation C. blood circulation D. muscle fusion Answer:
A
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Question: Which three colors are called the primary colors of light? Options: A. red, blue, yellow B. red, green, blue C. blue, green, violet D. black, white, red Answer:
B
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Question: Has this ever happened to you? you walk across a carpet, reach out to touch a metal doorknob, and get an unpleasant electric shock? .the reason you get a shock is because of what? Options: A. sunlight charge B. temperature charge C. electrical charge D. solar charge Answer:
C
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Question: What part of a chromosome exists in different states of condensation at different times? Options: A. chromonema B. pellicle C. the chromatin D. centromeres Answer:
C
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Question: What tool do scientist's use to show the evolutionary pathways and connections among organisms? Options: A. conceptual tree B. superficial tree C. phylogenetic tree D. photogenetic tree Answer:
C
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Question: The process of transferring pollen from the male reproductive part of a flower known as the anthers to the female reproductive part of the flower known as the stigma is referred to as what? Options: A. inoculation B. pollination C. reproduction D. fertilization Answer:
B
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Question: Hyperparathyroidism results from an overproduction of what? Options: A. parathyroid hormone B. tharayroid hormone C. elevated hormone D. inhibited hormone Answer:
A
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Question: Acid rain may be caused by what? Options: A. air pollution B. volcanos C. hurricanes D. water pollution Answer:
A
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Question: Most vascular plants are seed plants, also known as? Options: A. spermatophytes B. bacteria C. sporozoans D. fungus Answer:
A
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Question: What do marine autotrophs acquire in carbonic acid, its dissolved form? Options: A. carbon monoxide B. chlorine dioxide C. silicon dioxide D. carbon dioxide Answer:
D
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Question: What is the top part of water able to receive enough sunlight for photosynthesis called? Options: A. fantasmic zone B. synthesis zone C. thymic zone D. photic zone Answer:
D
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Question: What helps determine the concentration of a species in a solution? Options: A. technical analysis B. fundamental analysis C. qualitative analysis D. quantitative analysis Answer:
D
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Question: What type of behavior occurs naturally in all animals of a given species? Options: A. innate B. learned C. reflex D. observational Answer:
A
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Question: What structures located on chromosomes control characteristics of life and are passed from parents to offspring? Options: A. genes B. axons C. eggs D. cells Answer:
A
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Question: Because the nuclei of each h atom contain protons, the electrons in the bond are attracted to the nuclei (opposite charges attract). but because the two atoms involved in the covalent bond are both h atoms, each nucleus attracts the electrons by the same amount. thus the electron pair is equally shared by these? Options: A. nine atoms B. four atoms C. two atoms D. one atom Answer:
C
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Question: What does the male reproductive system consist of? Options: A. structures that collect urine B. organs that produce estrogen C. structures that produce ova D. structures that produce sperm and secrete testosterone Answer:
D
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Question: What type of reproduction takes place when an animal simply divides into two parts? Options: A. fission B. sexual reproduction C. fusion D. budding Answer:
A
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Question: The paranasal sinuses are hollow, air-filled spaces located within certain bones of the skull. all of the sinuses communicate with the nasal cavity (paranasal = “next to nasal cavity”) and are lined with this? Options: A. nasal mucosa B. respiration mucosa C. oral mucosa D. fluid mucosa Answer:
A
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Question: Meissner’s corpuscles are not as plentiful in the palms as they are in the what other part of the hand? Options: A. bones B. fingernails C. cuticles D. fingertips Answer:
D
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Question: What method do scientists use to answer questions? Options: A. scientific method B. regulatory method C. inquisitive method D. solutive method Answer:
A
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Question: What happens when liquid water evaporates? Options: A. seawater happens B. condensation C. humidity happens D. snow Answer:
C
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Question: Plants go through seasonal changes after detecting differences in what? Options: A. week length B. temperature C. weather D. day length Answer:
D
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Question: What is the name of the outer layer of skin? Options: A. the dermis B. hypodermis C. the epidermis D. endodermis Answer:
C
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Question: What causes a meteoroid to vaporize after it enters the atmosphere? Options: A. friction with atmosphere B. gravitational pull C. spontaneous combustion D. atmospheric pressure Answer:
A
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Question: The horizontal stems on strawberry plants are called what? Options: A. glands B. nodules C. stolons D. buds Answer:
C
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Question: What type of mutations cannot be passed on to offspring? Options: A. symbiotic mutations B. instructional mutations C. functional mutations D. somatic mutations Answer:
D
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Question: Is the digestive tract of many sharks longer or shorter than many other vertebrates? Options: A. heavier B. longer C. narrower D. shorter Answer:
D
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Question: What term is used to describe potential energy due to an object’s shape? Options: A. elastic potential energy B. stimulated potential energy C. kinetic energy D. flexible energy Answer:
A
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Question: What is the term for a mountain-building event? Options: A. glaciation B. volcanism C. erosion D. orogeny Answer:
D
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Question: What is name of the phenomenon where similar traits evolve independently in species that do not share a common ancestry? Options: A. coalescence evolution B. equation evolution C. divergent evolution D. convergent evolution Answer:
D
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Question: What is occurring at an alarming rate as a result of global climate change and the constant melting point of ice? Options: A. glacial movement B. glacial formation C. glacier melt D. glacial hardening Answer:
C
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Question: Although it is the easiest to observe, what property is not ideal as a sole way to identify minerals? Options: A. color B. density C. temperature D. composition Answer:
A
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Question: Desert plants have evolved processes to conserve water and deal with harsh conditions. a more efficient use of co2 allows plants to adapt to living with what? Options: A. less competition B. more sunlight C. less water D. more water Answer:
C
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Question: What are fungi which feed on living cells called? Options: A. symbiotic B. static C. predatory D. parasitic Answer:
D
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Question: Under appropriate conditions, the attractions between all molecules in what state will cause them to form liquids or solids? Options: A. plasma B. soild C. gas D. liquid Answer:
C
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Question: How many pairs of chromosomes do human have ? Options: A. 31 pairs B. 19 pairs C. 23 pairs D. 12 pairs Answer:
C
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Question: What muscle in the chest helps inflate and deflate the lungs? Options: A. cartilage B. heart C. pectoral D. diaphragm Answer:
D
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Question: What refers to the union of a male and female of the same species for reproduction? Options: A. behavior B. asexual reproduction C. dating D. mating Answer:
D
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Question: What lipid, added to certain foods to keep them fresher longer, increases the risk of heart disease? Options: A. Omega-3 fatty acids B. cholesterol C. trans fat D. fatty acids Answer:
C
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Question: New species may be created by natural selection and one other way. what is the other way? Options: A. artifical selection B. obvious selection C. fake selection D. squalling selection Answer:
A
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Question: What do cells secrete that binds to receptors? Options: A. endorphans B. proteins C. factor D. stress Answer:
C
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Question: Forces which cause objects to turn around continuously in a circle are known as? Options: A. tension forces B. frictional forces C. centripetal forces D. hydrodynamic forces Answer:
C
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Question: Ebola is an example of a disease spread by what kind of infectious agent? Options: A. flus B. colds C. virus D. bacteria Answer:
C
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Question: When is the sun directly over the equator? Options: A. Fall B. Winter C. Midsummer D. equinox Answer:
D
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Question: What is the name of the galaxy we live in? Options: A. Andromeda B. Centaurus A C. milky way D. Bode's Galaxy Answer:
C
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Question: What holds together the small molecules called nucleotides which make up nucleic acids? Options: A. permanent bonds B. curvature bonds C. covalent bonds D. dissonance bonds Answer:
C
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Question: Bees, wasps, ants, butterflies, moths, flies and beetles belong to what animal phylum? Options: A. insects B. crustaceans C. cephalopods D. arthropods Answer:
D
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Question: Sublimation and deposition involve direct transitions between solid and gas without going through which state? Options: A. liquid B. carbon C. homeostasis D. chemical Answer:
A
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Question: Where do benthos live in oceans? Options: A. on the ocean floor B. On the ocean surface C. In deep water D. In coral reefs Answer:
A
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Question: How many types of surface waves are there? Options: A. three B. six C. over a hundred D. two Answer:
D
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Question: What system protects the body from worms, germs, and other agents of harm? Options: A. immune B. hormones C. lymph system D. digestion Answer:
A
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Question: The properties of the alkali metals are similar to each other as expected for elements in the same what? Options: A. class B. branch C. farm D. family Answer:
D
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Question: Which state of matter is characterized by molecules with minimal movement and strong forces between them? Options: A. plasma B. liquid C. gas D. solid Answer:
D
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Question: The specialized study of the motion of objects that are atomic/subatomic in size is called what? Options: A. quantum mechanics B. atomic mechanics C. enthalpy D. string theory Answer:
A
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Question: What are indestructible and constantly in motion? Options: A. atoms B. viruses C. ions D. crystals Answer:
A
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Question: Particulates from cigarette smoke that enter what structures can cause a permanent reduction in lung capacity? Options: A. alveoli B. chambers C. glands D. cells Answer:
A
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Question: During sexual arousal what does the clitoris, vagina, and labia minora all engorge with? Options: A. fluid B. bacteria C. blood D. urine Answer:
C
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Question: When a stalactite and stalagmite join together, they form a what? Options: A. joint B. column C. cave D. ladder Answer:
B
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Question: What do vertebrates have which invertebrates do not? Options: A. backbones B. fangs C. tails D. appendages Answer:
A
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Question: Competition that occurs between members of the same species, which improves the species’ adaptations, is called what? Options: A. adaptive behavior B. intraspecific competition C. interspecies competition D. commensalism Answer:
B
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Question: Where do stratus clouds occur in the troposphere? Options: A. mid-region B. mid to high region C. low D. high Answer:
C
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Question: In eukaryotic cells, where is the dna kept? Options: A. nucleus B. mitochondria C. cytoplasm D. epidermis Answer:
A
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Question: Which membranous organelles in a cell sequence enzyme and electron molecules for efficient cellular respiration? Options: A. mitochondria B. bacterial C. glucose D. protons Answer:
A
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Question: Sexual reproduction involves haploid gametes and produces a diploid zygote through what process? Options: A. vivisection B. infection C. sedimentation D. fertilization Answer:
D
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Question: What does our solar system orbit over the course of hundreds of millions of years? Options: A. volcanic center B. retrograde center C. a black hole D. galactic center Answer:
D
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Question: Some animals prepare for the long winter by going into what? Options: A. hibernation B. suspended animation C. pollination D. fermentation Answer:
A
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Question: Water in its solid state is commonly known as what? Options: A. sea B. carbon dioxide C. glass D. ice Answer:
D
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Question: When an oxidation number of an atom is decreased in the course of a redox reaction, that atom is being what? Options: A. replaced B. increased C. reduced D. destroyed Answer:
C
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Question: What is made up of a watery substance called cytosol and contains other cell structures such as ribosomes? Options: A. cytoskeleton B. plasma C. rna D. cytoplasm Answer:
D
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Question: What can be thought of as the fundamental unit of life? Options: A. cell B. atom C. electron D. ion Answer:
A
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Question: What can autographs do that heterotrophs cannot do? Options: A. live without sleep B. live without water C. make their own food D. make their own air Answer:
C
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Question: What does the kelvin scale measure? Options: A. oxygen B. precipitation C. height D. temperature Answer:
D
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Question: True animals are divided into those with radial versus bilateral styles of what? Options: A. molecular B. magnetic C. symmetry D. attracted Answer:
C