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Because force and electric field are what, they have direction as well as their value? A. vectors B. mass C. neurons D. sensors Answer:
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Acceleration is a vector, and thus has a both a magnitude and what else? A. pressure B. temperature C. wavelength D. direction Answer:
D
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What is it called when individual organisms work together with one another? A. cooperation B. competition C. dualism D. continuation Answer:
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How thick is the earth's continental crust, on average? A. 35 kilometers B. 25 kilometers C. 60 kilometers D. 15 kilometers Answer:
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Which organ has a thick mucus lining that protects the underlying tissue from the action of the digestive juices? A. stomach B. spleen C. liver D. colon Answer:
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What historical event taught people that soil could be lost by plowing and growing crops and encouraged new methods to prevent erosion? A. the dust bowl B. the land bowl C. the debris bowl D. the flow bowl Answer:
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In what phase is the moon brightly illuminated? A. blue moon B. full moon C. new moon D. crescent Answer:
B
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What do vectors possess that scalars do not? A. direction and texture B. magnitude and weight C. magnitude and direction D. height and polarity Answer:
C
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What are the food making factories of plants? A. fruits B. roots C. leaves D. stems Answer:
C
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What does a pollinator pick from its body and carry directly to another plant of the same species? A. egg B. pollen C. pathogen D. spore Answer:
B
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Melting ice cubes and freezing water are examples of change of what? A. role B. role C. volume D. state Answer:
D
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What is the term for heterotrophs that eat only or mainly animals? A. parasites B. omnivores C. carnivores D. predators Answer:
C
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How much work is done when a force is applied in a different direction than the direction of movement? A. minimum B. half C. full D. none Answer:
D
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The mercury or alcohol in a common glass what changes its volume as the temperature changes? A. compass B. thermometer C. barometer D. calculator Answer:
B
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What are commonly used to control insect pests, but can have harmful effects on the environment? A. insecticides B. fertilizers C. toxins D. Herbicides Answer:
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The components of what keep their own identity when they combine and can usually be easily separated? A. compound B. mixture C. alloy D. solution Answer:
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What type of light can mosquitoes see? A. spicule B. infared C. trichina D. neon Answer:
B
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What subject is a way of learning about the natural world that is based on evidence and logic? A. evolution B. science C. geology D. geography Answer:
B
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Chloroplasts are present only in cells of eukaryotes capable of what process? A. photosynthesis B. sexual reproduction C. digestion D. hydrolysis Answer:
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Shielding should be used when receiving x-rays to limit exposure to what potentially harmful form of energy? A. radiation B. pollution C. convection D. evaporation Answer:
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What is the way animals act either alone or with other animals called? A. animal lifestyle B. animal behavior C. animal way D. animal point Answer:
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What three primary colors of light can be distinguished by the human eye? A. red, green, blue B. blue, red, orange C. yellow, green, blue D. red, green, yellow Answer:
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Which body system releases hormones that act on target cells to regulate development, growth, energy metabolism, reproduction, and many behaviors? A. lymphatic B. pituitary C. exocrine system D. endocrine system Answer:
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What is the main difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells? A. eukaryotic cells have a cell wall B. eukaryotic cells have a flagella C. eukaryotic cells have a nucleus D. prokaryotic cells have a nucleus Answer:
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What forms when cells start to grow out of control? A. inflammation B. tumor C. moles D. fat Answer:
B
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Organs, vessels, and lymph make up what system? A. digestive B. circulatory C. nervous D. lymphatic Answer:
D
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Like the marketplace, the metabolic economy is regulated by what basic principle? A. supply and demand B. price and demand C. jobs and demand D. industrial and demand Answer:
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As roots grow longer they will always do what? A. grow downward B. get thicker C. change direction D. get larger Answer:
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Which virus causes cold sores? A. flu virus B. microbes virus C. herpes virus D. stilts virus Answer:
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Duplicated chromosomes are composed of two sister what? A. chromatids B. nucleotides C. karyotypes D. eukaryotes Answer:
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What is the name of anything that has mass and takes up space? A. depth B. solid C. matter D. carbon Answer:
C
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The units of time, day and year are based on what? A. motions of the sun B. gravitational waves C. moon phases D. motions of earth Answer:
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What is the term for an amount of force pushing against a given area? A. force B. resistance C. mass D. pressure Answer:
D
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What is the region called where an electron is most likely to be found? A. the shell B. the nucleus C. the ellipse D. the orbital Answer:
D
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Many glasses eventually crystallize, rendering them brittle and this? A. soft B. powdered C. opaque D. molten Answer:
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What is magnetism produced by an electrical current? A. electromagnetism B. strong magnetism C. hydromagnetism D. exomagnetism Answer:
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A weak and temporary dipole that influences nearby atoms through electrostatic attraction and repulsion is known as what? A. a fused dipole B. an debased dipole C. an incomplete dipole D. an instantaneous dipole Answer:
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The motion of molecules in a gas is random in magnitude and direction for individual molecules, but a gas of many molecules has a predictable distribution of what, which is called the maxwell-boltzmann distribution? A. molecular rate B. molecular size C. molecular speeds D. molecular shape Answer:
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What helps the cell continually renew itself? A. vacuole B. lysosomes C. centrosome D. lymphocytes Answer:
B
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One of the fundamental laws of chemistry deals with the fact that we cannot create or destroy what? A. matter B. protein C. time D. stars Answer:
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What are the tiny, tube-shaped structures found inside a kidney called? A. nephrons B. jejunum C. dendrites D. neurons Answer:
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How many sperm does it take to fertilize an egg? A. five B. one C. two D. ten Answer:
B
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What type of climate is found mostly near the equator? A. warm subtropical B. warm tropical C. hot dessert D. cool tropical Answer:
B
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Metabolism is the collection of what that occur in an organism? A. growth reactions B. mechanical reactions C. mineral reactions D. chemical reactions Answer:
D
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What is the arrangement of a t-tubule with the membranes of sr on either side called? A. acid B. orchid C. triad D. aracnid Answer:
C
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What is the name of the order that salamanders belong to? A. platyhelminth B. urodela C. aneuploid D. oronthalic Answer:
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What is the tough tissue that contains collagen? A. fiber B. membrane C. cartilage D. muscle Answer:
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What common ailment is typically caused by tense muscles in the shoulders, head and neck? A. headache B. fever C. disturbances D. pollution Answer:
A
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How many watts equals a horse power? A. 904 B. 745 C. 375 D. 695 Answer:
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Some microorganisms can digest cellulose, breaking it down into what? A. glucose monomers B. fructose polymers C. gluclose polymers D. fructose monomers Answer:
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Where does most geological activity take place? A. plate boundaries B. plate medians C. plate buildings D. plate waves Answer:
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What can be used to mechanically separate the two elements by attracting the iron filings out of the mixture and leaving the sulfur behind? A. graduated cylinder B. laser C. centrifuge D. magnet Answer:
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What forms when a solute dissolves in a solvent? A. liquid B. gas C. solution D. chemical Answer:
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The enteric nervous system provides intrinsic innervation, and the autonomic nervous system provides this? A. autonomic innervation B. complex innervation C. extrinsic innervation D. arise innervation Answer:
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Virtually all aquatic organisms depend directly or indirectly on what for food? A. prokaryotes B. ground beef C. growths D. protists Answer:
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Saltwater is a homogeneous mixture, another term for what? A. lipid B. structure C. element D. solution Answer:
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What connects the two hemispheres of the brain? A. disruption callosum B. holy callosum C. The brain stem D. corpus callosum Answer:
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Cells like a prokaryotic cell, a eukaryotic cell has a plasma membrane, cytoplasm, and ribosomes, but a eukaryotic cell is typically larger than a prokaryotic cell, has a true nucleus (meaning its dna is surrounded by a membrane), and has other membrane-bound organelles that allow for what? A. replicating of functions B. scrobipalpa of functions C. misuse of functions D. compartmentalization of functions Answer:
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Colonial organisms were probably one of the first evolutionary steps towards which type of organisms? A. fetus B. multicellular C. mutated D. double cellular Answer:
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What do you call accumulation of excess water in the tissues? A. gout B. asthma C. diuretic D. edema Answer:
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Transport epithelia that function in maintaining water balance also often function in disposal of what? A. absorption wastes B. metabolic wastes C. bacteria D. organisms wastes Answer:
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What is magnetism produced by electricity called? A. momentum B. excitation C. electrical attraction D. electromagnetism Answer:
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What is an area that is saturated with water or covered by water for at least one season of the year? A. a bog B. a wetland C. a valley D. a peat Answer:
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How are bacteria identified and classified? A. by their color B. by their shape C. by there cell count D. by there movement Answer:
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What do we call forces that act on the system from outside? A. static B. material C. external D. internal Answer:
C
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Prostaglandins also help regulate the aggregation of platelets, one step in the formation of what? A. cysts B. bloats C. blood clots D. acne Answer:
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Deceleration is the opposite of what? A. acceleration B. stimulation C. stopping D. vibration Answer:
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Each cell and every living thing requires what? A. potassium B. salt C. calcium D. energy Answer:
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In the human body, what do you call the intersection where the paths for air and food cross.? A. pharynx B. cloaca C. larynx D. esophagus Answer:
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Air conditioning systems can incubate certain bacteria and what else? A. Cancer B. mold C. root D. wood Answer:
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The toothlessness of modern birds, which serves to trim the weight of the head, is an example of what? A. adaptation B. variety C. genetic drift D. mutation Answer:
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What are the active transport mechanisms by which molecules enter and leave the cell inside vesicles? A. oxidation and exocytosis B. endocytosis and exocytosis C. endocytosis and oxidation D. dielectric and exocytosis Answer:
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Fractures, rickets, and osteoarthritis all affect what part(s) of the body? A. fossils B. Heart C. animals D. bones Answer:
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Name the closest living relatives of tetrapods? A. spinefishes B. shrimp C. lungfishes D. lumpfishes Answer:
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What type of air may get stuck on the windward side of a mountain range? A. brisk air B. live air C. steady air D. maritime air Answer:
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Most protists are aquatic organisms and need what kind of environment to survive? A. warm B. moist C. dry D. cold Answer:
B
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The help with diffusion comes from special proteins in the membrane known as what? A. transport proteins B. installation proteins C. navigation proteins D. lazy proteins Answer:
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The extracellular matrix of most animal cells contains abundant amounts of what protein, which helps hold things together? A. collagen B. keratin C. actin D. elastin Answer:
A
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What are two types of lobe finned fish? A. piranha and pike B. sharks and piranha C. coelacanths and lungfish D. moles and lungfish Answer:
C
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What is the rate of change of velocity called? A. speed B. vibration C. transmission D. acceleration Answer:
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What is the main organ required for respiration in mammals? A. the heart B. the diaphragm C. the lungs D. the brain Answer:
C
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Molecules are represented by symbols that all who agree on? A. astrologists B. geologists C. chemists D. physics Answer:
C
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What is the smallest unit of time commonly based on? A. hour B. millimeter C. second D. minute Answer:
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Atoms cannot be subdivided, created, or what? A. contained B. contaminated C. observed D. destroyed Answer:
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What process changes a liquid to a gas without boiling? A. evaporation B. bubbling C. absorption D. melting Answer:
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Every peripheral nerve is connected directly or indirectly to what? A. the umbilical chord B. the spinal cord C. the functional cord D. the optimal cord Answer:
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The four phases of mitosis are prophase, metaphase, anaphase and what? A. postphase B. telophase C. spirogyra D. trichina Answer:
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Pathogenic prokaryotes usually cause illness by producing what? A. poisons B. ions C. insects D. organisms Answer:
A
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Once cells _______, they can no longer divide A. propagate B. differentiate C. mature D. migrate Answer:
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Phase labels - and even special conditions - are sometimes included for the substances that are part of what? A. toxic equations B. chemical equations C. carbon equations D. solid equations Answer:
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Body waves travel through the earth and arrive at seismograms before what? A. surface waves B. velocity waves C. sound waves D. function waves Answer:
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What are the outpocketings of the digestive tract that remove nitrogenous wastes and function in osmoregulation? A. intestinal tubules B. malpighian tubules C. olivary tubules D. integumentary tubules Answer:
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What were the first photosynthetic organisms on earth? A. fungi B. trees C. bacteria D. mosses Answer:
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What do you call the substance in a cooling system that has a low boiling point and changes between liquid and gaseous states? A. emission B. coolant C. refrigerant D. byproduct Answer:
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Certain characteristics are frequently inherited together because of what? A. mitosis B. linkage C. correlation D. genetic combination Answer:
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Which organ protects the body from injury, water loss, and microorganisms? A. liver B. stomach C. kidney D. skin Answer:
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What is the term for the sudden movement of large blocks of rock and soil down a slope? A. sludge B. torrent C. hurricane D. slump Answer:
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What is the comparison of two factors within a population? A. variable B. correlation C. curve D. hypothesis Answer:
B
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What process is the opposite of nitrogen fixation? A. denitrification B. digestion C. percolation D. respiration Answer:
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Plant-like protists produce oxygen through which process? A. photosynthesis B. glycolysis C. metamorphosis D. respiration Answer:
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