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What is defined as the amount of force acting on a given area? A. power B. energy C. resistance D. pressure Answer:
D
What system consists of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream? A. nervous system B. the endocrine system C. Muscular system D. Respiratory system Answer:
B
Where are the oceans most polluted? A. along coasts B. in warmer waters C. along reefs D. on the ocean floor Answer:
A
What organelles are known as the energy "powerhouses" of the cells? A. carbohydrates B. mitochondria C. proteins D. atoms Answer:
B
What is the effect on pressure when the area of applied force is very concentrated? A. pressure reduces B. pressure disperses C. direction increases D. pressure increases Answer:
D
What two elements primarily make up the sun? A. oxygen and hydrogen B. hydrogen and helium C. calcium and helium D. nitrogen and argon Answer:
B
Adipose is a connective tissue made up of cells called what? A. hepatocytes B. oocytes C. keratinocytes D. adipocytes Answer:
D
Where are about 75% of the tar sands in the world located? A. venezuela and onatrio,canada B. alberta, canada and peru C. venezuela and alberta, canada D. china and onatrio, canada Answer:
C
Does pressure increase or decrease when gas particles heat up? A. decreases B. stays constant C. increase D. stagnates Answer:
C
What are the two most common vision problems? A. glaucoma and nearsightedness B. colorblindness and farsightedness C. colorblindness and nearsightedness D. nearsightedness and farsightedness Answer:
D
What is the pair of bean-shaped organs that filters blood and produces urine? A. arteries B. lungs C. kidneys D. heart Answer:
C
Met, asn, trp, and gln connect together like beads on a necklace and are an example of what type of acids? A. organism acids B. peptic acids C. amino acids D. polymer acids Answer:
C
What is a carbon-based compound that is found in living things called? A. genetic compound B. organic compound C. biological compound D. biochemical compound Answer:
D
What do you call a mirror shaped like the inside of a bowl? A. circular B. curved C. convex D. concave Answer:
D
Ions that contain fewer electrons than protons have a net positive charge and are called what? A. anions B. particles C. oxides D. cations Answer:
D
What factors consist of parts of the environment that are or were alive, and their remains? A. biotic factors B. abiotic factors C. decomposition factors D. xerophytic factors Answer:
A
What is another name for a reasonable explanation for something that might be formed near the beginning of a scientific inquiry into a problem? A. hypothesis B. experiment C. theory D. conclusion Answer:
A
What is the logarithmic scale that measures the largest jolt of energy released by an earthquake called? A. richter scale B. Shake scale C. Geiger counter D. tremor scale Answer:
A
Polarization occurs between a charged and what other object? A. neutral B. molecular C. motionless D. obsolete Answer:
A
Glucose, fructose, and other sugars that have six carbons are called what? A. catalysts B. hexoses C. fluxes D. alcohols Answer:
B
What is precipitation that flows over the surface of the land? A. blizzard B. seawater C. runoff D. storm surge Answer:
C
What is the method that is a plan for asking questions and testing possible answers called? A. forecasting B. sample size C. independent variable D. scientific investigation Answer:
D
What branch of physics deals with the smallest units of elements and compounds? A. gravity B. atomic C. oxygen D. quantum Answer:
B
What kinds of acids are proteins made out of? A. acetic acids B. amino acids C. protein acids D. sequence acids Answer:
B
Whisk ferns have yellow sporangia and no what? A. stems B. leaves C. flowers D. roots Answer:
B
Do tropical regions have very high or very low rates of immigration? A. medium B. very high C. too high D. low Answer:
B
What type of experiment involves two identical experiments carried out side-by-side, with and without an independent variable? A. blind test B. defined experiment C. controlled experiment D. trial run Answer:
C
How does the core of the sun radiate energy? A. nuclear fusion B. electrical radiation C. carbon radiation D. nuclear fission Answer:
A
What is the concentration of gas molecules in the mesosphere? A. very low density B. medium density C. high density D. low density Answer:
A
What type of energy causes erosion at the shore? A. tidal B. potential C. wave D. kinetic Answer:
C
Long distance runners try to maintain constant velocity with very little acceleration or deceleration to conserve what? A. energy B. pressure C. momentum D. fuel Answer:
A
What is the smallest particle of an element that still has the element’s properties? A. an atom B. a nucleus C. an ion D. an electron Answer:
A
A biofilm is a colony of what that is stuck to a surface such as a rock or a host’s tissues? A. eukaryotes B. vacuoles C. prokaryotes D. insects Answer:
C
The stem of a horsetail is characterized by the presence of joints, or nodes: hence the name arthrophyta, which means this? A. solid plant B. elongated plant C. jointed plant D. molted plant Answer:
C
What do power plants burn to generate electricity? A. nuclear fuel B. fossil fuels C. biofuel D. timber Answer:
B
What organ lets us understand what we see, hear, or sense in other ways, and allows us to use language, learn, think, and remember? A. heart B. bone C. Kidneys D. brain Answer:
D
What is the more common term for ethanoic acid, the active substance in vinegar? A. amino acid B. acetic acid C. methyl acid D. polymer acid Answer:
B
What type of pollution results from the contaminants that enter a waterway or water body through a single site? A. targeted source pollution B. simple source pollution C. liquid source pollution D. point source pollution Answer:
D
What are the "chemical messenger" molecules used by the endocrine system? A. axons B. hormones C. acids D. enzymes Answer:
B
Many innovative farming methods can prevent what type of erosion, which is especially important in agriculture? A. vegetable erosion B. soil erosion C. plains erosion D. fertilizer erosion Answer:
B
As the atoms approach one another, their electron clouds gradually begin to do what? A. overlap B. magnetize C. disappear D. shrink Answer:
A
What force holds together both types of star clusters? A. magnetism B. weight C. gravity D. inertia Answer:
C
What are the rod-like structures made of short microtubules that play an important part in cellular division? A. centrioles B. mitochondria C. cilia D. fibrils Answer:
A
Vertebrates with four limbs are also called what? A. tetrapods B. Amphibians C. Birds D. Mammals Answer:
A
What is the name of the disorder of the arteries in which cholesterol and other materials are deposited on the interior of the arterial wall? A. anemia B. arthritis C. atherosclerosis D. paralysis Answer:
C
What is defined as a close relationship between organisms of different species in which at least one of the organisms benefits? A. endosymbiosis B. parasitic C. co-operative D. symbiosis Answer:
D
What do you call the force identified by a north and south pole? A. normal force B. gravity C. magnetism D. buoyancy Answer:
C
The voltage of a voltaic cell can be determined by the reduction potentials of what? A. full reactions B. old reactions C. half reactions D. thermal reactions Answer:
C
What type of fatty acids have bent chains? A. lipids B. cholesterol C. unsaturated fatty acids D. saturated fatty acids Answer:
C
All seed plants and a few seedless vascular plants are what? A. protozoans B. zygotes C. homosporous D. heterosporous Answer:
D
The three segments of arthropods are the head, thorax and what? A. abdomen B. antennae C. chest D. appendages Answer:
A
A notochord has in common with what vertbrate structure? A. rib cage B. spinal cord C. rip chord D. trichord Answer:
B
Most members of what mammalian order possess opposable thumbs? A. primates B. marsupials C. amphibians D. rodents Answer:
A
What refers to a group of individual organisms of the same species that live closely together? A. a flock B. a colony C. a enviroment D. a habitat Answer:
B
The rise in greenhouse gases has what effect on the temperature of earth? A. it increases B. more moderate C. no effect D. it drops Answer:
A
What two types of atoms bond to form sulfate minerals? A. oxygen and calcium B. carbon and sulfur C. oxygen and sulfur D. oxygen and carbon Answer:
C
Where does groundwater primarily come from? A. erosion B. sediment C. precipitation D. evaporation Answer:
C
What determines sex in animals? A. cell density B. cell structure C. ribosomes D. sex chromosomes Answer:
D
The joints of the carpal bones in the wrist are examples of what type of joints? A. digit joints B. planar joints C. filter joints D. isojoints Answer:
B
If a unit is named after a person it needs to be? A. forgotten B. squandered C. capitalized D. short Answer:
C
What is the name for the inner lining of the uterus? A. the uterine shell B. cuticle C. the epidermis D. the endometrium Answer:
D
What is it called when currents keep reversing direction? A. stream current B. alternating current C. circle current D. emitting current Answer:
B
What is the name given to anything that has mass and takes up space? A. matter B. molecule C. vacuum D. organism Answer:
A
What is the upper most level of earth's layers called? A. mantle B. surface C. volcanic D. crust Answer:
D
What are secreted into the gi tract by organs of the gi tract or from a nearby gland named the pancreas? A. insulin and pepsin B. digestive enzymes C. stomach acid D. bile Answer:
B
In what organ does pepsin help break down proteins? A. liver B. kidney C. stomach D. skin Answer:
C
What begins when a neuron receives a chemical stimulus? A. a metabolism impulse B. a induce impulse C. a nerve impulse D. nerve reaction Answer:
C
Pink snapdragons are an example of what? A. cloning B. grafting C. incomplete dominance D. nh3 hybridization Answer:
C
Air quality is a measure of what in the air? A. pollutants B. water C. clouds D. gases Answer:
A
What do solar cells convert the energy in sunlight into? A. experimental energy B. electrical energy C. subsequent energy D. free energy Answer:
B
Both endotherms and ectotherms control what through behavioral responses to changes in the environment? A. sleep cycles B. gas temperature C. hormones D. body temperature Answer:
D
What occurs when the bronchioles swell and the muscles around the bronchioles contract? A. bronchitis B. allergies C. asthma D. nausea Answer:
C
What giant planet is far away from and much less dense than earth? A. mars B. uranus C. venus D. jupiter Answer:
D
Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa are examples of what, the term for a disease-causing microorganism? A. microbe B. fungus C. germ D. pathogen Answer:
D
Newton’s third law of motion describes what property of forces that means balance? A. acceleration B. gravity C. magnetism D. symmetry Answer:
D
Translation is the second part of the central dogma of what? A. molecular biology B. molecular gastronomy C. string theory D. relativity Answer:
A
What helps us see rainbows in the sky? A. spectral light B. visible light C. prism D. myopia Answer:
B
How the individuals in a population are spread throughout their habitat is referred to as what? A. population spread B. population habitation C. population distribution D. habitual distribution Answer:
C
The passenger pigeon, the dodo bird, and the woolly mammoth represent individual cases of what fate? A. compression B. extinction C. isolation D. accumulation Answer:
B
Both fats and oils are made up of long chains of carbon atoms that are bonded together. what are these chains called? A. amino acids B. nucleic acids C. fatty acids D. metabolic acids Answer:
C
What adds phosphate groups to receptor proteins at the surface of the cell? A. brain kinases B. nitrogen kinases C. receptor kinases D. protein kinases Answer:
C
Cold fronts in winter may bring what type of storm? A. snow storm B. monsoon C. showers D. typhoon Answer:
A
What is added to alcohol and used as an antiseptic? A. chlorine B. arsenic C. iodine D. chloride Answer:
C
Excretion of ions occurs mainly through what organ? A. tissues B. Heart C. kidneys D. lungs Answer:
C
Acids can also react with metals, and when they do they produce what? A. alloys B. rust C. potassium gas D. hydrogen gas Answer:
D
Convection is the transfer of what type of energy by particles moving through a fluid? A. Chemical B. atmospheric C. thermal D. Nuclear Answer:
C
Foresters commonly inoculate pine seedlings with a type of what to promote growth? A. yeast B. proteins C. soil D. fungi Answer:
D
What are animal fats and oils such as olive and vegetable oil classified as? A. amino acids B. inorganic compounds C. lipids D. proteins Answer:
C
What type of alloys are used in musical instruments? A. bronze B. copper C. plastics D. brass Answer:
D
Osteoclasts and osteoblasts play key roles in repair of what? A. liver B. heart C. brain D. bone Answer:
D
What is the general shape of centrioles? A. arc B. spherical C. rod D. oval Answer:
C
Why does water infiltrate the ground? A. run-off from flooding B. gravity C. prolonged drought conditions D. because soil and rocks are porous Answer:
D
What is the upward force exerted by fluids when any object, such as a boat, is placed in it? A. human force B. bouyant force C. impetuous force D. atomic force Answer:
B
What do dendrites receive signals from? A. fibers B. electrons C. neurons D. hormones Answer:
C
What is the term for the exchange of genetic material between non-sister chromatids of homologous chromosomes? A. inheritance B. asexual reproduction C. meiosis D. crossing-over Answer:
D
What must be overcome to change the motion of an object? A. weight B. pressure C. density D. inertia Answer:
D
Which action of the stomach helps chemical digestion by gastric juice? A. peristalsis B. churning action C. contraction D. chewing Answer:
B
What two lenses comprise a compound microscope? A. objective and eyepiece B. scope and focus C. concave and convex D. polarized and focal Answer:
A
Physical and chemical differences help ecologists distinguish between freshwater and marine types of what? A. habitats B. biomes C. microbiomes D. cities Answer:
B
What are the organic compounds that the body needs in small amounts to function properly; humans need 13 different ones? A. proteins B. nutrients C. minerals D. vitamins Answer:
D