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Question: Breathing involves differences in what, measured in torr, between the inside of the lungs and the air outside? Options: A. pressure B. gravity C. temperature D. resistance Answer:
A
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Question: Called the powerhouses of the cell, what organelles are the site of cellular energy production? Options: A. mitochondria B. nucleus C. mitosis D. cell wall Answer:
A
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Question: What element is all life built around? Options: A. oxygen B. neon C. carbon D. hydrogen Answer:
C
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Question: Where is food stored? Options: A. the stomach B. The esophagus C. The gall bladder D. The liver Answer:
A
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Question: The modern atomic theory states that all matter is composed of what? Options: A. molecules B. quarks C. atoms D. ions Answer:
C
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Question: How quickly a population changes in size over time is known as what? Options: A. population multiplication rate B. population impact rate C. population growth rate D. population direction rate Answer:
C
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Question: When referring to genes, what term describes the property of having multiple phenotypic effects? Options: A. xerophyte B. prototype C. archetype D. pleiotrophy Answer:
D
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Question: A membrane has what property if it can control what molecules or ions enter or leave the cell? Options: A. impermeability B. susceptible permeability C. indiscreet permeability D. selective permeability Answer:
D
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Question: What is required for both the synthesis and breakdown of molecules? Options: A. heating B. energy C. mixing D. sunlight Answer:
B
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Question: From the uterus, where do sperm travel next? Options: A. fallopian tubes B. urinary tract C. vagina D. ovaries Answer:
A
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Question: Labor is the muscular contractions to expel the fetus and placenta from where? Options: A. anus B. uterus C. tumors D. lungs Answer:
B
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Question: Carbon behaves as a metal because it conducts which two things well? Options: A. heat and water B. heat and electricity C. electricity and oxygen D. heat and magnetism Answer:
B
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Question: What substances that primarily comprise plasma membranes form a bilayer? Options: A. steroids B. amino acids C. enzymes D. phospholipids Answer:
D
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Question: The golgi removes some sugar monomers and substitutes others, producing a large variety of what? Options: A. fats B. carbohydrates C. proteins D. electrolytes Answer:
B
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Question: Where do plants take in air? Options: A. their leaves B. their flowers C. their stems D. their roots Answer:
A
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Question: Gymnamoebas constitute a large and varied group of what? Options: A. sporozoans B. cells C. amoebozoans D. newborns Answer:
C
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Question: Water molds are commonly found in moist soil and where else? Options: A. standing water B. methane water C. crust water D. surface water Answer:
D
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Question: Most terrestrial vertebrates have what type of lungs? Options: A. internal B. extra C. external D. mechanical Answer:
A
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Question: What are non-renewable sources of energy that produce environmental damage? Options: A. sunlight B. crop fuels C. fossil fuels D. wind Answer:
C
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Question: What term is used to describe the development of new technology? Options: A. technological design B. Smart Design C. evident design D. variation design Answer:
A
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Question: What part of blood releases clotting factors? Options: A. white blood cells B. erythrocytes C. platelets D. hemoglobin Answer:
C
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Question: What happens to energy in a closed system? Options: A. is replicated B. is wasted C. is destroyed D. is conserved Answer:
D
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Question: Greater reflection off what atmospheric layer allows am radio waves to travel even farther at night than they can during the day? Options: A. exosphere B. troposphere C. ionosphere D. stratosphere Answer:
C
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Question: Solid bedrock vibrates less and therefore does less of what to bedrock? Options: A. damage B. dampen C. block D. butress Answer:
A
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Question: What sequence is the primary structure of a protein? Options: A. processed acid sequence B. nucleic acid sequence C. proteins acid sequence D. amino acid sequence Answer:
D
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Question: What are the nonliving matter that living things need called? Options: A. nutrients B. acids C. elements D. fluids Answer:
A
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Question: What term describes the process of vesicles fusing with the plasma membrane and releasing their contents to the outside of the cell? Options: A. endocytosis B. plasmosis C. exocytosis D. biosynthesis Answer:
C
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Question: The scientific method is a method of research with defined steps that include experiments and careful what? Options: A. observation B. estimation C. consideration D. discovery Answer:
A
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Question: What releases fatty acids and other components from fats and phospholipids? Options: A. enzymatic hydrolysis B. peristaltic hydrolysis C. metabolism D. enzyme respiration Answer:
A
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Question: When thinking of the rate at which two gases mix, it is inverse proportional to the density of what? Options: A. matter B. gas C. dioxide D. the container Answer:
B
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Question: What carry messages from our sensory organs and others to the central nervous system? Options: A. valves B. fibers C. blood vessels D. nerves Answer:
D
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Question: What period starts after the baby is born, and the placenta is expelled from the body? Options: A. postpartum B. postfetal C. traumatic D. fetal Answer:
A
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Question: Asthma affects what tiny branches into which the bronchi are divided? Options: A. platelets B. cilia C. bronchioles D. macrophages Answer:
C
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Question: Where are protons found in the atom? Options: A. in the orbital B. within electrons C. in the nucleus D. outside the nucleus Answer:
C
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Question: What do you call the angle at which waves strike a wall? Options: A. angle of impact B. incidence impact C. rotation of incidence D. angle of incidence Answer:
D
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Question: Temporal and spatial summation at the axon hillock determines whether a neuron generates what? Options: A. false potential B. change potential C. hidden potential D. action potential Answer:
D
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Question: Refracting and reflecting telescopes are optical telescopes that use lenses to gather what? Options: A. magnetic force B. sound C. electricity D. light Answer:
D
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Question: What are surface currents mainly caused by? Options: A. waves B. lightning C. rains D. winds Answer:
D
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Question: Scientists use the principles of what to make predictions, which they then test? Options: A. their guesses B. their hypothesis C. their faith D. their teachers Answer:
B
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Question: Lead shielding is used to block what type of rays? Options: A. gamma B. toxic C. ultraviolet D. alpha Answer:
A
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Question: Of course, a net external force is needed to cause any acceleration, just as newton proposed in his second law of what? Options: A. motion B. speed C. gravity D. land Answer:
A
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Question: What is a copy of an object that is formed by reflected light? Options: A. instance B. example C. image D. deflection Answer:
C
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Question: What type of carbon compound is methane? Options: A. stable compounds B. volatile organic compounds C. dynamic organic compounds D. alternating compounds Answer:
B
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Question: Gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria are distinguished by thickness of what? Options: A. cell length B. cell weight C. cell wall D. cell membrane Answer:
C
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Question: What do cells produce as they age? Options: A. proto-oncogenes B. carcinogens C. oxidants D. wrinkles Answer:
A
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Question: What is earth's main source of energy? Options: A. the sun B. the moon C. the core D. the atmosphere Answer:
A
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Question: What is the name for a combination of elements that acts as a different substance? Options: A. compound B. contrast C. solution D. mixture Answer:
A
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Question: What kind of compounds contain positively and negatively charged ions in a ratio that results in an overall charge of zero? Options: A. ionic compounds B. zeronic ions C. zero charged compunds D. neutral compounds Answer:
A
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Question: In a dehydration reaction, what is removed as two monomers are joined together? Options: A. air B. nitrogen C. water D. carbon Answer:
C
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Question: Single bonds allow the atoms they join to rotate freely about the what? Options: A. electron shell B. nucleus C. bond axis D. atomic orbit Answer:
C
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Question: Simple eyes, like the human eye, have how many lenses? Options: A. one B. four C. two D. none Answer:
A
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Question: What are often formed biologically during the breakdown of proteins in animal cells, having the smell of death and decay?. Options: A. amines B. acids C. ketones D. enzymes Answer:
A
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Question: In what type of reproduction do parents of different sexes mate to produce offspring? Options: A. subject reproduction B. sexual reproduction C. dual reproduction D. parallel reproduction Answer:
B
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Question: What type of bond generally forms between a metal and non-metal? Options: A. unbreakable B. horizontal C. ionic D. soluble Answer:
C
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Question: What forms a ketone when oxidized? Options: A. secondary alcohol B. enzyme C. aldehyde D. carbolic acid Answer:
A
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Question: What body part does encephalitis attack? Options: A. heart B. brain C. lungs D. liver Answer:
B
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Question: Melting ice cubes and freezing water are examples of change of what? Options: A. role B. role C. volume D. state Answer:
D
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Question: What state of hydrogen can be predicted based on the atoms to which it is bonded? Options: A. condensation B. oxidation C. evaporation D. precipitation Answer:
B
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Question: Glass, rubber, and plastics are examples of which type of solids? Options: A. dubious B. amorphous C. porous D. aqueous Answer:
B
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Question: Momentum is a vector quantity that has the same direction as what? Options: A. inertia B. object ' s velocity C. object energy D. initial speed Answer:
B
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Question: Cilia or flagella structures give protists what ability? Options: A. movement B. reproduction C. eating D. breathing Answer:
A
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Question: Animals that are endotherms or ectotherms are distinguished by the ability to maintain a constant what? Options: A. bearing temperature B. Moving Tempature C. body temperature D. step temperature Answer:
C
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Question: Unlike archaea and eukaryotes, bacteria have a cell wall made of what? Options: A. peptidoglycan B. phospholipids C. hydrogen D. substrates Answer:
A
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Question: What type of protein fibers in the cytoskeleton are the narrowest? Options: A. microfilaments B. macrophages C. capillaries D. mitosis Answer:
A
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Question: Species that have diverged from their common ancestors have greater differences in what? Options: A. life span B. dna sequence C. cell structure D. immunology Answer:
B
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Question: The flood of sodium ions through the symporter provides the energy that allows what to move through the symporter and into the cell? Options: A. glucose B. insulin C. mitochondria D. sucrose Answer:
A
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Question: What must be overcome to change the motion of an object? Options: A. pressure B. density C. inertia D. weight Answer:
C
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Question: What is an organism that spreads bacteria or other pathogens? Options: A. section B. vector C. plane D. arc Answer:
B
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Question: In order to create food, what do photosynthetic protists use? Options: A. hydrocarbons B. thermal energy C. decayed matter D. light energy Answer:
D
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Question: Quarks also have a different type of charge, called what? Options: A. pure charge B. contrast charge C. color charge D. spontaneous charge Answer:
C
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Question: The oxygen atom in a water molecule pull the electrons away from the hydrogen atoms which leads to an unequal distribution of what? Options: A. atomic mass B. orbits C. nitrogen D. charge Answer:
D
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Question: What is the name of the muscular tube that carries urine out of the body? Options: A. rectum B. uterus C. urethra D. bladder Answer:
C
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Question: What is the principal cell of connective tissues? Options: A. organism B. neural C. Cancer D. fibroblast Answer:
D
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Question: A major step in animal evolution was the evolution of what rigid rod that runs the length of the body? Options: A. mitochondria B. notochord C. limbic system D. endoderm Answer:
B
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Question: What relatively new addition to and highest level of the system of taxonomic classification includes just three divisions, the eukarya, the archaea, and the bacteria? Options: A. domain B. content C. element D. branch Answer:
A
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Question: What are the bones in partly movable joints held in place by? Options: A. collagen B. cartilage C. tendons D. socket Answer:
B
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Question: Comparing what sequences provides clues to evolution and development? Options: A. DNA B. genes C. genome D. organisms Answer:
C
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Question: What phenomenon sometimes causes harmful alleles to become fixed? Options: A. natural selection B. competition C. spontaneous mutation D. genetic drift Answer:
D
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Question: Lactic acid fermentation is common in muscle cells that have run out of what? Options: A. oxygen B. nitrogen C. carbon D. helium Answer:
A
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Question: Hybrid orbitals are formed only in which type of bonded atoms? Options: A. thermally B. covalently C. partially D. ionically Answer:
B
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Question: Where is glucose carried in the human body? Options: A. the brain B. the heart C. the blood D. the liver Answer:
C
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Question: Life itself could not exist without what energy, which plays a vital role in photosynthesis? Options: A. spin energy B. time energy C. light energy D. magnetic energy Answer:
C
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Question: What broad category of animals shows adaptations from water-dwelling to land-dweller, including the ability to breathe air and legs to move on land? Options: A. birds B. herbivores C. reptiles D. amphibians Answer:
D
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Question: What is the name of earth’s only natural satellite? Options: A. titan B. moon C. venus D. sun Answer:
B
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Question: What is the last step in a scientific investigation? Options: A. verifying findings B. retesting findings C. documenting findings D. communicating findings Answer:
D
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Question: Cells may enter a period of rest known as what? Options: A. stationary phase B. interkinesis C. respiration D. anaphase Answer:
B
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Question: A light bulb converts electrical energy to light and what? Options: A. visible energy B. chemical energy C. kinetic energy D. thermal energy Answer:
D
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Question: During sexual reproduction, the macronucleus dissolves and is replaced by what? Options: A. chromosomes B. micronucleus C. sporozoans D. fluctuations Answer:
B
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Question: What is a double membrane of the nucleus that encloses the genetic material? Options: A. nuclear wall B. cell wall C. nuclear enevelope D. cell membrane Answer:
C
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Question: Ionic compound atoms of various elements gain or lose electrons to? Options: A. become ions B. expel ions C. flatten ions D. produce ions Answer:
D
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Question: How can people access water in an aquifer that does not flow from a spring or a geyser? Options: A. generate electricity B. evaporation C. mound building D. dig a well Answer:
D
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Question: What consists mainly of parenchymal cells with chloroplasts? Options: A. mitochondria B. chlorophyll C. mesophyll D. periosteum Answer:
C
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Question: Land plants are classified into two major groups according to the absence or presence of what tissue? Options: A. vascular B. disease C. root D. bacterial Answer:
A
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Question: What is an organic compound made up of small molecules called amino acids called? Options: A. a fat B. a protein C. a compound D. a carbohydrate Answer:
B
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Question: What kind of power plant uses energy to heat water that becomes steam and spins turbines? Options: A. coal B. wind C. hydroelectric D. nuclear power plants Answer:
D
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Question: The amniotic egg first evolved in what species? Options: A. birds B. mammals C. amphibians D. reptiles Answer:
D
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Question: What science includes many fields of science related to our home planet? Options: A. biology B. earth science C. meteorology D. zoology Answer:
B
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Question: What is it called when sound is reflected off an object? Options: A. amplification B. reverberation C. echo D. signal Answer:
C
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Question: In mammals what does the zona pellucida protect? Options: A. egg B. fetus C. testes D. sperm Answer:
A
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Question: Under a microscope, salt crystals are what shape? Options: A. circles B. squares C. triangles D. cubes Answer:
D