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Molecules of gas are rare in what outermost region of the planet's atmosphere?
[ "ionosphere", "ozone layer", "exosphere", "thermosphere" ]
exosphere
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e8890680-f94d-4f6d-81a2-d43ce1e0b7cd
Why is there very little evaporation in the boreal forests?
[ "temperature is too cold", "too humid", "too hot", "high elevation" ]
temperature is too cold
sciq
71b5da9b-1c7d-481b-a3f9-f25f94793a1f
Maltose, lactose, and sucrose are common types of what, which are distinguished by their monosaccharide constituents?
[ "precipitates", "silicates", "oxides", "disaccharides" ]
disaccharides
sciq
54575784-b9b6-4514-9828-258538d78fde
Amplitude describes what about the wave's crest and trough?
[ "the maximum parts", "How frequently the parts occur", "The minimum parts", "The width of the parts" ]
the maximum parts
sciq
9e1931d8-af13-4ffb-8eec-481ba2c72bad
Overproduction of offspring, combined with limited resources, results in what?
[ "continuation", "concentration", "contention", "competition" ]
competition
sciq
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What laws regulate radiation doses to which people can be exposed?
[ "medical regulation laws", "dose regulation laws", "voltage protection laws", "radiation protection laws" ]
radiation protection laws
sciq
a8e3f9f7-f04f-4a7a-97a6-86c5bbe869a2
Digestive enzymes, including which enzyme, start breaking down starches into sugars?
[ "triglyceride", "amylase", "cortisol", "melatonin" ]
amylase
sciq
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In prokaryotes, what is composed of a single, double-stranded dna molecule in the form of a loop or circle?
[ "genome", "rNA", "allele", "chromosomes" ]
genome
sciq
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What is formed when nitrogen and sulfur oxides dissolve in rain?
[ "hail", "ozone", "acid rain", "toxic rain" ]
acid rain
sciq
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Hydroelectric power harnesses the energy of what?
[ "water", "heat", "weather", "air" ]
water
sciq
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Hydras and sea anemones are examples of what form?
[ "polyp", "lesions", "anemone", "node" ]
polyp
sciq
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Tropical, temperate, continental, and polar are all examples of what?
[ "climates", "deserts", "lakes", "land formations" ]
climates
sciq
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What is a longitudinal, flexible rod located between the digestive tube and the nerve cord?
[ "the oscillatory", "the underlain", "tubular gland", "the notochord" ]
the notochord
sciq
ecb64648-eff9-4efd-a330-ee246c39ca70
At high altitudes, acclimatization increases red blood cells, so there is more what to help transport the available oxygen?
[ "plasma", "hemoglobin", "leukocytes", "platelets" ]
hemoglobin
sciq
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What type of systemic response involves lymphocytes?
[ "chronic", "immune", "inflammation", "natural" ]
immune
sciq
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What was the first object to form in the solar system?
[ "moon", "jupiter", "sun", "earth" ]
sun
sciq
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Some materials have negative heats of solution; the dissolution of one of these solutes in water is called?
[ "exothermic process", "endothermic process", "ionized process", "acetylene process" ]
exothermic process
sciq
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Where are most white blood cells made?
[ "plasma", "the bone marrow", "lungs", "heart tissue" ]
the bone marrow
sciq
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Blood flows from the right atrium to the right ventricle, where it is pumped into the what?
[ "bronchial circulation", "kidneys", "respiratory system", "pulmonary circuit" ]
pulmonary circuit
sciq
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What are the male gametes called?
[ "sperm", "pollen", "cytoplasm", "urea" ]
sperm
sciq
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What in hemoglobin gives red blood cells their red color?
[ "barium", "calcium", "lead", "iron" ]
iron
sciq
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Alpha, beta and gamma are three types of what?
[ "directions", "radiation", "convection", "mutation" ]
radiation
sciq
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Red-green colorblindness is an example of what kind of trait?
[ "dominant", "adaptive", "sex-linked", "fatal" ]
sex-linked
sciq
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What kind of radiation is greatest at the equator and lessens toward the poles?
[ "small radiation", "large radiation", "solar radiation", "lunar raditation" ]
solar radiation
sciq
d568437e-b61a-4dc2-81f7-4402708acd5c
What are atoms or groups of atoms called which carry and electrical charge?
[ "electrons", "ions", "protons", "molecules" ]
ions
sciq
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What are the salts of fatty acids called?
[ "dyes", "creams", "soaps", "malts" ]
soaps
sciq
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What type of numbers specify the arrangement of electrons in orbitals?
[ "stream numbers", "ionic numbers", "fusion numbers", "quantum numbers" ]
quantum numbers
sciq
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What do atoms become if they lose or gain electrons?
[ "toxins", "ions", "particulates", "particles" ]
ions
sciq
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What is the breakdown of unstable elements into stable elements called?
[ "thermal decay", "initial decay", "radioactive decay", "radioactive decrease" ]
radioactive decay
sciq
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Observations suggest that a force applied to an object is always applied by what?
[ "gravity", "dark matter", "itself", "another object" ]
another object
sciq
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How much exercise should a person ideally get during a single day?
[ "hour", "six hours", "three hours", "fifteen minutes" ]
hour
sciq
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The electrolysis of what substance produces hydrogen and oxygen gases
[ "water", "cholesterol", "hydrocarbon", "carbon dioxide" ]
water
sciq
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What is the shorter loop of the cardiovascular system?
[ "pulmonary circulation", "metabolic circulation", "pulmonary edema", "venous circulation" ]
pulmonary circulation
sciq
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What is the first classification of igneous rocks?
[ "color", "size", "weight", "composition" ]
composition
sciq
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What is the very slow movement of rock and soil down a hillside?
[ "creep", "drop", "landslide", "evaporate" ]
creep
sciq
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Which type of pressure forces fluid out of the capillary?
[ "hydrostatic", "combustion", "gas", "air" ]
hydrostatic
sciq
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What hits the eardrum and causes it to vibrate?
[ "cilia", "sound waves", "decibels", "microwaves" ]
sound waves
sciq
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What type of ecologists work to identify and manipulate the processes that most limit recovery of ecosystems from disturbances?
[ "conservation ecologists", "environmental", "restoration ecologists", "quality ecologists" ]
restoration ecologists
sciq
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Name the two types of nucleic acids.
[ "lysine and methionine", "dna ( trigraph acid ) and rna ( ribonucleic acid )", "dna (deoxyribonucleic acid) and rna (ribonucleic acid)", "isoleucin and leucine" ]
dna (deoxyribonucleic acid) and rna (ribonucleic acid)
sciq
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Interactions between plants and other organisms result in cycling of chemical nutrients within what?
[ "air", "habitat", "water", "ecosystem" ]
ecosystem
sciq
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In places where crops grow only during part of the year, the land may be bare for a few?
[ "weeks", "minutes", "months", "days" ]
months
sciq
a5e9ab4f-a7c9-407c-b1e0-d32338f3d67f
What does bowman's capsule form by surrounding the glomerulus?
[ "lipids", "lumen", "ions", "pores" ]
lumen
sciq
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What do scientists use to help explain objects or systems in simpler ways?
[ "models", "measurements", "plants", "theories" ]
models
sciq
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Burning trees produces most of the same pollutants as burning what?
[ "coal fuels", "fossil compounds", "carbon", "fossil fuels" ]
fossil fuels
sciq
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During which process in bacteria do the chromosome replicates and the two daughter chromosomes actively move apart?
[ "function fission", "matter fission", "binary fission", "secondary fission" ]
binary fission
sciq
0e022d0b-9b88-4fa0-a017-e67b23e29556
What is emitted by atoms that have been excited by thermal excitation, electron collision, or collisions with photons of exactly the right frequency?
[ "gravity", "radioactivity", "electricity", "light" ]
light
sciq
a75fab97-a169-4969-8678-f9f6ec8d8e10
Translation is the process of ordering the amino acids in the assembly of a?
[ "lipid", "vitamin", "protein", "carbohydrate" ]
protein
sciq
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What is the name of the group that rats are apart of called?
[ "rodents", "Mammels", "primates", "Animals" ]
rodents
sciq
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Fertilization occurs when what material from one flower reaches the female gametes in the same or a different flower?
[ "sperm", "pollen", "ova", "nitrogen" ]
pollen
sciq
376d0272-4b49-4068-a44c-c08155690477
What are the tiny packets of energy the sun gives off called?
[ "neutrons", "ions", "electrons", "photons" ]
photons
sciq
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In humans, each set of chromosomes contains 22 of these and 1 sex chromosome?
[ "centrosomes", "genes", "autosomes", "chromatids" ]
autosomes
sciq
6479ac21-c9ed-44ca-acbf-2a2ebc3f923b
What eukaryotic organisms cannot make their own food and do not technically eat?
[ "cells", "proteins", "plankton", "fungi" ]
fungi
sciq
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What do ants and termites eat to help them digest wood and leaves?
[ "berries", "yeast", "pollen", "fungi" ]
fungi
sciq
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How many types of glands does the dermis contain?
[ "two", "six", "ten", "three" ]
two
sciq
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What is an upward force that fluids exert on any object that is placed in them?
[ "efficient force", "gravity force", "buoyant force", "warm force" ]
buoyant force
sciq
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Atmospheric pressure is increased, causing a greater amount of oxygen than normal to diffuse into the bloodstream of the patient, in what type of therapy?
[ "politic chamber therapy", "hyperbaric chamber therapy", "Distinct Chamber Therapy", "ventilation chamber therapy" ]
hyperbaric chamber therapy
sciq
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An axe head and a doorstop are types of what simple machine?
[ "pulley", "wedge", "blade", "lever" ]
wedge
sciq
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Dna encodes instructions for what kind of molecules?
[ "acids", "fats", "proteins", "cells" ]
proteins
sciq
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Who coined the term natural selection?
[ "shaw", "darwin", "Mendel", "Pasteur" ]
darwin
sciq
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When sand is deposited along a shoreline, what is created?
[ "beach", "island", "bay", "dunes" ]
beach
sciq
a278895b-fa8d-4a7f-940d-42d9c4a59f91
Prosimians are thought to be more similar to the earliest of these?
[ "rodents", "primates", "insects", "fish" ]
primates
sciq
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What arteries carry oxygen-poor blood away from the heart to the lungs?
[ "pulmonary", "subclavian", "femoral", "aorta" ]
pulmonary
sciq
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What are the mass of threadlike filaments on the body of a fungus called?
[ "cytoplasm", "cuticle", "dendrites", "hyphae" ]
hyphae
sciq
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Ionic bonds between two atoms require one metal and one what?
[ "nonmetal", "metallic", "liquid", "gas" ]
nonmetal
sciq
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The pressurized gas of earth's atmosphere is contained by what force?
[ "gravity", "plasma", "variation", "light" ]
gravity
sciq
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Cytokinins promote cell division and prevent what?
[ "senescence", "deficiency", "apoptosis", "mutations" ]
senescence
sciq
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Dna transcription is controlled by what type of proteins?
[ "digested", "essential", "regulatory", "genetic" ]
regulatory
sciq
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Tubeworms deep in the galapagos rift get their energy from what type of bacteria?
[ "sprillia", "chemosynthetic", "asexual", "filamentous" ]
chemosynthetic
sciq
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When female mammalian embryos consist of just a few thousand cells, one x chromosome in each cell inactivates by condensing into a structure called what?
[ "barr body", "baker body", "morton body", "lewy's body" ]
barr body
sciq
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Oceans are divided into zones bases on distance from shore and what other factor?
[ "temperature", "water depth", "animal species", "salinity" ]
water depth
sciq
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If a mistake is made by dna polymerase while adding nucleotides, incorrect bases are removed and replaced by the correct base, and the process of what continues?
[ "digestion", "hybridization", "polymerization", "fermentation" ]
polymerization
sciq
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The common earthworm and leeches are examples of what type of worm?
[ "castrated", "segmented", "elongated", "encapsulated" ]
segmented
sciq
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Elements involved in nuclear reactions are what?
[ "inert", "static", "radioactive", "detectable" ]
radioactive
sciq
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Circadian rhythms and migration are examples of what kind of behaviors in animals?
[ "fluid", "continual", "cyclic", "finite" ]
cyclic
sciq
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The articular cartilage is thickest in the upper and back part of the acetabulum, the socket portion of what?
[ "hip joint", "elbow", "shoulder joint", "kneecap" ]
hip joint
sciq
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What are decomposers that feed on the organic matter left over from other decomposers?
[ "algae", "protozoa", "saprotrophs", "fungi" ]
saprotrophs
sciq
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Heavier isotopes of plutonium are also produced when lighter plutonium nuclei capture what?
[ "electrons", "protons", "molecules", "neutrons" ]
neutrons
sciq
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What parts of the cell does cell differentiation involve changes in?
[ "cell membrane and nucleus", "endoderm and epidermis", "cystine and cell wall", "cytoplasm and cell wall" ]
cytoplasm and cell wall
sciq
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The head, thorax, and abdomen comprise what type of body structure, possessed by arthropods?
[ "permeable", "segmented", "elongated", "vertebrate" ]
segmented
sciq
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The renal hilum is the entry and exit site for structures servicing which organs?
[ "ovaries", "kidneys", "lungs", "brains" ]
kidneys
sciq
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Photosynthesis changes light energy to what type of energy?
[ "potential", "radiation", "chemical", "solar" ]
chemical
sciq
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Fructose and lactose are types of sugars broken down by the body to form what, which is the simplest sugar of all?
[ "glutamate", "sucrose", "glucose", "carbohydrate" ]
glucose
sciq
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A complementary pair of chromosomes have genes for the same characteristics in the same location on the chromosome are known as?
[ "endroctyne chromosomes", "symbiotic chromosomes", "analogous chromosomes", "homologous chromosomes" ]
homologous chromosomes
sciq
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What dangerous oxygen compound is found in ground level smog?
[ "argon", "ozone", "neon", "sulfur dioxide" ]
ozone
sciq
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Large increases in the diversity of life have resulted from adaptive radiations that followed what?
[ "mass extinctions", "mass mutations", "glaciers", "mass migrations" ]
mass extinctions
sciq
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What is the source of most electricity?
[ "methane", "coal", "the Sun", "air" ]
coal
sciq
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What kind of motion characterizes waves?
[ "repetitive", "round", "bending", "breathing" ]
repetitive
sciq
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Light reactions occur during which stage of photosynthesis?
[ "third stage", "final stage", "first stage", "intermediate stage" ]
first stage
sciq
cee6d2ce-4670-4827-885e-5218437ad7bb
What is used to measure, in degrees, the distance north or south of the equater?
[ "latitude", "equator", "elevation", "magnitude" ]
latitude
sciq
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Radiation can be absorbed or shielded by materials, particularly what material used to make protective aprons worn by x-ray administrators?
[ "steel", "lead", "carbon", "cotton" ]
lead
sciq
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What is the name for something that consists of all the population in a given area together with the nonliving environment?
[ "habitat", "totality", "web", "ecosystem" ]
ecosystem
sciq
81869483-f41f-449b-8d03-f6acb4845ca5
The amniotic egg first evolved in what species?
[ "mammals", "reptiles", "amphibians", "birds" ]
reptiles
sciq
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A largemouth bass is an example of a cold-blooded animal that conforms to what aspect of the lake it inhabits?
[ "temperature", "precipitation", "oxygen", "depth" ]
temperature
sciq
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What makes up the mass number of an atom?
[ "electrons and neutrons", "molecules and electrons", "protons and neutrons", "atoms and neutrons" ]
protons and neutrons
sciq
cca98016-4357-4d0c-a748-16a83e06317a
Clubmosses are not true mosses, though, because they have what?
[ "hydrothermal tissue", "vascular tissue", "smooth tissue", "cambrium" ]
vascular tissue
sciq
ecf29bfc-58dc-4ae6-b074-fe8616eb4cc8
Europa and titan are names of what kind of celestial objects?
[ "stars", "asteroids", "moons", "galaxies" ]
moons
sciq
eaf29e3b-589e-4635-998c-7442423dd0cd
What develops in depressions where water flow is low or nonexistent?
[ "bogs", "sinkholes", "swamps", "ponds" ]
bogs
sciq
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All prokaryotic and some eukaryotic organisms reproduce through what method, where a parent passes all of its genetic material to the next generation?
[ "asexual reproduction", "microscopic reproduction", "organic reproduction", "sexual reproduction" ]
asexual reproduction
sciq
cb003461-5e67-4645-959a-9024a73c7df5
Where does photosynthesis occur in plants?
[ "in chloroplasts", "golgi bodies", "cell membrane", "nucleus" ]
in chloroplasts
sciq
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What is defined as force per unit area?
[ "energy", "momentum", "pressure", "resistance" ]
pressure
sciq