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What waves require a material medium such as water, air, or rope?
[ "potential", "light", "electromagnetic", "mechanical" ]
mechanical
sciq
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Which continent is covered with an ice cap?
[ "antarctica", "australia", "greenland", "asia" ]
antarctica
sciq
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What type of organisms do carnivores feed on?
[ "eggs", "decomposers", "plants", "animals" ]
animals
sciq
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What is the ability to be attracted by a magnet and to act as a magnet?
[ "magnetism", "polarization", "inertia", "electrical attraction" ]
magnetism
sciq
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What consists of the different species within an area?
[ "contamination community", "science community", "biological community", "abundant community" ]
biological community
sciq
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What do prevailing winds influence?
[ "temperature", "climate", "weather", "barometric pressure" ]
climate
sciq
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What do you call a process that uses microorganisms to consume a pollutant?
[ "siltation", "biodegradation", "filtration", "bioremediation" ]
bioremediation
sciq
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What is the term for a disturbance in matter that causes the transfer of energy from place to place?
[ "temperature wave", "flooding wave", "mechanical wave", "nucleation" ]
mechanical wave
sciq
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Exemplified by cesium, which ignites spontaneously in air, pure elements with a high metallic character tend to be very what?
[ "reactive", "proactive", "radiactive", "inactive" ]
reactive
sciq
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What is the term for the use of two or more lewis structures to represent the covalent bonding in a molecule?
[ "harmony", "frequency", "reaction", "resonance" ]
resonance
sciq
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All eukaryotic cells have mitochondria, but not all eukaryotic cells have what?
[ "chloroplasts", "golgi bodies", "ribosomes", "cytoplasm" ]
chloroplasts
sciq
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Which part of the body of amphibians, easily absorbs substances from the environment?
[ "scales", "Eyes", "liver", "skin" ]
skin
sciq
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What element do plants use to store energy as atp?
[ "chlorophyll", "oxygen", "carbon", "nitrogen" ]
oxygen
sciq
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What is the term for the deepest places on earth?
[ "tunnels", "trenches", "mines", "the core" ]
trenches
sciq
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The posterior pituitary is an extension of what anatomical structure?
[ "brain stem", "hippocampus", "frontal lobe", "hypothalamus" ]
hypothalamus
sciq
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What occurs when the cartilage at the ends of the bones breaks down?
[ "stress fracture", "osteoporosis", "osteoarthritis", "rheumatism" ]
osteoarthritis
sciq
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What do the planets orbit around in the solar system?
[ "the moon", "the Earth", "the sun", "the Milky Way" ]
the sun
sciq
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Which period after birth has the most rapid growth?
[ "middle childhood", "infancy", "adolescence", "early childhood" ]
infancy
sciq
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What does sexual reproduction with gametes and fertilization produce?
[ "identical twins", "diploid sporophyte", "sister chromatids", "haploid zygote" ]
diploid sporophyte
sciq
afb4c844-f5e6-40eb-8626-3f0be78c1d94
What keeps the earth orbiting the sun?
[ "gravity", "speed", "inertia", "variation" ]
gravity
sciq
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The depth of the atmosphere is greatest where?
[ "sea level", "under water", "the ionosphere", "the stratosphere" ]
sea level
sciq
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The lungs, kidneys, skin, and large intestine are all part of what organ system?
[ "respiratory", "digestive", "excretory", "sensory" ]
excretory
sciq
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What is the male gamete called in humans?
[ "sperm", "dna", "egg", "testes" ]
sperm
sciq
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The lifecycle of an ascomycete is characterized by the production of what during the sexual phase?
[ "flageli", "abaci", "cerci", "asci" ]
asci
sciq
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What does the concentration of a solution represent?
[ "spending of solute", "percentage of solute", "the percentage of contaminates", "the darkness" ]
percentage of solute
sciq
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What is the term for any behavior that occurs only after experience or practice?
[ "learned behavior", "studied behavior", "saved behavior", "practiced behavior" ]
learned behavior
sciq
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What do we call the movement of individuals into a population from other areas?
[ "immigration", "pilgrimage", "assimilation", "nomadic" ]
immigration
sciq
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Enzymes, proteins, electron carriers, and pumps that play roles in glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and the electron transport chain tend to catalyze reactions that are what?
[ "continuous", "non-reversible", "reversible", "changeable" ]
non-reversible
sciq
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Is purifying water a simple or complicated process?
[ "complicated", "impossible", "simple", "expensive" ]
complicated
sciq
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What is a sac-like organ at the end of the esophagus?
[ "the stomach", "appendix", "larynx", "spleen" ]
the stomach
sciq
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Substances may be either elements or what?
[ "existent compounds", "fundamental compounds", "pure compounds", "pure chemicals" ]
pure compounds
sciq
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Visible light can be split into colors with the use of a what?
[ "prism", "convex lenses", "spectrum", "kaleidoscope" ]
prism
sciq
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Marshes, swamps, and bogs are types of what?
[ "ponds", "rivers", "wetlands", "grasslands" ]
wetlands
sciq
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What is the chief organ of the urinary system?
[ "kidney", "bladder", "liver", "lung" ]
kidney
sciq
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What type of winds blow over a limited area?
[ "hurricanes", "gales", "local winds", "trade winds" ]
local winds
sciq
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In terms of scientific investigation, things you notice about an environment using your five senses are called what?
[ "observations", "evidence", "patterns", "behaviors" ]
observations
sciq
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What is the final product of the calvin cycle?
[ "chloride", "glucose", "energy", "insulin" ]
glucose
sciq
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The nail bed is a specialized structure of the epidermis that is found at the tips of our what?
[ "fingers and toes", "only fingers", "only nails", "fingers, nails, and scalp" ]
fingers and toes
sciq
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The anatomical arrangement of capillaries and alveoli emphasizes the structural and functional relationship of what systems?
[ "endocrine and renal", "respiratory and circulatory", "nervous and lymphatic", "digestive and respiratory" ]
respiratory and circulatory
sciq
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What term describes all but the sex chromosomes?
[ "lysosomes", "telomeres", "autsomes", "sporozoans" ]
autsomes
sciq
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The sun and all objects held by it's gravity make up the?
[ "milky way", "planet", "solar system", "atmosphere" ]
solar system
sciq
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From the uterus, where do sperm travel next?
[ "ovaries", "urinary tract", "fallopian tubes", "vagina" ]
fallopian tubes
sciq
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What completes the process as undigested material passes out of the digestive system?
[ "accumulation", "culmination", "reaction", "elimination" ]
elimination
sciq
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What is a thin layer of gas that surrounds earth called?
[ "the dioxide", "the cloud cover", "the atmosphere", "the wind cycle" ]
the atmosphere
sciq
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What does all matter consist of?
[ "helium", "atoms", "carbon", "oxygen" ]
atoms
sciq
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What do you call a system that has one or more planets orbiting one or more stars?
[ "molecular system", "atom", "galaxy", "solar system" ]
solar system
sciq
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The longest period of daylight hours occurs at the beginning of what season?
[ "winter", "autumn", "spring", "summer" ]
summer
sciq
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H2o is the chemical formula for what?
[ "water", "salt", "glass", "smog" ]
water
sciq
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What occurs when light interacts with our atmosphere?
[ "eclipse", "rainbow formation", "rayleigh scattering", "prism effect" ]
rayleigh scattering
sciq
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Layers of placental transfer cells help transport nutrients to the embryos as they develop into what?
[ "sporophytes", "keratinocytes", "kinesins", "fibroblasts" ]
sporophytes
sciq
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The kayak’s motion in the water is an example of classical addition of what?
[ "force", "velocities", "momentum", "acceleration" ]
velocities
sciq
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Introduction genetics is the study of what?
[ "variability", "obesity", "heredity", "biology" ]
heredity
sciq
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A _______ of biology is a fundamental concept that is just as true for a bee or a sunflower as it is for us.
[ "theory", "hypothesis", "notion", "principle" ]
principle
sciq
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Ionic liquids heating a salt to its melting point produces a what?
[ "table salt", "plasma", "molten salt", "gas" ]
molten salt
sciq
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What is the term for the temperature at which a solid changes into a liquid?
[ "the pressure point", "the mixture point", "the melting point", "the starting point" ]
the melting point
sciq
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What does glycolysis generate in phase ii?
[ "adp", "amino acids", "dna", "atp" ]
atp
sciq
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These vacuoles take water from the cytoplasm and excrete it from the cell to avoid bursting due to what?
[ "impervious pressure", "static pressure", "apoptotic pressure", "osmotic pressure" ]
osmotic pressure
sciq
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Where does the purple color in quartz come from?
[ "bronze", "aluminum", "iron", "dirt" ]
iron
sciq
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What is the largest part of the brain?
[ "hypothalamus", "temporal lobe", "pituitary gland", "cerebrum" ]
cerebrum
sciq
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Data from paleontology offer insights into the early evolution of what?
[ "cells", "neurons", "acids", "fungi" ]
fungi
sciq
dc9c0c0d-9e4f-4771-bc92-e80811a14f3d
One crystalline form of calcium carbonate is the mineral sold as what?
[ "quartz", "basalt", "salt", "calcite" ]
calcite
sciq
5402503f-d3b1-42cc-b89c-a13df2b6f9eb
Human evolution shows that evolutionary changes typically occur at what pace?
[ "sudden", "rapid", "uneven", "slow" ]
slow
sciq
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When bacteria enter the bloodstream, the result is what condition?
[ "diarrhea", "hypertension", "septicemia", "hypoxia" ]
septicemia
sciq
b247b23e-28ca-4c8e-83d5-b6f4bb33d76a
Solid-state radiation detectors convert ionization produced in a semiconductor (like those found in computer chips) directly into what?
[ "isotopes", "electrical signal", "microwaves", "thermal energy" ]
electrical signal
sciq
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Most, if not all, of the extant animal phyla today evolved during the cambrian period, yet many of what devastating events have taken place since then?
[ "mass extinctions", "earthquakes", "life extinctions", "starvations" ]
mass extinctions
sciq
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What is the name for the energy required for an electron to be added to a neutral atom in its gaseous form?
[ "neutron affinity", "mass affinity", "photon affinity", "electron affinity" ]
electron affinity
sciq
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Carbon atoms have six neutrons as well as how many protons?
[ "ten", "two", "six", "four" ]
six
sciq
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What term means that only molecules or ions of a certain size, shape, polarity or charge are capable of passing through the material?
[ "selective permeation", "classic permeation", "radiation permeation", "induced permeation" ]
selective permeation
sciq
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What holds together the small molecules called nucleotides which make up nucleic acids?
[ "curvature bonds", "covalent bonds", "permanent bonds", "dissonance bonds" ]
covalent bonds
sciq
a225eb6d-b382-40c5-9a69-b301381362c8
What type of cell contains a nucleus?
[ "candid cell", "chloroplasts cell", "endogenous cell", "eukaryotic cell" ]
eukaryotic cell
sciq
d180b1b0-4b82-45fe-9358-bb8010cfead8
What method uses a retailer's coding method to catalog biological specimens in museums?
[ "structure barcoding", "metallic barcoding", "content barcoding", "dna barcoding" ]
dna barcoding
sciq
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The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is greatly influenced by the reservoir of carbon where?
[ "before the oceans", "in the oceans", "in the earth", "after the oceans" ]
in the oceans
sciq
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Who controls prey population?
[ "predators", "parasites", "ecosystems", "bees" ]
predators
sciq
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In which organs does gas exchange take place between blood and air?
[ "esophagus and larynx", "kidneys", "lungs", "liver and spleen" ]
lungs
sciq
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The frequency of sound waves is measured in what unit?
[ "decibel", "watt", "hertz", "rads" ]
hertz
sciq
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Does an increase in temperature speed up or slow down reactions?
[ "remain the same", "end reaction", "speed up", "slow down" ]
speed up
sciq
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An obstacle or opening that is shorter than the wavelength causes greater diffraction of what?
[ "tides", "waves", "particles", "ranges" ]
waves
sciq
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Corals build hard exoskeletons that grow to become coral what?
[ "layers", "reefs", "beds", "crystals" ]
reefs
sciq
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What is the name of the procedure where an unknown compound can be analyzed in the laboratory in order to determine the percentages of each element contained within it?
[ "elemental analysis", "chemical analysis", "gaseous analysis", "electrical analysis" ]
elemental analysis
sciq
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While spermatogenesis produces four haploid sperm cells, oogenesis produces one mature what?
[ "semen", "ovum", "datum", "egg" ]
ovum
sciq
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What are groups of tens to hundreds of thousands of stars held tightly together by gravity called?
[ "globular clusters", "elongated clusters", "elliptical clusters", "galaxy" ]
globular clusters
sciq
824780d4-defc-41eb-8620-13760c0e6cd0
What is the general name for the homogeneous mixture that is formed when a solute dissolves in a solvent?
[ "Dissolvant", "Combination", "solution", "Reaction" ]
solution
sciq
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Life itself could not exist without what energy, which plays a vital role in photosynthesis?
[ "light energy", "spin energy", "magnetic energy", "time energy" ]
light energy
sciq
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What does power imply is happening to energy?
[ "being transferred", "is expanding", "being created", "being destroyed" ]
being transferred
sciq
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Because the masses of subatomic particles are so small, a new unit, called what, was defined?
[ "atomic volume unit", "particle mass unit", "atomic mass unit", "nuclear mass unit" ]
atomic mass unit
sciq
1f7fae4c-edb8-44fe-8f15-b29239de98c9
Which organ breaks down amino acids and toxins that are in the blood?
[ "kidney", "liver", "skin", "small intestine" ]
liver
sciq
73ce3b35-6915-49e9-a784-242545e35b71
Which compound has positively and negatively charged ends?
[ "polar compound", "tumultuous compound", "non-polar compound", "real compound" ]
polar compound
sciq
02277ee6-785a-443a-b4e5-8c41d6246209
What system of the body is responsible for producing hormones?
[ "endocrine system", "nervous system", "homeostasis system", "regulatory system" ]
endocrine system
sciq
8bb1895a-9787-482b-bc3a-4ef3df8e5fd2
What happens to a substance in a liquid state when the temperate is lowed?
[ "it evaporates", "it dissipates", "it solidifies", "it melts" ]
it solidifies
sciq
eaa687b5-7748-4c8b-bc78-002b6f1e683b
Sublimation and deposition involve direct transitions between solid and gas without going through which state?
[ "homeostasis", "liquid", "carbon", "chemical" ]
liquid
sciq
798cc135-736a-45e9-bd9c-15e05a62a172
What is the process by which plants and animals increase in size?
[ "growth", "splicing", "reproduction", "grafting" ]
growth
sciq
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Which glands sit atop the kidneys and are composed of an outer cortex and an inner medulla, all surrounded by a connective tissue capsule?
[ "salivary", "adrenal", "thyroid glands", "gonads" ]
adrenal
sciq
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What is it that surrounds cells and serve to keep the insides separated from the outsides?
[ "biological membranes", "inner membranes", "similar membranes", "abundant membranes" ]
biological membranes
sciq
0d156f83-3c0f-448e-ac5d-10d5b0afc442
What is the gland in the chest behind the breast bone that stores some types of lymphocytes while they mature?
[ "thymus", "Montgomery", "lumbar", "pineal" ]
thymus
sciq
42d8d9ef-546a-4ced-94b3-2aef723c8e98
What promotes cell division and are necessary for growing plants in tissue culture?
[ "polyamines", "mitochondria", "auxins", "cytokinins" ]
cytokinins
sciq
d0cf9ee8-85fa-4586-a585-8d4fe7f97faa
What map shows the locations of several genes on the x chromosome?
[ "the component map", "The allelic map", "The genomic map", "the linkage map" ]
the linkage map
sciq
5c010c44-1ea3-4c92-a39c-ae9bf652faab
Although they are as different as deserts and wetlands, all of these ecosystem units have populations of interacting species?
[ "corals", "continents", "biomes", "zoos" ]
biomes
sciq
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What is the name of the bone that forms the forehead?
[ "upper bone", "frontal bone", "high bone", "forebone" ]
frontal bone
sciq
d1696039-439e-45e3-8ef7-a613bd7f469a
What is the name for a molecule with two atoms?
[ "diatomic", "covalent", "ionized", "hydrostatic" ]
diatomic
sciq
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What type of motor is used in most household devices with moving parts?
[ "thermal motors", "vacuum motors", "cooling motors", "electric motors" ]
electric motors
sciq