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e07310ab-7a58-4f02-8546-d37ae3a1442a
Which has a higher metabolic rate, a mouse or an elephant?
[ "elephant", "rabbit", "mouse", "rat" ]
mouse
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b7254abe-e6c3-4c6c-bd07-25a7931ca1e8
The bony socket that houses the eyeball and associated muscles is called?
[ "glenoid fossa", "cavity", "orbit", "acetabulum" ]
orbit
sciq
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Where does the energy produced by plants come from?
[ "sunlight", "evaporation", "groundwater", "animals" ]
sunlight
sciq
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Humans cannot digest what primary structural material of plants, which is one of the most abundant organic substances on earth?
[ "cellulose", "sulfur", "zinc", "carbonate" ]
cellulose
sciq
4f92991d-7d9b-405c-801a-f85af44356cc
The cell walls of what organisms are strengthened by chitin, unlike plant cell walls, which contain cellulose?
[ "bacterium", "yeast", "virus", "fungi" ]
fungi
sciq
8aece34a-4d94-4246-9633-49c405789ed5
What three parts is the earth divided into?
[ "troposphere, atomosphere, xerosphere", "crust, mantle, core", "crust, core, magma", "oceans, land, air" ]
crust, mantle, core
sciq
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Ac is better than dc for doing what?
[ "cooking electrcal energy", "storing electrical energy", "transporting electrcal energy", "stopping electrical ebergy" ]
transporting electrcal energy
sciq
05891b7f-aa54-4c05-9165-3fa01a2da3fd
What arises due to crossing over, independent assortment, and the random union of gametes?
[ "recessive variation", "genetic variation", "susceptible variation", "alternative variation" ]
genetic variation
sciq
7f9e7ad6-84d1-4f9c-be64-45f6bfab8ca3
Myofibrils are long cylindrical structures that lie parallel to and run the entire length of what fibers?
[ "heart muscle fibers", "uplift muscle fibers", "luminous muscle fibers", "skeletal muscle fibers" ]
skeletal muscle fibers
sciq
32c8abce-0186-4eb7-a367-1128425b65af
Hydrogen atoms form only one covalent bond because they have only one have one of what to pair with it?
[ "Water electron", "modular electron", "loops electron", "valence electron" ]
valence electron
sciq
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The ionic end of a detergent can either be a sulfate or what?
[ "sulfonate", "molecule", "phosphate", "calcite" ]
sulfonate
sciq
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The inside of the small intestine has many folds, called villi. microvilli are lined with blood vessels as well as lymphatic vessels. the inside of the small intestine is called this?
[ "lumen", "porous", "osmotic", "reticular" ]
lumen
sciq
3cb120c7-e6b1-4786-8a73-350bfe96d8cd
Why do fish have short esophaguses?
[ "no mouths", "no lungs", "no intestines", "big tail" ]
no lungs
sciq
e8fcfbc6-35ea-4b6d-a032-8bb3841ce2dc
What broad animal group is thought to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs around 150 million years ago?
[ "mammals", "insects", "reptiles", "birds" ]
birds
sciq
7b0f25e9-30f5-47d4-97d3-a133e2cc3f65
During evolution, something happened to increase the size of what organ in humans, relative to that of the chimpanzee?
[ "lung", "stomach", "liver", "brain" ]
brain
sciq
2277702e-9bae-41f4-a875-98adf321a635
What is the protein in red blood cells which transports oxygen around the body?
[ "hematocrit", "hydrogen", "plasma", "hemoglobin" ]
hemoglobin
sciq
8548af8a-3f69-49fe-af34-fbe5f996ee25
The glass hydrometer is filled with air and weighted with lead at the bottom. it floats highest in the densest fluids and has been calibrated and labeled so that you can read this from it?
[ "specific gravity", "volume", "density", "mass" ]
specific gravity
sciq
1e7797e2-2729-4c14-a47b-e23ea74a8e0e
What system provides a major route for heat flow between the interior and exterior of the body?
[ "nervous system", "respiratory system", "the circulatory system", "excretory system" ]
the circulatory system
sciq
ddd28108-88c0-42cf-b8f0-0609290a045a
Organs involved in digestion that do not have food pass through them are called?
[ "accessory organs", "layer organs", "vestigial organs", "bypass organs" ]
accessory organs
sciq
c424b5a9-8d2d-4175-bb76-38a881512bd3
At a synapse, what objects are released to carry a nerve impulse from one neuron to the next?
[ "microorganisms", "viruses", "neurotransmitters", "receptors" ]
neurotransmitters
sciq
376b0f12-4052-4e07-ba47-a9e853ac85f2
All cells have a jellylike substance in which subcellular components are suspended. what is that substance?
[ "glycerol", "plasma", "cortisol", "cytosol" ]
cytosol
sciq
c443b476-975d-4827-ae19-29431590068e
In physics, when one subtracts the frictional force from the applied force what is the result?
[ "quarter force", "rolled force", "net force", "kinetic force" ]
net force
sciq
29ac64e9-652f-4633-a05c-0ea8f93a7201
What is the term for the force that brings objects toward the earth?
[ "gravity", "centrifugal", "weight", "light" ]
gravity
sciq
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Skyscrapers and other large structures built on soft ground must be anchored to what, located below the ground surface?
[ "ocean floor", "water table", "bedrock", "groundwater" ]
bedrock
sciq
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When your brain senses that your body temperature is increasing, it sends messages to the blood vessels in the skin to increase in what?
[ "surface", "weight", "diameter", "height" ]
diameter
sciq
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Ingestion and propulsion are the first two steps in which process that describes how humans process and consume food?
[ "digestion", "regeneration", "absorption", "respiration" ]
digestion
sciq
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Which fish has a round sucker used to suck the blood of other fish?
[ "abalone", "lamprey", "shark", "moray" ]
lamprey
sciq
91bf9431-8897-4552-a82a-e12bcf9d51e9
What type of change is undergone when the physical properties of a substance are changed?
[ "genetic", "atmospheric", "thermal", "physical" ]
physical
sciq
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Digestive enzymes are released, or secreted, by the organs of which body system?
[ "endocrine system", "nervous system", "digestive system", "urinary system" ]
digestive system
sciq
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When water is aerated it can provide a plant's roots with what gas for cellular respiration?
[ "carbon dioxide", "carbon", "oxygen", "nitrogen" ]
oxygen
sciq
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Where on a jellyfish is the mouth opening located?
[ "top", "left side", "underside", "right side" ]
underside
sciq
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Calcium ion is an example of what kind of messenger?
[ "first", "fourth", "third", "second" ]
second
sciq
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Aspirin and ibuprofen reduce pain by inhibiting the synthesis of what?
[ "lipids", "hormones", "triglycerides", "prostaglandins" ]
prostaglandins
sciq
b1100d34-1337-43fb-9c4d-5cbd6aade8cd
What unit do astronomers use to describe distances in space?
[ "gravity years", "light months", "quantum years", "light years" ]
light years
sciq
ee5a6adc-57a9-4c98-a62f-37492b7a533f
What is the process by which water moves through semi-permeable membranes from one part of the body to another?
[ "diffusion", "osmosis", "mitosis", "electrolysis" ]
osmosis
sciq
98c95cfe-4a15-4eb0-9513-a19d19424fcf
What is the phenotypic range of a particular genotype called?
[ "natural selection", "norm of reaction", "range of motion", "diversity" ]
norm of reaction
sciq
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What cells are the basis of nervous tissue?
[ "lipocytes", "neurons", "erythrocytes", "osteoclasts" ]
neurons
sciq
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Pure carbon can exist in different forms, depending on how its atoms are arranged. the forms include diamond, graphite, and what else?
[ "calcites", "lead", "ligands", "fullerenes" ]
fullerenes
sciq
ba482461-98b0-42ae-ba24-4e55b00373c9
Which cavity, filled with lubricating serous fluid, lies between the epicardium and the pericardium?
[ "pericardial cavity", "thoracic cavity", "cranial cavity", "oral cavity" ]
pericardial cavity
sciq
cfbd331c-da02-4e80-9c0a-6b9251b83bec
What part of the male reproductive system is involved with the most common disorders?
[ "the testes", "the ureter", "the glans", "the penis" ]
the testes
sciq
d7251eb8-86ae-4750-a6b1-5fd3b8d6474a
Layers of what create a volcano?
[ "crust", "limestone", "lava", "rock" ]
lava
sciq
876351b4-3a9f-46c0-9985-b7c96cdf8e0d
In amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, blood flow is directed in two circuits: one through the lungs and back to the heart, which is called what?
[ "pulmonary circulation", "systemic circulation", "sensory circulation", "metabolic circulation" ]
pulmonary circulation
sciq
ecf1c3a7-7bcf-4509-8f8c-9b7048f2e0f9
Non-human organisms that mainly consume plants/other primary producers are known as what?
[ "herbivores", "omnivores", "carnivores", "amphibians" ]
herbivores
sciq
71eb95fe-15f4-4ac8-83c0-7ee2c4a73402
In the microbiology lab, what technique refers to the procedures that are carried out under sterile conditions?
[ "ionization", "personal hygiene", "experimental control", "aseptic" ]
aseptic
sciq
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Connecting a magnesium rod to an underground steel pipeline protects the pipeline from corrosion. because magnesium (e° = −2.37 v) is much more easily oxidized than iron (e° = −0.45 v), the mg rod acts as the anode in a what?
[ "voltaic cell", "anode cell", "stimulation cell", "galvanic cell" ]
galvanic cell
sciq
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Matrix is the term for the fluid-filled interior of what structure, where most of the cell’s atp is made?
[ "nucleus", "enzyme", "Golgi apparatus", "mitochondria" ]
mitochondria
sciq
b8696ae1-2912-4993-8462-1262a99e903f
Chitin, also found in the exoskeleton of insects, gives structural strength to the cell walls of fungi. the cell wall protects the cell from what?
[ "fermentation and predators", "starvation and predators", "desiccation and predators", "entrainment and predators" ]
desiccation and predators
sciq
66caaed9-a971-44b4-ae59-bb4610ed5a4f
What is the term for air moving over earth’s surface?
[ "humidity", "spin cycle", "wind", "tidal" ]
wind
sciq
a0e1e8f2-40ee-4402-9d87-5cee8abf2693
Each of what paired organs is enclosed within a cavity surrounded by the pleura?
[ "ovaries", "heart", "lungs", "bones" ]
lungs
sciq
671ab5f9-1488-49fb-aeb1-e4b108c0ebfa
What are the best-known extinct vertebrates?
[ "snakes", "dinosaurs", "trilobites", "trees" ]
dinosaurs
sciq
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Centrioles help organize the chromosomes before cell division so that each daughter cell has the correct number of what?
[ "cells", "ribosomes", "chromosomes", "receptors" ]
chromosomes
sciq
76f44b14-2f97-4ceb-9aa2-a3a296341347
What development is less risky for the mother?
[ "marsupial", "atypical", "gastrointestinal", "mutation" ]
marsupial
sciq
d5f7fc78-19a6-47fe-a846-6b72c204e356
What does the term decay in chemistry refer to with regards to atoms?
[ "destruction of nuclei", "separation of nuclei", "changes in nuclei", "pressures in nuclei" ]
changes in nuclei
sciq
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How does increasing the temperature of reactants affect the rate of their reaction?
[ "it increases it", "it is unchanged", "it patterns it", "it decreases it" ]
it increases it
sciq
5a91c390-432c-4f32-8fe4-3c2a3c038842
What type of eclipse happens when a full moon moves through earth's shadow?
[ "lunar", "cycle", "solar", "planetary" ]
lunar
sciq
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Dynamite is an example of what type of potential energy?
[ "mineral", "thermal", "carbon", "chemical" ]
chemical
sciq
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All the atoms of a given element have the same number what?
[ "neutrons and protons", "cells and electrons", "neutrons and electrons", "protons and electrons" ]
protons and electrons
sciq
4d7ffddc-89e9-468b-8ebc-79bd462e5ecf
What structures located on chromosomes control characteristics of life and are passed from parents to offspring?
[ "cells", "axons", "eggs", "genes" ]
genes
sciq
0d1cc917-6e7e-4fe7-b7d0-d5b1d5eaee8b
The lattice energy is usually the most important energy factor in determining the stability of what?
[ "saline compound", "magnetic compound", "harmonic compound", "ionic compound" ]
ionic compound
sciq
e5a4e65b-b3c6-448e-8350-7c332ca6c7e4
What kind of organisms helps hold soil in place to slow erosion?
[ "bacteria", "animals", "flowers", "plants" ]
plants
sciq
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Water found on the surface of the earth is referred to as what?
[ "reservoir water", "surface water", "groundwater", "runoff" ]
surface water
sciq
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Which planet is named after the roman goddess of love?
[ "Mercury", "venus", "Neptune", "Jupiter" ]
venus
sciq
8c6eb25d-1620-4f30-890b-cd604a28c328
In astronomy, what are so dense that not even light can escape their gravity?
[ "dwarf stars", "black holes", "black rods", "red holes" ]
black holes
sciq
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What are the simplest organic compounds?
[ "carbohydrates", "hydrocarbons", "proteins", "enzymes" ]
hydrocarbons
sciq
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Animals are classified according to morphological and developmental characteristics, such as a body plan. with the exception of sponges, the animal body plan is symmetrical. this means that their distribution of body parts is balanced along this?
[ "skull", "axis", "radius", "ulna" ]
axis
sciq
3f0f285f-7550-4fc5-8db2-e34fbc837cfb
Competition that occurs between members of the same species, which improves the species’ adaptations, is called what?
[ "adaptive behavior", "interspecies competition", "commensalism", "intraspecific competition" ]
intraspecific competition
sciq
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When we were dealing with electrical effects, it was very useful to speak of an electric field that surrounded what?
[ "electrical charge", "stellar charge", "liquid charge", "sunlight charge" ]
electrical charge
sciq
5f500edd-eb1a-48d6-88c7-f7740f50d1c6
Plants require air, water, nutrients, and what in order to live and survive?
[ "gravity", "entertainment", "money", "light" ]
light
sciq
073b9e3d-f2f3-4a9b-8011-9f553ebe18a9
Exothermic reactions, like all chemical reactions, require what to get started?
[ "activation energy", "surface energy", "specific energy", "membrane energy" ]
activation energy
sciq
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What broad group of animals are the first true tetrapods, vertebrates with four limbs?
[ "mammals", "reptiles", "fish", "amphibians" ]
amphibians
sciq
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In most fungi, the haploid nuclei contributed by each parent do not do what right away?
[ "disperse", "vaporize", "fuse", "filter" ]
fuse
sciq
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What is telomere shortening associated with?
[ "aging", "sleeping", "reducing", "changing" ]
aging
sciq
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What gas is released when dead organisms and other organic materials decompose?
[ "carbon dioxide", "nitrous oxide", "carbon monoxide", "hydrogen peroxide" ]
carbon dioxide
sciq
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What type of lens is thicker at the edges than it is in the middle?
[ "glass lens", "concave lens", "surface lens", "convex lens" ]
concave lens
sciq
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A collapsing nebula leads to what process?
[ "chemical reaction", "destructive fusion", "nuclear reaction", "nuclear fusion" ]
nuclear fusion
sciq
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Lenses that focus light are called what?
[ "sensing lenses", "active lenses", "converging lenses", "powering lenses" ]
converging lenses
sciq
f05fd943-5571-46e4-8f35-2e1b7a843b2e
What happens to the pressure when more gas is added to a rigid container?
[ "occurs", "increases", "changes", "Higher" ]
increases
sciq
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Often represented by an arrow, a vector is a measurement that has both size and what?
[ "pressure", "location", "direction", "reason" ]
direction
sciq
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A solenoid wrapped around a bar of iron or other ferromagnetic material forms what?
[ "electromagnet", "compress", "compass", "impoundment" ]
electromagnet
sciq
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Enzymes can catalyze up to several million reactions per what?
[ "hour", "day", "second", "minute" ]
second
sciq
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Unipolar, bipolar, multipolar, and pseudounipolar are the four basic types of what?
[ "electrons", "neurons", "ions", "protons" ]
neurons
sciq
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How many families are known quarks divided into?
[ "three", "five", "two", "four" ]
three
sciq
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The nervous system has two main parts, called the central nervous system and the what?
[ "functional nervious system", "obsolete nervous system", "useful nervous system", "peripheral nervous system" ]
peripheral nervous system
sciq
a6ce865b-0657-4b42-a2de-4baec2a8061c
What makes up the dense outer layer of bones?
[ "adipose tissue", "plasma", "compact bone", "ligaments" ]
compact bone
sciq
8ff4b4b3-6187-4c4b-be93-2e8ec52b1ce0
What type of behaviors are rigid and predictable, and usually involve basic life functions?
[ "diverse behaviors", "impulsive behaviors", "innate behaviors", "protective behaviors" ]
innate behaviors
sciq
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Yeasts, molds, and mushrooms are all different kinds of what?
[ "bacteria", "pollen", "fossil", "fungi" ]
fungi
sciq
2e4f515b-5a23-4a85-aad3-ae8b1a3a6b3f
What is the term for the preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived in the past?
[ "corals", "fossils", "bones", "detritis" ]
fossils
sciq
1764ee69-abb1-4632-a3b7-17d234583a41
What process, which is analogous to mitosis, is a series of events that arrange and separate chromosomes and chromatids into daughter cells?
[ "apoptosis", "inhibition", "meiosis", "digestion" ]
meiosis
sciq
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All of the elements in group 9 have nine of which electrons?
[ "valence", "gradient", "shell", "ionic" ]
valence
sciq
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The force of attraction between a positively charged metal ion and the valence electrons it shares with other ions of the metal is called?
[ "ionic bond", "metallic bond", "temporal bond", "metallic yield" ]
metallic bond
sciq
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When a car is brought to a stop by friction on level ground, it loses what?
[ "mass energy", "exhibit energy", "kinetic energy", "residual energy" ]
kinetic energy
sciq
6ae001b4-1f67-4544-8193-e952c15f8981
What system of the body is responsible for transmitting, processing, and responding to most of the sensory information that is created by various stimuli?
[ "nervous system", "attentive system", "respiratory system", "circulatory system" ]
nervous system
sciq
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Do vascular or nonvascular plants lack tracheids?
[ "vascular", "nonvascular", "both do", "neither do" ]
nonvascular
sciq
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When the earth is between the moon and the sun, what type of moon shows?
[ "waning moon", "a full moon", "crescent moon", "half moon" ]
a full moon
sciq
6768c8ef-07dc-4024-8bee-30c2dfdc142a
The stored chemical energy of trees and other plants is called what?
[ "biocomposte energy", "biomass energy", "decomposition energy", "byproduct energy" ]
biomass energy
sciq
a10196cc-6e05-4cb7-8c59-e0204a080ec0
What is the star nearest the earth named?
[ "proxima centauri", "andromeda centauri", "apollinaris centauri", "alpha centauri" ]
proxima centauri
sciq
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What are the majority of solution properties dependent upon?
[ "acid state of solute", "chemical state of solute", "similar state of solute", "gas state of solute" ]
chemical state of solute
sciq
6ef4930a-beac-4721-a205-693eb49b2a67
What must be combined with a halogen to give it a positive oxidation number?
[ "carbon", "oxygen", "calcium", "nitrogen" ]
oxygen
sciq
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Hormones are often regulated through what?
[ "alternating loops", "response loops", "feedback loops", "intensity loops" ]
feedback loops
sciq
d794d73f-413d-4969-b1bc-a04e04ba26a9
Surging hormones will cause adolescents to have what?
[ "mood swings", "growth spurts", "bulging muscles", "blackouts" ]
mood swings
sciq