dataset stringclasses 4 values | id stringlengths 5 14 | question stringlengths 1 932 | choices dict | answer stringclasses 8 values |
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sciq | sciq1 | What kind of reasoning involves formulating generalizations inferred from careful observation and the analysis of a large amount of data? | {
"A": "deductive",
"B": "inductive",
"C": "skepticism",
"D": "reflexive"
} | A |
sciq | sciq2 | What causes acid rain? | {
"A": "heavy pollution",
"B": "chemicals in waterways",
"C": "air pollution",
"D": "carbon dioxide"
} | C |
sciq | sciq3 | What is the main component of phytoplankton? | {
"A": "seawater",
"B": "coral",
"C": "sponge",
"D": "algae"
} | D |
sciq | sciq4 | What is manufactured and added to foods to preserve freshness? | {
"A": "carbohydrates",
"B": "trans fat",
"C": "protein",
"D": "vitamin c"
} | B |
sciq | sciq5 | All living organisms must have what ability, in order to make more organisms like themselves? | {
"A": "absorption",
"B": "reproduction",
"C": "cloning",
"D": "variation"
} | B |
sciq | sciq6 | In the cardiovascular system, net filtration pressure represents the interaction of osmotic pressures and what other pressures? | {
"A": "uptake",
"B": "homeostatic",
"C": "hydrophilic",
"D": "hydrostatic"
} | D |
sciq | sciq7 | What are composed of a phosphate group, a sugar, and one of five different nitrogenous bases. | {
"A": "carotenoids",
"B": "prokaryotes",
"C": "cytotypes",
"D": "nucleotides"
} | D |
sciq | sciq8 | What is lowered when salts go into ion form? | {
"A": "power",
"B": "voltage",
"C": "charge",
"D": "resistance"
} | D |
sciq | sciq9 | What term is used to describe the total spread of values in a sample? | {
"A": "axis",
"B": "variety",
"C": "scale",
"D": "range"
} | D |
sciq | sciq10 | What kind of mutations are produced by nucleotide-pair insertions or deletions? | {
"A": "framing",
"B": "cloned",
"C": "shifty",
"D": "frameshift"
} | D |
sciq | sciq11 | Fe for iron and pb for lead are examples of elements known since ancient times, which have symbols based on their name in what language? | {
"A": "italian",
"B": "latin",
"C": "arabic",
"D": "spanish"
} | B |
sciq | sciq12 | What are the two types of fatty acids? | {
"A": "saturated and biodegradable",
"B": "hydrochloric and carboxylic",
"C": "saturated and endogenous",
"D": "saturated and unsaturated"
} | D |
sciq | sciq13 | In naming ternary compounds, which type of particle is stated first? | {
"A": "subatomic",
"B": "anion",
"C": "cation",
"D": "molecule"
} | C |
sciq | sciq14 | Which human body system is a complex network of nervous tissue that carries electrical messages throughout the body? | {
"A": "the nervous system",
"B": "the lymph system",
"C": "the bacterial system",
"D": "the localized system"
} | A |
sciq | sciq15 | Prokaryotic cells do not have a nucleus but instead generally have a single chromosome, a piece of double-stranded dna located in an area of the cell called the what? | {
"A": "cytoplasm",
"B": "nucleoid",
"C": "spicule",
"D": "lysosome"
} | B |
sciq | sciq16 | Wings of bats and birds serve the same function. which body part should you study to understand ancestral differences? | {
"A": "bones inside wings",
"B": "skin and feathers",
"C": "skin inside wings",
"D": "skull size"
} | A |
sciq | sciq17 | Who lack some of the defining traits of chordates? | {
"A": "adult humans",
"B": "Childern",
"C": "Adult Mammals",
"D": "Reptiles"
} | A |
sciq | sciq18 | The spinal cord develops, cells making up the wall of the neural tube proliferate and differentiate into what? | {
"A": "jelly and glia",
"B": "muscles and glia",
"C": "neurons and glia",
"D": "membrane and glia"
} | C |
sciq | sciq19 | Dissolved fertilizer can ultimately lead to the creation of what in lakes or coastal oceans, which means a place where nothing can live? | {
"A": "deceased zone",
"B": "dead zone",
"C": "hydrothermal vent",
"D": "extinction zone"
} | B |
sciq | sciq20 | There are several types of wetlands including marshes, swamps, bogs, mudflats, and salt marshes. the three shared characteristics among these types—what makes them wetlands—are their hydrology, hydrophytic vegetation, and this? | {
"A": "niya soils",
"B": "sandy soils",
"C": "hydric soils",
"D": "stibnite soils"
} | C |
sciq | sciq21 | Sometimes two or more distinct phenotypes can each have their advantages and be selected for by natural selection; this is known as what? | {
"A": "diversifying selection",
"B": "shedding selection",
"C": "extra selection",
"D": "multiplying selection"
} | A |
sciq | sciq22 | What two planets is the asteroid belt found between? | {
"A": "Jupiter and Earth",
"B": "mars and jupiter",
"C": "Jupiter and Saturn",
"D": "Mars and Earth"
} | B |
sciq | sciq23 | What is it called when two waves in the same medium pass one another? | {
"A": "interference",
"B": "synchrony",
"C": "accumulation",
"D": "frequency"
} | A |
sciq | sciq24 | Noble gases are monatomic because they only contain one of what? | {
"A": "molecules",
"B": "charges",
"C": "atoms",
"D": "ions"
} | C |
sciq | sciq25 | What fills the epidermal cells that make up fingernails and toenails? | {
"A": "cellulose",
"B": "amino acids",
"C": "chromatin",
"D": "keratin"
} | D |
sciq | sciq26 | What are the 2 primary hosts of ebola in central africa? | {
"A": "hyenas and apes",
"B": "apes and bats",
"C": "apes and hippos",
"D": "lions and elephants"
} | B |
sciq | sciq27 | Most reptiles lay what kind of eggs? | {
"A": "hard-shelled",
"B": "umbilical",
"C": "amniotic",
"D": "roe"
} | C |
sciq | sciq28 | About how full is the outer energy level in metalloids? | {
"A": "half full",
"B": "nearly empty",
"C": "a quarter full",
"D": "three-fourth full"
} | A |
sciq | sciq29 | Which bone is derived from the fusion of four very small coccygeal vertebrae? | {
"A": "cranium",
"B": "femur",
"C": "clavicle",
"D": "coccyx"
} | D |
sciq | sciq30 | Because collisions are ______, energy can be transferred between molecules during them. | {
"A": "conductive",
"B": "preservative",
"C": "elastic",
"D": "inelastic"
} | C |
sciq | sciq31 | What property of fluids causes something to stay on or near the surface of water? | {
"A": "buoyancy",
"B": "weight",
"C": "density",
"D": "strength"
} | A |
sciq | sciq32 | What are seeds plants that produce naked seeds in cones called? | {
"A": "gymnosperms",
"B": "angiosperms",
"C": "lipids",
"D": "cytoplasm"
} | A |
sciq | sciq33 | What is the force that causes objects to fall down to the ground? | {
"A": "pull",
"B": "motion",
"C": "gravity",
"D": "velocity"
} | C |
sciq | sciq34 | A man made lake is known as what? | {
"A": "resevoirs",
"B": "Lagoon",
"C": "Lake",
"D": "Pond"
} | A |
sciq | sciq35 | What type of cells make up tumors? | {
"A": "cancer cells",
"B": "consumption cells",
"C": "white blood cells",
"D": "boyle cells"
} | A |
sciq | sciq36 | Different interatomic distances produce different lattice what? | {
"A": "energies",
"B": "surfaces",
"C": "weights",
"D": "qualities"
} | A |
sciq | sciq37 | Where do skeletal muscles usually attach? | {
"A": "end of bones",
"B": "to the spine",
"C": "to cartilage",
"D": "to dendrites"
} | A |
sciq | sciq38 | People with red hair usually have what type of skin? | {
"A": "oily",
"B": "light",
"C": "dry",
"D": "dark"
} | B |
sciq | sciq39 | Which mineral do native americans use to decorate items? | {
"A": "Tanzanite",
"B": "Topaz",
"C": "turquoise",
"D": "Amethyst"
} | C |
sciq | sciq40 | Kinetic energy of moving particles of matter, measured by their temperatures are known as: | {
"A": "visible energy",
"B": "atmospheric energy",
"C": "solar energy",
"D": "thermal energy"
} | D |
sciq | sciq41 | Metabolism produces waste energy in the form of heat, which helps what type of animal conserve and maintain heat at a relatively constant body temperature? | {
"A": "amphibian",
"B": "cold-blooded (ectotherm)",
"C": "lizard",
"D": "warm-blooded (endotherm)"
} | D |
sciq | sciq42 | Natural selection cannot create new variations in organisms - these new variations must be created by what, which are usually associated with some sort of abnormality? | {
"A": "mutation",
"B": "radiation",
"C": "pollution",
"D": "infection"
} | A |
sciq | sciq43 | The carbon atoms are bonded together, with each carbon also being bonded to two of what kind of atoms? | {
"A": "ions",
"B": "calcium",
"C": "helium",
"D": "hydrogen"
} | D |
sciq | sciq44 | What is the second most common type of cancer in both men and women? | {
"A": "lung",
"B": "skin",
"C": "heart",
"D": "breast"
} | A |
sciq | sciq45 | What processes involve a transfer of electrons between the wire and the solution? | {
"A": "thermal",
"B": "radioactive",
"C": "electrochemical",
"D": "magnetic"
} | C |
sciq | sciq46 | Bronchial tubes in the lungs branch into ever-smaller structures, finally ending in alveoli. the alveoli act like what? | {
"A": "springs",
"B": "bellows",
"C": "tiny bubbles",
"D": "filters"
} | C |
sciq | sciq47 | What is one problem with current methods of aluminum production? | {
"A": "food shortages",
"B": "environmental contaminants",
"C": "recycling is cheap",
"D": "competition"
} | B |
sciq | sciq48 | The most abundant formed elements in blood, erythrocytes are red, biconcave disks packed with an oxygen-carrying compound called this? | {
"A": "hydrogen",
"B": "plasma",
"C": "pus",
"D": "hemoglobin"
} | D |
sciq | sciq49 | What type of bonds contain atoms that possess either a partial positive or a partial negative charge? | {
"A": "hot bonds",
"B": "polar bonds",
"C": "ionic bonds",
"D": "geologic bonds"
} | B |
sciq | sciq50 | What is the distance north or south of the equator called? | {
"A": "latitude",
"B": "elevation",
"C": "longitude",
"D": "circumference"
} | A |
sciq | sciq51 | Viruses were assumed to exist before they were first seen with an electron microscope in which decade? | {
"A": "1890's",
"B": "1940's",
"C": "1960's",
"D": "1930 ' s"
} | D |
sciq | sciq52 | A diploid cell contains two sets of what? | {
"A": "ribosomes",
"B": "neutrons",
"C": "atoms",
"D": "chromosomes"
} | D |
sciq | sciq53 | Which part of the axon has a higher membrane potential? | {
"A": "axon hillock",
"B": "canals hillock",
"C": "biofilm hillock",
"D": "muscular hillock"
} | A |
sciq | sciq54 | How many types of leptons are there? | {
"A": "twelve",
"B": "two",
"C": "six",
"D": "nine"
} | C |
sciq | sciq55 | The conducting zone of the respiratory system includes the organs and structures not directly involved in what? | {
"A": "gas exchange",
"B": "copper exchange",
"C": "helium exchange",
"D": "gold exchange"
} | A |
sciq | sciq56 | What type of radio waves exist in the 540 to 1600 khz frequency range? | {
"A": "fm radio waves",
"B": "microwaves",
"C": "sound waves",
"D": "am radio waves"
} | D |
sciq | sciq57 | What organs secrete hormones that help maintain homeostasis? | {
"A": "the digestion organs",
"B": "the kidneys",
"C": "the lungs",
"D": "the gonads"
} | B |
sciq | sciq58 | What occurs when light reflects off a very smooth surface and forms a clear image? | {
"A": "projection",
"B": "regular reflection",
"C": "absorption",
"D": "refraction"
} | B |
sciq | sciq59 | Where does mechanical digestion begin? | {
"A": "intestines",
"B": "stomach",
"C": "brain",
"D": "mouth"
} | D |
sciq | sciq60 | What type of waste is likely to explode? | {
"A": "solid waste",
"B": "explosive waste",
"C": "liquid waste",
"D": "mesh waste"
} | B |
sciq | sciq61 | The thalamus acts as a gateway to and from what? | {
"A": "pons",
"B": "medulla oblongata",
"C": "cortex",
"D": "spine"
} | C |
sciq | sciq62 | Light-weight air-filled bones and a large four-chambered heart helps a bird do what? | {
"A": "swim",
"B": "run",
"C": "digest",
"D": "fly"
} | D |
sciq | sciq63 | What are elements that generally do not conduct electricity? | {
"A": "metal",
"B": "iron",
"C": "nonmetals",
"D": "copper"
} | C |
sciq | sciq64 | The voltages generated at a power plant are stepped up by what passive devices, which then reduce voltage to a safe level at the point of use? | {
"A": "capacitors",
"B": "batteries",
"C": "transformers",
"D": "transistors"
} | C |
sciq | sciq65 | Which property changes when a glass breaks? | {
"A": "its physical property",
"B": "State",
"C": "density",
"D": "Chemical"
} | A |
sciq | sciq66 | What are the two types of vascular tissues found in vascular plants? | {
"A": "cytoplasm and chloroplasm",
"B": "ectoderm and phloem",
"C": "xylem and phloem",
"D": "xylem and chloroplasm"
} | C |
sciq | sciq67 | What do you call a type of mixture that has the same composition throughout? | {
"A": "structure",
"B": "transfusion",
"C": "transition",
"D": "solution"
} | D |
sciq | sciq68 | Planes fly in what layer of the atmosphere because there is less friction and turbulence? | {
"A": "stratosphere",
"B": "mesosphere",
"C": "crust",
"D": "ozone layer"
} | A |
sciq | sciq69 | What are structures that have a common function and suggest common ancestry? | {
"A": "homologous structures",
"B": "monogamous structures",
"C": "analogous structures",
"D": "reversible structures"
} | A |
sciq | sciq70 | What type of response do signal transductions within target cells bring about? | {
"A": "resporatory",
"B": "psychological",
"C": "physiological",
"D": "bacterial"
} | C |
sciq | sciq71 | Jellyfish belong to which phylum? | {
"A": "porifera",
"B": "mycobacteria",
"C": "analidae",
"D": "cnidaria"
} | D |
sciq | sciq72 | The most important characteristic of extant amphibians is a moist, permeable skin used for this? | {
"A": "benign respiration",
"B": "avian respiration",
"C": "simple respiration",
"D": "cutaneous respiration"
} | D |
sciq | sciq73 | What occur when elements switch places in compounds? | {
"A": "chemical interaction",
"B": "chain reaction",
"C": "chemical reaction",
"D": "replacement reactions"
} | D |
sciq | sciq74 | Transition metals are superior conductors of heat as well as what else? | {
"A": "light",
"B": "radiation",
"C": "electricity",
"D": "cold"
} | C |
sciq | sciq75 | A flow of one coulomb per second is called one ampere, which is a measure of what? | {
"A": "electric current",
"B": "Direct current",
"C": "performance current",
"D": "powered current"
} | A |
sciq | sciq76 | Mount kilimanjaro has ________ climates at the top and bottom? | {
"A": "different",
"B": "dangerous",
"C": "similar",
"D": "rainy"
} | A |
sciq | sciq77 | The common cold and flu are examples of human diseases caused by what tiny particles? | {
"A": "viruses",
"B": "parasites",
"C": "infections",
"D": "bacteria"
} | A |
sciq | sciq78 | Cells in green algae divide along cell plates called what? | {
"A": "phragmoplasts",
"B": "xanthophylls",
"C": "chloroplasts",
"D": "cellulose"
} | A |
sciq | sciq79 | What is the center of an earthquake called? | {
"A": "the core",
"B": "the impact",
"C": "the magnitude",
"D": "the epicenter"
} | D |
sciq | sciq80 | A wall of rocks or concrete that juts out into the ocean perpendicular to the shore is called? | {
"A": "rib",
"B": "shield",
"C": "fault",
"D": "groin"
} | D |
sciq | sciq81 | The process of making a polymer is called what? | {
"A": "reaction",
"B": "memorization",
"C": "polymerization",
"D": "fermentation"
} | C |
sciq | sciq82 | What scientific word, which gives its name to a type of rock, means "to change form"? | {
"A": "metamorphism",
"B": "evolution",
"C": "evaporation",
"D": "igneous"
} | A |
sciq | sciq83 | How many processes contribute to the emergence of viral diseases? | {
"A": "two",
"B": "three",
"C": "one",
"D": "four"
} | B |
sciq | sciq84 | What type of mutations cannot be passed on to offspring? | {
"A": "symbiotic mutations",
"B": "instructional mutations",
"C": "somatic mutations",
"D": "functional mutations"
} | C |
sciq | sciq85 | In an experiment, what is the affected variable called? | {
"A": "dependent variable",
"B": "independent variable",
"C": "form variable",
"D": "control variable"
} | A |
sciq | sciq86 | What type of mammals are humans? | {
"A": "respiratory mammals",
"B": "placental mammals",
"C": "marsupial mammals",
"D": "somatic mammals"
} | B |
sciq | sciq87 | The electrolysis of what substance produces hydrogen and oxygen gases | {
"A": "carbon dioxide",
"B": "cholesterol",
"C": "water",
"D": "hydrocarbon"
} | C |
sciq | sciq88 | What is the function of chloroplasts that are found in plant and algal cells? | {
"A": "glycolysis",
"B": "spermatogenesis",
"C": "mitosis",
"D": "photosynthesis"
} | D |
sciq | sciq89 | What crust is thinner and denser than continental crust? | {
"A": "oceanic",
"B": "land",
"C": "coastal",
"D": "asteroid"
} | A |
sciq | sciq90 | How many types of mechanical waves are there? | {
"A": "nine",
"B": "three",
"C": "one",
"D": "five"
} | B |
sciq | sciq91 | What are plants that grow where people don't want them to and can take up space and use resources which hinders growth of more desirable plants? | {
"A": "weeds",
"B": "native plants",
"C": "shrubs",
"D": "grasses"
} | A |
sciq | sciq92 | Which disease causes cells to divide out of control | {
"A": "arthritis",
"B": "cancer",
"C": "autoimmune diseases",
"D": "mutation"
} | B |
sciq | sciq93 | Autocrine signaling takes place within the same what? | {
"A": "tissue type",
"B": "organ",
"C": "cell",
"D": "proteins"
} | C |
sciq | sciq94 | When the nucleus divides, the two chromatids that make up each chromosome separate from each other and move to opposite poles of the cell during this process? | {
"A": "meiosis",
"B": "cytokinesis",
"C": "mitosis",
"D": "spawning"
} | C |
sciq | sciq95 | In the past, what colliding with planet earth has caused many organisms to die off? | {
"A": "the Sun",
"B": "asteroids",
"C": "acid rain",
"D": "meteorites"
} | B |
sciq | sciq96 | The term science comes from a latin word that means? | {
"A": "only knowledge",
"B": "having knowledge",
"C": "having information",
"D": "were knowledge"
} | B |
sciq | sciq97 | What do angiosperms produce? | {
"A": "flowers and fruit",
"B": "scales",
"C": "leaves",
"D": "needles"
} | A |
sciq | sciq98 | What do aquatic arthropods use to exchange gases with the water? | {
"A": "nostrils",
"B": "pores",
"C": "gills",
"D": "lungs"
} | C |
sciq | sciq99 | What are the nonliving matter that living things need called? | {
"A": "fluids",
"B": "elements",
"C": "nutrients",
"D": "acids"
} | C |
sciq | sciq100 | Air is said to reach what point, a term used by meteorologists, when humidity increases or temperature decreases? | {
"A": "its dew point",
"B": "bubble point",
"C": "its dip point",
"D": "freezing point"
} | A |
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