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All biochemical molecules have oxygen, carbon, and what other element?
[ "helium", "hydrogen", "calcium", "nitrogen" ]
hydrogen
sciq
1aa12d00-86f2-4bef-a7f3-b3ed2f4b8c17
What is a structure that is composed of one or more types of tissues?
[ "organ", "muscle", "node", "system" ]
organ
sciq
eeb8ed1a-12d7-4ed4-acc5-aacdc5ae1ca5
If the buoyant force is greater than the force of gravity acting on a ship, what will happen to the ship?
[ "it will sink", "it will bobble", "it will float", "it will explode" ]
it will float
sciq
a4f55d18-4d79-4426-b6fd-7864dfb35f0e
What are different types of tissues organized into functional units called?
[ "tendons", "organs", "arteries", "veins" ]
organs
sciq
45c3ad83-3b14-47b8-9472-18f6181c6d7d
Practitioners of what thought all matter was composed of different proportions of four basic elements, and that if you changed the proportions of these elements, you could change the substance itself?
[ "alchemy", "phrenology", "chemistry", "biology" ]
alchemy
sciq
67c6ee6a-18c3-4463-84a7-451cfe527194
What are atoms of the same element that differ in their numbers of neutrons called?
[ "isotopes", "opposites", "reactions", "organisms" ]
isotopes
sciq
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What is added to a measured portion of a more concentrated stock solution to achieve a particular concentration?
[ "water", "pigment", "yeast", "solvent" ]
solvent
sciq
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What do humans and bats have physically in common?
[ "gland hair", "body oder", "wing size", "body hair" ]
body hair
sciq
4eb837b2-c3e1-4561-954d-fef275cd3ce8
Because optics fibers are thin, entering light may strike the inside surface at greater than the critical angle, requiring attention to what?
[ "reflective point", "electromagnetic index", "wavelength", "refractive index" ]
refractive index
sciq
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What is a vector quantity with the same direction as the force called?
[ "simple", "impulse", "accelerated", "inverted" ]
impulse
sciq
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Club mosses, horsetails, ferns, and whisk ferns are examples of what type of plants?
[ "cycads", "seedless vascular plants", "gymnosperms", "angiosperms" ]
seedless vascular plants
sciq
e18670ea-aaec-4dd4-a0fb-72b4772873e7
What do seeds have that spores do not?
[ "a supply of stored food", "chlorophyll", "DNA", "pollenators" ]
a supply of stored food
sciq
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When explosion of gases creates pressure resulting in motion of a rocket, the force pushing the rocket is called what?
[ "temperature", "friction", "thrust", "stasis" ]
thrust
sciq
4c9faa4a-a083-4f86-8f0c-e46f101b2860
What once most common bird in north america became extinct in the 1800s?
[ "the rock penguin", "the homing piegon", "the passenger piegon", "the dodo" ]
the passenger piegon
sciq
e00c2a1b-1051-4f43-beb2-6f50cc10446a
What is the process called where nitrogen is repeatedly recycled through the biosphere?
[ "ammonia cycle", "water cycle", "nitrogen cycle", "nitrogen path" ]
nitrogen cycle
sciq
a3325b3e-d088-4172-8143-62f94cdca553
What does pepsin help break down into amino acids?
[ "carbohydrates", "proteins", "glucose", "fats" ]
proteins
sciq
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What are the most successful phylum of plants?
[ "gymnosperms", "ferns", "spores", "angiosperms" ]
angiosperms
sciq
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The muscular layer is much thicker in which ventricle of the heart?
[ "right", "left", "upper", "middle" ]
left
sciq
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In many places, small hills rise above the ocean floor. these hills are undersea volcanoes, called what?
[ "corals", "ridges", "reefs", "seamounts" ]
seamounts
sciq
4181ec03-a9c8-4a74-b5ea-e1b3b54f6106
Ants, termites, bees, and wasps live in what type of social structure that may include millions of individual insects?
[ "habitat", "family", "community", "colony" ]
colony
sciq
dfd33966-b333-45f6-b1c2-e40bd1f39a6e
Schrödinger’s approach uses three quantum numbers (n, l, and ml) to specify any of what type of function, associated with a particular energy?
[ "shift function", "wave function", "green function", "rush function" ]
wave function
sciq
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What is the term for the ability of an atom to emit, or give off, charged particles and energy from its nucleus?
[ "magnetism", "radioactivity", "conductivity", "electrical attraction" ]
radioactivity
sciq
3bfce468-3314-4205-9832-a3004ff34fd6
What type of fluid cushions the fetus and helps protect it from injury?
[ "amniotic", "plasmid", "epithelial", "aqueous" ]
amniotic
sciq
99bec344-f46e-4653-a6ea-01ac5261e2dc
How can you prevent diseases such as whooping cough and flu?
[ "nutrition", "vacuuming", "exercise", "preventive vaccinations" ]
preventive vaccinations
sciq
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Why do snakes have venomous bites?
[ "to clean themselves", "to scare humans", "to kill prey", "to kill rival snakes" ]
to kill prey
sciq
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Chelicerae in spiders are often modified into fangs that perform what function?
[ "tearing flesh", "inject venom", "chewing", "courtship display" ]
inject venom
sciq
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What results from uncontrolled cell division?
[ "diabetes", "cancers", "high blood pressure", "obesity" ]
cancers
sciq
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Where do angiosperms form seeds?
[ "ovaries", "stamen", "testes", "cones" ]
ovaries
sciq
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What term is used to describe the development of new technology?
[ "industrial design", "mechanical engineering", "technological design", "technological expansion" ]
technological design
sciq
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All of the populations that live in the same area make up what type of group, which includes populations of different organisms?
[ "environment", "community", "hive", "colony" ]
community
sciq
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What model describing atomic structure is often referred to as a planetary model?
[ "Newton's model", "kinetic model", "bohr model", "Pascal model" ]
bohr model
sciq
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The medium moves back and forth in the same direction as the wave in what type of wave?
[ "longitudinal wave", "latitudinal wave", "kinetic wave", "variable wave" ]
longitudinal wave
sciq
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A ramp is a type of simple machine called what?
[ "extension plane", "inclined plane", "allow plane", "rough plane" ]
inclined plane
sciq
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Where do plants take in air?
[ "their flowers", "their leaves", "their roots", "their stems" ]
their leaves
sciq
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Under the right conditions, what energy source can be used to eject electrons from a solid material?
[ "force", "gravity", "weight", "light" ]
light
sciq
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The type of bond that forms between molecules is called what?
[ "helium bond", "hydrogen bond", "fission bond", "covalent bond" ]
hydrogen bond
sciq
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Radiation, chemicals, and infectious agents are examples of what?
[ "mutagens", "inhibitors", "catalysts", "pathogens" ]
mutagens
sciq
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What is the name for a tool commonly used by molecular biologists to place genetic material into cells?
[ "a viral vector", "a embryonic vector", "an rna vector", "a dna vector" ]
a viral vector
sciq
377052d7-6227-4a40-8959-2f071784b45e
What is the study of how forces affect the motion of objects?
[ "acceleration", "behaviors", "kinematics", "dynamics" ]
dynamics
sciq
19e21a24-74d6-4cc3-80e6-f0e690365810
Compounds containing which element are the basis of all known life?
[ "helium", "hydrogen", "carbon", "oxygen" ]
carbon
sciq
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What type of rocks form when an existing rock is changed by heat or pressure?
[ "metamorphic", "sediments", "Molten", "igneous" ]
metamorphic
sciq
3d5d48c2-f719-4cbc-8e5e-da5ced6273c9
What does jupiter reflect a lot of due to its size?
[ "moisture", "sunlight", "carbon", "molecules" ]
sunlight
sciq
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Invertebrates (and higher animals) can also be placed in one of two groups based on how they develop as what?
[ "cells", "embryos", "hormones", "chromosomes" ]
embryos
sciq
2a7c6f0a-984d-4dd2-9a48-60e5f208b980
Which chemist developed a process to remove carbon and dust particles in smoke?
[ "james carpenter", "roger granger", "frederick cottrell", "harold black" ]
frederick cottrell
sciq
e86b855c-8a32-49b7-8668-9761e18967b8
What are gases called that absorb heat in the atmosphere?
[ "ozone gases", "microwave gases", "carbonate gases", "greenhouse gases" ]
greenhouse gases
sciq
8cb8a239-550e-4e26-a9ac-1c9765c8f87c
What are the specialized cells that sponges have?
[ "blood cells", "collar cells", "magnet cells", "tune cells" ]
collar cells
sciq
e5b0e695-ac27-4b2f-a510-6d8483a9cced
What shape are the muscles that control the anus?
[ "circular", "triangular", "elliptical", "irregular" ]
circular
sciq
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What are the small molecules or proteins produced by bacteria that regulate gene expression?
[ "autoinducers", "sporozoans", "protazoas", "fluxes" ]
autoinducers
sciq
d2651410-2ba7-4f30-b829-7ce4d2186e3b
Channel proteins form what in the membrane?
[ "fibers", "atoms", "walls", "pores" ]
pores
sciq
5b2daa9d-6b1c-497e-af72-e3c752389a68
The sun gives off energy in tiny packets called what?
[ "atoms", "ions", "electrons", "photons" ]
photons
sciq
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What is a rock that contains important minerals called?
[ "steel", "carbonic", "copper", "ore" ]
ore
sciq
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A high metabolic rate and hair are ways mammals generate and conserve what?
[ "water", "heat", "energy", "resources" ]
heat
sciq
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What is made of molecules of many different gases, and is something we usually can’t see, taste, or smell; we can only feel it when it moves?
[ "water", "sound", "air", "light" ]
air
sciq
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What navigation technology works on the same principle as echolocation?
[ "sonar", "radar", "GPS", "topography" ]
sonar
sciq
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A reaction producing heat is what type of reaction?
[ "physical", "chemistry", "carbon", "chemical" ]
chemical
sciq
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What evolutionary process has adapted protonephridia to different tasks in different environments?
[ "natural reproduction", "natural variety", "natural change", "natural selection" ]
natural selection
sciq
91f9bb48-5824-41ab-bc4f-43ea886e4b3f
Some bacteria cannot be cultured because they are obligate intracellular parasites and cannot be grown outside what?
[ "brain cell", "sponsor cell", "anchor cell", "host cell" ]
host cell
sciq
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What are living things that produce food for themselves and other organisms called?
[ "harvesters", "refiners", "producers", "growers" ]
producers
sciq
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What is the second largest class of elements?
[ "nonmetals", "silicates", "carbonates", "metalloids" ]
nonmetals
sciq
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The process in which a gas changes to a liquid is called what?
[ "diffusion", "condensation", "fermentation", "vaporing" ]
condensation
sciq
0c434dfc-45a7-4e38-8892-974f5e17ccb5
What are solids with high melting and boiling points?
[ "metal alloys", "ionic compounds", "magnetic compounds", "superheated compounds" ]
ionic compounds
sciq
7843ec3f-c6d5-4282-9f56-a4b831dc66d6
What kind of cells are polyribosomes found in?
[ "chloroplasts and nuclei", "Prokaryotic and eukaryotic", "yeast and prokaryotic", "bacterial and eukaryotic" ]
bacterial and eukaryotic
sciq
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Which gland is controlled by a negative feedback loop that includes the hypothalamus and pituitary gland?
[ "stomach", "pituitary", "thyroid", "adrenal" ]
thyroid
sciq
f60cb3f4-b47c-4fdf-a7da-be656469511c
What term means the set of processes by which metals are extracted from their ores and converted to more useful forms?
[ "ceramics", "introversion", "metamorphisis", "metallurgy" ]
metallurgy
sciq
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What blood-carrying structures contain one-way valves that contribute to the return of blood to the heart?
[ "veins", "glands", "clots", "brains" ]
veins
sciq
59b14adf-f06a-44a3-a7aa-126ab0c32656
What type of components of the biosphere do chemical elements and water pass through during ecosystem recycle?
[ "water and air", "biotic and abiotic", "tropic and subtropic", "photic and aphotic" ]
biotic and abiotic
sciq
15660ef3-55ad-4633-ae34-0dac0a4607ad
The relationship between a nucleotide codon and its corresponding amino acid is called what?
[ "dna", "rna", "protein", "genetic code" ]
genetic code
sciq
d46c56cd-1529-4a81-9d53-b27ba5f60f92
Traditionally, what preventative measure used weakened or inactive forms of microorganisms or viruses to stimulate the immune system?
[ "infection", "pathogen", "vaccine", "assimilation" ]
vaccine
sciq
31fc67ee-5a33-4dac-a967-4f167573905c
What form the skeletons of most organic molecules?
[ "hydrocarbons", "carbon chains", "peptide groups", "amino acid chains" ]
carbon chains
sciq
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What term describes the process of vesicles fusing with the plasma membrane and releasing their contents to the outside of the cell?
[ "endocytosis", "exocytosis", "plasmosis", "biosynthesis" ]
exocytosis
sciq
c39b717e-c27e-4b3d-b4e2-31968c2ec2ec
A sealed, vacuum-insulated reaction flask approximates what condition, in which neither matter nor heat can be exchanged between system and surroundings?
[ "isolated system", "shared system", "sure system", "changing system" ]
isolated system
sciq
cf0b8c5f-255c-47eb-ae25-07aaae21b2d5
A metarteriole is a type of vessel that has structural characteristics of both an arteriole and this?
[ "capillary", "electron", "layer", "tendon" ]
capillary
sciq
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What sort of walls are helpful for keeping a slope stable?
[ "diverting walls", "relocating walls", "retaining walls", "managing walls" ]
retaining walls
sciq
762c7e28-bd89-4980-828a-5eae25c15bd7
What is the most direct way of recovering a metal from its ores?
[ "electrolysis", "osmosis", "molecules", "drilling" ]
electrolysis
sciq
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What is the term used to describe the minerals and vitamins that are not needed for providing the body with energy but are still essential for good health?
[ "pigments", "salts", "micronutrients", "non-energetic nutrients" ]
micronutrients
sciq
f43afa97-9a04-4f10-9b66-7aa76bb577d6
What type of map reveals the shape of a landscape?
[ "geographic", "meteorological", "geologic", "topographic" ]
topographic
sciq
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Does atmospheric pressure increase or decrease as the altitude increases?
[ "increase", "depends on other factors", "stays the same", "decreases" ]
decreases
sciq
4afd4138-3bc2-467e-9dd8-5497d980fbb8
What term always refers to acceleration in the direction opposite to the direction of the velocity and always reduces speed, unlike negative acceleration?
[ "extraction", "calibration", "deceleration", "progression" ]
deceleration
sciq
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What do you call a quantity of motion that has both size as well as direction?
[ "speed", "vector", "wave", "vibration" ]
vector
sciq
109b8d8a-c5ad-406a-820a-4fc564a3db34
What process done by bacteria makes them important producers in aquatic ecosystems?
[ "infection", "photosynthesis", "reproduction", "maturation" ]
photosynthesis
sciq
ae66d8a7-84c0-49bf-be58-5e37afe8ee2b
Monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides are types of what kind of macromolecule?
[ "nutrients", "glucose", "protein", "carbohydrate" ]
carbohydrate
sciq
ea7c1e28-f00f-42de-ac20-ddcd26967a32
What action do particles of the same charge do to each other?
[ "pull", "propagate", "repel", "destroy" ]
repel
sciq
a4e62502-920f-471e-ae05-08da372f6a7a
A cold front is formed when a cold air mass runs into what?
[ "hurricane", "warm air mass", "dry air mass", "cool air mass" ]
warm air mass
sciq
cc7fd966-3854-412b-9f16-2fd97e9a7e98
What is the the process by which remains or traces of living things become fossils called?
[ "fossilization", "extirpation", "fasciculation", "gentrification" ]
fossilization
sciq
47f9c8b4-166b-46cd-b156-138b00b034d0
Light is a form of what kind of energy?
[ "gravitational energy", "magnetic energy", "static energy", "electromagnetic energy" ]
electromagnetic energy
sciq
6c5a7713-bef2-48d4-9496-44a4d424febf
When compared to anaerobic respiration, what does aerobic respiration release more of?
[ "carbon dioxide", "heat", "energy", "pressure" ]
energy
sciq
75ba12dd-4dd4-4038-8496-72acc57974e7
As the telencephalon enlarges and grows into the cranial cavity, it is limited by the space within what bone structure?
[ "skull", "skeleton", "chest", "spine" ]
skull
sciq
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What is a relationship where one species benefits and the other is unaffected?
[ "parasitism", "commensalism", "mutualism", "pollenation" ]
commensalism
sciq
ab2b19da-5e2e-49ab-b183-ca1cdde8a295
Quarks are very tiny particles of matter that make up what?
[ "electrons and neutrons", "protons and neutrons", "protons and electrons", "atoms and neutrons" ]
protons and neutrons
sciq
4d9a0b8e-e2db-4f13-bae2-f3ce3bda890a
What term is used to describe is the spontaneous emission of particles and radiation from atomic nuclei?
[ "intensity", "radioactivity", "microscopic", "vibration" ]
radioactivity
sciq
e1be3acc-7ec6-4b38-8b84-67c5344a0c57
The right and left hip bones, with the addition of the sacrum and coccyx form what section of the skeleton?
[ "pelvis", "necklash", "tail bone", "uterus" ]
pelvis
sciq
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What do metals start out as?
[ "Metal molecules", "nickel", "aluminum", "ore" ]
ore
sciq
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What is the si unit for weight?
[ "pounds (lbs)", "newton (n)", "meters (m)", "kilograms (kg)" ]
newton (n)
sciq
aaffb49f-282e-4059-a326-66f710b15595
The flower is an angiosperm structure specialized for what function?
[ "asexual reproduction", "protection from cold", "sexual reproduction", "nutrient production" ]
sexual reproduction
sciq
4e7bcc56-ba86-4b78-87d1-6ce8b71f2a61
Recent evidence indicates some of what type of cells remain within the heart, continuing to divide and potentially replace dead cells?
[ "dendritic cells", "stem cells", "osteoclast cells", "human cells" ]
stem cells
sciq
1351c70b-9539-4649-ae5a-9bb11675eeeb
About what percentage of the earth's water is fresh water?
[ "nine percent", "thirty percent", "two percent", "three percent" ]
three percent
sciq
e0f4d9b3-68e5-4d8b-b356-a4ac7241e78f
While numerous elements can undergo fission, only a few can be used as fuels in what nuclear devices?
[ "laser beams", "colliders", "reactors", "accelerators" ]
reactors
sciq
197e1e61-10e0-45d6-9fb3-8f38d1afac28
What is an estimation of all of the organic matter available as food, and involves measuring biomass in terrestrial environments?
[ "food chain", "trophic level total", "net primary productivity", "decomposition energy" ]
net primary productivity
sciq
0fa8fe34-f348-407c-95ff-2d12f2b0f79b
Twenty-four hours before fertilization, the egg has finished meiosis and becomes a mature what?
[ "fetus", "zygote", "spermatozoa", "oocyte" ]
oocyte
sciq
04ebedeb-48bd-40f2-bbf4-51dd349fbc34
Oxygen is combined with what to form water?
[ "glucose", "hydrogen", "carbon", "helium" ]
hydrogen
sciq