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a33007c2-a9f4-4582-b6c7-ea95b5bd1deb
Conduction from the core has what effect on the lower mantle?
[ "it makes it rotate", "it vibrates it", "it heats it", "it cools it" ]
it heats it
sciq
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What is the measure of the amount of energy found in sound waves?
[ "intensity", "density", "frequency", "decibels" ]
intensity
sciq
d9661105-cc6c-42ea-a228-26991322135f
What theory explains most of the features of earth’s surface?
[ "Big Bang theory", "string theory", "plate tectonics", "flat earth theory" ]
plate tectonics
sciq
2713d51e-6812-48fd-8809-45fd263caa49
What part of a person with myopia is longer than normal?
[ "eye", "neck", "arm", "leg" ]
eye
sciq
dea9e139-4943-4cd6-891b-a93ec0fa4eda
The anodes in each cell of a rechargeable battery are plates or grids of lead containing spongy lead metal, while the cathodes are similar grids containing powdered what?
[ "carbon dioxide", "coal", "lead dioxide", "straight dioxide" ]
lead dioxide
sciq
9626f300-8c21-4316-96b8-2bc937fff8b8
In science, what is supported by much evidence, widely accepted by credible scientists, and unlikely to be disproved?
[ "law", "theory", "hypothesis", "concept" ]
theory
sciq
35161813-6ec0-4766-8180-66dad19bfb1f
Life on earth is carbon-based. organisms need not only energy but also carbon ________ for building bodies?
[ "ions", "atoms", "monoxide", "crystals" ]
atoms
sciq
2f4ed7dc-b104-4ee6-a6c2-1777a347b183
A crater can usually be found on the top of what kind of volcanoes?
[ "Shield", "composite", "Dome", "Compound" ]
composite
sciq
34e2d0b7-3b5e-44c9-9ad2-cb10c69e5f15
Portal veins carry blood between what?
[ "pairs of capillary beds", "digestive organs", "arteries", "chambers of the heart" ]
pairs of capillary beds
sciq
442ef091-20b6-49bd-9cf2-934cb086288f
Viruses depend on what type of cells?
[ "immune system cells", "blood cells", "anchor cells", "host cells" ]
host cells
sciq
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Silver and ordinary table salt are two examples of chemical what?
[ "microbes", "substances", "organism", "impurities" ]
substances
sciq
cbaf2f3e-719c-42e2-9a53-d0746aaa7cd4
What do we call the system of classification consisting of a hierarchy of groupings called taxa?
[ "crocodilian system", "linchpin system", "lamarckian system", "linnaean system" ]
linnaean system
sciq
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Which disease causes cells to divide out of control
[ "cancer", "arthritis", "autoimmune diseases", "mutation" ]
cancer
sciq
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Animal cells grow mainly by synthesizing protein-rich cytoplasm, a process that is described as expensive in what way?
[ "metabolically", "synthetically", "calorically", "time spent" ]
metabolically
sciq
8554bb29-2f77-4837-a793-512cc38d533e
Where is the cell wall located?
[ "in the chloroplast", "outside cell membrane", "in cell membrane", "in the mitochondria" ]
outside cell membrane
sciq
609db348-cd6f-464c-9b2d-6bd95c67dd43
Some protists hunt their food or act as what?
[ "parasites", "mammals", "reptiles", "bats" ]
parasites
sciq
3d528950-4f3c-4266-b831-185fcf55dee0
Name what nutrient cycling is strongly regulated by.
[ "vegetation", "sunlight", "elevation", "abundance" ]
vegetation
sciq
69ee257b-4f62-4f88-bb74-3a4a115207e3
Why must values of specific heat be looked up in tables?
[ "difficult to calculate", "difficult to memorize", "difficult to understand", "lack of formulas" ]
difficult to calculate
sciq
227fb3fd-37a3-4ef2-a497-72b8aac08a36
What is the method of evolution by which advantageous heritable traits become more common over generations?
[ "same selection", "flow selection", "artificial selection", "natural selection" ]
natural selection
sciq
bf3ccea3-dc7c-4e66-bce6-00ccb1133b2e
Electrons move, but they aren’t destroyed. this is the law of conservation of what?
[ "matter", "energy", "charge", "cost" ]
charge
sciq
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What type of orbitals do electrons in successive atoms on the periodic table tend to fill first?
[ "orbital lobes", "low-energy", "high energy", "outer orbitals" ]
low-energy
sciq
aef346c8-8031-45e0-9007-f5a305a552bb
What is used as a vector for gene insertion in ex vivo gene therapy?
[ "bacteria", "typhus", "penicillin", "virus" ]
virus
sciq
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In artificial passive immunization, which items from an immune animal are injected into a nonimmune animal?
[ "parasites", "antibodies", "allergies", "platelets" ]
antibodies
sciq
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What kind of solids are gummi bears or taffy?
[ "candy solids", "amorphous solids", "imperative solids", "phenomena solids" ]
amorphous solids
sciq
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In the freshwater flatworms, protonephridia serve chiefly in what?
[ "enculturation", "thermoregulation", "excretion", "osmoregulation" ]
osmoregulation
sciq
097cbbdf-86e4-4958-aab1-0fb7c0fa946b
What is contained in the skin of brightly colored poison dart frogs?
[ "acid", "toxins", "spores", "poison" ]
toxins
sciq
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What is the exchange of plasmids by prokaryotes called?
[ "artificial transfer", "transcription", "biochemical transfer", "genetic transfer" ]
genetic transfer
sciq
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What do we call the study of rock layers?
[ "geology", "stratigraphy", "sedimentary", "mineralogy" ]
stratigraphy
sciq
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What are single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus called?
[ "eukaryotes", "fungi", "protists", "prokaryotes" ]
prokaryotes
sciq
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The distance that light can travel in a year is known as what?
[ "beam year", "earth year", "solar year", "light year" ]
light year
sciq
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Scientists who find and study fossils are called what?
[ "anthropologist", "biologists", "paleontologists", "geologists" ]
paleontologists
sciq
00fa0400-5d1c-4f5c-be49-be0afee63fb9
What is it called when feces move along the colon too slowly?
[ "diarrhea", "respiratory", "relaxation", "constipation" ]
constipation
sciq
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What is the process in which a solid changes directly to a gas called?
[ "vaporization", "condensation", "sublimation", "solidification" ]
sublimation
sciq
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What part of the atmosphere is the heat source?
[ "ionosphere", "magnetosphere", "troposphere", "stratosphere" ]
stratosphere
sciq
bea524e5-c058-4574-8ad4-60d0e8f57da5
Some mutations lead to new versions of proteins that help organisms adapt to changes in their environment and are essential for evolution to occur. what are these mutations known as?
[ "evolutionary mutations", "beneficial mutations", "superficial mutations", "provisional mutations" ]
beneficial mutations
sciq
12ee1c53-cf27-4c7f-82d9-56897255953a
What is the only substance on earth that is stable in all three states?
[ "water", "mercury", "carbon", "air" ]
water
sciq
8e46d0b9-004f-49e3-a4ca-9d2b38b72796
What is the process whereby excess water and waste is removed from the body?
[ "diffusion", "excretion", "filtration", "exhalation" ]
excretion
sciq
d75c7a62-1530-4fc9-b610-1dd47be0c8a5
What cellular structure moves molecules between locations inside the cell?
[ "capillaries", "dna vesicles", "transport vesicles", "transport vessels" ]
transport vesicles
sciq
5f8433b7-4d3f-4db8-9b83-849dd08614dd
What causes a meteoroid to vaporize after it enters the atmosphere?
[ "friction with atmosphere", "spontaneous combustion", "atmospheric pressure", "gravitational pull" ]
friction with atmosphere
sciq
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How is the radioactive decay measured?
[ "alpha emission", "half-life", "carbon dating", "quarter-life" ]
half-life
sciq
495bfc80-afad-4c20-9d45-d5528e815f7f
What term means a reproductive cell, like the human egg in females?
[ "embryo", "zygote", "gamete", "sperm" ]
gamete
sciq
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Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward what?
[ "extremities", "brain", "heart", "lung" ]
heart
sciq
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The spin quantum number describes the spin for a given what?
[ "electron", "ion", "element", "proton" ]
electron
sciq
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What fuels provide most of the energy used worldwide?
[ "hydroelectric", "solar", "fossil", "renewable" ]
fossil
sciq
72008040-4a50-481c-89d4-d2c2f4f61f7c
What instruments used in guidance systems to indicate directions in space must have an angular momentum that does not change in direction?
[ "gyroscopes", "elevators", "magnets", "actuators" ]
gyroscopes
sciq
acc5bcc4-4b94-4559-bd93-ce677a8562bf
What are the deepest places on earth?
[ "deep sea caves", "deep sea resonances", "deep sea trenches", "deep sea diversions" ]
deep sea trenches
sciq
0764fbdf-42c6-453a-a9d2-a67dbce32370
While the chromosome is replicating, the cell does what?
[ "elongates", "shrinks", "propagates", "diffuses" ]
elongates
sciq
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On the origin of species is a book by darwin that spells out what theory?
[ "theory of the computation", "theory of evolution", "theory of reproduction", "theory of the universe" ]
theory of evolution
sciq
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After an adaptive defense is produced against a pathogen, typically plasma cells first secrete immunoglobin, which constitutes about ten percent of all what?
[ "parasites", "antibodies", "hormones", "allergies" ]
antibodies
sciq
aba3ca02-ca62-44c2-b9e9-7590090ee7bf
Solar and wind are still expensive compared to what?
[ "batteries", "coal fuels", "electricity", "fossil fuels" ]
fossil fuels
sciq
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The pollen tube discharges two sperm into the female gametophyte after what occurs?
[ "excrement", "hibernation", "evolution", "pollination" ]
pollination
sciq
2ca92e42-b6b4-40bb-92cf-eb8b15eb623c
Steel, bronze, and brass are good examples of what?
[ "metalloids", "alloys", "salts", "elements" ]
alloys
sciq
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Most hydrozoa have both polyp and what forms in their life cycle?
[ "globular", "hydra", "medusa", "polypoid" ]
medusa
sciq
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Mammalian lungs are located in what cavity, where they are surrounded and protected by the rib cage, intercostal muscles, and chest wall?
[ "ventral", "thoracic", "abdominopelvic", "dorsal" ]
thoracic
sciq
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Segmented worms have a digestive,nervous and what type of system?
[ "pulmonary", "vascular", "lymphatic", "circulatory" ]
circulatory
sciq
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In what route do water and solutes move along the continuum of cytosol?
[ "hydrophylic", "hydrophobic", "nonvascular", "symplastic" ]
symplastic
sciq
a37b58ca-4277-455c-ad1a-ea1f3fd6ebf3
Atomic orbitals are populated with what subatomic particles?
[ "atoms", "neurons", "electrons", "protons" ]
electrons
sciq
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Which law refers to the electron charge remaining the same during transfer?
[ "law of construct of charge", "law of conservation of charge", "law of change", "law of conservation of speculation" ]
law of conservation of charge
sciq
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Hotspots can be used to tell the speed and direction that what object is moving?
[ "glaciers", "plates", "electrons", "crystals" ]
plates
sciq
713a900f-b3e6-4c08-bd3a-6572f3c44d8b
Does overhead irrigation or drip irrigation use less water?
[ "drip irrigation", "constant flow", "mist irrigation", "stream irrigation" ]
drip irrigation
sciq
0dda3450-d161-4c0e-ab7b-f618c5500ec6
Stis are diseases caused by what that spread through sexual contact?
[ "parasites", "amoeba", "ecosystems", "pathogens" ]
pathogens
sciq
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The heart is a muscular organ that pumps blood through which system?
[ "pulmonary", "endocrine", "nervous", "circulatory" ]
circulatory
sciq
e1ccddea-74cb-4c67-b9b2-b0868c96beed
Being dependent on adults for a long maturation period allows young primates ample time for what?
[ "sleeping", "socialization", "attachment", "learning" ]
learning
sciq
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What process can be triggered by a burst of ethylene production in the fruit?
[ "pickling", "ripening", "hardening", "drying" ]
ripening
sciq
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What is a sac-like organ that stores urine?
[ "the urinary liver", "the urinary bladder", "the small intestine", "the colon" ]
the urinary bladder
sciq
470c7f41-79e4-4c40-8fdd-86b2b0469b83
When the pressure waves from the scala move the basilar membrane, the tectorial membrane slides across the what?
[ "cytoplasm", "keratin", "stereocilia", "dendrites" ]
stereocilia
sciq
28426b36-eeec-4155-8121-2bbca82c048c
What are surface currents generally caused by?
[ "minor wind belts", "major wind belts", "major steam belts", "major humidity belts" ]
major wind belts
sciq
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What helps cells take up glucose from the blood?
[ "estrogen", "hemoglobin", "oxygen", "insulin" ]
insulin
sciq
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What is the term for potential energy due to the position of an object above earth?
[ "gravitational indication energy", "gravitational recovery energy", "gravitational potential energy", "gravitational pull energy" ]
gravitational potential energy
sciq
6193d03a-b93c-4d1f-9050-171ef68920e7
What type of engineers influence community structure through their effects on the physical environment?
[ "ecosystem engineers", "civil engineers", "mechanical engineers", "electrical engineers" ]
ecosystem engineers
sciq
dfedb21b-36d3-4d7a-9cdd-7ebcb855deb7
The atomic number defines the identity of what?
[ "neutralized molecule", "atomic reaction", "periodic table", "element" ]
element
sciq
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The nuclei of radioisotopes are unstable, so they constantly decay and emit what?
[ "chemicals", "moisture", "radiation", "acid" ]
radiation
sciq
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Parthenogenesis is the most common form of what in animals that at other times reproduce sexually?
[ "budding", "asexual reproduction", "cell division", "sexual dimorphism" ]
asexual reproduction
sciq
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What kind of fossils are excellent markers for correlating the ages of sedimentary rocks?
[ "euglena", "foram", "agonum", "vertiscom" ]
foram
sciq
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Gated ion channels have a central role in what system's function?
[ "nervous", "endocrine", "generous", "skeletal" ]
nervous
sciq
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Energy that the sun and other stars release into space is called what?
[ "kinetic energy", "static energy", "mechanical energy", "electromagnetic energy" ]
electromagnetic energy
sciq
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Hydrogen gas is generated by the reaction of nitric acid and what else?
[ "elemental iron", "gaseous iron", "martian iron", "carbon" ]
elemental iron
sciq
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What is the top 200 meters of water in the ocean called?
[ "organelle zone", "photic zone", "thymic zone", "over zone" ]
photic zone
sciq
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Zinc is what kind of metal.?
[ "active transition metal", "active move metal", "active flow metal", "passive stagnant metal" ]
active transition metal
sciq
94a726c4-9d9b-4d9b-a91a-aa6740482024
What do decomposers release when they break down dead organisms?
[ "carbon dioxide", "nutrients", "acids", "methane" ]
nutrients
sciq
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Wavelengths are described by a unit of what?
[ "distance", "speed", "direction", "weight" ]
distance
sciq
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Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are examples of which type of sti?
[ "viral", "non-contagious", "bacterial", "incurable" ]
bacterial
sciq
2878d639-d0e0-4ecb-a223-5f4242de7f6f
Which process acts as a natural complement for cellular respiration?
[ "glycolysis", "atherosclerosis", "photosynthesis", "absorption" ]
photosynthesis
sciq
85d41ee4-f7ad-41b0-9782-6b55a80da045
What are the only invertebrates that can fly?
[ "mammels", "insects", "amphibians", "birds" ]
insects
sciq
8aaae455-9f4c-4630-b106-f8fde9d78fc7
What is the term for the cell fragments involved in blood clotting, which stick to tears in blood vessels and to each other?
[ "cells", "droplets", "molecules", "platelets" ]
platelets
sciq
1069587e-7de4-40b4-be32-ca6758c3c094
What celestial body is often discovered because it causes a star to move or to dim?
[ "asteroid", "exoplanet", "comet", "satellite" ]
exoplanet
sciq
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What shape is the lens of the eye?
[ "concave", "spherical", "convex", "angular" ]
convex
sciq
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What is the change frogs and butterflies go through?
[ "transformation", "parthenogenesis", "hiatus", "metamorphosis" ]
metamorphosis
sciq
6d7620a1-3c70-47fd-8439-57045f6cb447
What term is used to describe the attractive force between molecules of the same substance?
[ "cohesion", "magnetism", "attraction", "strength" ]
cohesion
sciq
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Where do archea live?
[ "in mammals", "in the ocean", "underground", "everywhere" ]
everywhere
sciq
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What is the 'stuff' that all things are made of?
[ "matter", "metal", "plasma", "minerals" ]
matter
sciq
3e4654d5-7cda-41a1-97aa-600153f1e586
What is the change of characteristics of living things over time?
[ "evolution", "spontaneous mutation", "generation", "adaptation" ]
evolution
sciq
30bd8b32-cff4-4fef-a062-338b49f50359
What is the si unit for electric current?
[ "planck", "joule", "ohm", "ampere" ]
ampere
sciq
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What abbreviated form refers to oxidation-reduction reactions, which are part of respiration and photosynthesis?
[ "redox reactions", "oxid reactions", "reflex reactions", "morph reactions" ]
redox reactions
sciq
702bd349-ff3b-4a02-966a-30d68425d9ea
In a cell cycle, what kind of regulator molecules allow advancement to the next stage?
[ "positive", "strong", "negative", "similar" ]
positive
sciq
49cc8539-6f64-4804-9347-4e6b17baee8a
What are kpa, atm, and mmhg measurement units for?
[ "temperature", "velocity", "pressure", "weight" ]
pressure
sciq
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Each month, starting in puberty, one egg matures and is released from where?
[ "ovary", "uterus", "pollen", "testes" ]
ovary
sciq
8cba79bd-fb2d-418c-bb80-a9c33cdd8a2b
Synostoses unite the sacral vertebrae that fuse together to form the what?
[ "permanent sacrum", "young sacrum", "adult sacrum", "lower sacrum" ]
adult sacrum
sciq
c8a7a966-1700-4232-9079-a7d0c0a6912a
What eliminates food wastes that remain after digestion takes place?
[ "liver", "large intestine", "small intestine", "gall bladder" ]
large intestine
sciq
726026ab-3e00-44a8-b09e-862e73f071d5
What is the membrane that surrounds a fetus called?
[ "cell membrane", "umbilical sac", "umbilicus", "amniotic sac" ]
amniotic sac
sciq