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Question: What process would be impossible without some variation in the inherited traits of organisms within a species? Options: A. natural selection B. environmental selection C. characteristic selection D. darwin's selection
A
Question: Monoecious flowers are also known as “perfect” flowers because they contain both types of what organ? Options: A. vascular organ B. phloem C. respiratory organ D. sex organ
D
Question: Human beings depend on learned behaviors more than any other? Options: A. mammals B. Organisms C. species D. Beings
C
Question: Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and what other element make up approximately 96% of living matter? Options: A. helium B. silicon C. nitrogen D. calcium
C
Question: What type electrical circuits have multiple paths the current may take? Options: A. serial B. parallel C. perpendicular D. single loop
B
Question: Hydrophobic interactions arise because water molecules engage in what type of bonding with other water molecules? Options: A. oxygen bonding B. hydrogen bonding C. aquatic bonding D. helium bonding
B
Question: What is the second most common skin cancer? Options: A. squamous cell carcinoma B. melanoma C. basal cell carcinoma D. precancerous cell carcinoma
A
Question: Species divergence often, but not always, occurs because of what type of barrier between species? Options: A. visible B. emotional C. physical D. language
C
Question: The chytrids the only class in the phylum chytridiomycota is the chytridiomycetes. the chytrids are the simplest and most primitive eumycota, or true this? Options: A. acids B. proteins C. fungi D. organisms
C
Question: Almost all vascular plants have mycorrhizae and rely on their fungal partners for what? Options: A. air B. respiration C. sunlight D. nutrients
D
Question: What occurs when there is a sudden and large falling of rocks down a slope? Options: A. avalanche B. earthquake C. landslide D. tsunami
C
Question: What are gymnosperms lacking compared to most angiosperms? Options: A. muscle elements B. vascular elements C. use elements D. vessel elements
D
Question: Calculations are described showing conversions between molar mass and what for gases? Options: A. weight B. volume C. length D. density
D
Question: What sudden ground movement is caused by the sudden release of the energy stored in rocks, which is transmitted in seismic waves? Options: A. sandstorm B. quicksand C. earthquake D. eruption
C
Question: What is the name for the cooler, darker areas on the sun’s surface? Options: A. aurora borealis B. corona C. sunspots D. anomalies
C
Question: Plants need sunlight for what process? Options: A. photosynthesis B. cyclogenesis C. metamorphosis D. glycolysis
A
Question: The vast majority of what phenomena occurs along one of three types of plate boundaries? Options: A. volcanoes B. earthquake C. hurricane D. tornados
B
Question: What weather events move with the prevailing winds and originate in the trade winds in the northern hemisphere? Options: A. droughts B. tsunamis C. hurricanes D. earthquakes
C
Question: What is the name for the male reproductive organs or gonads? Options: A. testes B. anus C. ovaries D. nucleus
A
Question: What glands in the breast secrete milk? Options: A. primordial glands B. adrenal glands C. mammary glands D. fetal glands
C
Question: Sutures, gomphoses, and syndesmoses are types of what, which are found where adjacent bones are strongly united by connective tissue? Options: A. cartilage B. metallic joints C. ligaments D. fibrous joints
D
Question: Heat, electricity, or light might provide what necessary input to the process of decomposition? Options: A. material B. source C. food D. energy
D
Question: What is made up of a watery substance called cytosol and contains other cell structures such as ribosomes? Options: A. rna B. plasma C. cytoplasm D. cytoskeleton
C
Question: What type of energy is required in all chemical reactions? Options: A. conduction B. solar C. function D. activation
D
Question: What type of image is formed when light rays diverge in front of a mirror? Options: A. reversed B. fake C. virtual D. large
C
Question: What is the condition of a plant in which the fluid in a cell exerts a pressure against the cell wall? Options: A. constriction B. turgor C. hydration D. tumor
B
Question: What phenomenon, crucial for evolution, creates new genetic variation in a gene pool and is how all new alleles first arise? Options: A. adaptation B. natural selection C. radiation D. mutation
D
Question: What is the name of the stage of life when a child becomes sexually mature? Options: A. adulthood B. pre-adolescence C. puberty D. reproductive stage
C
Question: A man made lake is known as what? Options: A. Pond B. Lake C. Lagoon D. resevoirs
D
Question: Alchemy helped improve the study of metallurgy and the extraction of metals from what? Options: A. water B. air C. wood D. ores
D
Question: What are the two types of vascular tissues? Options: A. ectoderm and phloem B. xylem and phloem C. ganglia and phloem D. epidermis and phloem
B
Question: The spinal cord develops, cells making up the wall of the neural tube proliferate and differentiate into what? Options: A. jelly and glia B. membrane and glia C. muscles and glia D. neurons and glia
D
Question: Eventually the parent cell will pinch apart to form two identical types of what cells? Options: A. son cells B. brother cells C. father cells D. daughter cells
D
Question: The body cells cannot use insulin properly in which type of diabetes? Options: A. type 1 diabetes B. type 3 diabates C. type 2 diabetes D. type 4 diabetes
C
Question: Birds belong to a group of diapsids called the what? Options: A. aviators B. mammals C. archosaurs D. conifers
C
Question: How many limbs to birds have? Options: A. ten B. six C. five D. four
D
Question: Planes fly in what layer of the atmosphere because there is less friction and turbulence? Options: A. mesosphere B. ozone layer C. stratosphere D. crust
C
Question: What is a group of similar ecosystems with the same general abiotic factors and primary producers? Options: A. biome B. family C. ecoregion D. taxon
A
Question: Interferons are produced in virally infected cells and cause them to secrete signals for surrounding cells to make what? Options: A. antiviral proteins B. Raising Proteins C. resist proteins D. overwhelm proteins
A
Question: What slow process is required for formation of soil? Options: A. fossilization B. digestion C. weathering D. leaching
C
Question: What is defined as superheated gas with a positive electrical charge? Options: A. ion B. supernova C. greenhouse gas D. plasma
D
Question: Materials, such as iron, that exhibit strong magnetic effects are labeled what? Options: A. ultramagnetic B. paramagnetic C. superconducting D. ferromagnetic
D
Question: Like birds, most other reptiles excrete their nitrogenous wastes as what acid? Options: A. lactic B. uric C. sulphuric D. hydrochloric
B
Question: The two main fundamental particles that make up neutrons are quarks and what else? Options: A. gluons B. atoms C. leptons D. prions
A
Question: Birds have evolved a respiratory system that enables them to fly. flying is a high-energy process and requires a lot of this? Options: A. weight B. nitrogen C. oxygen D. adaptation
C
Question: Lysosomes have what type of enzymes that break down old molecules into parts that can be recycled? Options: A. bacterial B. digestive C. probiotics D. corrosive
B
Question: The breasts contain what to give milk to feed a baby? Options: A. primordial glands B. mammary glands C. fetal glands D. sebaceous glands
B
Question: What form when water vapor condenses in the air around specs of matter? Options: A. clouds B. storms C. condensation D. humidity
A
Question: All other forms of life, including plants and animals, are composed of what kind of cells? Options: A. cytoplasmic B. bacterial C. eukaryotic D. synthetic
C
Question: A mycorrhiza refers to what kind of relationship between a fungus and the roots of a plant? Options: A. familial B. symbiotic C. semantic D. predator-prey
B
Question: What is earth's main source of energy? Options: A. the atmosphere B. the moon C. the core D. the sun
D
Question: Kirchhoff’s second rule (the loop rule) is an application of conservation of what? Options: A. mineral B. heating C. Rock D. energy
D
Question: Evolution over a short period of time at the level of the population is called what? Options: A. grammaticalization B. microevolution C. macroevolution D. redistributions
B
Question: When water is heated by magma and makes it's way to the surface what is created? Options: A. eruption B. geyser C. volcanic D. trough
B
Question: The mechanical and digestive processes have one goal: to convert food into molecules small enough to be absorbed by the epithelial cells of what? Options: A. alveoli B. stomach cilia C. intestinal villi D. bile ducts
C
Question: Influenza virus is packaged in a viral envelope, which fuses with the what? Options: A. bacteria B. nucleus C. plasma membrane D. cell wall
C
Question: A desert is a type of what community in an ecosystem? Options: A. culture B. population C. biome D. colony
C
Question: What are the two types of properties that matter has? Options: A. composition and weight B. nature and purpose C. physical and chemical D. size and shape
C
Question: What is the hormone produced in high-stress situations? Options: A. thyroxine B. somatostatin C. testosterone D. adrenalin
D
Question: What type of reaction causes two substances to combine to make a single substance? Options: A. spontaneous mutation B. metabolism C. component reaction D. composition reaction
D
Question: Hay fever is actually an allergy to what substance, vital to plant reproduction? Options: A. fungi B. pollen C. grass D. nitrogen
B
Question: Endotherms are warmed mostly by heat generated by what? Options: A. movement B. the sun C. metabolism D. electricity
C
Question: If a ball is released from rest when air resistance is negligible, velocity is seen to increase linearly, while what related property is a constant? Options: A. density B. speed C. time D. acceleration
D
Question: What term is used to describe the ability of matter to burn? Options: A. flammability B. volatility C. reactivity D. permeability
A
Question: What is the evolutionary history of group of related organisms Options: A. substructure B. history C. iteration D. phylogeny
D
Question: What forms a ketone when oxidized? Options: A. secondary alcohol B. carbolic acid C. enzyme D. aldehyde
A
Question: What is the energy that flows as a result of a difference in temperature? Options: A. heat B. magnetism C. polarity D. electricity
A
Question: Exposure to toxins is most damaging during weeks 4 through 8 of the embryonic stage due to development of what during this period? Options: A. samples B. faith C. pain D. organs
D
Question: What evolutionary process may affect the distribution of a polygenic trait? Options: A. characteristic selection B. artificial selection C. natural selection D. flow selection
C
Question: What type of force exists between two touching surfaces? Options: A. centrifugal B. tension C. friction D. opposing
C
Question: A short reflex is completely what and only involves the local integration of sensory input with motor output? Options: A. central B. physiological C. neuronal D. peripheral
D
Question: The urea cycle, a set of biochemical reactions that produces urea from ammonium ions to prevent toxicity, occurs to some extent in the kidney, but primarily in what organ? Options: A. spleen B. liver C. skin D. colon
B
Question: Cellular respiration is the reverse or opposite of what? Options: A. glycolysis B. reproduction C. photosynthesis D. spermatogenesis
C
Question: What force pulls object downwards to the earth? Options: A. kinetic energy B. momentum C. motion D. gravity
D
Question: How does deeper material cause convection in the mantle? Options: A. remains stable B. sinks then rises C. rises then sinks D. folds
C
Question: From what did the first proto-oncogenes arise? Options: A. carcinogens B. viral infections C. bacteria D. spores
B
Question: What material used for helium-filled balloons is dense, strong and opaque, with a high molecular mass that forms films that have many fewer pores than rubber? Options: A. mylar B. cellophane C. foil D. fiberglass
A
Question: What do erythrocytes carry and deliver to tissues in the body? Options: A. carbon B. Helium C. oxide D. oxygen
D
Question: How many neutrons do 99% of carbon atoms have? Options: A. six B. five C. sixteen D. eight
A
Question: What are the two metals within a battery called? Options: A. anode and sheath B. anode and a cathode C. anode and diode D. sheath and a cathode
B
Question: What is one thing that can not happen to energy? Options: A. it can not be destroyed B. it cannot increase C. it cannot stay the same D. it cannot decrease
A
Question: Where do most biochemical reactions take place? Options: A. within cells B. upper atmosphere C. outside of cells D. stomach
A
Question: The ends of linear chromosomes are maintained by the action of which enzyme? Options: A. pepsin B. cytokine C. insulin D. telomerase
D
Question: Through which process does water from the oceans enter the atmosphere? Options: A. evaporation B. perspiration C. oxidation D. absorption
A
Question: In what type of process does heat flow into its surroundings and cause an increase in kinetic energy? Options: A. chemical process B. biochemical process C. exothermic process D. oscillating process
C
Question: Prokaryotic organisms, like bacteria, reproduce through what process, where they grow and divide in half? Options: A. singular fission B. multiple fission C. binary fission D. symbiotic fission
C
Question: Displacement is a vector quantity, which means it has both direction and what else? Options: A. radiation B. rate C. magnitude D. waves
C
Question: Waste leaves the body in the form of what? Options: A. impurities B. saliva C. feces D. stomach acid
C
Question: What process can occur when atoms are exposed to high levels of radiation or when atoms transfer electrons to or from other atoms? Options: A. oxidation B. fusion C. ionization D. diffusion
C
Question: Who should an obese person with an eating disorder seek for help? Options: A. psychiatrist B. social worker C. body builder D. health professional
D
Question: The period of life between the start of puberty and the beginning of adulthood is called? Options: A. prenatal B. old age C. adolescence D. youth
C
Question: What element once commonly used in paint and gasoline has now been found to have dangerous effects? Options: A. plastic B. lead C. niacin D. chromium
B
Question: What can happen spontaneously or as a result of mutagens in the environment? Options: A. lesions B. combustion C. mutations D. traits
C
Question: Abnormally high activity or low activity of the parathyroid gland can cause disorders related to levels of what bone mineral? Options: A. collagen B. calcium C. potassium D. magnesium
B
Question: Unlike other tetrapod vertebrates (reptiles, birds, and mammals), amphibians do not produce what type of eggs? Options: A. epithelial B. amniotic C. prokaryotic D. umbilical
B
Question: What is the name for an underground layer of rock that is saturated with groundwater? Options: A. gradient B. aqueous cavity C. aquifer D. artesian well
C
Question: What are prepared by the oxidation of secondary alcohols? Options: A. ions B. ketones C. protons D. more alcohol
B
Question: Saturated and unsaturated are the two main kinds of what? Options: A. fats B. acids C. sugars D. polymers
A
Question: Most reptiles lay what kind of eggs? Options: A. hard-shelled B. roe C. umbilical D. amniotic
D
Question: Sulfur can combine with oxygen to produce what? Options: A. sulfur dioxide B. sulfur trioxide C. sulfur oxide D. sulfur bioxide
B