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273d8592-5434-40ba-839e-7a71aa4b764a
How much electricity is generated by an average car battery?
[ "six volts", "ten volts", "twelve volts", "eight volts" ]
twelve volts
sciq
238d110c-0911-419d-b8b3-1bb4bcd29fd6
What is the term for a cellular "scaffolding" that crisscrosses the cytoplasm?
[ "protoskeleton", "cytoskeleton", "collagen", "cellulose" ]
cytoskeleton
sciq
1f780e55-2df0-41b5-8dba-c8b976c41fdf
What common code do all known living organisms use?
[ "code of ethics", "Morse code", "genetic", "biochemical" ]
genetic
sciq
258507ca-ed59-481d-a7e7-37bdc1f49a22
What are 2 common growth patterns of population?
[ "exponential and logistic", "migratory and logistic", "organic and inorganic", "exponential and economical" ]
exponential and logistic
sciq
a41c70ee-b3fc-4842-b68c-64f5f954791f
Solutions to schrödinger’s equation involve four special numbers called what?
[ "light numbers", "linear numbers", "gravity numbers", "quantum numbers" ]
quantum numbers
sciq
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What is the only human cell with flagella?
[ "saliva", "sperm", "Feces", "egg" ]
sperm
sciq
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What can be described as a tiny male gametophyte enclosed in a tough capsule?
[ "seed", "cell", "dna", "grain of pollen" ]
grain of pollen
sciq
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What is the largest artery in the body called?
[ "aorta", "radial", "carotid", "ventricular" ]
aorta
sciq
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Fertilization occurs if a sperm enters the egg while it is passing through what tube?
[ "vaginal", "anterior", "fallopian", "ovarian" ]
fallopian
sciq
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When the smooth muscle relaxes, the arterioles dilate, allowing blood to enter the what?
[ "veins", "arteries", "bones", "capillaries" ]
capillaries
sciq
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What to tadpoles develop into?
[ "snakes", "toads", "frogs", "mosquitos" ]
frogs
sciq
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What part of the body do fish use to absorb oxygen?
[ "under belly", "tail fin", "dorsal fin", "gills" ]
gills
sciq
36f4b4fa-fc45-4222-a5ec-c039809d2dd4
The electrons in a water molecule are more concentrated around the more highly charged oxygen nucleus than around this?
[ "hydrogen nuclei", "helium nuclei", "carbon nuclei", "peroxide nuclei" ]
hydrogen nuclei
sciq
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What is the layer of ground below the surface that is always frozen, even in the summer?
[ "tundra", "bedrock", "permafrost", "upper crust" ]
permafrost
sciq
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What is usually the prey of a protist?
[ "bacteria", "algae", "proteins", "pathogens" ]
bacteria
sciq
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What concentrates wave energy or disperses it?
[ "wave refraction", "wave diffusion", "wave reflection", "a prism" ]
wave refraction
sciq
70902e6d-a9e3-438c-b8b1-9ca88e8ea824
In plants and algae, photosynthesis takes place in which organelles?
[ "chloroplasts", "cells", "stems", "fibroblasts" ]
chloroplasts
sciq
4493112f-7a3b-4497-8d4e-31a3441e976e
What produces sound waves that travel outward in all directions in water?
[ "ultrasound machines", "echo sounders", "echo chamber", "amplifiers" ]
echo sounders
sciq
8835fd66-f4b2-487c-863c-12482d0bc2b9
The roots of a plant take in nutrients and what vital substance?
[ "water", "Ash", "Soil", "air" ]
water
sciq
c1251abe-4cb9-47c0-b5fe-37557584ce0b
Carbon fixation is the first step of what cycle involving light reactions?
[ "water cycle", "sun cycle", "life cycle", "calvin cycle" ]
calvin cycle
sciq
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What are the attractive forces that occur between polar molecules called?
[ "ion-dipole forces", "particle - dipole forces", "induced-dipole forces", "dipole-dipole forces" ]
dipole-dipole forces
sciq
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The production of multiple copies of a single gene is called?
[ "gene change", "gene variation", "cell cloning", "gene cloning" ]
gene cloning
sciq
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Fossil fuels are made out of what two objects?
[ "gases and animals", "plants and animals", "soil and animals", "plants and water" ]
plants and animals
sciq
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Amoebas and paramecia are examples of what?
[ "bacteria", "vertebrates", "protozoa", "protists" ]
protozoa
sciq
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Name the bacteria that make food through photosynthesis and release oxygen into the air?
[ "algae", "phytoplankton", "fusobacteria", "cyanobacteria" ]
cyanobacteria
sciq
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What simple machine consists of a bar that rotates around a fixed point called the fulcrum?
[ "battering ram", "catapult", "rotor", "lever" ]
lever
sciq
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Which carbohydrate is produced by photosynthesis?
[ "sugar", "glucose", "protein", "insulin" ]
glucose
sciq
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What term is used to describe the line of latitude right in the middle of the planet?
[ "equator", "orbital", "Prime Meridian", "pole" ]
equator
sciq
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What is the opening formed between adjacent vertebrae for the exit of a spinal nerve called?
[ "inferior vertebral notch", "sympathetic ganglion", "intervertebral foramen", "spinous process" ]
intervertebral foramen
sciq
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What two planets is the asteroid belt found between?
[ "mars and jupiter", "earth and venus", "saturn and uranus", "mars and venus" ]
mars and jupiter
sciq
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Neon is an example of what kind of gas?
[ "inert", "ideal", "noble", "natural" ]
noble
sciq
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Many organisms look very similar to other organisms because they may be from the same what?
[ "nutrients", "species", "parasites", "area" ]
species
sciq
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What type of compound is hydrogen chloride?
[ "metal", "polar", "ionic", "covalent" ]
covalent
sciq
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What kind of volcanic eruptions are less deadly?
[ "non-dormant", "serial eruptions", "explosive", "non-explosive" ]
non-explosive
sciq
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Where do most ecosystems get their energy from?
[ "water", "heat", "sun", "earth" ]
sun
sciq
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When a solute dissolves into a solvent what is that called?
[ "mixing", "enthalpy", "solubility", "viscosity" ]
enthalpy
sciq
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The smallest part of an element that maintains the identity of that element is called what?
[ "nucleus", "lattice", "neutron", "atom" ]
atom
sciq
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Varves form in lakes covered by what?
[ "soot", "ice", "coral reef", "bridges" ]
ice
sciq
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Speed takes distance and what else into account?
[ "time", "energy", "gravity", "matter" ]
time
sciq
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Which division of the autonomic nervous system controls processes like digestion, heartbeat, and breathing?
[ "dopaminergic", "endocrine", "synaptic", "parasympathetic" ]
parasympathetic
sciq
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What does the ovule develop into after fertilization?
[ "seed", "zygote", "germ", "pollen" ]
seed
sciq
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What is a key factor in the growth of populations?
[ "immigration", "gentrification", "assimilation", "legislation" ]
immigration
sciq
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Air is said to reach what point, a term used by meteorologists, when humidity increases or temperature decreases?
[ "its dew point", "its dip point", "freezing point", "bubble point" ]
its dew point
sciq
67c4e7d5-007a-4511-ac48-3c2b245cf206
In neurons, what often involves gated sodium channels?
[ "excitation", "polarization", "fermentation", "depolarization" ]
depolarization
sciq
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Line graphs are especially useful for showing changes over what?
[ "time", "space", "energy", "velocity" ]
time
sciq
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After a massive eruption what will a mountain collapsing above an empty chamber create?
[ "caldera", "crater", "valley", "cavern" ]
caldera
sciq
60c0c19b-e2c7-4a46-be6e-b6eaa900d1c0
The posterior half of the foot is formed by seven tarsal bones. the most superior of these bones is called?
[ "patella", "talus", "calcareous", "metatarsal" ]
talus
sciq
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What helps to regulate consciousness, arousal, and sleep states?
[ "cerebral cortex", "thalamus", "hippocampus", "hypothalamus" ]
thalamus
sciq
a53ac3c1-c985-49c7-962b-61e3517f8b7c
Some fish will be over-fished to the point that their species ceases to exist, which is also known as what?
[ "accumulation", "endangered", "extinction", "abundance" ]
extinction
sciq
8235cadc-a1c5-4fc0-9cef-e9c915c5e2eb
Not surprisingly, what is the function of the most developed part of a bird's brain?
[ "controlling flight", "controlling digestion", "controlling breeding", "controlling thought" ]
controlling flight
sciq
76a89f5c-d13d-4eca-ba3f-b101d3b78c01
What type of roots enable a plant to grow on another plant?
[ "mites", "epiphytic", "Sickness", "endemic" ]
epiphytic
sciq
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What is the distance north or south of the equator called?
[ "latitude", "longitude", "elevation", "circumference" ]
latitude
sciq
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In response to a cut, mast cells secrete histamines that cause nearby capillaries to do what?
[ "constrict", "dilate", "harden", "narrow" ]
dilate
sciq
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What is the term for an ionic compound that produces positive hydrogen ions when dissolved in water?
[ "acid", "sulfur", "hydrocarbon", "base" ]
acid
sciq
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The stems of all vascular plants get longer through primary growth. this occurs in primary meristem at the tips and ______ of the stems.
[ "nodes", "layers", "bottoms", "edges" ]
nodes
sciq
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What kind of waves are electromagnetic waves?
[ "transverse", "inverse", "amplitude", "curved" ]
transverse
sciq
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What process is involved in the formation of a waterfall, when a stream flows from an area of harder to softer rock?
[ "calcification", "migration", "evaporation", "erosion" ]
erosion
sciq
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Meissner’s corpuscles are not as plentiful in the palms as they are in the what other part of the hand?
[ "fingertips", "fingernails", "bones", "cuticles" ]
fingertips
sciq
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What are the two types of earth crust?
[ "oceanic and continental", "reflective and continental", "micro and continental", "amorphous and continental" ]
oceanic and continental
sciq
77ccee7f-291e-48ea-978e-fe464508caca
What is determined by the energy of the disturbance that causes the wave?
[ "wavelength", "wave amplitude", "frequency", "Ohm" ]
wave amplitude
sciq
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What is made from the minerals in rocks known as bauxite?
[ "coins", "glass", "aluminum", "titanium" ]
aluminum
sciq
9b43e9b4-7de7-42a1-a8db-f6cc03f05952
What is a defining feature of deformed sedimentary rocks?
[ "not horizontal", "not magnetic", "only horizontal", "not solid" ]
not horizontal
sciq
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Resemblance to other species can serve as protection to what category of species?
[ "prey", "producer", "consumer", "predator" ]
prey
sciq
291c318d-1a21-4c27-888d-b0469c9e3056
What type of cells make up the epidermis of a leaf?
[ "chloroplasts", "mesophyll", "endothermic cells", "dermal cells" ]
dermal cells
sciq
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What carries warm or cold water throughout the world’s oceans?
[ "gravity", "earth rotation", "pipes", "ocean currents" ]
ocean currents
sciq
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What type of resource cannot be replaced as easily as it is consumed?
[ "untapped", "biological", "nonrenewable", "renewable" ]
nonrenewable
sciq
1c247297-c548-481e-8f05-7e5f27c93dad
What substances are involved in most of the chemical reactions that take place in organisms, including digestion?
[ "proteins", "hormones", "enzymes", "vitamins" ]
enzymes
sciq
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What occurs when the immune system is not working properly?
[ "cancer", "immunodeficiency", "anemia", "allergy" ]
immunodeficiency
sciq
cbfefb64-01bf-4a06-bcba-eaf1a6d01b15
The force that a magnet exerts on certain materials is called what?
[ "centripetal force", "stellar force", "velocity force", "magnetic force" ]
magnetic force
sciq
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What is applied to a rock to make it bend and flow?
[ "weathering", "acid", "phosphorus", "stress" ]
stress
sciq
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What is the function of chloroplasts that are found in plant and algal cells?
[ "glycolysis", "photosynthesis", "mitosis", "spermatogenesis" ]
photosynthesis
sciq
80f3c963-5e0f-47d3-a65c-d205bb502e20
What passes through the prostate gland immediately inferior to the bladder before passing below the pubic symphysis?
[ "cerebellum", "rectum", "vagina", "urethra" ]
urethra
sciq
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Terrestrial animals lose water by evaporation from their skin and which surfaces?
[ "pulmonary", "anaerobic", "respiratory", "digestive" ]
respiratory
sciq
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What color are leukocytes blood cells?
[ "blue", "white", "red", "black" ]
white
sciq
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What is something that all machines must overcome?
[ "temperature", "friction", "stress", "work" ]
friction
sciq
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The conservation of momentum principle can be applied to systems as different as a comet striking earth and a gas containing huge numbers of atoms and these?
[ "ions", "protons", "particles", "molecules" ]
molecules
sciq
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What are the small units that comprise nucleic acids?
[ "nucleotides", "genes", "chromosomes", "filaments" ]
nucleotides
sciq
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Minerals that are not pure elements are made of what?
[ "isotopes", "noble gases", "chemical compounds", "metalloids" ]
chemical compounds
sciq
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What can be classified as monoprotic or polyprotic based on the number of acidic hydrogens they contain?
[ "acids", "ions", "salts", "cations" ]
acids
sciq
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What is the top part of water able to receive enough sunlight for photosynthesis called?
[ "photic zone", "synthesis zone", "fantasmic zone", "thymic zone" ]
photic zone
sciq
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Different media affect what property of light?
[ "color", "speed", "density", "temperature" ]
speed
sciq
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Signals from rods and cones can follow several different pathways in what structure of the eye?
[ "aperture", "retina", "lens", "aqueous humor" ]
retina
sciq
964327c1-5e73-40b2-a23c-413a05a87e2f
What is the term for getting used to something after being consistently exposed to it?
[ "acceptance", "modification", "habituation", "dissociation" ]
habituation
sciq
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What element do nuclear power plants use in fuel rods?
[ "plutonium", "magnesium", "boron", "uranium" ]
uranium
sciq
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Where on earth do bacteria live?
[ "water", "skin", "all environments", "blood" ]
all environments
sciq
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What type of waves radiate energy out from an earthquake's focus?
[ "seismic", "abnormal", "volcanic", "Microwaves" ]
seismic
sciq
8e956f53-5a70-4b91-a65d-09f06aaacefa
What is a popular treatment for kidney failure?
[ "metastasis", "dialysis", "psychotherapy", "electrolysis" ]
dialysis
sciq
40a16e9d-3ece-403c-a2c4-b51c2b40e169
What is critical for the formation of hemoglobin?
[ "proteins", "salts", "iron ions", "platelets" ]
iron ions
sciq
45a8c8c0-c083-4438-822f-2483fe44ceed
Which hormones work together to control the level of glucose in the blood?
[ "testosterone and insulin", "insulin and estrogen", "serotonin and glucagon", "insulin and glucagon" ]
insulin and glucagon
sciq
8cd268b5-85d4-4ec6-859a-c808021a858e
What are the two basic parts that all flowering plants have in common?
[ "metal and petiole", "leaf and petiole", "blade and petiole", "stalk and petiole" ]
blade and petiole
sciq
bf37242c-4203-476b-9b5e-028711cd0a05
Salts are important in maintaining what balance of the blood?
[ "pulmonary", "kinetic", "homeostasis", "osmotic" ]
osmotic
sciq
1a6c27f4-530e-4122-afbd-947bd8734777
What do some animals grow to protect themselves in winter?
[ "thicker fur", "antennae", "thin skin", "scales" ]
thicker fur
sciq
d2b90403-c64e-4344-a9a2-7daedf0703c5
What weather phenomenon can raise sea level as much as 25 feet when low pressure pulls water upward?
[ "storm surge", "earthquake surge", "cloud formation", "storm rise" ]
storm surge
sciq
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The action of sunlight on the skin triggers the body to produce what vitamin?
[ "Vitamin A", "metabolic d", "vitamin d", "tissue d" ]
vitamin d
sciq
faaca5d0-3777-4373-a688-6ca96860925d
What is heard when sound waves bounce back from a surface that they can't pass through?
[ "loop", "ultrasound", "echo", "radio" ]
echo
sciq
d0b7c035-8a84-4d74-a31b-0091f980b8f1
What is hole that is dug or drilled through the ground down to an aquifer?
[ "well", "elevator", "big hole", "cave" ]
well
sciq
dfc969d6-9fab-4f10-b383-3f9c805bcfbc
What protective substance covers the skin of most reptiles?
[ "scales", "feathers", "pores", "hairs" ]
scales
sciq
6a43ec45-cd8a-49b5-99d0-acdddef60745
What step, involving placement of a substance on the stigma, precedes fertilization?
[ "spawning", "hibernation", "mitosis", "pollination" ]
pollination
sciq
3eaf11df-d996-4245-a2d9-cd5b0a1ec940
What weather phenomenon is caused by strong warm updrafts from heated ground?
[ "thunderstorms", "eruptions", "earthquakes", "currents" ]
thunderstorms
sciq
248fed4a-7dc6-4b16-bbed-545ca1578fb9
The older parts of what structures anchor the plant and transport water and solutes between the soil and shoots?
[ "roots", "leaves", "bark", "cells" ]
roots
sciq