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What do you call the fast-moving air currents high in the troposphere?
[ "wind streams", "jet streams", "cyclones", "stationary fronts" ]
jet streams
sciq
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What describes a close and long-term interaction between different species?
[ "dermatitis", "parasitic", "symbiosis", "endosymbiosis" ]
symbiosis
sciq
5d8d70ca-5c2a-486c-86f0-f80bcb95894e
Rudolf virchow developed the hypothesis that cells only come from other cells in what year?
[ "1898", "1848", "1858", "1868" ]
1858
sciq
4bc0fcd3-3ce1-4ee2-999e-e9019396e8de
Because they have free electrons, metals are able to conduct what?
[ "radiation", "electricity", "sound", "light" ]
electricity
sciq
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What are oil in folded layers of rock called?
[ "macroparticle", "oscillations", "dendrites", "anticlines" ]
anticlines
sciq
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Lymph vessels are like blood vessels, except they move what instead of blood?
[ "sperm", "marrow", "air", "lymph" ]
lymph
sciq
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During the first several weeks of development, the cells of the endometrium nourish what?
[ "nucleus", "embryo", "egg", "uterus" ]
embryo
sciq
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Which type of joints do not allow any movement of the bones?
[ "fitted", "fixed", "linked", "attached" ]
fixed
sciq
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What type of waves carry energy through matter or space as vibrating electric and magnetic fields?
[ "sound waves", "mechanical waves", "light waves", "electromagnetic waves" ]
electromagnetic waves
sciq
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What happens when water is removed from the endospore?
[ "its metabolism halts", "reversal", "hibernation", "suspension" ]
its metabolism halts
sciq
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What is the term for the intentional release or spread of agents of disease?
[ "bioterrorism", "pandemic", "plague", "diversion" ]
bioterrorism
sciq
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Two important types of waves include longitudinal waves and what other kind?
[ "irregular", "transverse", "slow", "phenomena" ]
transverse
sciq
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The motion of stars in galaxies imply that there is about 10 times as much what as in the luminous objects we can see?
[ "mass", "heat", "density", "light" ]
mass
sciq
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Polymers, ceramics, adhesives, coatings, and liquid crystals are examples of materials recently discovered or developed by what type of scientists?
[ "chemists", "engineers", "geologists", "material scientists" ]
chemists
sciq
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What does the urethra do?
[ "stores sperm and urine", "makes sperm and evacuates bowels", "filters urine and makes sperm", "carries urine and sperm out of the body" ]
carries urine and sperm out of the body
sciq
d6c9be96-2c49-4a9a-a7b4-add46baa091f
What is the term used to measure the intensity of sound waves?
[ "phon", "hertz", "decibel", "amplitude" ]
decibel
sciq
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What can be thought of as the most biologically productive regions on earth?
[ "coasts", "swamps", "estuaries", "forests" ]
estuaries
sciq
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What is the scientific term for farsightedness?
[ "hyperopia", "myopia", "hypoxia", "micropsia" ]
hyperopia
sciq
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During fetal development of the heart, what does the bulbus cordis develop into?
[ "right ventricle", "last ventricle", "left atrium", "right atrium" ]
right ventricle
sciq
9d0c1f7e-b3e8-4989-a8c7-f84854f7cc3d
A more crucial use of rc circuits for timing purposes is in the artificial pacemaker, used to control what?
[ "iron levels", "breathing rate", "heart rate", "blood pressure" ]
heart rate
sciq
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What causes earthquakes at mid-ocean ridges to be small and shallow?
[ "plates are thick , old , and hot", "plates are thin , young , and cold", "plates are thin , young , and hot", "plates are thick , young , and cold" ]
plates are thin , young , and hot
sciq
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Most geological activity takes place where?
[ "high altitudes", "ocean floor", "at plate boundaries", "center of plates" ]
at plate boundaries
sciq
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What do we call the amount of time it will take for half of the radioactive material to decay?
[ "one partial-life", "one full-life", "one quarter-life", "one half-life" ]
one half-life
sciq
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What are organisms that depend on other living things for food?
[ "consumers", "customers", "products", "buyers" ]
consumers
sciq
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Which part of the nerve cell helps transmit nerve impulses?
[ "cell walls", "long, threadlike extensions", "synapses", "dendrites" ]
long, threadlike extensions
sciq
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Mount kilimanjaro has ________ climates at the top and bottom?
[ "rainy", "different", "similar", "dangerous" ]
different
sciq
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What physical process occurs when large chunks of food are broken down into smaller pieces?
[ "peristalsis", "mechanical digestion", "swallowing", "chemical digestion" ]
mechanical digestion
sciq
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What is the term for the early growth and development of a plant embryo inside a seed?
[ "fertilization", "rumination", "germination", "secretion" ]
germination
sciq
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Elements are either metals, nonmetals, or what?
[ "semimetals", "reactive metals", "unstable metals", "partial metals" ]
semimetals
sciq
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Shield volcanoes often form along which locations?
[ "fault lines", "convergent boundaries", "tectonic plates", "divergent plate boundaries" ]
divergent plate boundaries
sciq
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What is the study of the vital statistics of populations and how they change over time?
[ "ethnography", "anthropology", "demography", "sociology" ]
demography
sciq
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Compared to free-floating bacteria, bacteria in biofilms often show increased resistance to what?
[ "antibiotics and detergents", "acid and antibiotics", "acid and detergents", "alcohol and detergents" ]
antibiotics and detergents
sciq
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What type of energy travels in waves across space as well as through matter?
[ "kinetic energy", "electromagnetic radiation", "thermal energy", "mechanical radiation" ]
electromagnetic radiation
sciq
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If an elephant and a boy are falling towards the ground, who will land first?
[ "the boy", "both same time", "neither will land", "the elephant" ]
both same time
sciq
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Designed to support the weight of the upper body when sitting and transfer this weight to the lower limbs when standing, what body structure consists of four bones: right and left hip bones, sacrum, and coccyx?
[ "pelvis", "tissues", "lungs", "Chest" ]
pelvis
sciq
aeec2367-1fc3-44c9-aaa2-5a83f2d36c32
Of all the electromagnetic waves, which have the lowest frequencies?
[ "X-rays", "radio waves", "ultraviolet rays", "gamma rays" ]
radio waves
sciq
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What do you call reversible changes that do not change matter’s chemical makeup or chemical properties?
[ "chemical changes", "physical changes", "element changes", "potential changes" ]
physical changes
sciq
2b9d5591-9097-4711-8ace-774ccd8f6699
Free atoms are spherical in shape, so the relative sizes of the elements can be compared by looking at each atom's atomic what?
[ "angles", "axis", "radius", "weight" ]
radius
sciq
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What types of energy is released during a chemical reaction?
[ "temperature , electricity , light", "heat, electricity, light", "human, magnetic, electrical", "magnetism, electricity, light" ]
heat, electricity, light
sciq
9ba8919f-318f-4e12-b770-f8af90c94b2e
What is the most common type of organic compound?
[ "carbohydrates", "hydrocarbons", "proteins", "lipids" ]
carbohydrates
sciq
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Hormones, ions, and neurotransmitters are all types of what?
[ "nutrients", "proteins", "pathogens", "chemical signals" ]
chemical signals
sciq
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What explains why water molecules tend to stick together?
[ "mineral bonds", "covalent bonds", "hydrogen bonds", "helium bonds" ]
hydrogen bonds
sciq
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The maturing follicle, containing a fluid-filled cavity, enlarges, forming a bulge near the surface of what?
[ "the vagina", "the abdomen", "the ovary", "the pelvis" ]
the ovary
sciq
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Storm surge is very high water located in the low pressure eye of what?
[ "hurricanes", "tornados", "eruptions", "earthquakes" ]
hurricanes
sciq
d3621d8f-cb3a-45e8-a271-10909b1fe9c9
What is a waste product from fossil fuel burning?
[ "co2 emissions", "oxidation", "smog", "hydrogen gas" ]
co2 emissions
sciq
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Carbon dioxide is an example of a material that easily undergoes what?
[ "amplification", "spontaneous mutation", "decomposition", "sublimation" ]
sublimation
sciq
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What is the term for daily cycles of behavior, like the sleep-wake cycle?
[ "daily rhythms", "circadian rhythms", "variable rhythms", "behavioral rhythms" ]
circadian rhythms
sciq
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What organ senses sound?
[ "teeth", "ear", "brain", "eyes" ]
ear
sciq
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The total energy assimilated by an ecosystem in a give period is known as what?
[ "size primary production", "gross primary production", "mean primary production", "median primary production" ]
gross primary production
sciq
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Class bivalvia (“two shells”) includes clams, oysters, mussels, scallops, and these?
[ "geoducks", "octopuss", "grendels", "crabs" ]
geoducks
sciq
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When does a caldera form?
[ "after a hurricane", "after an eruption", "when faults form", "before an eruption" ]
after an eruption
sciq
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The mass lost in mass defect has gone into energy called what?
[ "kinetic energy", "momentum", "enthalpy", "binding energy" ]
binding energy
sciq
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What is used for the fermentation process that makes beer, wine, and bread?
[ "whey", "barley", "yeast", "fungi" ]
yeast
sciq
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Plant viruses can seriously disrupt crop growth and development, significantly affecting our what?
[ "harvest supply", "air supply", "food supply", "fuel supply" ]
food supply
sciq
daf649ea-66f0-4d54-9423-a2f47fcbb217
In the past, biologists grouped living organisms into five kingdoms: animals, plants, fungi, protists, and what?
[ "bacteria", "trees", "lizards", "pathogens" ]
bacteria
sciq
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What kind of joints allow for a wide range of flexibility?
[ "anchor", "pivot", "ball and socket", "lever" ]
ball and socket
sciq
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The human body wants to maintain equilibrium or balance, also known as what?
[ "perfection", "stability", "heterostasis", "homeostasis" ]
homeostasis
sciq
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Natural gas, such as those burned by gas stoves, is composed mostly of this?
[ "methane", "sulfur", "carbon monoxide", "oxygen" ]
methane
sciq
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Which is the process through which leaves collect sunlight and make food?
[ "richness", "photosynthesis", "compress", "Greenhouse" ]
photosynthesis
sciq
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What model describes the structure of the plasma membrane as a mosaic of components?
[ "sensors mosaic model", "solid mosaic model", "coolant mosaic model", "fluid mosaic model" ]
fluid mosaic model
sciq
8d53e2de-148c-484e-af12-70d0ebb8ea4b
The hot liquid rock on the surface is called what?
[ "flow", "lava", "Molten", "volcano" ]
lava
sciq
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The first consumption of breast milk or formula floods the newborn’s sterile gastrointestinal tract with beneficial what?
[ "bacteria", "pathogens", "oxygen", "disease" ]
bacteria
sciq
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Clouds are formed from what?
[ "snow flakes", "water droplets", "dust particles", "ice crystals" ]
water droplets
sciq
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After spermatids form, they move where to mature into sperm?
[ "into the epididymis", "into the volaris", "into the prostate", "into the vans deferens" ]
into the epididymis
sciq
0250cc28-8b07-4669-ad32-5af382b777d0
Matter can exist either as a pure substance or as a combination of what?
[ "different substances", "much substances", "different vapors", "Different Liquids" ]
different substances
sciq
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What is the separation of compounds on the basis of their solubilities in a given solvent?
[ "fractional crystallization", "volatile crystallization", "fractional mass", "solvent law" ]
fractional crystallization
sciq
cf8bf0c9-6d65-4b31-a2e8-4c7932c82d7e
Triploblasts include a broad range of animals, from flatworms to arthropods to what?
[ "cells", "vertebrates", "invertebrates", "mammals" ]
vertebrates
sciq
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What is the release of particles and/or energy from the nucleus of an atom described as?
[ "temperature", "radioactivity", "kinetic energy", "momentum" ]
radioactivity
sciq
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Through which process do behaviors that improve fitness increase?
[ "adaptation", "succession", "mutation", "natural selection" ]
natural selection
sciq
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Enzymes - proteins which speed up what?
[ "physical reactions", "liquid reactions", "chemical reactions", "crystals reactions" ]
chemical reactions
sciq
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What do you call the sudden flow of mud down a slope because of gravity?
[ "rockflow", "mountainside", "typhoon", "mudslide" ]
mudslide
sciq
fc6e5fb9-9ec5-4517-babf-fe0e0cc9a57a
What causes acid rain, ozone depletion, and global warming?
[ "ozone layer", "water pollution", "radiation", "air pollution" ]
air pollution
sciq
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The amniotes are distinguished from amphibians by the presence of a terrestrially adapted egg protected by what?
[ "hard shell", "amniotic membranes", "yolk", "albumen" ]
amniotic membranes
sciq
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The cells of what basic plant structure lack chloroplasts?
[ "ferns", "leaf", "stem", "root" ]
root
sciq
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What muscle in the chest helps inflate and deflate the lungs?
[ "heart", "cartilage", "diaphragm", "pectoral" ]
diaphragm
sciq
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Where in the lungs does gas exchange between the air and blood takes place?
[ "ganglion", "alveoli", "left lobe", "bronchial tube" ]
alveoli
sciq
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What are hollow cylinders and are the thickest of the cytoskeleton structures?
[ "nucleotides", "cytoplasm", "microtubules", "vesicles" ]
microtubules
sciq
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What simple sugar is the cell's primary source of energy?
[ "nicotine", "glucose", "chloride", "carbon" ]
glucose
sciq
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What is the approximate population on the earth?
[ "9 trillion", "7.3 billion", "41 billion", "7 billion" ]
7 billion
sciq
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A change in the sequence of bases in dna or rna is called a what?
[ "accumulation", "infection", "isolation", "mutation" ]
mutation
sciq
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What is the product of microfilament movement powered by chemical energy?
[ "nerve stimulation", "blood circulation", "muscle fusion", "muscle contraction" ]
muscle contraction
sciq
d188c3df-e140-4964-933f-4fa232ac1e94
What is a measure of how much energy is needed to change the temperature of a substance?
[ "specific heat", "specific gravity", "thermal potential", "momentum" ]
specific heat
sciq
601b880e-b193-4643-ad30-0f8bc50c3553
What is the common term for animals in the phylum porifera?
[ "corals", "sharks", "sponges", "crustaceans" ]
sponges
sciq
b88ddb52-b146-4587-a4e9-2490a5810805
What term is used to describe a change in the characteristics of living things over time?
[ "evolution", "generation", "customization", "reproduction" ]
evolution
sciq
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What can accept a wide range of carbohydrates for catabolism?
[ "glycolysis", "photosynthesis", "cellular respiration", "enzymes" ]
glycolysis
sciq
0b9d0be5-69a0-4e0d-8b8a-6aa54eb47e83
What includes all living things within all their environments, including everywhere life exists, from the upper atmosphere, to the top of the soil, to ocean bottoms?
[ "habitat", "biome", "biosphere", "community" ]
biosphere
sciq
eafc9ac1-e3ac-4a34-9c2e-5330389d3aac
What is unique and found in all living things because it can form up to four covalent bonds between atoms or molecules?
[ "potassium", "hydrogen", "carbon", "oxygen" ]
carbon
sciq
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What kind of rock is gypsum?
[ "sedimentary", "igneous", "metamorphic", "basalt" ]
sedimentary
sciq
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What component of a prokaryote is unique in molecular composition and mechanism of propulsion?
[ "the membrane", "the amoeba", "the flagella", "the sporangia" ]
the flagella
sciq
029eb1b5-62b6-44d9-8e93-83821e0965a2
The sum of the masses of the atoms in the formula is referred to as what?
[ "magnetic mass", "atomic mass", "nucleus mass", "molecular mass" ]
molecular mass
sciq
69f42aa9-17ee-46a3-af0d-9f7361e4af19
What size of ring will a summer drought cause in a tree?
[ "giant", "smaller", "larger", "medium" ]
smaller
sciq
bc4865f1-2bda-43d6-8aba-a521551f1090
What is the technical term for species that produce their own body heat and regulate their internal temperature independently of the outside temperature?
[ "hydrostatic", "Phototrophic", "endothermic", "osmotic" ]
endothermic
sciq
812ca218-3296-4aaa-824b-c05fe98bcf5e
What is the transparent outer covering of the eye?
[ "iris", "cornea", "pupil", "retina" ]
cornea
sciq
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Photoreceptors in each ocellus receive light only through the opening where there are none of which cells?
[ "opqaue", "secreted", "pigmented", "clear" ]
pigmented
sciq
2e7262ea-d308-4f5f-b285-346a2e91e16d
What helps form the walls of internal organs such as the heart and stomach?
[ "muscles", "tissues", "valves", "blood" ]
muscles
sciq
b43a94f8-e874-46cf-930b-3a9993f27f45
How many valence electrons does helium have?
[ "two", "three", "six", "Five" ]
two
sciq
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What is continuously changing within a circuit in an analog signal?
[ "energy", "voltage", "amplitude", "frequency" ]
voltage
sciq
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What is made and stored primarily in the cells of the liver and muscles?
[ "carbon dioxide", "glucose", "glycogen", "oxygen" ]
glycogen
sciq
ae610899-d4e9-4754-94d7-c3f1c61f0e03
Electromagnetic waves vary in wavelength and in what property, which is lower in waves of longer wavelengths?
[ "density", "frequency", "resonance", "size" ]
frequency
sciq
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In the case of transverse waves, the movement of the medium is perpendicular to the direction of the what?
[ "energy movement", "fuel movement", "friction movement", "pressure movement" ]
energy movement
sciq