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During what period on earth was coal formed?
[ "the carboniferous period", "Mesozoic", "Neoproterozoic era", "Neoproterozoic" ]
the carboniferous period
sciq
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What is the term for the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum?
[ "gravity", "electricity", "chroma", "light" ]
light
sciq
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Which vertebrates were the first with four limbs?
[ "bony fishes", "amphibians (or tetrapods)", "reptiles", "birds" ]
amphibians (or tetrapods)
sciq
4bc7ac14-b2b9-4c44-9ab5-ab9212f28ed8
How do plants support themselves above the ground to get light and oxygen?
[ "flaccid stems", "symbiosis", "momentum", "stiff stems" ]
stiff stems
sciq
184a8bf0-882e-4c2b-aa46-6e0c9d0ea644
What process starts with glucose and ends with two pyruvate molecules, a total of four atp molecules and two molecules of nadh?
[ "glycolysis", "photosynthesis", "absorption", "secretion" ]
glycolysis
sciq
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What paired organs help regulate blood pressure through sodium ion and water retention and loss?
[ "tissues", "kidneys", "lungs", "lymph nodes" ]
kidneys
sciq
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What is the age-related disorder that causes the gradual loss of bone density and strength?
[ "osteoporosis", "mitosis", "arthritis", "fibrosis" ]
osteoporosis
sciq
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What are microfilaments made out of?
[ "two DNA chains", "two halophilic chains", "two actin chains", "two microscopy chains" ]
two actin chains
sciq
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Which bones are the large, curved bones that form the lateral and anterior aspects of the pelvis?
[ "cranium", "foot", "hip", "toe" ]
hip
sciq
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What bifurcates into the right and left bronchi in the lungs?
[ "aorta", "neck", "cornea", "trachea" ]
trachea
sciq
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What is the spreading of white light into its full spectrum of wavelengths called?
[ "radiate", "condensation", "saturation", "dispersion" ]
dispersion
sciq
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What type of fertilization usually occurs in aquatic environments where both eggs and sperm are released into the water?
[ "material", "static", "Internal", "external" ]
external
sciq
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What is the energy of motion called?
[ "kinetic energy", "harmonic energy", "inertia", "stasis" ]
kinetic energy
sciq
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Overharvesting is especially challenging for species with what type of habitat?
[ "tundra", "allowed", "classified", "restricted" ]
restricted
sciq
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What is a representation of the valence electrons of an atom that uses dots around the symbol of the element?
[ "right structure", "lewis structure", "watson structure", "time structure" ]
lewis structure
sciq
2a978b56-0a9b-4740-bd43-20e6fe12d5d6
Massive quanta, like electrons, also act like macroscopic particles—something we expect, because they are the smallest what?
[ "regiments of matter", "depth of matter", "battalions of matter", "units of matter" ]
units of matter
sciq
3a5c5bd4-d975-43b8-a2b6-d281cb8e7206
The simplest example of what type of 'organ system' is the gastrovascular cavity found in organisms with only one opening for the process?
[ "nervous", "respiratory", "digestive", "cardiovascular" ]
digestive
sciq
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Photographs of the heat emitted by an object are called what?
[ "radio images", "thermal images", "variable images", "cosmic images" ]
thermal images
sciq
1fe5b806-8b8e-4bea-835c-5d6147d1dd1b
Graphite is a form of elemental carbon what is another form?
[ "magnite", "diamond", "carbonite", "iron" ]
diamond
sciq
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If everything else stays the same in a system with a gas in it, and the gas gets warmer, what will happen to its pressure, generally?
[ "it increases", "it stays the same", "it drops", "it's eliminated" ]
it increases
sciq
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What term means a failure, insufficiency, or delay in the response of the immune system, which may be acquired or inherited?
[ "immunodeficiency", "pathogenic", "vitamin deficiency", "anemia" ]
immunodeficiency
sciq
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The mature pollen grain is composed of two cells: the pollen tube cell and which other cell?
[ "photosynthesis cell", "ova", "generative cell", "glial cell" ]
generative cell
sciq
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The neck of the uterus, called the cervix, opens into what?
[ "bladder", "retina", "vagina", "testicle" ]
vagina
sciq
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Where does the small intestine begin?
[ "mouth", "stomach", "colon", "spleen" ]
stomach
sciq
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What type of shape does a pelvic inlet have?
[ "cubic", "cylindrical", "oval shape", "conical" ]
oval shape
sciq
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Which stage of life is typically easier for learning multiple languages?
[ "childhood", "adolescenc", "infancy", "adulthood" ]
childhood
sciq
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What is released from the body during ejaculation?
[ "saliva", "sperm", "blood", "urine" ]
sperm
sciq
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An organism's unique role in the ecosystem is called its what?
[ "adaptation", "purpose", "niche", "focus" ]
niche
sciq
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With the exception of water, what accounts for more mass than any other component of living organisms?
[ "nervous tissue", "proteins", "hormones", "fats" ]
proteins
sciq
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Atoms are combined, separated, or rearranged during what?
[ "physical reactions", "spontaneous mutation", "chemical reactions", "radiation" ]
chemical reactions
sciq
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How many electrons does lithium have?
[ "three", "seven", "two", "four" ]
three
sciq
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What is considered the center of the solar system?
[ "heat", "sun", "earth", "nebulla" ]
sun
sciq
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What is the purpose of your body's first line of defense?
[ "to keep out pathogens", "fight or flight", "reject foreign bodies", "heal wounds" ]
to keep out pathogens
sciq
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What functions as a framework that reinforces the shape of the leaf?
[ "the central structure", "the vascular structure", "the normal structure", "the stylised structure" ]
the vascular structure
sciq
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Like quarks, gluons may be confined to systems having a total color of what?
[ "blue", "white", "red", "yellow" ]
white
sciq
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The ozone layer protects the earth from what?
[ "radio waves", "light waves", "uv radiation", "pollution" ]
uv radiation
sciq
c9e75f4b-026f-4323-a10a-c5f7db07c6f4
What type of learning is based on past experience and reasoning?
[ "insight", "theory", "reflect", "experiment" ]
insight
sciq
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What type of energy from a warm cola results in melting when it is transferred to the much colder ice?
[ "protective energy", "cyclic energy", "gaseous energy", "thermal energy" ]
thermal energy
sciq
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What is the term for a connection between a neuron and its target cell?
[ "axon", "dendrite", "synapse", "impulse" ]
synapse
sciq
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What does the slope of a position-time graph represent?
[ "direction", "velocity", "trajectory", "acceleration" ]
velocity
sciq
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What effect causes an object to appear to have a change of motion?
[ "resonant effect", "momentum effect", "coriolis effect", "centrifugal effect" ]
coriolis effect
sciq
7787ddd0-625c-496e-b30b-dfcab145ec6f
A carcinogen is nything in the environment that can cause what disease?
[ "alzheimers", "cancer", "glaucoma", "diabetes" ]
cancer
sciq
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What does the blue color of the pulmonary arteries reflect?
[ "they are lost", "they are done", "they are deoxygenated", "they are oxygenated" ]
they are deoxygenated
sciq
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The trade winds are nearest what?
[ "inland", "equator", "boundary plates", "poles" ]
equator
sciq
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Digestion of polysaccharides and disaccharides in the small intestine produces glucose and other?
[ "nitrates", "fat", "protein", "monosaccharides" ]
monosaccharides
sciq
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What is the term for the smallest blood vessels?
[ "muscles", "arteries", "Aortas", "capillaries" ]
capillaries
sciq
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In what type of body of water is most of the earth's water located?
[ "rivers", "oceans", "streams", "seas" ]
oceans
sciq
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What is one problem with current methods of aluminum production?
[ "recycling is cheap", "environmental contaminants", "food shortages", "competition" ]
environmental contaminants
sciq
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What makes the earth habitable for humans?
[ "abundance of water", "aridity of water", "carbonate of water", "availability of water" ]
abundance of water
sciq
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Which kind of flowers carry both male and female floral organs?
[ "perfect flowers", "stunning flowers", "creating flowers", "Upward Flowers" ]
perfect flowers
sciq
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Historically, certain bacteriophages have also been used as cloning vectors for making what?
[ "specific libraries", "diverse libraries", "ultraviolet libraries", "genomic libraries" ]
genomic libraries
sciq
b8f5e64a-30a5-4a5a-b9d5-23f25e76e576
An allele is an alternative form of what structure?
[ "amino acid", "enzyme", "protein", "gene" ]
gene
sciq
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All photosynthetic organisms contain a pigment called what?
[ "sodium", "Fiber", "chlorophyll", "carbonate" ]
chlorophyll
sciq
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Mammals may either be herbivores, omnivores or what else?
[ "herbivores", "neither", "carnivores", "polyvores" ]
herbivores
sciq
dcb5cfb9-8c2c-47a7-b2b2-57cbd25058cd
What phenomenon sometimes causes harmful alleles to become fixed?
[ "spontaneous mutation", "genetic drift", "competition", "natural selection" ]
genetic drift
sciq
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How do you determine the atomic weight of an element?
[ "add up protons and neutrons", "multiply protons and neutrons", "divide protons and neutrons", "subtract protons from electrons" ]
add up protons and neutrons
sciq
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Sodium and chlorine combine to make what?
[ "seawater", "gold", "salt", "iron" ]
salt
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What can bacterial stis be cured with?
[ "antibiotics", "antioxidants", "pesticides", "antiviral drugs" ]
antibiotics
sciq
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What do bees do for flowering plants?
[ "pollinate", "eat", "create", "feed" ]
pollinate
sciq
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Where do streams often start?
[ "oceans", "mountains", "valleys", "plains" ]
mountains
sciq
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Deletions remove one or more what from the dna?
[ "nucleotides", "exons", "genes", "codons" ]
nucleotides
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For geneticists, the findings of what massive undertaking are significant in determining disease-causing alleles?
[ "human genome project", "Visible Human Project", "human produce project", "human organisms project" ]
human genome project
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Does deforestation increase or decrease carbon dioxide levels around the world?
[ "increase", "accelerate", "decrease", "eliminate" ]
increase
sciq
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Which material used in oxyacetylene torches helps cut and weld metals?
[ "sulfur", "acetylene", "carbon", "dioxide" ]
acetylene
sciq
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Peroxisomes perform a couple of different functions, including lipid metabolism and chemical detoxification. in contrast to the digestive enzymes found in lysosomes, the enzymes within peroxisomes serve to transfer hydrogen atoms from various molecules to oxygen, producing what?
[ "water", "hydrogen", "calcium", "hydrogen peroxide" ]
hydrogen peroxide
sciq
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Ethylene, gibberellins, cytokinins, absciscic acid, and auxins are examples of what?
[ "animal hormones", "insect hormones", "animal proteins", "plant hormones" ]
plant hormones
sciq
d5cce532-5e2e-42df-acb7-73abb5724667
What are some uses of chlorine gas?
[ "washing hands", "rooting plant cuttings", "cleaning, disinfecting and in swimming pools", "fueling airplanes" ]
cleaning, disinfecting and in swimming pools
sciq
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Designed to exchange materials, what spongy structure consists of membranes and blood vessels from both mother and embryo?
[ "placenta", "umbilicus", "endometrium", "uterus" ]
placenta
sciq
8f2d0b4d-830a-420c-83cc-b87466a6c171
Even though tellurium does indeed have a greater average atomic mass than iodine, it is properly placed before iodine in the?
[ "periodic table", "theory table", "cycles table", "phases table" ]
periodic table
sciq
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In a fullerene, what atoms are bonded to three other atoms in a soccer ball pattern?
[ "positive", "hydrogen", "carbon", "oxygen" ]
carbon
sciq
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What do you call the light particles that travel through the radiative zone?
[ "neutrons", "ions", "electrons", "photons" ]
photons
sciq
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What is a mixture of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal?
[ "cyanide", "TNT", "gasoline", "gunpowder" ]
gunpowder
sciq
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Opportunistic diseases are usually the direct cause of death of people with what disease?
[ "liver", "parkinson", "aids", "heart" ]
aids
sciq
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What is the name of an uncharged particle whose weight is nearly equal to that of a proton?
[ "a nuclei", "electron", "a neutron", "proton" ]
a neutron
sciq
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The chemical symbol of which ion is written first in ionic compounds?
[ "last ion", "positive metal ion", "negative ion", "good metal ion" ]
positive metal ion
sciq
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What is the opposite of rarefaction zones, where air molecules in waves are loosely packed?
[ "compression zones", "pressure wave", "molecules zones", "measurements zones" ]
compression zones
sciq
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What organs secrete hormones that help maintain homeostasis?
[ "the lungs", "the gonads", "the digestion organs", "the kidneys" ]
the kidneys
sciq
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The nuclear envelope is a double-layered plasma membrane like the cell membrane, although without what?
[ "cell walls", "nucleic acids", "cytoplasm", "membrane proteins" ]
membrane proteins
sciq
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What is another name for a radioactive isotope?
[ "radiostope", "nono particle", "xerophyte", "kilocalorie" ]
radiostope
sciq
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Dietary proteins are broken down into amino acids during what process?
[ "accumulation", "photosynthesis", "digestion", "filtration" ]
digestion
sciq
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Some gametophytes develop underground and form mycorrhizal associations with what?
[ "animals", "protists", "plants", "fungi" ]
fungi
sciq
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What is the nervous tissue in the brain and in the rest of the nervous system made up of?
[ "neurons", "electrons", "plastic", "ions" ]
neurons
sciq
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How do planets usually rotate to their orbital planes?
[ "randomly", "nearly perpendicular", "exactly perpendicular", "chaotic" ]
nearly perpendicular
sciq
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What are algae that live in colonies of hundreds of cells called?
[ "chlorophyta", "volvox", "euglenids", "rhodophyta" ]
volvox
sciq
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Irrigation can waste a lot of what natural resource?
[ "water", "habitat", "money", "fertilizer" ]
water
sciq
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What drives puberty in male humans?
[ "bloodstream", "testosterone", "estrogen", "methane" ]
testosterone
sciq
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What is our largest source of energy?
[ "methane", "coal", "wind", "iron" ]
coal
sciq
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Helium-3 is produced by beta decay of a certain what?
[ "electron", "nuclide", "particle", "quark" ]
nuclide
sciq
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What do animals require to grow and develop?
[ "sucrose", "sunlight", "food", "carbon dioxide" ]
food
sciq
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What term is used to describe the process by which organisms give rise to offspring?
[ "osmosis", "photosynthesis", "reproduction", "variation" ]
reproduction
sciq
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What are the nonliving matter that living things need called?
[ "acids", "nutrients", "fluids", "elements" ]
nutrients
sciq
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What term is used to express the measurement of how high land is above sea level?
[ "distance", "latitude", "knots", "elevation" ]
elevation
sciq
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A pulley is a simple machine that consists of a grooved wheel and?
[ "a rope", "a lever", "a wedge", "a battery" ]
a rope
sciq
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What is another name for a broad explanation that is supported by a great deal of evidence?
[ "theory", "hypothesis", "conjecture", "concept" ]
theory
sciq
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Vinegar is a solution of which acid?
[ "boric", "crystalline", "magnesium", "acetic" ]
acetic
sciq
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Which system does the large and small intestine belong to?
[ "digestive system", "LYMPHATIC", "molecules system", "skeletal system" ]
digestive system
sciq
8e0cec44-75b0-4ad1-aef9-5481b6a0b59e
Particles of matter have the most definite shape in what material state?
[ "plasma", "liquid", "solid", "gas" ]
solid
sciq
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What body system allows humans to move?
[ "muscular system", "digestive system", "lung system", "abnormal system" ]
muscular system
sciq
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High decibel sounds can damage your?
[ "brain", "ears", "eyes", "nose" ]
ears
sciq
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What are the dark areas that appear on the sun called?
[ "coreolis effect", "anomalies", "sunspots", "coronas" ]
sunspots
sciq