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Question: What is the gas that gives rotten eggs and sewage their distinctive smell? Options: A. calcium sulfide B. hydrogen peroxide C. hydrogen sulfide D. methane Answer:
C
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Question: What bonds form when pairs of electrons are shared? Options: A. ionized bonds B. dissonance bonds C. covalent bonds D. neutron bonds Answer:
C
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Question: What is a key factor in the growth of populations? Options: A. immigration B. assimilation C. legislation D. gentrification Answer:
A
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Question: Which two major innovations allowed seed plants to reproduce in the absence of water? Options: A. root and pollen B. seed and pollen C. bee and pollen D. salt and pollen Answer:
B
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Question: Who built the first telescope? Options: A. galileo B. copernicus C. brahe D. newton Answer:
A
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Question: What is the most common form of dwarfism in humans? Options: A. alopecia B. achondroplasia C. malnutrition D. anemia Answer:
B
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Question: Both fats and oils are made up of long chains of carbon atoms that are bonded together. what are these chains called? Options: A. metabolic acids B. amino acids C. nucleic acids D. fatty acids Answer:
D
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Question: What kingdom of organisms is characterized by having sensory organs, movement, and internal digestion? Options: A. fungi B. animals C. plants D. bacteria Answer:
B
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Question: The distinctive appearance of what tissue is due to polysaccharides called chondroitin sulfates? Options: A. collagen B. membrane C. cartilage D. bone Answer:
C
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Question: What nerves attached to the brain are mainly responsible for motor and sensory functions? Options: A. somatic nerves B. stimulation nerves C. cranial nerves D. autonomic nerves Answer:
C
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Question: Aldehydes and ketones can work weak hydrogen bonds with water through what atom? Options: A. basalt oxygen atom B. carbonyl oxygen atom C. pyridinium oxygen atom D. carbon carbon atom Answer:
B
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Question: What occurs when there is little to no rain in a period of time? Options: A. hurricanes B. floods C. pollution D. droughts Answer:
D
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Question: Why do mangrove trees rise high above the water? which characteristic help them to do so? Options: A. heavy roots B. stilt like roots C. fat roots D. no roots Answer:
B
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Question: What is the name for the amount of water vapor in the air? Options: A. ambient B. humidity C. viscosity D. heat Answer:
B
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Question: Why can't fungi make their own food like plants do? Options: A. no organelles B. no cells C. no chloroplasts D. no hydrogen Answer:
C
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Question: What is the term for a certain form of matter that has the same physical properties throughout? Options: A. phase B. balance C. structure D. wave Answer:
A
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Question: What are the best-known extinct vertebrates? Options: A. snakes B. trees C. trilobites D. dinosaurs Answer:
D
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Question: The function of which organ is to filter blood and form urine? Options: A. kidneys B. liver C. gallbladder D. lungs Answer:
A
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Question: What term is defined as the ability to locate objects in the dark by bouncing sound waves off them. Options: A. echolocation B. morphology C. night vision D. thermodynamics Answer:
A
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Question: What occurs after gametes fuse and form a diploid zygote? Options: A. meiosis B. transcription C. reproduction D. electrolysis Answer:
A
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Question: Where are unsaturated fatty acids commonly found? Options: A. butter B. fish C. animal products D. oil Answer:
D
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Question: During meiosis, each parent synthesizes gametes that contain only half of their complement of what? Options: A. neutrons B. atoms C. receptors D. chromosomes Answer:
D
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Question: What do astronomers term the stretching of space that causes the distance between galaxies to increase? Options: A. draining universe B. contracting universe C. maintaining universe D. expanding universe Answer:
D
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Question: What is the time since the beginning of the ice ages? Options: A. Mesozoic epocH B. quaternary period C. Paleolithic era D. Jurassic period Answer:
B
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Question: What kind of waves consist of vibrating electric and magnetic fields? Options: A. gaseous waves B. hydraulic waves C. sound waves D. electromagnetic waves Answer:
D
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Question: What are the tiny packets of energy the sun gives off called? Options: A. photons B. neutrons C. ions D. electrons Answer:
A
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Question: The following definition relates to which term: the application of knowledge to real-world problems? Options: A. invention B. industry C. capitalism D. technology Answer:
D
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Question: Alchemy helped improve the study of metallurgy and the extraction of metals from what? Options: A. wood B. air C. ores D. water Answer:
C
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Question: What determines sex in animals? Options: A. cell structure B. ribosomes C. cell density D. sex chromosomes Answer:
D
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Question: Twin studies have been instrumental in demonstrating what type of component in autism? Options: A. bacterial B. natural C. internal D. environmental Answer:
D
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Question: The earliest known mammal fossils are from which period? Options: A. Tertiary B. Mesosoic period C. early jurassic D. Cretaceous Period Answer:
C
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Question: What are the taste receptors found as tiny bumps on the tongue called? Options: A. hard buds B. taste buds C. ear buds D. fat buds Answer:
B
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Question: What moves nitrogen back and forth between the atmosphere and organisms? Options: A. the calcium cycle B. the leakage cycle C. the nitrogen cycle D. the Krebs cycle Answer:
C
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Question: Energy resources can be put into two categories — renewable or? Options: A. reusable B. precious C. synthetic D. nonrenewable Answer:
D
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Question: What is the most common fossil fuel? Options: A. methane B. diesel oil C. uranium D. coal Answer:
D
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Question: The physical properties of gases are predictable using mathematical formulas known as what? Options: A. air laws B. vapor laws C. gas laws D. state laws Answer:
C
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Question: What are vesicles made of? Options: A. membranes B. phospholipids C. filaments D. cells Answer:
B
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Question: Desert plants have special stems and leaves to conserve what? Options: A. air B. water C. habitat D. food Answer:
B
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Question: In fact, when sitting in the sun, many ectothermic lizards have higher body temperatures than what? Options: A. carnivores B. primates C. mammals D. insects Answer:
C
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Question: What are the only organisms that can decompose wood? Options: A. protists B. bacteria C. fossil D. fungi Answer:
D
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Question: Body waves travel through the earth and arrive at seismograms before what? Options: A. velocity waves B. surface waves C. sound waves D. function waves Answer:
B
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Question: Which types of waves are used for cell phones and radar? Options: A. thermal waves B. microwaves C. sound waves D. light waves Answer:
B
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Question: In which human organ do the juveniles develop into sexually mature adults? Options: A. liver B. muscles C. tissues D. intestines Answer:
D
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Question: What is caused by the reaction of nonmetal oxides with water in the atmosphere? Options: A. acid rain B. yellow rain C. ozone rain D. carbon rain Answer:
A
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Question: What is the name for a parasite that causes disease? Options: A. microbes B. enfluenza C. fungi D. pathogen Answer:
D
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Question: Rupture can cause fragments of what to travel via the bloodstream and become lodged in other arteries? Options: A. white blood cells B. red blood cells C. enamel D. plaque Answer:
D
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Question: What do you call the ability to sense sound energy and perceive sound? Options: A. hearing B. tuning C. sensory deprivation D. echolocation Answer:
A
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Question: Controlling muscles and maintaining balance are just two of the roles of what system? Options: A. digestive system B. nervous system C. bacterial system D. electrical system Answer:
B
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Question: Chitin, also found in the exoskeleton of insects, gives structural strength to the cell walls of fungi. the cell wall protects the cell from what? Options: A. fermentation and predators B. desiccation and predators C. starvation and predators D. entrainment and predators Answer:
B
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Question: When electrons return to a lower energy level, they emit the excess energy in the form of what? Options: A. electricity B. light C. weight D. energy Answer:
B
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Question: What is the main difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells? Options: A. eukaryotic cells have a cell wall B. eukaryotic cells have a flagella C. eukaryotic cells have a nucleus D. prokaryotic cells have a nucleus Answer:
C
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Question: Rust is an example of the reaction of oxygen with what? Options: A. fuel B. coal C. iron D. carbon Answer:
C
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Question: What is the measurement of something along it's greatest dimension called? Options: A. stretch B. height C. stretch D. length Answer:
D
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Question: What produces gametes with different alleles? Options: A. anthocyanins B. heterozygotes C. chromatids D. prokaryotes Answer:
B
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Question: What is the field of biology that focuses on the study of inheritance in humans? Options: A. relational biology B. generational biology C. computational biology D. human genetics Answer:
D
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Question: Positive charges move in the direction of the electric field and the same direction as what current? Options: A. conventional current B. relativity current C. direct current D. alternating current Answer:
A
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Question: Mass and volume are examples of what kind of properties? Options: A. exclusive properties B. dynamic properties C. varied properties D. extensive properties Answer:
D
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Question: The three classes of elements are metals, nonmetals, and what? Options: A. molecules B. metalloids C. atoms D. ionic compounds Answer:
B
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Question: What do we call use of electric current to encode information? Options: A. products B. metals C. electronics D. ferious Answer:
C
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Question: Which component of the electron transport chain does cyanide inhibit? Options: A. adenosine diphosphate B. mitochondrial matrix C. succinate dehydrogenase D. cytochrome c oxidase Answer:
D
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Question: Where do the eggs develop? Options: A. the follicles B. the ovaries C. the glands D. the uterus Answer:
B
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Question: What is the arrangement of a t-tubule with the membranes of sr on either side called? Options: A. acid B. aracnid C. orchid D. triad Answer:
D
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Question: Iron will do what when it is exposed to oxygen and water? Options: A. contract B. become hot C. rust D. expand Answer:
C
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Question: How do organophostbate pesticides work? Options: A. inhibiting cryptosporidium B. inhibiting testosterone C. inhibiting acetylcholinesterase D. inhibiting reticulum Answer:
C
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Question: In places where crops grow only during part of the year, the land may be bare for a few? Options: A. minutes B. weeks C. days D. months Answer:
D
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Question: What natural resource can be damaged by the accumulation of too much salt? Options: A. mineral B. forests C. sediment D. soil Answer:
D
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Question: Most reptiles lay what kind of eggs? Options: A. umbilical B. hard-shelled C. amniotic D. roe Answer:
C
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Question: What do farmers use greenhouses for? Options: A. to decrease the growing season B. to extend the growing season C. to predict the growing season D. to allow the growing season Answer:
B
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Question: Fructose and lactose are types of sugars broken down by the body to form what, which is the simplest sugar of all? Options: A. carbohydrate B. glutamate C. sucrose D. glucose Answer:
D
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Question: Nonvascular plants such as liverworts, hornworts, and mosses lack what three typical plant features? Options: A. flowers, leaves, bark B. roots, leaves, chloroplasts C. chloroplasts, stems, flowers D. roots, stems, leaves Answer:
D
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Question: Matrix is the term for the fluid-filled interior of what structure, where most of the cell’s atp is made? Options: A. nucleus B. mitochondria C. enzyme D. Golgi apparatus Answer:
B
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Question: What do many mollusks secrete for their protection? Options: A. mucus B. calcareous shell C. sedimentation shell D. microscopic shell Answer:
B
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Question: Animal starch, called glycogen, is stored in the liver and where else? Options: A. nerves B. kidneys C. muscles D. hands Answer:
C
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Question: What does the structure of a protein start with? Options: A. organism acids B. rna acids C. amino acids D. dna acids Answer:
C
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Question: Geysers erupt because what boiling hot substance is trapped beneath their surface? Options: A. gas B. water C. lava D. oil Answer:
B
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Question: Reproduction in prokaryotic cells is by what process of growth, enlargement and division? Options: A. binary fission B. photosynthesis C. budding D. mitosis Answer:
A
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Question: All atoms of the same element have the same number of what? Options: A. electrons B. molecules C. charge D. protons Answer:
D
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Question: Different forms, or allotropes, of carbon are diamond, graphite, and what? Options: A. carbonite B. vesicles C. fullerenes D. ligands Answer:
C
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Question: Virtually all of the effects of pregnancy can be attributed in some way to the influence of what? Options: A. proteins B. enzymes C. acids D. hormones Answer:
D
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Question: What is an example of a disease that affects the blood? Options: A. rickets B. tuberculosis C. anemia D. scoliosis Answer:
C
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Question: What happens when antibodies are transferred to a person who has never been exposed to the pathogen? Options: A. acquired immunity B. active disease C. allergic reaction D. passive immunity Answer:
D
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Question: What is the primary energy source for cells? Options: A. sucrose B. protein C. glycogen D. glucose Answer:
D
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Question: Activities that can reduce the effects of what condition include exercises to keep the blood and lymph flowing through affected areas? Options: A. inflammation B. anemia C. asthma D. edema Answer:
D
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Question: A homogeneous mixture with tiny particles in it is known as what? Options: A. structure B. element C. plasmid D. solution Answer:
D
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Question: What kind of tests may detect substances associated with particular disorders? Options: A. hormonal B. genetic C. biochemical D. electrical Answer:
C
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Question: What type of coal deposits are the most extensive ever formed? Options: A. jurassic B. precambrian C. carboniferous D. mesozoic Answer:
C
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Question: What is often a result of untreated atherosclerosis? Options: A. a heart attack or stroke B. seizures C. cancer D. heart disease Answer:
A
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Question: What is a common condition caused by stomach acid? Options: A. headache B. heartburn C. sunburn D. arthritis Answer:
B
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Question: In the human ear, sound waves cause the stapes to press against what? Options: A. yellow window B. shaped window C. Idea Window D. oval window Answer:
D
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Question: What type of bones serve as points of attachment for muscles and often protect internal organs? Options: A. sesamoid bones B. irregular bones C. flat bones D. short bones Answer:
C
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Question: Primary alcohols are oxidized to form what? Options: A. enzymes B. oxides C. aldehydes D. alloys Answer:
C
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Question: Many discrete characters are determined by a single gene locus with different alleles that produce distinct what? Options: A. subtypes B. phototypes C. clusters D. phenotypes Answer:
D
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Question: Which vitamin is made in the skin when it is exposed to sunlight? Options: A. Vitamin C B. Vitamin B1 C. vitamin d D. Riboflavin Answer:
C
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Question: What type of bonds contain atoms that possess either a partial positive or a partial negative charge? Options: A. geologic bonds B. ionic bonds C. polar bonds D. hot bonds Answer:
C
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Question: What type of structure between the esophagus and the stomach normally opens only when a bolus arrives? Options: A. larynx B. gland C. intestine D. sphincter Answer:
D
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Question: What kind of membrane do prokaryotic cells have? Options: A. cell wall B. plasma wall C. cellulose D. plasma membrane Answer:
D
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Question: What contains the spore-forming asci? Options: A. mushroom cap B. flagella C. sporozoa D. the ascocarps Answer:
D
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Question: Which compound has positively and negatively charged ends? Options: A. real compound B. tumultuous compound C. polar compound D. non-polar compound Answer:
C
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Question: What are the main organs of the respiratory system? Options: A. kidneys B. ovaries C. lungs D. intestines Answer:
C
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Question: Where on earth do bacteria live? Options: A. water B. skin C. blood D. all environments Answer:
D