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What is the point on the ground that is located directly above where underground rocks fracture (or the "focus" point)?
[ "fault line", "epicenter", "danger zone", "seismic point" ]
epicenter
sciq
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When atoms gain or lose electrons, they can form electrically charged particles called what?
[ "toxins", "ions", "eons", "crystals" ]
ions
sciq
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What do you call a pure substance that cannot be broken down into different types of substances?
[ "molecule", "compound", "element", "sample" ]
element
sciq
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Natural selection can only take place if there is variation, or differences, among individuals in a population. importantly, these differences must have some genetic basis; otherwise, the selection will not lead to change in this?
[ "fertilization", "spontaneous mutation", "next generation", "mass extinction" ]
next generation
sciq
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The large hadron collider is the biggest type of what invention, which boosts particles to high energies?
[ "mass spectrometer", "particle accelerator", "nuclear reactor", "electron microscope" ]
particle accelerator
sciq
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Metals, metalloids, and nonmetals are the different classes of what?
[ "compounds", "ions", "structures", "elements" ]
elements
sciq
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What holds homologs together as the spindle forms for the first meiotic division?
[ "chiasmata", "magnetism", "spirogyra", "pollenation" ]
chiasmata
sciq
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In the periodic table, elements are arranged from left to right according to what property?
[ "atomic mass", "major mass", "metallic mass", "real mass" ]
atomic mass
sciq
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What is made of gases that are essential for photosynthesis and other life activities?
[ "atmosphere", "ocean", "air", "stratosphere" ]
atmosphere
sciq
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When a stream flows from a hard to soft rock area, what is often formed?
[ "a river", "a riverbank", "a waterfall", "a lake" ]
a waterfall
sciq
e8cafad7-d3c0-4816-8471-25781f82fb8a
What term means taking used items and materials and turning them into something new?
[ "recycling", "collecting", "reproducing", "feeding" ]
recycling
sciq
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What lets different species of anole lizards live in the same area without competing?
[ "specialization", "cooperation", "concentration", "variation" ]
specialization
sciq
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What are made in the first step of the scientific method?
[ "observations", "patterns", "conclusions", "hypothesis" ]
observations
sciq
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What type of organisms do not need blood?
[ "cold-blooded", "single-celled", "vertebrate", "marine" ]
single-celled
sciq
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What type of plants are the mosses, the hornwarts, and the liverworts considered to be?
[ "xerophyte", "nonvascular", "Vascular", "spirogyra" ]
nonvascular
sciq
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Wearing what will reduce the amplitude of sound waves entering the ears?
[ "megaphone", "hardhat", "goggles", "hearing protectors" ]
hearing protectors
sciq
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What type of motion only occurs when there is one force applied at the beginning of the trajectory after which there is no interference apart from gravity?
[ "velocity", "projectile", "propellant", "thrust" ]
projectile
sciq
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What type of energy is produced when two objects move together?
[ "physical energy", "molecular energy", "potential energy", "mechanical energy" ]
mechanical energy
sciq
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Which form of matter assumes the shape of its container?
[ "solids", "gas", "liquids", "crystals" ]
gas
sciq
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What type of energy is possessed by autumn leaves before they fall?
[ "kinetic energy", "potential energy", "radioactive energy", "mechanical energy" ]
potential energy
sciq
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The heterotroph eats only or mainly what?
[ "roots", "animals", "decomposers", "plants" ]
plants
sciq
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All carbon atoms have how many protons?
[ "two", "one", "six", "eight" ]
six
sciq
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The cerebellum is associated with what major human organ?
[ "bladder", "liver", "brain", "heart" ]
brain
sciq
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The kinetic energy of a moving object depends on it's mass and it's what?
[ "liquid content", "volume", "iron content", "shape" ]
volume
sciq
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Electromagnetic waves are comprised of what two types of energy?
[ "solar and kinetic", "magnetic and gravitational", "electric and magnetic", "kinetic and electric" ]
electric and magnetic
sciq
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Cranial nerves convey specific sensory information from the head and neck directly to what organ?
[ "heart", "eye", "brain", "nose" ]
brain
sciq
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Where are the viral enzyme and genome packaged inside?
[ "pollen grains", "ribosomes", "viral capsid", "mitochondria" ]
viral capsid
sciq
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What would cause warm receptors to signal the hypothalamic thermostat?
[ "lower temperature", "hyperventilation", "increased temperature", "hypothermia" ]
increased temperature
sciq
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The direction of the force of gravity is in what direction?
[ "fragmented line", "curved line", "straight line", "staggered line" ]
straight line
sciq
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Sickle-cell anemia, leukemia, lymphoma, and hemophilia are examples of what types of disease?
[ "Cancer", "microscopic disease", "blood disease", "Bone Diease" ]
blood disease
sciq
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In hypothesis-based science, specific results are predicted from a general premise, which is called what type of reasoning that proceeds from general to particular?
[ "reactive", "transitive", "deductive", "reflexive" ]
deductive
sciq
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The process by which an organism develops from a single-celled zygote to a multi-cellular organism is complex and well regulated. the regulation occurs through signaling between cells and tissues and responses in the form of what?
[ "spontaneous mutation", "dna replication", "differential gene expression", "phenotype exchange" ]
differential gene expression
sciq
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The development of specific structures in specific locations is called what?
[ "pattern formation", "adaptation", "speciation", "specialty skills" ]
pattern formation
sciq
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An experiment generates what to support a hypothesis?
[ "evidence", "study", "falsehoods", "reason" ]
evidence
sciq
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What is the outermost occupied shell of electrons in an atom.
[ "radiative shell", "modular shell", "valence shell", "Inner Shell" ]
valence shell
sciq
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What ear structure has three fluid filled ducts, including the organ of corti, where sound waves in air go to vibration?
[ "saccule", "semicirciular canal", "utricle", "cochlea" ]
cochlea
sciq
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What is the name for elements that neither contain carbon nor come from living things?
[ "acids", "pigments", "contaminants", "minerals" ]
minerals
sciq
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Kinetic energy is energy of this?
[ "gravity", "speed", "motion", "food" ]
motion
sciq
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Reproduction in prokaryotic cells is by what process of growth, enlargement and division?
[ "budding", "photosynthesis", "mitosis", "binary fission" ]
binary fission
sciq
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Why do some dry fruits split open at maturity?
[ "to release toxins", "to release seeds", "to release berries", "to regenerate" ]
to release seeds
sciq
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What is an ionic bond in nature?
[ "electrostatic", "magnetic", "radioactive", "kinetic" ]
electrostatic
sciq
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Most air masses form over what two types of regions?
[ "polar and tropical", "arctic and marine", "marine and tropical", "polar and arctic" ]
polar and tropical
sciq
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Earthworms are important deposit feeders that help form and enrich what material?
[ "wood", "coal", "shale", "soil" ]
soil
sciq
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Growth, morphogenesis, and cell differentiation produce the plant what?
[ "fat", "tail", "body", "fur" ]
body
sciq
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What is a fold of the outer skin lining the shell called?
[ "marble", "cortex", "stack", "mantle" ]
mantle
sciq
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What sciences are the study of living organisms?
[ "earth sciences", "physical sciences", "life sciences", "social sciences" ]
life sciences
sciq
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Frogs are amphibians that live part of the time in fresh water and rest of the time where?
[ "underground", "in salt water", "on land", "in stagnant water" ]
on land
sciq
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Name the missing type of friction: static, rolling, fluid _____?
[ "turning", "sliding", "falling", "dragging" ]
sliding
sciq
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What is the study of how living organisms interact with each other and with their environment?
[ "botany", "zoology", "genetics", "ecology" ]
ecology
sciq
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What are electrons lost during the formation of ions called?
[ "isotopes", "oxides", "cations", "catalysts" ]
cations
sciq
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Making a specific statement based on a general principle is the definition of what type of reasoning?
[ "transitive", "inductive", "deductive", "inference" ]
deductive
sciq
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The earth's magnetic poles have done what repeatedly in the past?
[ "switched places", "stayed the same", "demagnetized", "rotated" ]
switched places
sciq
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What do we call the orderly sequence of events in the life of a cell from the division of a single parent cell to produce two new daughter cells, to the subsequent division of those daughter cells?
[ "cell replication", "circadian cycle", "cell death", "cell cycle" ]
cell cycle
sciq
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What are natural resources which can be replaced in a relatively short period called?
[ "replaceable resources", "renewable resources", "solvent resources", "materials resources" ]
renewable resources
sciq
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The biological electron transport chain provides for an orderly, stepwise transfer of electrons. both nadh (reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) and fadh2 (reduced flavin adenine dinucleotide) are energy rich molecules that liberate a large amount of energy during what?
[ "evaporation", "oxidation", "extrapolation", "conduction" ]
oxidation
sciq
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The cells within meristems divide relatively frequently, generating additional what?
[ "cells", "proteins", "chlorophyll", "photosynthesis" ]
cells
sciq
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Another unit of energy, used widely in the health professions and everyday life, is _______?
[ "body index", "biomass ( cal )", "carbs", "calorie ( cal )" ]
calorie ( cal )
sciq
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What are the specfic types of proteins that determine your blood type called?
[ "antibodies", "antigens", "Globulins", "Plasma" ]
antigens
sciq
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Which layer of soil experiences the most weathering?
[ "humus", "bedrock", "top layer", "subsoil" ]
top layer
sciq
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Osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, fractures, and sprains are problems affecting what system?
[ "nervous system", "digestive system", "tissues system", "skeletal system" ]
skeletal system
sciq
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What are typically arranged into complex tubular networks with extensive surface areas?
[ "Golgi apparatus", "alveoli", "hair follicles", "transport epithelia" ]
transport epithelia
sciq
e5f4a93a-ce50-4c63-a187-0ca8e29d8dc7
What is the simplest unit of structure and function of all living organisms called?
[ "cell", "molecule", "partical", "atom" ]
cell
sciq
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Activities that can reduce the effects of what condition include exercises to keep the blood and lymph flowing through affected areas?
[ "edema", "asthma", "anemia", "inflammation" ]
edema
sciq
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An alloy is a mixture of metals that has bulk metallic properties different from those of its what?
[ "constituent elements", "nuclear elements", "system elements", "mineral elements" ]
constituent elements
sciq
ebd034db-8adb-4a4c-919f-65417cbe3d95
There are two types of digestion, mechanical and what else?
[ "mineral", "thermal", "radiation", "chemical" ]
chemical
sciq
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What is the rate at which energy is being transferred called?
[ "power", "electric", "pressure", "force" ]
power
sciq
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Where does the process of assembling amino acids into a protein take place?
[ "in the nucleus", "in chromosomes", "in the chitin", "in the ribosome" ]
in the ribosome
sciq
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Where can you find sodium acetate?
[ "a heat pack", "a cold pack", "table salt", "baking soda" ]
a heat pack
sciq
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For a given amount of solute, do smaller particles have a greater or lesser surface area?
[ "equal", "neither", "greater", "lesser" ]
greater
sciq
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What is the functional unit of compact bone?
[ "the osteon", "the boron", "the canton", "the auteron" ]
the osteon
sciq
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Mineralocorticoids are hormones synthesized by the adrenal cortex that affect what balance, by regulating sodium and water levels?
[ "equilibrium", "blood pressure", "homeostasis", "osmotic" ]
osmotic
sciq
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The pulmonary circulation carries blood between what two organs?
[ "lungs and kidney", "heart and pancreas", "kidney and heart", "heart and lungs" ]
heart and lungs
sciq
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The ancient greek philosopher aristotle thought that all matter consists of just four what, which he identified as earth, air, water, and fire?
[ "structures", "compounds", "elements", "ingredients" ]
elements
sciq
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What are archaea that live in extremely hot environments called?
[ "tardigrades", "thermophiles", "hypothermic", "hemophiliacs" ]
thermophiles
sciq
b9f1d584-7216-4abd-a1f8-8b53593830b5
Warming conditions and, perhaps, human activities contributed to what fate of many organisms of the pleistocene era?
[ "accumulation", "evolution", "extinction", "overpopulation" ]
extinction
sciq
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Practical limits of van de graaff generators arise because the large electric fields polarize and eventually do what to surrounding materials?
[ "decompose", "ionize", "displace", "isolate" ]
ionize
sciq
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The remainder is transferred by contraction of what before the ventricles begin to contract?
[ "the stomach", "the arteries", "the large intestine", "the atria" ]
the atria
sciq
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Chromatin condenses into chromosomes during prophase, the first and longest phase of what process?
[ "mitosis", "reproduction", "meiosis", "apoptosis" ]
mitosis
sciq
3e01e029-5e2c-41a9-a2a8-10b9fa7faba8
What do plants lose the most of through the stomata?
[ "water", "heat", "energy", "chlorophyll" ]
water
sciq
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Unburned hydrocarbons can more easily be converted to carbon dioxide and water in the presence of a what?
[ "temperature", "methane", "catalyst", "Ethanol" ]
catalyst
sciq
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What do plasmodesmata connect to in the plant cell?
[ "pores", "cytoplasms", "nuclei", "sporozoans" ]
cytoplasms
sciq
dd1f7193-02c6-40a5-9e87-4f8a385c9245
What are compounds composed of only two elements called?
[ "kinetic compounds", "binary compounds", "digital compounds", "symbiotic compounds" ]
binary compounds
sciq
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What type of gases trap heat in the atmosphere, causing earth to have a moderate temperature?
[ "carbon monoxides", "ozone gases", "greenhouse gases", "sulfuric gases" ]
greenhouse gases
sciq
d5bbf50d-f185-411f-a822-e2e81d4d7af1
What system is the brain the control center of?
[ "nervous", "adrenal", "circulatory", "fibrous" ]
nervous
sciq
e7a1b0fe-d11e-4914-a5af-1534d0ac4fd4
Air pollution can cause disease of what system by affecting the health of your lungs?
[ "cardiac", "respiratory", "digestive", "excretory" ]
respiratory
sciq
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Why does the body react to a loss of chloride ions?
[ "decreased bicarbonate reabsorption", "increased bicarbonate reabsorption", "increased tricarbonate reabsorption", "decreased tricarbonate reabsorption" ]
increased bicarbonate reabsorption
sciq
13cdd3f3-80e0-4a94-b30b-e4aed15a71e9
The negatively charged electrons are attracted to the positively charged what?
[ "nucleus", "axon", "ion", "atom" ]
nucleus
sciq
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Most of the gray matter is on the surface of the brain, surrounding what other type of matter?
[ "corrugated", "blue", "white", "dark matter" ]
white
sciq
719cb465-e63a-4d72-abe2-16b8ca80c7cd
Cooling or evaporation of what from the sea surface makes surface water dense?
[ "fresh water", "dirty water", "salt water", "warm water" ]
fresh water
sciq
594466f5-82cd-42fe-af68-99f4cf962bf8
What is the term for reproductive cells, such as sperm and egg?
[ "nucleus", "parasites", "gametes", "spores" ]
gametes
sciq
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What material is regularly used in human hip and knee implants?
[ "wood", "coal", "metal", "glass" ]
metal
sciq
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What are the most dramatic, sudden, and dangerous types of mass wasting?
[ "landslides", "monsoons", "earthquakes", "volcanoes" ]
landslides
sciq
3a39654e-14ea-44c5-b6ca-d5581a63bb5e
What current-carrying long coil of wire acts as a magnet?
[ "solenoid", "converter", "antenna", "igniter" ]
solenoid
sciq
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In combination or synthesis reactions, two chemical species combine to produce a what?
[ "new compound", "fusion", "alloy", "mixture" ]
new compound
sciq
d25baffd-e3f2-4358-8790-e4341fcbbc8e
The core of a star collapses during what event, forming a neutron star?
[ "supernova", "spark", "blast", "gravitational" ]
supernova
sciq
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What is the term used for a large body of air of the same temperature and moisture conditions?
[ "air mass", "sky mass", "air group", "air pool" ]
air mass
sciq
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The loss of oxygen to the heart muscle causes that part of the tissue to what?
[ "beat erratically", "die", "beat harder", "thrive" ]
die
sciq
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What system transports many substances to and from cells throughout the body?
[ "physiological", "nutritional", "circulatory", "cardiovascular" ]
cardiovascular
sciq
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What consists of two or more elements and forms as a result of a chemical reaction?
[ "particle", "molecule", "compound", "protein" ]
compound
sciq
d409f2ef-5005-4561-8cd0-08e3dae2cd2f
What is occasional chest pain known as?
[ "cardiac arrest", "arrhythmia", "heart murmur", "angina pectoris" ]
angina pectoris
sciq