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e7051130-78f8-4201-b035-bbaef971786d
In the cardiovascular system, where is the ultimate destination of the oxygen-poor blood?
[ "lung", "liver", "brain", "heart" ]
heart
sciq
ff3ad30a-1117-442d-82db-7f1fe07fdc6a
What is the study of the energy transformations that occur in a collection of matter?
[ "kinetics", "fluctuations", "geophysics", "thermodynamics" ]
thermodynamics
sciq
1d71464a-d7de-4404-a1b1-75e1526f93c0
Love canal was an infamous example of what type of pollution?
[ "Visual Pollution", "industrial waste dumping", "Land Pollution", "thermal pollution" ]
industrial waste dumping
sciq
5dce9800-0cd8-454c-8bd8-8e91aa7cb31d
What is a funnel-shaped cloud of whirling high winds known as?
[ "tornado", "hurricane", "tsunami", "volcano" ]
tornado
sciq
993be97d-f25b-437c-8dc4-e9e3b147d8de
Why do birds need a light-weight body?
[ "water flotation", "to stay aloft", "for cooling", "food shortages" ]
to stay aloft
sciq
5eab822b-99a0-4dbe-84b5-8cc5457e7828
Asthma, pneumonia, and emphysema are diseases of what system?
[ "pulmonary", "digestive", "respiratory", "reproductive" ]
respiratory
sciq
a024be1b-85fe-4cc6-b910-fd5a3a9bed78
The “knee-jerk" motion that people involuntarily perform after being struck in the knee in a certain way is an example of what kind of behavior?
[ "sensor", "spasm", "reaction", "reflex" ]
reflex
sciq
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What are tiny, hair like projections?
[ "cilia", "spinicles", "actin", "fuzz" ]
cilia
sciq
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How long does it take for the earth to make a complete rotation of its axis?
[ "24.25 hours", "one year", "one month", "24 hours" ]
24 hours
sciq
16cbb0f9-8a9d-4a51-9b31-ef414ae4f9dc
Glaciers have been melting since what period?
[ "stone age", "pleistocene ice age", "industrial age", "bronze age" ]
pleistocene ice age
sciq
a56fbc8a-b7f0-4840-96a7-4687ae8ba4d2
The transmission electron micrograph shows the cell walls where two cells do what?
[ "reproduce", "split apart", "come together", "disappear" ]
come together
sciq
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What form does water take on the planet mars?
[ "liquid", "plasma", "ice", "gas" ]
ice
sciq
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The simplest system is that of contractile vacuoles present in what?
[ "microorganisms", "parasites", "macroorganisms", "crystals" ]
microorganisms
sciq
46c6164e-11c5-4578-a59c-669e1a563ae9
Water's very polar compound causes most solutes to do what?
[ "dissolve", "combine", "gel", "repel" ]
dissolve
sciq
101e79f9-aa41-4ca7-920c-126a179ee544
Which plant group has vascular tissue, seeds, and flowers?
[ "fungi", "microbes", "spores", "angiosperms" ]
angiosperms
sciq
1cb358c3-4fa5-4b0e-b60e-eb00602ba398
The point in front of a mirror where the reflected rays intersect is known as what?
[ "reflective point", "focal point", "periodic point", "boundary point" ]
focal point
sciq
4bd7ccac-ec2a-4d57-8d45-6e722558125f
Any unused energy in food, whether it comes from carbohydrates, proteins, or lipids, is stored in the body where?
[ "fat", "kidneys", "spleen", "bones" ]
fat
sciq
e5ca6be3-45c9-489a-a7cb-c7ae6aabe295
What helps determine the concentration of a species in a solution?
[ "quantitative analysis", "technical analysis", "fundamental analysis", "qualitative analysis" ]
quantitative analysis
sciq
7f3fb2f4-5a43-4398-b5be-e67fc2be14be
In order to survive and maintain what state, an organism must quickly adapt to changing environmental conditions?
[ "ketosis", "acclimatization", "regulation", "homeostasis" ]
homeostasis
sciq
4bc5b4a4-5a83-4eed-ba65-b203376844ed
What crust is thinner and denser than continental crust?
[ "asteroid", "coastal", "land", "oceanic" ]
oceanic
sciq
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What are the antibodies an animal produces after exposure to a microbial antigen?
[ "polyclonal", "isolated", "monoclonal", "chimeric" ]
polyclonal
sciq
18a5e6f2-efe6-41bf-9d40-b42b46d2dd72
How does heat travel from the sun to the earth?
[ "through light waves", "through sound waves", "thermal radiation from the sun", "secondary radiation from the sun" ]
thermal radiation from the sun
sciq
ef2b57a1-225a-432f-a06d-33b2426cc333
What were the first life forms found on earth similar to?
[ "bacteria", "ferns", "viruses", "mold" ]
bacteria
sciq
8ca530ba-dc2d-41a2-b10e-2f7cf1245fd1
Steel, bronze, and brass are examples of what?
[ "chemicals", "alloys", "oxides", "compounds" ]
alloys
sciq
792a743b-bf76-4762-be8d-d4c4c0a10d08
A pacemaker uses electrical shocks to stimulate the what to beat properly?
[ "liver", "pancreas", "brain", "heart" ]
heart
sciq
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What is the cloud of brown dust-like power that escapes when a puffball fungus is touched?
[ "ions", "pollon", "spores", "seeds" ]
spores
sciq
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What are the cone-like structures that contain sporangia called?
[ "gametes", "medulla", "strobili", "contrail" ]
strobili
sciq
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What are considered to be the smallest particles of matter?
[ "cells", "ions", "atoms", "molecules" ]
atoms
sciq
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The mechanics of dynein-based bending involve a process that resembles what?
[ "walking", "standing", "jumping", "running" ]
walking
sciq
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What type of creature is a scallop?
[ "algae", "mollusk", "vertabrate", "insect" ]
mollusk
sciq
b0a698d2-51ef-4f25-8468-1d81509f4d8e
The risk of what is raised by overexposure to the sun?
[ "skin cancer", "brain cancer", "particle cancer", "flux cancer" ]
skin cancer
sciq
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Which artery enters the cranium through the carotid canal in the temporal bone?
[ "internal carotid artery", "external carotid", "atrial artery", "venal artery" ]
internal carotid artery
sciq
1d596a5e-7dda-49fb-ae5f-c4871d12581c
How are aquatic biomes often classified?
[ "amount of salt", "amount of life", "amount of light", "depth" ]
amount of salt
sciq
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What is the most abundant type of biological entity on the earth?
[ "bacteria", "viruses", "insects", "reptiles" ]
viruses
sciq
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What is the most diverse and abundant group of organisms on earth, numbering in the millions of trillions?
[ "bacteria", "viruses", "pests", "pathogens" ]
bacteria
sciq
876e97f2-65a3-4fe7-ae4a-2b41e92be486
What kind of hormones are secreted by organs classified as gonads?
[ "growth hormones", "sex hormones", "anterior hormones", "cortisol hormones" ]
sex hormones
sciq
c7d0b1d9-5ecf-409b-9283-14accc966ac8
An oxy-acetylene torch is an effective way to cut what?
[ "wood", "coal", "metal", "plastic" ]
metal
sciq
3ad646f3-c76b-4073-9257-7cc52aa35c6b
What are the infoldings of the inner membrane called?
[ "brickle", "cristae", "lineage", "ceranae" ]
cristae
sciq
f8f41806-4ad2-48dd-aee5-57d32a4d8963
A channel protein is an example of what type of protein?
[ "hemoglobin protein", "choice proteins", "component proteins", "transport proteins" ]
transport proteins
sciq
a046c01e-1b25-46f2-a26a-30b291559bc3
Eight of the hottest years on record have occurred since what year?
[ "1997", "1991", "1998", "2002" ]
1998
sciq
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Average acceleration is the rate of change of what?
[ "velocity", "speed", "direction", "displacement" ]
velocity
sciq
cd2501ea-3086-4d3b-a95d-be87e70ead47
What is studied to understand gene expression patterns in cells?
[ "mutations", "dna", "rna", "protein" ]
rna
sciq
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Ribosomes are produced in the nucleolus, and then transported to the what?
[ "cerebellum", "cytoplasm", "cytoskeleton", "nucleus" ]
cytoplasm
sciq
50ecb46a-a738-4f11-ac2e-a44623f6ee8e
Ecosystem dynamics include more than the flow of energy and recycling of matter. ecosystems are also dynamic because they?
[ "never move", "stay the same", "recreate exactly alike", "change through time" ]
change through time
sciq
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Muscle contraction requires repeated cycles of binding and what?
[ "release", "twisting", "push", "lunging" ]
release
sciq
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An important chemical compound, which supplies living things with the energy they need to survive, is composed of carbon, oxygen and atoms of what other element?
[ "magnesium", "hydrogen", "calcium", "nitrogen" ]
hydrogen
sciq
63fa1f82-7a4a-4493-86a5-4546dbb2b852
What are the glands that secrete milk in a woman's breasts?
[ "lactic acids", "pituitary glands", "primordial glands", "mammary glands" ]
mammary glands
sciq
56dc4085-2380-47c9-8e82-37dbf8df3d3c
Like a thick cap covering the brain, the dura mater is a tough outer covering. the name comes from the latin for?
[ "difficult mother", "protecting mother", "back mother", "tough mother" ]
tough mother
sciq
14eeca60-2c0b-4c67-bf72-2b801bc18a8c
Which organisms get their energy source and carbon source from organic sources?
[ "chemoheterotrophs", "ectomorphs", "herbivores", "sporozoans" ]
chemoheterotrophs
sciq
e8817fba-a028-4161-ae09-a97f6dc679c5
What natural disaster is california most linked with?
[ "volcanoes", "fires", "earthquakes", "hurricanes" ]
earthquakes
sciq
c83806aa-1d5f-4f7b-b943-f7f2288a5fc2
Small crustaceans exchange gases across thin areas of the cuticle; larger species have what to accomplish this?
[ "lungs", "noses", "pores", "gills" ]
gills
sciq
1c1750b6-0c23-47d3-b5f9-076b96582d5b
The superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava are veins that return blood lacking what to the heart?
[ "carbon dioxide", "hemoglobin", "oxygen", "nitrogen" ]
oxygen
sciq
2813b28a-5118-47bc-b6b4-23e32c96f0f3
There are only four possible bases that make up each dna nucleotide: adenine, guanine, thymine, and?
[ "taurine", "cytosine", "phenylalanine", "guarine" ]
cytosine
sciq
5db56109-a4cd-4dec-a51d-772d8c4f2fc0
What affects the boiling point of water?
[ "heat source", "latter pressure", "internal pressure", "external pressure" ]
external pressure
sciq
e7d71a47-d3a1-4f89-8197-ea5243195548
The average length of a woman’s menstrual cycle is what?
[ "5 days", "16 days", "19 days", "28 days" ]
28 days
sciq
db0e9cfa-b4d9-480d-94c4-3ac32e680ac4
Water leaves ponds and lakes through evaporation and also as what?
[ "influx", "mid flow", "inflow", "outflow" ]
outflow
sciq
f8eb06f9-05c8-4c8f-9d0c-12c52eff1ec2
What is a biochemical compound that is a chain of amino acids called?
[ "lipids", "proteins", "hormones", "DNA" ]
proteins
sciq
671dc40c-de9a-4293-9ba6-6c0b44e5e4aa
Each what is made of two identical sister chromatids?
[ "genome", "gene", "helix", "chromosome" ]
chromosome
sciq
84f3dc8b-c744-4bae-b329-62b310341d2a
Amino groups are found within amino acids, nicknamed the building blocks of what?
[ "lipids", "proteins", "carbohydrates", "protons" ]
proteins
sciq
b6c0dfde-25f1-4ad4-9ee8-4a49af91717c
What is the name of earth’s only natural satellite?
[ "moon", "titan", "sun", "venus" ]
moon
sciq
a91d5f50-ef09-495c-8d96-332c218e2bb3
Which is the lightest of the widely used structural metals?
[ "potassium", "magnesium", "Metal", "calcium" ]
magnesium
sciq
aa50c54a-f208-476a-b0d5-afc18827ed0c
When lava flows over a large area and cools, it creates a large, flat surface of what type of rock?
[ "sedimentary", "metamorphic", "igneous", "tidal" ]
igneous
sciq
4f726b7d-2e90-413a-8eb9-92a134219f28
Examples of what process are evident in many biological systems because cells are surrounded by semipermeable membranes?
[ "osmosis", "photosynthesis", "apoptosis", "reproduction" ]
osmosis
sciq
f652c57a-1e7c-4bfc-9f2c-79a69a1d86dc
What does cartilage lack compared to bones, making it softer and less rigid?
[ "magnesium", "potassium", "protein", "calcium" ]
calcium
sciq
da9dfcdb-da21-4864-8f2a-05fc6617fd70
What three forms does frozen precipitation take?
[ "snow, sleet, freezing rain", "vapor, fog, ice", "blizzard, frost, fog", "hail, wind, typhoon" ]
snow, sleet, freezing rain
sciq
19ab23e5-1c51-4c20-a83e-64ac5b79bf23
What is a stream of moving water that flows through the ocean?
[ "tidal wave", "current", "creek", "waterfall" ]
current
sciq
84dc7b67-c6a1-4b12-b909-d1916f4007d4
The elbow is an example of a what type of joint?
[ "hinge joint", "toe joint", "frame joint", "pipe joint" ]
hinge joint
sciq
fd96acfc-1bbd-4888-9a2d-315ae1634c8c
The first leaves of most ferns appear curled up into what?
[ "volatiles", "petals", "nanotubes", "fiddleheads" ]
fiddleheads
sciq
feb8e844-b254-4839-a288-6836197fbae2
Electrophiles have a strong tendency to react with what?
[ "acids", "resistors", "nucleophiles", "neutrons" ]
nucleophiles
sciq
f5b0d9a4-5459-4bef-bda7-19c8b8500c0c
What layered form of carbon is used as a lubricant and in pencils?
[ "copper", "lead", "carbonite", "graphite" ]
graphite
sciq
9597e2d7-441b-4a1b-94e0-a0bfa0036348
What kind of solids have particles that are arranged in a regular repeating pattern?
[ "metabolic solids", "carbon-based solids", "salts", "crystalline solids" ]
crystalline solids
sciq
763a471f-cb9a-4772-ab95-ddd0a7e79a7d
During what in the small intestine do rings of smooth muscle repeatedly contract and then relax?
[ "compression", "mitosis", "contraction", "segmentation" ]
segmentation
sciq
7c0e21ce-85fb-4fda-93b2-0d0f1c2bf32a
Acetyl-coa is formed from the breakdown of carbohydrates, lipids, and what else?
[ "acids", "proteins", "hormones", "hydrocarbons" ]
proteins
sciq
e8599c14-23c4-4be8-9588-065922841d4a
Juvenile hormone modulates the activity of what?
[ "growth", "estrogen", "reproduction", "ecdysteroid" ]
ecdysteroid
sciq
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What causes the red color of laterite soils?
[ "toxins", "oxygen", "iron oxides", "erosion" ]
iron oxides
sciq
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The scientific process of collecting data outside the lab (in the "wild") is known as what kind of work?
[ "field work", "track work", "scientific investigation", "experimentation" ]
field work
sciq
f0bbc5df-f086-4f2f-ae71-f1daccfd9859
Red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma are all components of what fluid?
[ "heart", "brain", "Vessals", "blood" ]
blood
sciq
b72c6262-a023-4daf-af3b-444f5b70ad8d
Who created the idea of an evolutionary tree to represent the relationships between different species and their common ancestors?
[ "Isaac Newton", "Scopes", "Carl Sagan", "charles darwin" ]
charles darwin
sciq
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What organs absorb water and nutrients from the soil?
[ "roots", "leaves", "buds", "flowers" ]
roots
sciq
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What does magma that cools underground form?
[ "chambers", "fluctuations", "new crust", "instrusions" ]
instrusions
sciq
5372b9fd-b81a-4680-89b8-e04f68fb7eb8
Which season is moist, causing the most thunderstorms?
[ "winter", "autumn", "spring", "summer" ]
summer
sciq
a694ec54-a9d3-4735-ba50-ab31f019e016
What are the two hormones primarily responsible for maintaining homeostasis of blood glucose levels?
[ "insulin and estrogen", "anabolic and metabolic", "dopamine and melanin", "insulin and glucagon" ]
insulin and glucagon
sciq
764d93af-dbe3-47a9-867a-a4fdd81af14f
What important process takes place in specialized tissue inside plant leaves?
[ "photosynthesis", "mitosis", "reproduction", "pollination" ]
photosynthesis
sciq
4c311142-4dc3-451d-869f-76cdaa7ca84e
What type of plants were the first to evolve?
[ "cocklebur", "vascular", "nonvascular", "kilocalorie" ]
nonvascular
sciq
fbde4254-67f2-4750-8206-5f19994e9598
In multicellular organisms, specialized cells may be organized into what, which in turn may be organized into organs?
[ "nutrients", "blood cells", "tissues", "muscles" ]
tissues
sciq
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What are accessory digestive organs critical for breaking down?
[ "food", "hormones", "enzymes", "pathogens" ]
food
sciq
f59587d2-7f38-4388-911a-ce9eeb38005d
The direction of prevailing winds determines the type of what that usually moves over an area?
[ "air mass", "storm", "weather", "water mass" ]
air mass
sciq
a72fd279-ec0d-4110-aab1-ba07f859844f
As blood glucose levels rise what is released from the pancreas?
[ "estrogen", "adrenaline", "hemoglobin", "insulin" ]
insulin
sciq
98febe95-4b98-42a2-8b60-281b85b7e49b
Hydrocarbons are combined with oxygen in a series of enzymatic steps to product water, carbon dioxide, and energy, which is stored in the form of what?
[ "energy", "reactive molecules", "dormant molecules", "light" ]
reactive molecules
sciq
b050e610-45de-470e-b24d-260fadb56867
The validity of thought experiments, of course, is determined by this?
[ "theoretical observation", "hypothetical observation", "actual observation", "predictive observation" ]
actual observation
sciq
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What do you call a close relationship between two species that benefits both?
[ "parasitic relationship", "commensalism", "symbiotic relationship", "primordial relationship" ]
symbiotic relationship
sciq
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Generators convert mechanical energy to which kind?
[ "electrical", "static", "kinetic", "radiation" ]
electrical
sciq
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What is common in two eukaryotic proteins?
[ "cells", "translation", "one domain", "DNA" ]
one domain
sciq
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What do you call egg-shaped galaxies, which are reddish to yellowish in color because they contain mostly old stars?
[ "irregular galaxies", "elliptical galaxies", "conical galaxies", "spiral galaxies" ]
elliptical galaxies
sciq
55c65719-73ef-4270-a5f0-c63354851fff
When it was found that, without the force of gravity exerting pressure on the bones, bone mass was lost in astronauts, what kind of exercise provided an antidote?
[ "aerobic", "sedentary", "anaerobic", "resistive" ]
resistive
sciq
0103c8e9-121e-4459-950d-5a474d39830e
What can occur during periods of heavy rain?
[ "floods", "glaciers", "earthquakes", "volcanoes" ]
floods
sciq
fc0d663c-026d-401b-9db0-380f7397bfea
What type of energy can be used to change the position or shape of an object, thus giving it potential energy?
[ "kinetic energy", "harmonic energy", "static energy", "binary energy" ]
kinetic energy
sciq
efb72d68-3735-438b-b166-2881051f0b32
What equals the output power divided by the input power?
[ "efficiency", "potential", "inertia", "output" ]
efficiency
sciq
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Overpopulation takes place when the number of organisms in an area exceeds what?
[ "carrying capacity", "consumers", "biome size", "predators" ]
carrying capacity
sciq
9acd4c0e-50d4-45b7-8b8e-62795cd83b01
There are six fundamentally different kinds of nuclear decay reactions, and each releases a different kind of particle or what?
[ "mass", "mineral", "energy", "protein" ]
energy
sciq