prompt
stringlengths
51
646
completion
stringclasses
8 values
source
stringclasses
3 values
What is the stored food in a seed called? A. endosperm B. membrane C. pollin D. larval Answer:
A
sciq
Zinc is more easily oxidized than iron because zinc has a lower reduction potential. since zinc has a lower reduction potential, it is a more what? A. Trap metal B. active metal C. much metal D. usually metal Answer:
B
sciq
What is controlled by both genes and experiences in a given envionment? A. animal behaviors B. reflexes C. learned behaviors D. instincts Answer:
A
sciq
What tells you how much of the food you should eat to get the nutrients listed on the label? A. serving size B. longer size C. regular size D. scoop size Answer:
A
sciq
What are used to write nuclear equations for radioactive decay? A. nuclear symbols B. critical symbols C. radioactive symbols D. trigonometric symbols Answer:
A
sciq
What is controlled by regulatory proteins that bind to regulatory elements on dna? A. amino acids B. mRNA C. gene transcription D. substance transcription Answer:
C
sciq
Boron only occurs naturally in compounds with what element? A. helium B. nitrogen C. oxygen D. carbon Answer:
C
sciq
What organ systems link exchange surfaces with cells throughout the body? A. circulatory B. pulmonary C. vascular D. nervous Answer:
A
sciq
What occurs when the immune system attacks a harmless substance that enters the body from the outside? A. plague B. panic attack C. allergy D. nausea Answer:
C
sciq
Fertilization is the union of a sperm and egg, resulting in the formation of what? A. a nuclei B. a bacteriophage C. a cytoplasm D. a zygote Answer:
D
sciq
The plants alternation between haploid and diploud generations allow it to do what? A. reproduce sexually and autonomously B. reproduce asexually and biologically C. reproduce asexually and simultaneously D. reproduce asexually and sexually Answer:
D
sciq
Most of the chemical reactions in the body are facilitated by what? A. vitamins B. enzymes C. proteins D. carbohydrates Answer:
B
sciq
What is the termination of a pregnancy in progress called? A. miscarriage B. abortion C. delivery D. contraception Answer:
B
sciq
Cutting down on the use of chemical fertilizers and preserving wetlands are ways to prevent what "unlivable" regions in bodies of water? A. inhabitable zones B. hostile zones C. fresh zones D. dead zones Answer:
D
sciq
Which muscles allow your fingers to also make precise movements for actions? A. intrinsic muscles B. fine movement muscles C. motoric muscles D. paired muscles Answer:
A
sciq
Testing what usually requires making observations or performing experiments? A. hypothesis B. conclusion C. variables D. homeostasis Answer:
A
sciq
This sharing of electrons produces what is known as a covalent bond. covalent bonds are ~20 to 50 times stronger than what? A. Newton's third law B. gravitational pull C. van der waals interactions D. Mendelian systems Answer:
C
sciq
Water molecules move about continuously due to what type of energy? A. kinetic B. optical C. seismic D. potential Answer:
A
sciq
A small scale version of what type of map displays individual rock units? A. geographic map B. seismic map C. geologic map D. polar map Answer:
C
sciq
What is defined as a change in the inherited traits of organisms over time? A. divergence B. generation C. evolution D. variation Answer:
C
sciq
What hormone, which is associated with luteinizing hormone and male sexuality, helps bring about physical changes in puberty? A. testosterone B. estrogen C. steroids D. epinephrine Answer:
A
sciq
Where do angiosperms produce seeds in flowers? A. cones B. ovaries C. testes D. germs Answer:
B
sciq
In order to create food, what do photosynthetic protists use? A. hydrocarbons B. light energy C. thermal energy D. decayed matter Answer:
B
sciq
What type of vertebrates are birds? A. epidermal tetrapod B. endothermic tetrapod C. invertebrates D. exothermic Answer:
B
sciq
What type of ions do ionic compounds contain? A. positive and charged B. positive and negative C. regular and irregular D. negative and neutal Answer:
B
sciq
All living things need air and this to survive? A. habitat B. ecosystem C. stimuli D. water Answer:
D
sciq
The cells of all eukarya have a what? A. nucleus B. epidermis C. chloroplast D. necrosis Answer:
A
sciq
What type of plate boundaries produce huge mountain ranges in the ocean basin? A. tractional B. divergent C. parallel D. coherent Answer:
B
sciq
Interstitial carbides are produced by the reaction of most transition metals at high temperatures with what element? A. oxygen B. carbon C. nitrogen D. hydrogen Answer:
B
sciq
Fungus-like protist saprobes play what role in a food chain and are specialized to absorb nutrients from nonliving organic matter, such as dead organisms or their wastes? A. decomposers B. Soil C. aphids D. fluxes Answer:
A
sciq
What are the sites of protein synthesis or assembly? A. chromosomes B. ribosomes C. plasma D. chloroplasts Answer:
B
sciq
What must replicate in the cell cycle before meiosis i takes place? A. cell walls B. sperm C. dna D. meiotic fluid Answer:
C
sciq
What phenomenon is primarily the result of plate tectonic motions? A. eruption B. volcanoes C. tsunamis D. earthquake Answer:
D
sciq
What is a group of neuron cell bodies in the periphery called? A. organism B. crystals C. ganglion D. gangism Answer:
C
sciq
Where does most of our food come from? A. microbes B. gymnosperms C. angiosperms D. lichen Answer:
C
sciq
Gases are most ideal at high temperature and what pressure? A. stable B. absolute C. high D. low Answer:
D
sciq
Hard igneous rocks and easily dissolved sedimentary rocks respond very differently to what natural force? A. gravity B. weathering C. evaporation D. sunlight Answer:
B
sciq
A diet rich in calcium and what vitamin may reduce the risk of osteoporosis and related bone fractures? A. niacin B. vitamin A C. vitamin C D. vitamin d Answer:
D
sciq
How many people die from air pollution each year? A. 5 million B. 22 million C. 17 million D. 14 million Answer:
B
sciq
What substances serve as catalysts in most of the biochemical reactions that take place in organisms? A. iseotrops B. hormones C. carbohydrates D. enzymes Answer:
D
sciq
The formation of an amalgam allows the metal to react with what? A. cloth and plastic B. helium and oxygen C. air and water D. blood and sweat Answer:
C
sciq
A pulley changes the direction of the force t exerted by the cord without changing its what? A. position B. longitude C. latitude D. magnitude Answer:
D
sciq
What is the name of the small bumps that contain taste buds and covers the tongue? A. cuticle B. papillae C. lingual tonsils D. palatine tonsils Answer:
B
sciq
In the absence of air resistance, all falling objects accelerate at the same rate due to what force? A. gravity B. weight C. velocity D. motion Answer:
A
sciq
The ability for a plasma membrane to only allow certain molecules in or out of the cell is referred to as what? A. total permeability B. moderate permeability C. periodic permeability D. selective permeability Answer:
D
sciq
In the presence of oxygen, hydrogen can interact to make what? A. helium B. acid C. carbon D. water Answer:
D
sciq
What galaxy is our solar system a part of? A. Bode's Galaxy B. Centaurus C. Andromeda D. milky way Answer:
D
sciq
The angle at which light bends when it enters a different medium is known as what? A. frequency B. resonance C. refraction D. bounce Answer:
C
sciq
Whether the organism is a bacterium, plant, or animal, all living things access energy by breaking down these? A. lipid molecules B. carbohydrate molecules C. protein molecules D. oxygen molecules Answer:
B
sciq
Increasing the temperature of n2 molecules increases what energy of motion? A. residual energy B. kinetic energy C. emotional energy D. compression energy Answer:
B
sciq
Which radio frequency should you listen to if you want less noise? A. am B. fm C. cb D. wave Answer:
B
sciq
What form of radiation is the energy emitted by the sun? A. thermal B. magnetic C. electromagnetic D. seismic Answer:
C
sciq
What is the suns innermost layer called? A. core B. solar C. surface D. flare Answer:
A
sciq
A growth spurt requires constant divisions of what? A. hairs B. cells C. seeds D. proteins Answer:
B
sciq
What's the term for the gradual progression from simple plants to larger more complex ones in an area? A. complex progression B. primary succession C. pattern progression D. primary pattern Answer:
B
sciq
Fungi may form mutualistic relationships with plants, algae, cyanobacteria, and what? A. eggs B. farmers C. animals D. plants Answer:
C
sciq
Which cycle tracks the flow of nitrogen through an ecosystem? A. water cycle B. life cycle C. nitrogen reaction D. nitrogen cycle Answer:
D
sciq
What consequence of a tornado is responsible for most injuries and deaths? A. flying debris B. touring debris C. falling debris D. catching debris Answer:
A
sciq
What are the only truly innate behaviors in humans called? A. flinches B. feats C. reflexes D. automatic movements Answer:
C
sciq
What happens to the density of air as the altitude decreases? A. increases B. multiplies C. remains the same D. decreases Answer:
D
sciq
How do some animals change their depth? A. mass migration B. metamorphosis C. by changing their density D. spontaneous mutations Answer:
C
sciq
What phenomenon is crowding out other species and making all the other causes of extinction worse? A. migration B. human overpopulation C. human suburbanization D. climate change Answer:
B
sciq
Dessication is an extreme and usually fatal form of what in animals? A. dehydration B. starvation C. depletion D. diarrhea Answer:
A
sciq
Internal and external forms of what life process occur as simple diffusion due to a partial pressure gradient? A. metabolism B. photosynthesis C. respiration D. reproduction Answer:
C
sciq
The fossil record shows that this type of event is followed by the evolution of new species to fill the habitats where old species lived? A. moderate extinction B. minor extinction C. formation extinction D. mass extinction Answer:
D
sciq
Soluble minerals and clays accumulate in what soil layer, allowing it to hold more water? A. subsoil B. topsoil C. silt D. subsurface Answer:
A
sciq
What is the common word for potential difference in a circuit? A. voltage B. frequency C. watt D. velocity Answer:
A
sciq
How many chambers does the stomach of a crocodile have? A. ten B. two C. three D. six Answer:
B
sciq
When populations get close to the carrying capacity, what happens to growth? A. slows B. halts C. dies D. spikes Answer:
A
sciq
Although air can transfer heat rapidly by convection, it is a poor conductor and thus a good what? A. transporter B. absorber C. magnet D. insulator Answer:
D
sciq
Most plants grow continuously, except for what periods? A. abnormal B. dormant C. mutant D. winter Answer:
B
sciq
What man-made devices in space are used to observe the earth's surface? A. sensors B. crystals C. telescopes D. satellites Answer:
D
sciq
Carboxylic acids are weak acids, meaning they are not 100% ionized in what? A. water B. ethanol C. liquid D. air Answer:
A
sciq
An endocrine disease usually involves the secretion of too much or not enough of what? A. metabolite B. hormone C. sweat D. enzyme Answer:
B
sciq
In experiments with garden peas, austrian monk gregor mendel described the basic patterns of what? A. inheritance B. preference C. color D. behavior Answer:
A
sciq
Nutrition and diet affect your metabolism. more energy is required to break down fats and proteins than this? A. minerals B. vitamins C. carbohydrates D. electrolytes Answer:
C
sciq
What are unsaturated hydrocarbons with at least one double bond between carbon atoms called? A. alkenes B. amines C. enzymes D. peptides Answer:
A
sciq
What is the opposite of melting? A. freezing B. liquidation C. evaporation D. compression Answer:
A
sciq
A unique characteristic of mammals is the ability to chew, this happens by the temporalis and the masseter allowing what? A. Bakward and forward B. Up and down C. Grinding D. side-to-side movement Answer:
D
sciq
Most of the pathogens that cause stis enter the body through mucous membranes of which organs? A. reproductive organs B. eyes C. kidneys D. stomach Answer:
A
sciq
The activation of what kind of buds induces branching? A. axillary buds B. leafy buds C. lymphatic buds D. arterial buds Answer:
A
sciq
Sexual reproduction involves haploid gametes and produces a diploid zygote through what process? A. fertilization B. infection C. vivisection D. sedimentation Answer:
A
sciq
All alkanes are composed of carbon and hydrogen atoms, and have similar bonds, structures, and formulas; noncyclic alkanes all have a formula of cnh2n+2. the number of carbon atoms present in an alkane has what? A. crippling limit B. done limit C. no limit D. such limit Answer:
C
sciq
What percentage of men suffer from some form of erectile dysfunction by age 40? A. approximately 60 percent B. approximately 40 percent C. approximately 10 percent D. approximately 80 percent Answer:
B
sciq
What secures together immovable joints and prevents them from moving? A. dense collagen B. dense cartilage C. light cartilage D. light collagen Answer:
A
sciq
Transform faults are the site of massive what? A. tornadoes B. storms C. vibrations D. earthquakes Answer:
D
sciq
When water goes above and below its freezing point, what rock-breaking phenomenon is common? A. ice locking B. ice inverting C. ice crushing D. ice wedging Answer:
D
sciq
The diatoms are unicellular photosynthetic protists that encase themselves in intricately patterned, glassy cell walls composed of silicon dioxide in a matrix of organic particles. these protists are a component of freshwater and these? A. land plankton B. source plankton C. waste plankton D. marine plankton Answer:
D
sciq
What type of reactions form compounds? A. consumption reactions B. chemical reactions C. physical reactions D. mineral reactions Answer:
B
sciq
Millions of years ago, plants used energy from the sun to form what? A. fossil fuels B. carbon compounds C. evolution D. greenhouse gases Answer:
B
sciq
What is the term for the process in which living things with beneficial traits produce more offspring than others do? A. natural process B. natural variety C. natural survival D. natural selection Answer:
D
sciq
In a chemical reaction, the amounts of reactants and products will be constant when what state is attained? A. equilibrium B. saturation C. homogeneity D. peak Answer:
A
sciq
What protects a developing flower while it is still a bud? A. lobes B. shell C. petals D. sepals Answer:
D
sciq
What is the term for the force of attraction between things that have a mass? A. gravity B. motion C. magnetism D. weight Answer:
A
sciq
What are the long, thin protein extensions in most prokaryotic cells called? A. flagellum B. neutrons C. analyte D. cingulum Answer:
A
sciq
Dialysis is a treatment for failure of what organs? A. kidneys B. lungs C. liver D. spleen Answer:
A
sciq
What preventive measure can protect even young children against diseases such as viral meningitis? A. malnutrition B. nutrition C. vaccination D. surgical intervention Answer:
C
sciq
Renal plasma flow equals the blood flow per minute times the what? A. hemoglobin B. erythrocytes C. leukocytes D. hematocrit Answer:
D
sciq
What does lattice energy of an ionic solid measure the strength of? A. bonds B. electrons C. metals D. atoms Answer:
A
sciq
How many different types of taste can be detected by taste buds? A. three B. five C. two D. hundreds Answer:
B
sciq