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null | Question: Enthalpy changes are measured by using what?
Options:
A. inversion
B. fluorescence
C. infraction
D. calorimetry
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What do we call something that pushes or pulls on an object?
Options:
A. force
B. annoyance
C. reaction
D. friction
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What is the condition in which the thyroid gland is overactive is known as?
Options:
A. hepatic
B. susceptibility
C. hyperthyroidism
D. hypothyroidism
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Genes are used to make mrna by the process of transcription; mrna is used to synthesize proteins by the process of what?
Options:
A. translation
B. moderation
C. production
D. modification
Answer: | A |
null | Question: The electron released during beta decay is not an orbital electron but an electron whose origin was where?
Options:
A. connected to the nucleus
B. in the nucleus
C. outside the nucleus
D. orbiting the nucleus
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What type of matter often sinks into cracks between rocks?
Options:
A. vapor
B. energy
C. liquid
D. algae
Answer: | C |
null | Question: On a topographic map, what is the term for a line of equal elevation?
Options:
A. contour line
B. crater line
C. latitude line
D. aurora line
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Much of the iron produced is refined and converted into what?
Options:
A. sugar
B. steel
C. plastic
D. wood
Answer: | B |
null | Question: In passive transport, small molecules or ions move across the cell membrane without requiring input of what?
Options:
A. heating
B. water
C. energy
D. pressure
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What are the simplest type of carbon-based compounds?
Options:
A. inorganic compounds
B. fossil fuels
C. organic compounds
D. hydrocarbons
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Named after the dutch physicist, the van de graaff is a type of what device used for nuclear research?
Options:
A. accelerator
B. barometer
C. electromagnetic
D. radiation detector
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What type of relationship is parasitism?
Options:
A. symbiotic relationship
B. enzymatic relationship
C. primordial relationship
D. hypodermic relationship
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts are examples of what type of plant in which gametophyte generation is dominant?
Options:
A. vascular plants
B. choanocyte plants
C. nonvascular plants
D. photoreactive plants
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What do you call a structure composed of two or more types of tissues that work together to do a specific task?
Options:
A. organ
B. marrow
C. system
D. cell
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What is hole that is dug or drilled through the ground down to an aquifer?
Options:
A. cave
B. well
C. elevator
D. big hole
Answer: | B |
null | Question: An axe head and a doorstop are types of what simple machine?
Options:
A. pulley
B. lever
C. blade
D. wedge
Answer: | D |
null | Question: When drinking water is treated, what is the term for when chemicals cause solids in the water to clump together?
Options:
A. plasma
B. coagulation
C. clumping
D. oxidation
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Arachidic, stearic, and palmitic fatty acids are examples of what type of fatty acid?
Options:
A. integral
B. saturated
C. neutral
D. compacted
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Each lymph organ has a different job in what system?
Options:
A. circulatory
B. immune
C. respiratory
D. nervous
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Extended stays in zero gravity are not healthy for human beings. thus, for the comfort of the astronauts, the station is rotated so that the astronauts feel there is what?
Options:
A. still gravity
B. Fixed Gravity
C. internal gravity
D. revealed gravity
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Does deforestation increase or decrease carbon dioxide levels around the world?
Options:
A. accelerate
B. increase
C. eliminate
D. decrease
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What is the process where sperm from the pollen of one flower fertilizes the egg of another flower?
Options:
A. static pollination
B. cross-pollination
C. mitosis
D. inter-pollination
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What paired organs that are part of the urinary system play the prime role in excretion?
Options:
A. lungs
B. liver
C. ovaries
D. kidneys
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Changing electric and mnagnetic fields radiate outward when?
Options:
A. charged particles accelerate
B. particles multiply
C. firing particles accelerate
D. particles lose their charge
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What is an adaptation?
Options:
A. unfavorable trait
B. favorable trait
C. harmful mutation
D. inherited gene
Answer: | B |
null | Question: The ions in ionic compounds are arranged in rigid three-dimensional patterns called what?
Options:
A. crystal lattices
B. pattern lattices
C. core lattices
D. lattice groups
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Stp, which is important in determining information about gas behavior and properties, stands for standard temperature and what?
Options:
A. pull
B. push
C. pressure
D. power
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What is a polymer formed by chain addition reactions between monomers that contain a double bond called?
Options:
A. an addition monolayer
B. an addition polymer
C. a branched polymer
D. a linear polymer
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Which type of carbohydrate is glucose?
Options:
A. fluid
B. compound
C. sweet
D. simple
Answer: | D |
null | Question: When energy is captured or transformed, it inevitably degrades and becomes what less useful form of energy?
Options:
A. temperature
B. motion
C. chemical
D. heat
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Conductive losses in the middle ear can be partially overcome by sending sound vibrations to what structure through the skull, the principle behind implants for hearing loss patients?
Options:
A. hammer and anvil
B. cornea
C. cochlea
D. tympanic membrane
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What are the most common types of compounds found on earth?
Options:
A. hydrogen-based compounds
B. carbon-based compounds
C. ionic compounds
D. sodium - based compounds
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Proto-oncogenes normally help regulate what?
Options:
A. cell function
B. cell transition
C. cell division
D. cell death
Answer: | C |
null | Question: The goal of proteomics is to identify or compare what substances expressed from a given genome under specific conditions, study the interactions between them, and use the information to predict cell behavior or develop drug targets?
Options:
A. rna
B. proteins
C. dna
D. cells
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Synthetic and natural rubber, styrofoam and plastic are examples of organic what?
Options:
A. microbes
B. polymers
C. metals
D. solutions
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What form do alkali metals take at room temperature?
Options:
A. solid
B. liquid
C. gas
D. compound
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What system can be used by scientists to express very small numbers?
Options:
A. certain diffusion
B. scientific diffusion
C. scientific notation
D. similar notation
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What enables gamma rays to pass through hard matters like bones, teeth, and just about anything?
Options:
A. Being Heavier
B. Density
C. Weight
D. their extremely high energy
Answer: | D |
null | Question: For most waves, energy is proportional to what, a term that describes the height of the wave?
Options:
A. wave amplitude
B. wave threshold
C. wave volume
D. wave frequency
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What is the si unit for pressure?
Options:
A. le
B. watt
C. pascal
D. laurent
Answer: | C |
null | Question: How many years ago did early amniotes diverge into two groups?
Options:
A. .175 million years
B. .416 million years
C. 320 million years
D. 20 million years
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Water's very polar compound causes most solutes to do what?
Options:
A. dissolve
B. repel
C. combine
D. gel
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What is the age-related disorder that causes the gradual loss of bone density and strength?
Options:
A. fibrosis
B. mitosis
C. osteoporosis
D. arthritis
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What is the role of the sodium ion in the neutralization reaction of sodium flouride?
Options:
A. circuit ion
B. spectator ion
C. reflection ion
D. team ion
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Latitude affects the amount of what received by an area, which in turn affects the temperature of a region?
Options:
A. chemical radiation
B. geothermal radiation
C. solar radiation
D. current radiation
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What are solid lipids that animals use to store energy called?
Options:
A. fats
B. hydrocortisol
C. steroids
D. cholesterol
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What happens to the energy levels of electrons as they are closer to the nucleus?
Options:
A. they are lower
B. they balance
C. they divide
D. they are higher
Answer: | A |
null | Question: How many years ago may the earliest fungi have evolved?
Options:
A. 600 million
B. .250 million
C. .350 million
D. 500 million
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What type of bonds do alkanes only contain?
Options:
A. carbon-hydrogen bonds
B. carbon-carbon single bonds
C. hydrogen-carbon bonds
D. hydrogen bonds
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What do we call a simple machine that consists of a rope and grooved wheel?
Options:
A. pedal
B. pulley
C. lever
D. axle
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Anything moving has what type of energy?
Options:
A. thermal
B. magnetic
C. kinetic
D. potential
Answer: | C |
null | Question: The final stage of labor is delivery of the what?
Options:
A. umbilical cord
B. embryo
C. uterus
D. placenta
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Looking directly at what celestial object can cause blindness?
Options:
A. Haley's Comet
B. Moon
C. earth
D. sun
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Transport of nutrients and regulation of body temperature through fluid flow are characteristics of which bodily system?
Options:
A. cardiovascular
B. reproductive
C. gastrointestinal
D. peripheral
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Ovulation takes place in what organ and is part of the menstrual cycle?
Options:
A. testes
B. fallopian tube
C. uterus
D. ovary
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What kind of radiation is greatest at the equator and lessens toward the poles?
Options:
A. large radiation
B. lunar raditation
C. solar radiation
D. small radiation
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Baroreceptors are specialized stretch receptors located within thin areas of blood vessels and heart chambers that respond to the degree of stretch caused by the presence of this?
Options:
A. blood
B. bile
C. bacteria
D. water
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Which outermost secondary xylem layers transport water?
Options:
A. the oldest
B. the youngest
C. the narrowest
D. the farthest
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What organs filter blood and form urine?
Options:
A. the liver
B. the appendix
C. the spleen
D. the kidneys
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What do scientists attach to aquatic animals to collect information?
Options:
A. satellite tags
B. radio tags
C. ultraviolet tags
D. fluorescent tags
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Materials, such as iron, that exhibit strong magnetic effects are labeled what?
Options:
A. ferromagnetic
B. superconducting
C. paramagnetic
D. ultramagnetic
Answer: | A |
null | Question: When water slows down, it starts depositing sediment, starting with which particles first?
Options:
A. largest
B. smallest
C. lightest
D. finest
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Which property of diamond makes it so hard?
Options:
A. metal-metal bonds
B. chemical bonds
C. non-covalent bonds
D. carbon bonds
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What type of fibers are made mostly of protein in living things?
Options:
A. connective tissue fibers
B. muscle fibers
C. liver fibers
D. organ fibers
Answer: | B |
null | Question: The skin plays an important role in preventing the escape of what commonly found liquid from the body?
Options:
A. urine
B. water
C. hormones
D. stomach acid
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Why do viruses not belong to any domain of life?
Options:
A. they are nonliving
B. they are too mature
C. they are mortal
D. they are immortal
Answer: | A |
null | Question: Glaciers are incredibly powerful agents of what?
Options:
A. extinction
B. climate change
C. erosion
D. insulation
Answer: | C |
null | Question: The main advantage of urea is its very low what?
Options:
A. temperature
B. energy requirement
C. toxicity
D. cost
Answer: | C |
null | Question: The electron transport chains are located on the inner membrane of which organelle?
Options:
A. lysosome
B. axon
C. chloroplast
D. mitochondrion
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What is a mutation that changes all or much of a particular chromosome?
Options:
A. muscular mutation
B. biochemical mutation
C. chromosomal mutation
D. kinetic mutation
Answer: | C |
null | Question: How do amphibians reproduce?
Options:
A. sexually
B. asexually
C. biologically
D. they don't
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What is process of producing eggs in the ovary called?
Options:
A. morphogenesis
B. menstruation
C. vaginalis
D. oogenesis
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Nearly all earthquakes occur where?
Options:
A. plate centers
B. in Asia
C. in large cities
D. plate boundaries
Answer: | D |
null | Question: Scientists around the world study speciation, documenting observations both of living organisms and those found in the fossil record. as their ideas take shape and as research reveals new details about how life evolves, they develop models to help explain what?
Options:
A. rates of speciation
B. food chains
C. creation theory
D. spontaneous mutation
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What is formed from an alcohol that loses water?
Options:
A. alkenes
B. amines
C. Bonds
D. alcohols
Answer: | A |
null | Question: All combustion reactions are what type of reactions?
Options:
A. flammable
B. exothermic
C. geothermal
D. reversible
Answer: | B |
null | Question: How do basal mammals like monotreme reproduce?
Options:
A. budding
B. by laying eggs
C. cloning
D. live birth
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What are the things moving under the earth's mantle that move the crust?
Options:
A. ridges
B. lava channels
C. plates
D. crystals
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Cell walls, plastids, and a large central vacuole distinguish plant cells from what?
Options:
A. parenchyma cells
B. eukaryotic cells
C. animal cells
D. phloem cells
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Like earth, the moon has a distinct crust, mantle, and what else?
Options:
A. atmosphere
B. core
C. temperature
D. polarity
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What are clouds that form on the ground called?
Options:
A. canopy
B. haze
C. fog
D. smoke
Answer: | C |
null | Question: Recrystallization is a process that can remove what, which result when compounds are synthesized?
Options:
A. substances
B. minerals
C. contaminants
D. chemicals
Answer: | C |
null | Question: The number of electrons in the outer energy level determines what property of nonmetals?
Options:
A. density
B. permeability
C. reactivity
D. vibration
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What kind of islands provide natural protection to shorelines?
Options:
A. barrier islands
B. patch islands
C. locational islands
D. edge islands
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What consists of all the living things and nonliving things interacting in the same area?
Options:
A. habitat
B. ecosystem
C. biodiversity
D. biome
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What gives the plant cell strength and protection?
Options:
A. the cell nucleus
B. a cell wall
C. the protons
D. the genes
Answer: | B |
null | Question: When a sperm penetrates the egg, it triggers the egg to complete what?
Options:
A. lesions
B. meiosis
C. fertilization
D. mutations
Answer: | B |
null | Question: What are the most numerous blood cells?
Options:
A. white blood cells
B. neutrophils
C. platelets
D. red blood cells
Answer: | D |
null | Question: If a lump of clay is dropped into water, what will occur?
Options:
A. Will float
B. it will sink
C. Will dissolve
D. Will break up
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Saturated hydrocarbons are given the general name of what?
Options:
A. lipids
B. carbohydrates
C. alkanes
D. enzymes
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What term indicates moles per liter, whereas molality is moles per kilogram of solvent?
Options:
A. kilocalorie
B. pollenation
C. abundance
D. molarity
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What does the urethra do?
Options:
A. carries urine and sperm out of the body
B. makes sperm and evacuates bowels
C. filters urine and makes sperm
D. stores sperm and urine
Answer: | A |
null | Question: What are joints in which the bones are connected by a band of connective tissue?
Options:
A. cartilaginous
B. syndesmoses
C. saddle
D. plane
Answer: | B |
null | Question: The capsid is made from the what that are encoded by viral genes within their genome?
Options:
A. lipids
B. proteins
C. hormones
D. acids
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Where are some of the greatest concentrations of species found?
Options:
A. in the arctic
B. at high altitudes
C. in mould colonies
D. in the tropics
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What branch of science holds hope for developing crops with genes that help them withstand harsh conditions?
Options:
A. physiology
B. biotechnology
C. physics
D. chemistry
Answer: | B |
null | Question: Pollutants in surface water can filter into the ground and enter a what?
Options:
A. groundwater aquifer
B. hydro plant
C. turbine
D. combustion aquifer
Answer: | A |
null | Question: The adult cells that form the butterfly begin growing in what developmental stage?
Options:
A. caterpillar
B. mitochondria
C. pupa
D. embryo
Answer: | D |
null | Question: What makes the sun glow brightly?
Options:
A. radiation
B. ultraviolet rays
C. nuclear fusion
D. sun bursts
Answer: | C |
null | Question: What is the term for the interaction of waves with other waves?
Options:
A. wave interference
B. current
C. shockwave
D. tsunami
Answer: | A |
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