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Question: The amniotes are distinguished from amphibians by the presence of a terrestrially adapted egg protected by what? Options: A. yolk B. hard shell C. albumen D. amniotic membranes
D
Question: The cells of what basic plant structure lack chloroplasts? Options: A. leaf B. ferns C. stem D. root
D
Question: What muscle in the chest helps inflate and deflate the lungs? Options: A. heart B. pectoral C. diaphragm D. cartilage
C
Question: Where in the lungs does gas exchange between the air and blood takes place? Options: A. left lobe B. bronchial tube C. ganglion D. alveoli
D
Question: What are hollow cylinders and are the thickest of the cytoskeleton structures? Options: A. microtubules B. vesicles C. cytoplasm D. nucleotides
A
Question: What simple sugar is the cell's primary source of energy? Options: A. nicotine B. carbon C. glucose D. chloride
C
Question: What is the approximate population on the earth? Options: A. 7 billion B. 7.3 billion C. 9 trillion D. 41 billion
A
Question: A change in the sequence of bases in dna or rna is called a what? Options: A. isolation B. mutation C. infection D. accumulation
B
Question: What is the product of microfilament movement powered by chemical energy? Options: A. nerve stimulation B. muscle fusion C. blood circulation D. muscle contraction
D
Question: What is a measure of how much energy is needed to change the temperature of a substance? Options: A. thermal potential B. momentum C. specific gravity D. specific heat
D
Question: What is the common term for animals in the phylum porifera? Options: A. sharks B. sponges C. corals D. crustaceans
B
Question: What term is used to describe a change in the characteristics of living things over time? Options: A. evolution B. customization C. reproduction D. generation
A
Question: What can accept a wide range of carbohydrates for catabolism? Options: A. cellular respiration B. enzymes C. photosynthesis D. glycolysis
D
Question: What includes all living things within all their environments, including everywhere life exists, from the upper atmosphere, to the top of the soil, to ocean bottoms? Options: A. habitat B. community C. biome D. biosphere
D
Question: What is unique and found in all living things because it can form up to four covalent bonds between atoms or molecules? Options: A. carbon B. potassium C. hydrogen D. oxygen
A
Question: What kind of rock is gypsum? Options: A. sedimentary B. basalt C. igneous D. metamorphic
A
Question: What component of a prokaryote is unique in molecular composition and mechanism of propulsion? Options: A. the amoeba B. the membrane C. the flagella D. the sporangia
C
Question: The sum of the masses of the atoms in the formula is referred to as what? Options: A. molecular mass B. atomic mass C. magnetic mass D. nucleus mass
A
Question: What size of ring will a summer drought cause in a tree? Options: A. smaller B. giant C. medium D. larger
A
Question: What is the technical term for species that produce their own body heat and regulate their internal temperature independently of the outside temperature? Options: A. osmotic B. Phototrophic C. hydrostatic D. endothermic
D
Question: What is the transparent outer covering of the eye? Options: A. cornea B. retina C. pupil D. iris
A
Question: Photoreceptors in each ocellus receive light only through the opening where there are none of which cells? Options: A. pigmented B. clear C. secreted D. opqaue
A
Question: What helps form the walls of internal organs such as the heart and stomach? Options: A. tissues B. valves C. muscles D. blood
C
Question: How many valence electrons does helium have? Options: A. two B. six C. three D. Five
A
Question: What is continuously changing within a circuit in an analog signal? Options: A. amplitude B. energy C. frequency D. voltage
D
Question: What is made and stored primarily in the cells of the liver and muscles? Options: A. glucose B. oxygen C. glycogen D. carbon dioxide
C
Question: Electromagnetic waves vary in wavelength and in what property, which is lower in waves of longer wavelengths? Options: A. density B. frequency C. size D. resonance
B
Question: In the case of transverse waves, the movement of the medium is perpendicular to the direction of the what? Options: A. energy movement B. friction movement C. fuel movement D. pressure movement
A
Question: Inserting an extra plane of atoms into a crystal lattice produces what? Options: A. spot location B. spot dislocation C. edge location D. edge dislocation
D
Question: The core of a nuclear reactor generates a large amount of what type of energy from the decay of fission products, even when the power-producing fission chain reaction is turned off? Options: A. thermal B. erosion C. elastic D. evaporation
A
Question: Electric current is measured in coulombs per second, also called what? Options: A. voltages B. joules C. amperes D. watts
C
Question: What is the name of the "point" that refers to the temperature at which water vapor condenses? Options: A. brine point B. water point C. dew point D. melting point
C
Question: Body plans do provide a succinct way to compare and contrast what? Options: A. distinctive animal features B. missing animal features C. degenerative animal features D. key animal features
D
Question: Once classified as plants, fungi have chitin rather than cellulose in what cell structures? Options: A. cell ridges B. cell walls C. mitochondria D. platelets
B
Question: What type of oceans are hostile to algae and cytoplankton? Options: A. warmer B. colder C. shallower D. deeper
A
Question: Organelles whose membranes are specialized for aerobic respiration are called what? Options: A. mitosis B. chloroplasts C. mitochondria D. vacuoles
C
Question: The regions of a material where the north and south poles of atoms are aligned are called what? Options: A. magnetic rays B. observed domains C. cores D. magnetic domains
D
Question: What is another term for body chromosomes? Options: A. quasars B. autosomes C. subsets D. Chromosomes
B
Question: Unlike amphibians, reptiles do not have what stage? Options: A. reproductive B. larval C. egg D. adult
B
Question: What basic plant structure can add support and anchorage? Options: A. roots B. stems C. lower leaves D. soils
A
Question: Locus refers to the position of what on a chromosome, which controls the characteristics of an organism? Options: A. rna B. gene C. genome D. gamete
B
Question: Fish hatch into larvae that are different from the adult form of? Options: A. parasites B. sex C. species D. color
C
Question: What kind of islands provide natural protection to shorelines? Options: A. edge islands B. barrier islands C. patch islands D. locational islands
B
Question: Fruit-eating bats receive food from plants and, in return, help these plants by doing what? Options: A. spreading seeds B. protecting them C. pollinating seeds D. fertilizing them
A
Question: What is determined by the amount of energy in molecules? Options: A. kingdom B. radioactivity C. momentum D. state of matter
D
Question: Biomass is the mass of biological what? Options: A. organisms B. tissues C. proteins D. lipids
A
Question: The primary nitrogenous waste material secreted by ureotelic animals is what substance? Options: A. urea B. ammonia C. nitrate D. carbon
A
Question: What system makes sure leaked blood returns back to the bloodstream? Options: A. symptomatic B. lymphatic C. cerebral D. somatic
B
Question: Enthalpy changes are measured by using what? Options: A. infraction B. fluorescence C. inversion D. calorimetry
D
Question: The cell walls of fungi are made of what? Options: A. chitin B. mucous C. cartilage D. lectin
A
Question: When blood engorged capillaries leak fluid into neighboring tissues, what occurs? Options: A. swelling B. bleeding C. infection D. seeping
A
Question: Will contour lines ever cross? Options: A. no B. always C. yes D. in rare cases
A
Question: Species of organisms that have permanently died out can also be called what? Options: A. extinct B. succinct C. inherited D. occuring
A
Question: Are the majority of archaea chemotrophs or photosynthetic? Options: A. chemotrophs B. photosynthetics C. autotrophs D. neither
A
Question: Oxygen is essentially just a waste product of the light reactions of what? Options: A. electrolysis B. Fibrinolysis C. photosynthesis D. glycolysis
C
Question: What is the process by which almost all plants make food? Options: A. photosynthesis B. digestion C. reactions D. melting
A
Question: Some enzymes require the presence of a non-protein molecule to function properly. what is that molecule called? Options: A. prothetic B. cofactor C. coenzymes D. substrate
B
Question: What stimulates the changes of pubery? Options: A. parenting B. mutation C. sex hormones D. sex education
C
Question: What are the male reproductive cells called? Options: A. sperm B. ova C. plasma D. mucus
A
Question: What is one function of the nervous system in humans? Options: A. producing hormones B. controlling thought C. controlling emotion D. controlling muscles
D
Question: What is the diversity of living things called? Options: A. ecosystem B. degradation C. life cycle D. biodiversity
D
Question: What kind of mammalian reproduction is risky for the offspring but not the mother? Options: A. sexual B. cactaceae C. asexual D. monotreme
D
Question: What do we call the force of attraction or repulsion between electrically charged particles? Options: A. electromagnetic force B. gravitational pull C. chemical force D. mechanical force
A
Question: Mendeleev organized what basic units into rows and columns? Options: A. elements B. animals C. solutions D. compounds
A
Question: What do you call compounds that have covalent bonds? Options: A. reflectivity compounds B. ions C. valence compound D. covalent compounds
D
Question: What is the term for magma that erupts onto earth's surface? Options: A. obsidian B. debris C. lava D. steam
C
Question: What changes nitrogen gas from the atmosphere to nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb? Options: A. pathogens B. viruses C. bacteria D. tumors
C
Question: In vertebrates, ovipary, ovovivipary, and vivipary are different strategies for what vital process? Options: A. respiration B. absorption C. reproduction D. circulation
C
Question: What waves do radio and television use? Options: A. radio waves B. gamma waves C. light waves D. sound waves
A
Question: Which factor causes a cannon ball to move horizontally and then fall on the ground? Options: A. cone motion B. downward motion C. projectile motion D. fluid motion
C
Question: What do electrons lose during their transfer from organic compounds to oxygen? Options: A. potential energy B. actual energy C. thermal energy D. mechanical energy
A
Question: What are plastids that contain other pigments? Options: A. cytoplasm B. chloroplasts C. chromoplasts D. lucoplasts
C
Question: Each species of legume is associated with a strain of __________ Options: A. heliotropium B. rhizobium C. agrobacterium D. fungi
B
Question: Algae convert energy from the sun into food by means of what process? Options: A. compression B. photosynthesis C. luminosynthesis D. glycolysis
B
Question: Which process helps provide cleaner water for agriculture? Options: A. sterilization B. process of desalinization C. osmosis D. purification
B
Question: What element is an essential part of many molecules needed by living organisms? Options: A. helium B. hydrogen C. silicon D. nitrogen
D
Question: An atom is the smallest unit of what that maintains the identity of the latter? Options: A. element B. mixture C. organism D. cell
A
Question: When a solution freezes, only what particles come together to form a solid phase, while the presence of solute particles interferes with that process? Options: A. diluent B. pigment C. solvent D. hydrogen
C
Question: Liquefaction ccurs when the molecules of a gas are cooled to the point where they no longer possess sufficient kinetic energy to overcome what? Options: A. bonding attractive forces B. intermolecular gravitational forces C. intermolecular attractive forces D. gravitational attractive forces
C
Question: What is the term for the series of life stages and events that a sexually reproducing organism goes through? Options: A. life cycle B. existence C. society cycle D. age
A
Question: What is absorbed from food waste in the large intestine before it passes out of the body as feces? Options: A. excess water B. inactive water C. distilled water D. dependent water
A
Question: What do hydrocarbons consist of? Options: A. carbon and oxygen B. carbon and hydrogen C. carbon and water D. carbon and helium
B
Question: A major diversification of what animal group occurred about 50 million years ago, possibly spurred by worldwide climate change? Options: A. insects B. reptiles C. amphibians D. mammals
D
Question: Like a house, your body has what kind of mechanism that responds to changes in temperature? Options: A. mechanical thermostat B. internal thermostat C. external thermostat D. sensitive thermostat
B
Question: An isometric type of what occurs as the muscle produces tension without changing the angle of a skeletal joint? Options: A. extension B. contraction C. compression D. acceleration
B
Question: What are important coenzymes or precursors of coenzymes, and are required for enzymes to function properly? Options: A. Drugs B. vitamins C. carbohydrates D. supplements
B
Question: What have cell-surface antigen receptors for foreign molecules? Options: A. dendrites B. capillaries C. lymphocytes D. erythrocytes
C
Question: In birds, modified front legs are actually what? Options: A. claws B. wings C. tails D. arms
B
Question: The number of waves that pass a fixed point in a given amount of time is called what? Options: A. wavelength of a wave B. spread of a wave C. spectroscopy of a wave D. frequency of a wave
D
Question: How does litmus paper indicate the ph value of a solution? Options: A. by texture B. by color C. by smell D. by shape
B
Question: What is another term for movable joints? Options: A. sesamoidal B. interstitial C. fibrous D. synovial
D
Question: What device is a magnetic disc that provides long-term storage for programs and data? Options: A. software B. cassette C. floppy drive D. hard drive
D
Question: Debroglie proposed in 1924 that any object exhibits a wavelength that is inversely proportional to its? Options: A. momentum B. inertia C. velocity D. frequency
A
Question: What travels at the interface between the sea surface and the atmosphere? Options: A. ocean breeze B. ocean waves C. ocean tides D. ocean currents
B
Question: What is the only light that humans can see? Options: A. distinct light B. dark light C. visible light D. bright light
C
Question: What directs the amino acids to be introduced into the growing protein chain in the proper sequence? Options: A. rna template B. gene template C. organelle template D. organism template
A
Question: Cellular respiration in humans involves the combustion of what simple sugar? Options: A. glucose B. starch C. insulin D. glutamate
A
Question: What still causes fatal lung disease in nonsmokers? Options: A. nicotine B. alcohol C. chewing tobacco D. tobacco smoke
D
Question: Like ants and termites, they grow fungi inside the bark of trees and use it to help do what? Options: A. kill prey B. clean the nest C. digest food D. weaken enemies
C
Question: For fertilization to occur in angiosperms, pollen has to be transferred to the stigma of what? Options: A. root B. flower C. leaf D. stem
B