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c35d5001-43aa-464b-8ad9-41f2340e637b
Is sleep an active or inactive state in the brain?
[ "intense", "different", "active", "inactive" ]
active
sciq
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What is is a measurement of the force amplification of a machine?
[ "mechanical push", "force multiplier", "mechanical advantage", "mechanical pull" ]
mechanical advantage
sciq
fa032e9d-1efc-4f55-8607-13a6b95aaafc
What branch of science is the study of the solid earth?
[ "geology", "ecology", "palentology", "biology" ]
geology
sciq
da84e182-74e5-4733-91c5-b804d847f0dd
What is harmless water vapor, for a powerplant?
[ "steam", "plasma", "fog", "wind" ]
steam
sciq
b6b6aa0d-3fca-4057-a43d-fd26ab108111
What regulates the passage of blood into capillary beds?
[ "cell membrane", "bicellular sphincters", "precapillary sphincters", "diocesan sphincters" ]
precapillary sphincters
sciq
8df0d6dc-f002-40cd-a770-6aac1387e37c
What do you call the symbiotic relationship where a parasite benefits while the host is harmed?
[ "symbolic damage", "hostism", "parasitism", "invasion" ]
parasitism
sciq
bf41d4e3-0946-4161-85d0-02772caf4475
What length of time is human gestation commonly divided into?
[ "three trimesters", "four quarters", "fifty weeks", "two halves" ]
three trimesters
sciq
8e6a2b76-c4ea-4454-b48b-d09ebd7c4a53
What substance, involved in most biochemical reactions, is essential to life?
[ "water", "carbon", "air", "nitrogen" ]
water
sciq
5def13db-ae83-4406-9d94-49b8e58471a1
What type of tissue covers the outside of a plant?
[ "epidermal", "dermal", "porous", "anterior" ]
dermal
sciq
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Metamorphic rocks form when an existing rock is changed by heat or what?
[ "radiation", "pressure", "cold", "chemical reaction" ]
pressure
sciq
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What anatomical structure serves as the conduit of the oocyte from the ovary to the uterus?
[ "ureters", "uterine tubes", "urethra", "nephrons" ]
uterine tubes
sciq
64ea1fe8-afd6-4aa5-9687-86c14371e82e
What cell structures are like storage centers and tend to be larger in plant cells?
[ "vacuoles", "tubules", "alleles", "nuclei" ]
vacuoles
sciq
92642bd8-9e7f-40bb-ba8b-93368ecbb0d3
Oscillations in the transcription of certain genes are at the heart of the molecular mechanisms underlying what biological rhythms?
[ "brain rhythms", "circadian rhythms", "reproductive rhythms", "metastasis rhythms" ]
circadian rhythms
sciq
8f7355d5-5dad-4959-853b-9824b10af262
Give an example of a ball-and-socket joint, which has the greatest range of motion, allowing movement in several directions.
[ "lever", "pulley", "monkey wrench", "shoulder" ]
shoulder
sciq
274b692e-8569-44d5-b3e5-a76c7a6ca4c2
Difference in electric potential energy are measured in what basic unit?
[ "volts", "watts", "knots", "moles" ]
volts
sciq
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How many stars are in our solar system?
[ "two", "one", "none", "three" ]
one
sciq
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Landslides and mudslides are the most destructive types of what geologic phenomenon?
[ "formation movement", "intensity movement", "land momentum", "mass movement" ]
mass movement
sciq
7d5e0c76-5542-44f8-9e72-fa93229f5b11
What scientific word, which gives its name to a type of rock, means "to change form"?
[ "evolution", "evaporation", "metamorphism", "igneous" ]
metamorphism
sciq
f0868400-3f81-4e49-a469-6d608774ba16
The sporophyte phase is the longest phase in the life of what?
[ "gymnosperm", "arthropod", "angiosperm", "echinoderm" ]
gymnosperm
sciq
393b2d58-699b-47b1-b747-a6d39a733519
Hair color and skin color are known as what?
[ "mutations", "abominations", "habits", "traits" ]
traits
sciq
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Amines are classified according to the number of carbon atoms bonded directly to what atom?
[ "helium", "hydrogen", "oxygen", "nitrogen" ]
nitrogen
sciq
e106f7d0-8134-4263-a415-dfe0f266179c
Because core electrons are closer to the nucleus, they are not involved in what?
[ "diffusion", "bonding", "fission", "splitting" ]
bonding
sciq
eea76cef-59f5-457b-b377-4a66eac74be8
The upper portion of the septum is formed by the perpendicular plate of which bone?
[ "ethmoid bone", "colossal bone", "concomitant bone", "duodenum bone" ]
ethmoid bone
sciq
317d9da7-90e5-418a-935a-a2f34dc04071
Cells in green algae divide along cell plates called what?
[ "chloroplasts", "phragmoplasts", "xanthophylls", "cellulose" ]
phragmoplasts
sciq
361d6e64-c804-4297-be16-8a00765c02fd
What are saprobes that decompose organic matter?
[ "chordates", "protists", "sponges", "fungi" ]
fungi
sciq
c37cde6e-4b7a-4d85-8b63-4baf9d24d7dd
Because complex plant carbohydrates such as cellulose are more difficult to digest, what animal diet is associated with a complicated digestive system?
[ "herbivore", "carnivore", "omnivore", "polyvore" ]
herbivore
sciq
c89028ab-3155-4833-815c-7467e32b401e
What are all cells surrounded by?
[ "cell membrane", "cytoplasm", "cell substrate", "amino acids" ]
cell membrane
sciq
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The leaves of all of what type of plants have two basic parts in common: the blade and petiole?
[ "evergreen", "deciduous", "flowering plants", "perennials" ]
flowering plants
sciq
8955e4a0-0e8c-4186-b01f-3cc35eda1e22
Through what do plants move enormous amounts of water from the soil to the atmosphere?
[ "perspiration", "evaporation", "transpiration", "respiration" ]
transpiration
sciq
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What explains why two different species cannot occupy the same niche in the same place for very long?
[ "evolution", "competive exclusion princple", "survival exclusion princple", "natural selection" ]
competive exclusion princple
sciq
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The cytoplasm of prokaryotic cells has a high concentration of dissolved solutes. therefore, the osmotic pressure within the cell is what?
[ "relative", "relatively high", "relatively low", "relatively normal" ]
relatively high
sciq
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What are the ultimate source of genetic variation?
[ "gravity", "parasites", "proteins", "mutations" ]
mutations
sciq
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The electron beam scans the surface of the sample, usually coated with a thin film of which metal?
[ "copper", "platinum", "gold", "silver" ]
gold
sciq
a2051dff-e30b-45cf-a150-0d725d303ab6
In a longitudinal wave, what term is a measure of how compressed particles of the medium become when the wave passes through?
[ "magnitude", "frequency", "voltage", "amplitude" ]
amplitude
sciq
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All cells have certain parts in common. these parts include the cell membrane, cytoplasm, dna, and what?
[ "lipids", "ribosomes", "chromosomes", "crystals" ]
ribosomes
sciq
b03f7a27-028e-43eb-b1f0-7c7aaeef64ef
Competition within a species is called what?
[ "species competion", "internal competition", "reproducible competition", "intraspecific competition" ]
intraspecific competition
sciq
9ec62caf-106a-48a5-a459-bd7a65d62ed8
What occurs when rain falls more quickly than water can be absorbed into the ground or carried away by rivers or streams?
[ "floods", "landslides", "greenhouse effect", "typhoons" ]
floods
sciq
a3464945-4394-4342-b73e-45176a2b0dfe
What are the building blocks of dna?
[ "nucleotides", "peptides", "genes", "prokaryotes" ]
nucleotides
sciq
c7a23226-609e-4e05-a16b-f91634ac9ff0
Each line in a structural formula represents a pair of shared what?
[ "atoms", "ions", "waves", "electrons" ]
electrons
sciq
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What do vertebrate chordates possess that invertebrate chordates do not?
[ "parasite", "Milk production", "backbone", "Thumb" ]
backbone
sciq
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In vascular plants, what two basic structures are made of dermal, vascular, and ground tissues?
[ "fruits and nuts", "stems and flowers", "roots and seed", "roots and stems" ]
roots and stems
sciq
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What is the process resulting in living things with beneficial traits producing more offspring?
[ "fluid selection", "natural change", "Natural choice.", "natural selection" ]
natural selection
sciq
2a2d31ae-3e12-4dca-8ef3-f62d3f8414d0
Solar cells create voltages directly from light, while thermoelectric devices create voltage from differences in what?
[ "temperature", "wire width", "oxygen", "wattage" ]
temperature
sciq
fe33b69e-0940-4d7f-a2b6-f3c7168f2c02
What theory goes beyond classical mechanics to describe the behavior of near-light-speed objects?
[ "spacial relativity", "special relativity", "simple relativity", "normal relativity" ]
special relativity
sciq
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What type of structure between the esophagus and the stomach normally opens only when a bolus arrives?
[ "larynx", "sphincter", "gland", "intestine" ]
sphincter
sciq
12122cc6-2369-4421-8e3e-30833cad3162
Viroids are plant pathogens much simpler than what, but like them can reproduce only within a host cell?
[ "bacteria", "parasites", "viruses", "pests" ]
viruses
sciq
a9c5c0ab-d89f-46f5-a156-8a5509f78d2e
"crossing over" occurs during what phase of mitosis?
[ "Prophase ii", "prophase i", "prophase VI", "prophase iii" ]
prophase i
sciq
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What is the preferred food for almost all primates except for humans?
[ "corn", "grass", "fruit", "wheat" ]
fruit
sciq
c6ef36f3-898f-4e23-807f-410e49b8fb42
What property means that something can return to its original shape after being stretched or compressed?
[ "elasticity", "viscosity", "homeostasis", "friction" ]
elasticity
sciq
f4a14e79-f2fa-4d20-a38e-5b90ab36595a
Where does all igneous rock come from?
[ "magma or lava", "oceans", "the moon", "stratosphere" ]
magma or lava
sciq
733327a5-92a9-4c5a-b349-0179523aa94f
Three ways that waves may interact with matter are reflection, refraction, and what?
[ "dispose", "absorption", "diffraction", "distortion" ]
diffraction
sciq
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Sucrose consists of one molecule of glucose and one molecule of what else?
[ "alcohol", "lactose", "protein", "fructose" ]
fructose
sciq
e53d7fa6-ac6b-4efb-a3d2-0796a86bcacc
Many countries have attempted to reduce the human impact on climate change by reducing their emission of what greenhouse gas?
[ "carbon dioxide", "methane", "acid dioxide", "nitrous oxide" ]
carbon dioxide
sciq
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What occurs when arterioles lose their normal muscular tone and dilate dramatically?
[ "vascular shock", "respiration shock", "congenital shock", "cardio shock" ]
vascular shock
sciq
b6c46598-f154-4b0a-96da-0e57af4059ae
Large or small numbers are expressed in scientific notation, which use powers of this?
[ "4", "16", "10", "2" ]
10
sciq
1c5a0d6a-a421-4545-bfc3-9cb78370d72f
Budding in sponges is a form of what type of reproduction?
[ "sexual", "competitive", "asexual", "reasonable" ]
asexual
sciq
b63b7f1b-9e8b-47e6-a77e-6e35b115d71a
Behaviors that are closely controlled by genes and have little to no environmental influence are called what kinds of behaviors?
[ "generalized behaviors", "learned behaviors", "innate behaviors", "diverse behaviors" ]
innate behaviors
sciq
dc14ecf3-08d3-4e93-b00d-4cbe2a39d9b2
Mutations which benefit the organism in which they occur are known as?
[ "helpful mutations", "beneficial mutations", "extraordinary mutations", "healthy mutations" ]
beneficial mutations
sciq
9c4e2aa7-14cc-4cb4-a862-a8655603df5e
When gas particles collide, what kinds of collisions are these considered?
[ "conservative", "perfect", "elastic", "inelastic" ]
elastic
sciq
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Around 1200 species of what broad animal group are currently at risk of extinction due to human activity?
[ "mammals", "reptiles", "amphibians", "birds" ]
birds
sciq
7f228d81-c50b-4613-bf2a-515a60d532a5
The galápagos islands are a group of 16 volcanic islands 600 miles off the west coast of what continent?
[ "south america", "north america", "europe", "asia" ]
south america
sciq
de45c763-efaa-4cd2-8ab9-62f5b1d25636
What structures on the gastrodermal cells keep the contents of the gastrovascular cavity agitated and help distribute nutrients?
[ "flagella", "telomeres", "sporangia", "nucleus" ]
flagella
sciq
3879ed4e-dc65-4e7a-878b-c222214de28a
What is the factor that affects the solubility of solutes in all three states?
[ "temperature", "color", "heat", "oxygen" ]
temperature
sciq
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What kind of ph would you find in water from bogs?
[ "regular ph", "normal ph", "lower ph", "higher ph" ]
lower ph
sciq
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Where do most of the digestion reactions occur?
[ "mouth", "liver", "large intestine", "small intestine" ]
small intestine
sciq
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What is the name of the process where light is produced without heat?
[ "fluorescence", "effervescence", "radiation", "luminescence" ]
luminescence
sciq
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Meats and dairy products link to photosynthesis because the animals were fed what?
[ "carnivorous diets", "biofuel", "chloroplasts", "plant-based foods" ]
plant-based foods
sciq
b3d04174-191f-4cba-a908-3aa5f5aedb29
What the scientific concept stating that when looking at two competing theories, the one with fewer assumptions should be chosen?
[ "law of averages", "law of parsimony", "law of simplicity", "law of thermodynamics" ]
law of parsimony
sciq
f99d971e-2d86-4a75-8ce9-c6d1b5daff58
What type of map would show average temperatures and rainfall?
[ "climate map", "rainfall map", "carbon map", "landscape map" ]
climate map
sciq
283d7682-9c3e-4bcf-99b7-f8a4a68597aa
What is the name of the sugar that plants produce to be used as food?
[ "glucosamine", "glucose", "chlorophyll", "insulin" ]
glucose
sciq
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Just under their skin, marine mammals have a very thick layer of insulating fat called what?
[ "tissue", "lipisomes", "blubber", "cellulose" ]
blubber
sciq
0cd33a5b-93e3-4cab-9da6-eba82263da0c
While in the lungs, blood gives up carbon dioxide and picks up what element before returning to the heart?
[ "methane", "hydrogen", "oxygen", "nitrogen" ]
oxygen
sciq
739555a9-74a3-4606-93ea-6bb953ea97bd
White blood cells called what travel to areas of the body that are inflamed?
[ "spirochetes", "gametocytes", "phagocytes", "platelets" ]
phagocytes
sciq
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How many valence electrons can be found in a carbon atom?
[ "three", "five", "four", "One" ]
four
sciq
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Diaphragm, lungs, and trachea take air deep into the body and provide oxygen gas to what?
[ "heart", "bloodstream", "brain", "molecules" ]
bloodstream
sciq
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What gases move in and out of blood during gas exchange?
[ "oxygen, carbon dioxide", "oxygen, carbon monoxide", "oxygen, nitrogen", "nitrogen, carbon dioxide" ]
oxygen, carbon dioxide
sciq
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What keeps various species from mating and reproducing outside their own species?
[ "brain organ incompatibility", "cancer organ incompatibility", "digestive system incompatibility", "reproductive organ incompatibility" ]
reproductive organ incompatibility
sciq
332e4f03-5b9a-4639-9464-90e419549f23
A refrigerator must do work to reverse the normal direction of what?
[ "thermal energy flow", "spectral energy flow", "coolant energy flow", "visible energy flow" ]
thermal energy flow
sciq
8df72be7-ed12-4e1e-b3cd-45a659565599
The bone matrix consists of tough protein fibers—mainly what?
[ "tendons", "collagen", "tissues", "hemoglobin" ]
collagen
sciq
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Alkynes are what type of compound?
[ "unsaturated hydrocarbons", "proteins hydrocarbons", "reversible hydrocarbons", "Split Hydrocarbons" ]
unsaturated hydrocarbons
sciq
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Solar cells turn sunlight directly into what?
[ "water", "gas", "electricity", "cold" ]
electricity
sciq
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What type of invertebrate typically has a single spiraled shell?
[ "gastropod", "anthropod", "arthropod", "bipod" ]
gastropod
sciq
0be11450-1cfb-469c-b7b9-cf616b27fb50
What are nutrients the body needs in relatively large amounts called?
[ "abundances", "macronutrients", "adulterants", "vitamins" ]
macronutrients
sciq
30c43a1d-ae2a-4351-8c1d-251541ea2fd9
What is observed when two perpendicular flagella moves?
[ "turning motion", "pushing motion", "spinning motion", "shaking motion" ]
spinning motion
sciq
0f0d6208-3c8f-4a7a-b8d9-6891f62b3c5e
What is the name of a branch of the chemistry that deals with the interconversion of chemical energy and electrical energy?
[ "electrochemistry", "Biochemistry", "Inorganic chemistry", "Theoretical Chemistry" ]
electrochemistry
sciq
958f1e0d-4d3a-4eff-9f19-69831dac673d
Which system in the body exchanges gases with the outside air?
[ "vascular", "respiratory", "digestive", "immune" ]
respiratory
sciq
ebbce618-30fe-4833-92b6-2484d0c211a2
What is a double membrane of the nucleus that encloses the genetic material?
[ "the cell wall", "the complex envelope", "the nuclear compression", "the nuclear envelope" ]
the nuclear envelope
sciq
5dff2c8f-125a-4ab2-9b0e-b0ba4975028c
What is the highest taxon in the classification of living things?
[ "a family", "a class", "a domain", "a phylum" ]
a domain
sciq
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Animal-like protists are called what?
[ "bacteria", "larvae", "protozoa", "genus" ]
protozoa
sciq
2578d24b-00c8-4263-b4b8-ddef90af33a5
Mating with no strong pair-bonds is called?
[ "promiscuous", "heterogeneous", "mutual", "covalent" ]
promiscuous
sciq
a87039e1-bf24-41e4-baef-4e3f9078f1fd
Rna is especially important during synthesis of what?
[ "mitochondria", "glucose", "protein", "sulfur" ]
protein
sciq
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Like other bryophytes, moss plants spend most of their life cycle as what?
[ "copepods", "zygotes", "protozoa", "gametophytes" ]
gametophytes
sciq
1a8432f0-3e85-4a13-b884-17f1da9058e9
What is the ring of hooks tapeworms use to attach themselves?
[ "cilia", "dewlap", "scolex", "flagella" ]
scolex
sciq
2cdead9f-13aa-4fb3-a69a-804dc94bc9ca
What form because water erodes the outside of curves and deposits eroded material on the inside?
[ "meanders", "inlets", "cascades", "caverns" ]
meanders
sciq
7f9fd826-aa7e-4e96-a5ab-6d9e7e8b8c86
Which waterfall series is the largest on the planet?
[ "angel falls", "yosemite falls", "iguassu falls", "niagara falls" ]
iguassu falls
sciq
9ee4dcdb-6e94-447b-80ee-06e26c0f4029
What term is used to describe modern seed plants that produce seeds in cones?
[ "gymnosperms", "perennials", "deciduous", "angiosperms" ]
gymnosperms
sciq
a137f77d-a3e5-4468-9dec-7696dddf3866
What kind of joints does the skull have that do not allow any movement?
[ "fixed cells", "fixed plates", "fixed joints", "fixed particles" ]
fixed joints
sciq
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The shoulder and hip are examples of what type of joints?
[ "hinge", "pivot", "ball and socket", "lever" ]
ball and socket
sciq
f2655efb-d6a8-41ae-afa9-f821a98dbd4a
The tails of the hale-bopp comet point away from the sun, evidence that light has what property of motion?
[ "acceleration", "velocity", "momentum", "inertia" ]
momentum
sciq
d83fb617-79ec-427c-bede-c588042ef1ff
What type of virus can cause painful sores on the mouth and genitals?
[ "herpes", "Aids", "gonorrhea", "syphilis" ]
herpes
sciq