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500
Invertebrates (and higher animals) can also be placed in one of two groups based on how they develop as what?
[ "chromosomes", "hormones", "embryos", "cells" ]
C
501
Which chemist developed a process to remove carbon and dust particles in smoke?
[ "frederick cottrell", "roger granger", "james carpenter", "harold black" ]
A
502
What are gases called that absorb heat in the atmosphere?
[ "greenhouse gases", "microwave gases", "carbonate gases", "ozone gases" ]
A
503
What are the specialized cells that sponges have?
[ "blood cells", "tune cells", "collar cells", "magnet cells" ]
C
504
What shape are the muscles that control the anus?
[ "irregular", "elliptical", "triangular", "circular" ]
D
505
What are the small molecules or proteins produced by bacteria that regulate gene expression?
[ "fluxes", "protazoas", "sporozoans", "autoinducers" ]
D
506
Channel proteins form what in the membrane?
[ "pores", "fibers", "atoms", "walls" ]
A
507
The sun gives off energy in tiny packets called what?
[ "photons", "electrons", "ions", "atoms" ]
A
508
What is a rock that contains important minerals called?
[ "ore", "steel", "carbonic", "copper" ]
A
509
A high metabolic rate and hair are ways mammals generate and conserve what?
[ "water", "resources", "energy", "heat" ]
D
510
What is made of molecules of many different gases, and is something we usually can’t see, taste, or smell; we can only feel it when it moves?
[ "water", "air", "sound", "light" ]
B
511
What navigation technology works on the same principle as echolocation?
[ "topography", "radar", "GPS", "sonar" ]
D
512
A reaction producing heat is what type of reaction?
[ "chemical", "carbon", "chemistry", "physical" ]
A
513
What evolutionary process has adapted protonephridia to different tasks in different environments?
[ "natural variety", "natural selection", "natural change", "natural reproduction" ]
B
514
Some bacteria cannot be cultured because they are obligate intracellular parasites and cannot be grown outside what?
[ "brain cell", "anchor cell", "sponsor cell", "host cell" ]
D
515
What are living things that produce food for themselves and other organisms called?
[ "refiners", "harvesters", "producers", "growers" ]
C
516
What is the second largest class of elements?
[ "silicates", "carbonates", "metalloids", "nonmetals" ]
D
517
The process in which a gas changes to a liquid is called what?
[ "vaporing", "fermentation", "diffusion", "condensation" ]
D
518
What are solids with high melting and boiling points?
[ "superheated compounds", "magnetic compounds", "metal alloys", "ionic compounds" ]
D
519
What kind of cells are polyribosomes found in?
[ "chloroplasts and nuclei", "Prokaryotic and eukaryotic", "yeast and prokaryotic", "bacterial and eukaryotic" ]
D
520
Which gland is controlled by a negative feedback loop that includes the hypothalamus and pituitary gland?
[ "thyroid", "pituitary", "adrenal", "stomach" ]
A
521
What term means the set of processes by which metals are extracted from their ores and converted to more useful forms?
[ "introversion", "metallurgy", "metamorphisis", "ceramics" ]
B
522
What blood-carrying structures contain one-way valves that contribute to the return of blood to the heart?
[ "brains", "glands", "veins", "clots" ]
C
523
What type of components of the biosphere do chemical elements and water pass through during ecosystem recycle?
[ "tropic and subtropic", "biotic and abiotic", "photic and aphotic", "water and air" ]
B
524
The relationship between a nucleotide codon and its corresponding amino acid is called what?
[ "dna", "protein", "rna", "genetic code" ]
D
525
Traditionally, what preventative measure used weakened or inactive forms of microorganisms or viruses to stimulate the immune system?
[ "vaccine", "assimilation", "infection", "pathogen" ]
A
526
What is the measurement of something along it's greatest dimension called?
[ "length", "stretch", "stretch", "height" ]
A
527
What form the skeletons of most organic molecules?
[ "amino acid chains", "carbon chains", "hydrocarbons", "peptide groups" ]
B
528
What term describes the process of vesicles fusing with the plasma membrane and releasing their contents to the outside of the cell?
[ "plasmosis", "endocytosis", "biosynthesis", "exocytosis" ]
D
529
A sealed, vacuum-insulated reaction flask approximates what condition, in which neither matter nor heat can be exchanged between system and surroundings?
[ "shared system", "isolated system", "changing system", "sure system" ]
B
530
A metarteriole is a type of vessel that has structural characteristics of both an arteriole and this?
[ "layer", "tendon", "electron", "capillary" ]
D
531
What sort of walls are helpful for keeping a slope stable?
[ "retaining walls", "managing walls", "relocating walls", "diverting walls" ]
A
532
What is the most direct way of recovering a metal from its ores?
[ "drilling", "molecules", "electrolysis", "osmosis" ]
C
533
What is the term used to describe the minerals and vitamins that are not needed for providing the body with energy but are still essential for good health?
[ "non-energetic nutrients", "salts", "micronutrients", "pigments" ]
C
534
What type of map reveals the shape of a landscape?
[ "geographic", "meteorological", "geologic", "topographic" ]
D
535
Does atmospheric pressure increase or decrease as the altitude increases?
[ "depends on other factors", "stays the same", "increase", "decreases" ]
D
536
What term always refers to acceleration in the direction opposite to the direction of the velocity and always reduces speed, unlike negative acceleration?
[ "calibration", "deceleration", "extraction", "progression" ]
B
537
What do you call a quantity of motion that has both size as well as direction?
[ "vibration", "wave", "speed", "vector" ]
D
538
What process done by bacteria makes them important producers in aquatic ecosystems?
[ "infection", "maturation", "photosynthesis", "reproduction" ]
C
539
Monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides are types of what kind of macromolecule?
[ "nutrients", "protein", "glucose", "carbohydrate" ]
D
540
What action do particles of the same charge do to each other?
[ "repel", "propagate", "destroy", "pull" ]
A
541
A cold front is formed when a cold air mass runs into what?
[ "dry air mass", "warm air mass", "hurricane", "cool air mass" ]
B
542
What is the the process by which remains or traces of living things become fossils called?
[ "extirpation", "gentrification", "fossilization", "fasciculation" ]
C
543
Light is a form of what kind of energy?
[ "gravitational energy", "magnetic energy", "static energy", "electromagnetic energy" ]
D
544
When compared to anaerobic respiration, what does aerobic respiration release more of?
[ "energy", "carbon dioxide", "heat", "pressure" ]
A
545
As the telencephalon enlarges and grows into the cranial cavity, it is limited by the space within what bone structure?
[ "chest", "skull", "skeleton", "spine" ]
B
546
What is a relationship where one species benefits and the other is unaffected?
[ "pollenation", "mutualism", "parasitism", "commensalism" ]
D
547
Quarks are very tiny particles of matter that make up what?
[ "protons and electrons", "electrons and neutrons", "protons and neutrons", "atoms and neutrons" ]
C
548
What term is used to describe is the spontaneous emission of particles and radiation from atomic nuclei?
[ "vibration", "radioactivity", "microscopic", "intensity" ]
B
549
The right and left hip bones, with the addition of the sacrum and coccyx form what section of the skeleton?
[ "uterus", "tail bone", "pelvis", "necklash" ]
C
550
What do metals start out as?
[ "ore", "Metal molecules", "aluminum", "nickel" ]
A
551
What is the si unit for weight?
[ "pounds (lbs)", "kilograms (kg)", "meters (m)", "newton (n)" ]
D
552
The flower is an angiosperm structure specialized for what function?
[ "asexual reproduction", "nutrient production", "sexual reproduction", "protection from cold" ]
C
553
Recent evidence indicates some of what type of cells remain within the heart, continuing to divide and potentially replace dead cells?
[ "osteoclast cells", "dendritic cells", "stem cells", "human cells" ]
C
554
About what percentage of the earth's water is fresh water?
[ "thirty percent", "three percent", "nine percent", "two percent" ]
B
555
While numerous elements can undergo fission, only a few can be used as fuels in what nuclear devices?
[ "colliders", "accelerators", "reactors", "laser beams" ]
C
556
What is an estimation of all of the organic matter available as food, and involves measuring biomass in terrestrial environments?
[ "net primary productivity", "food chain", "decomposition energy", "trophic level total" ]
A
557
Twenty-four hours before fertilization, the egg has finished meiosis and becomes a mature what?
[ "oocyte", "zygote", "spermatozoa", "fetus" ]
A
558
Oxygen is combined with what to form water?
[ "hydrogen", "helium", "glucose", "carbon" ]
A
559
Does lava flow quickly or slowly when thick?
[ "rapidly", "quickly", "steadily", "slowly" ]
D
560
The evaporative loss of the most energetic water molecules does what to a surface?
[ "charges it", "cools it", "heats it", "vents it" ]
B
561
Habitat loss caused by human actions is a prime culprit in what phenomenon, which appears to be occurring for a sixth time?
[ "mass extinction", "spontaneous mutation", "Big Bang", "mass migrations" ]
A
562
What patterns in trees can be used to determine its age?
[ "veins", "rings", "bark ridges", "colors" ]
B
563
All of the petals together are called what?
[ "corolla", "stalk", "anthers", "stamen" ]
A
564
Any nucleus that is unstable and decays spontaneously is said to be what?
[ "dull", "magnetic", "neutral", "radioactive" ]
D
565
What is the term for viscous magmas that are high in silica and tend to stay below the surface or erupt explosively?
[ "compacted magmas", "combustible magmas", "sedimentary magmas", "felsic magmas" ]
D
566
How many meters deep does the photic zone extend?
[ "900", "100", "400", "200" ]
D
567
What is the name of the process in which the nuclei of uranium atoms are split?
[ "critical fission", "nuclear fusion", "nuclear fission", "atomic fusion" ]
C
568
What type of bonds are formed between atoms sharing electrons?
[ "ionic", "neutron bonds", "hydroxyl", "covalent" ]
D
569
An individual virus is called what?
[ "a pathogen", "a virion", "a polymer", "a toxin" ]
B
570
What type of particle collides with an atom of u-235 during the basic nuclear fission process?
[ "a proton", "a nuclei", "an electron", "a neutron" ]
D
571
What color is phosphate mineral turquoise?
[ "white", "green", "blue", "purple" ]
C
572
Groups of three bases form codons, and each codon stands for one what?
[ "sulferic acid", "amino acid", "compound acid", "minimal acid" ]
B
573
Bees, wasps, ants, butterflies, moths, flies and beetles belong to what animal phylum?
[ "crustaceans", "cephalopods", "insects", "arthropods" ]
D
574
How many ways are there for a species to go extinct?
[ "eight", "Ten", "two", "four" ]
C
575
Often generated by molecular cloning, transgenic organisms possess what from a different species?
[ "RNA", "memories", "dna", "organs" ]
C
576
The skin disease impetigo is caused by spread of what type of microorganism?
[ "viruses", "tumors", "bacteria", "algae" ]
C
577
Plants go through seasonal changes after detecting differences in what?
[ "weather", "day length", "week length", "temperature" ]
B
578
What cycle is part of cellular respiration and makes atp and naph?
[ "carbon cycle", "vireos", "water cycle", "krebs" ]
D
579
What type of mechanical weathering occurs when one rock bumps against another rock?
[ "absorption", "abrasion", "refraction", "disintegration" ]
B
580
What kind of hormones serve many functions in addition to promoting gamete production?
[ "reflection hormones", "sex hormones", "Utility hormones", "Multifaceted hormones" ]
B
581
The tissue that will become the scrotum in a male becomes the labia in a female, thus, they are regarded as having what relationship?
[ "symbiotic", "mutual", "opposite", "homologous" ]
D
582
How frequently do high tides occur?
[ "Every 96 hours", "Every 48 hours", "Every 24 hours", "every 12 hours" ]
D
583
What phase does the cell make final preparations to divide?
[ "carbonate phase 2", "dioxide phase 2", "growth phase 2", "growth phase 1" ]
C
584
How do multicellular organisms grow in size?
[ "increase number of limbs", "increase size and number of cells", "reduce size and number of cells", "increase size and number of genes" ]
B
585
What symbol is used to indicate directionality in chemical reactions?
[ "line", "arrow", "triangle", "circle" ]
B
586
Who wrote the book on the origin of species?
[ "Sagan", "cannon", "darwin", "Scopes" ]
C
587
What is considered a good source of calcium?
[ "milk", "corn", "wheat", "egg" ]
A
588
Exons are cut out before what leaves the nucleus?
[ "gene", "dna", "mrna", "rna" ]
C
589
What nervous system is divided into two parts, the sensory division and the motor division?
[ "peripheral", "central", "physiological", "developmental" ]
A
590
What crucial role does beneficial fungi play?
[ "cleaning water", "killing bacteria", "balance of ecosystems", "cleaning the soil" ]
C
591
When mendel crossed purple flowered-plants and white flowered-plants, all the offspring had what color flowers?
[ "yellow", "purple", "red", "blue" ]
B
592
When statoliths settle to the low point in the chamber, they stimulate what in that location?
[ "axons", "mechanoreceptors", "nociceptors", "dendrites" ]
B
593
The goal of this is the understand how and why things happen?
[ "inquiry", "theory", "experience", "science" ]
D
594
What are the most diverse organisms on earth, which are often classified by shape or how they react to gram stain?
[ "cultures", "algae", "pathogens", "bacteria" ]
D
595
Breathing involves differences in what, measured in torr, between the inside of the lungs and the air outside?
[ "resistance", "gravity", "temperature", "pressure" ]
D
596
Gymnamoebas constitute a large and varied group of what?
[ "newborns", "amoebozoans", "cells", "sporozoans" ]
B
597
Lymph vessels make up a circulatory system that is similar to the blood vessels of what system?
[ "cardiovascular", "cardiac", "nervous", "gastrointestinal" ]
A
598
In weather terms, what do you call the boundary between two air masses?
[ "mass", "cloud", "cover", "front" ]
D
599
What process takes place when plants release water vapor through pores in their leaves called stomata?
[ "propagation", "evaporation", "expiration", "transpiration" ]
D