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Carnivores are animals that eat other animals. the word carnivore is derived from latin and literally means this? A. leaf eater B. meat eater C. thick eater D. amount eater Answer:
B
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What term describes the sequential appearance and disappearance of species in a community over time after a severe disturbance? A. pattern B. succession C. supression D. generational replacement Answer:
B
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What can water's high surface tension be attributed t? A. molecules create a thin film-like substance B. electric impulses in atoms C. territorial molecules sticking together D. polar molecules sticking together Answer:
D
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What supports life, and is also needed for the water cycle and weather? A. fossil fuels B. atmosphere C. oxygen D. greenhouse gas Answer:
B
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The zoospores develop into haploid, multicellular male and female gametophytes, which produce? A. gametes B. toxins C. spores D. microorganisms Answer:
A
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Reducing the number of molecules in a rigid container causes what to decrease? A. energy B. velocity C. demand D. pressure Answer:
D
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What causes a lot of geological activity on the earth? A. weather B. landslides C. natural selection D. plate tectonics Answer:
D
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The fuel that burns in a combustion reaction in many fossil fuels such as natural gas that consists of carbon hydrogen is known as what? A. catalyst B. helium C. hydrocarbon D. fossil Answer:
C
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What describes a combination of two or more substances, each of which maintains its own chemical identity? A. bond B. mixture C. structure D. solute Answer:
B
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Sodium-potassium pumps help nerve cells establish a voltage across their what? A. sodium membranes B. potassium membranes C. plasma membranes D. cell walls Answer:
C
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Tin is oxidized at the anode, while silver ion is reduced at? A. cathode B. iodine C. anodyne D. gamma Answer:
A
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Adding a solute does what to the boiling point of a pure solvent? A. no effect B. increases it C. silences it D. reduces it Answer:
B
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Illnesses caused by bacteria in food are commonly known as what? A. food poisoning B. the flu C. viral poisoning D. chemical poisoning Answer:
A
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Most bacteria may be placed into one of three groups based on their response to gaseous? A. nitrogen B. carbon C. oxygen D. potassium Answer:
C
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More uv rays reach the ground due to a decrease in what layer in the stratosphere? A. troposphere B. ozone C. smog D. gases Answer:
B
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Two species that share what cannot coexist in a community? A. same niche B. language C. color D. mood Answer:
A
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In a wheel and axle, when force is applied either to the wheel or axle, what aspect of the force does not change? A. shift B. speed C. direction D. pressure Answer:
C
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What can be used to determine the mass of a quantity of material? A. atomic masses B. inertial mass C. molar masses D. gravitational mass Answer:
C
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The thick skin, found only on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet, has an extra what? A. surface B. Skin C. layer D. outer Answer:
C
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What effect does tamiflu have on viruses and cells? A. inhibits spread of virus B. reprograms viruses C. destroys all viruses D. enhances cells Answer:
A
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What is the main ingredient of mothballs? A. stable naphthalene B. ionized naphthalene C. processed naphthalene D. hydrocarbon naphthalene Answer:
D
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What is the column of hot rock that continuously brings hot rock up from the mantle toward the crust? A. mantle plume B. volcanic vent C. hotspot D. flue Answer:
A
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What color light is actually the absence of electromagnetic waves in the visible spectrum, for humans? A. ultraviolet light B. blue light C. infrared light D. black light Answer:
D
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What type of seeds come from plants that were traditionally grown in human populations, as opposed to the seeds used for large-scale agricultural production? A. old-fashioned seeds B. modified seeds C. heirloom seeds D. original seeds Answer:
C
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What is the organic material that comes from plants and animals that were recently living called? A. chlorophyll B. contaminants C. biomass D. biofuels Answer:
C
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What is the simplest form of matter that has a unique set of properties? A. quark B. molecule C. element D. atom Answer:
C
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At least 20 percent of the world’s people do not have a ready supply of what? A. clothing B. clean drinking water C. food D. oil Answer:
B
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What simple machine consists of two connected rings or cylinders, one inside the other, which both turn in the same direction around a single center point? A. wheel and axle B. bloom and axle C. pully D. spoke Answer:
A
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Birds have air sacs that store inhaled air and push it into their what? A. lungs B. beaks C. bones D. abdomens Answer:
A
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What is in the soil that causes mars to look red? A. garnet B. sand C. iron D. carbon Answer:
C
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Convection generally involves the transfer of what type of energy? A. thermal B. radioactive C. magnetic D. sunlight Answer:
A
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What is the term for a push or a pull on an object? A. force B. effort C. action D. gravity Answer:
A
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What term is used to describe the process of removing wastes and excess water from the body? A. diffusion B. excretion C. digestion D. aeration Answer:
B
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Which disease occurs when there is not enough hemoglobin in the blood? A. Respiratory B. anemia C. Diabetes D. Pulmonary Answer:
B
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In what state of matter are particles rigidly fixed in space and held tightly to neighboring particles? A. liquids B. energies C. Gases D. solids Answer:
D
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What is a network solid and consists of carbon atoms covalently bonded to one another in a repeating three-dimensional pattern? A. a zirconium B. a ruby C. an agate D. a diamond Answer:
D
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Linnaeus developed binomial nomenclature, which means each organism is assigned what? A. simple name B. single name C. complex name D. two-part name Answer:
D
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What do we call the mathematical field of study credited to french mathematician-philosopher rene descartes? A. algebra B. Euclidean geometry C. cartesian geometry D. calculus Answer:
C
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Where do skeletal muscles usually attach? A. to dendrites B. to cartilage C. end of bones D. to the spine Answer:
C
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What do the cells in the front of a volvox typically develop to help swim towards light? A. sunspots B. eyespots C. vertebrates D. tumors Answer:
B
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What bodily system handles taking in oxygen, getting rid of carbon dioxide, aiding in speech production and sensing odors? A. pulmonary system B. circulatory system C. respiratory system D. nervous system Answer:
C
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The atom often (but not always) turns into a different what during the decay process? A. reaction B. element C. aspect D. concept Answer:
B
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Females are not influenced by the male sex hormone testosterone during embryonic development because they lack what? A. x chromosome​ B. m chromosome​ C. y chromosome D. z chromosome​ Answer:
C
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Pressure relationships inspiration (or inhalation) and expiration (or exhalation) are dependent on the differences in pressure between the atmosphere and these? A. salts B. bones C. enzymes D. lungs Answer:
D
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Female monotremes share what external opening with reptiles and birds? A. vagina B. cloaca C. urethra D. anus Answer:
B
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Collisions between hydrogen atoms demonstrate one form of what? A. nuclear reaction B. destructive fusion C. nuclear radiation D. nuclear fusion Answer:
D
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Fluid-filled thylakoids are the site of glucose production in the second stage of what process? A. measurements B. birth C. glycolysis D. photosynthesis Answer:
D
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What are the basic units of structure and function in living organisms? A. molecules B. lipids C. cells D. proteins Answer:
C
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What concept can be applied to biology, because the structure of an organism, or part of an organism, depends on its function? A. form follows use B. form follows function C. attachment follows function D. motion follows function Answer:
B
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Is sweat an exocrine or endocrine substance? A. both B. neither C. exocrine D. exocrine Answer:
C
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Nuclei with even numbers of protons, neutrons, or both are more likely to be this? A. stable B. unstable C. solid D. ionic Answer:
A
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Some prokaryotes form spores for survival called what? A. endospores B. buds C. rhizomes D. gymnosperms Answer:
A
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What is the liquid inside the central vacuole called? A. osmotic fluid B. cytoplasm C. cell sap D. chloroplasm Answer:
C
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Cancer cells take up glucose for what reason? A. food B. energy C. heating D. reproduction Answer:
B
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Birds and insects perform what function for flowering plants? A. irrigation B. condensation C. pollination D. vegetation Answer:
C
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Most carcinogens produce mutations in genes that control what? A. digestive cycle B. ubiquitous cycle C. cell cycle D. proteins cycle Answer:
C
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What type of equations allows calculation of the wavelength of any moving object? A. fluctuations wave B. debroglie wave C. develpoment wave D. disc wave Answer:
B
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Each new horizontal row of the periodic table corresponds to the beginning of a new period because a new principal energy level is being filled with what? A. neutrons B. photons C. protons D. electrons Answer:
D
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What kind of energy is specifically defined as the energy that is available to do work? A. free B. used C. old D. new Answer:
A
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Only a small percent of earth's water is what type, as opposed to saltwater? A. rainwater B. runoff C. groundwater D. fresh Answer:
D
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The kidneys work with the urinary system to remove what? A. nutrients B. ions C. wastes D. water Answer:
C
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What is asexual reproduction in which an egg develops without being fertilized called? A. parthenogenesis B. metamorphosis C. binary fission D. budding Answer:
A
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What does water vapor in the atmosphere cool and condense into? A. oceans B. clouds C. rain D. puddles Answer:
B
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Carbon-14 dating is a method of what kind of dating? A. radiometric B. orbital C. metamorphic D. stratigraphy Answer:
A
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Friendly bacteria live mostly in the large intestine and part of the small intestine, because what organ is too acidic? A. stomach B. liver C. rectum D. skin Answer:
A
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The addition of heat changes liquid water to what? A. water vapor B. ice C. rainwater D. distilled water Answer:
A
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What is the most widely accepted theory explaining how muscle fibers contract? A. sliding pigment theoery B. sliding carbon theory C. sliding tritium theory D. sliding filament theory Answer:
D
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Power in electricity is the voltage multiplied by what? A. power B. the current C. amperes D. wattage Answer:
B
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What are the vertical columns of similar chemical properties on the periodic table? A. zones B. Family C. groups D. Pods Answer:
C
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What forms the changing shapes of sand dunes? A. wind B. humidity C. temperature D. magnetism Answer:
A
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What is the process in which one cell divides to form two new cells called? A. cell direction B. cell contribution C. cell division D. Cell Formation Answer:
C
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What reaction is considered the reverse of photosynthesis? A. cellular transfer B. cellular decay C. cellular digestion D. cellular respiration Answer:
D
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What are composed of an oxygen atom that forms single bonds with two carbon atoms? A. sugars B. solvents C. acids D. ethers Answer:
D
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Where do cells come from? A. sexual reproduction B. nuclear fission C. mutations D. preexisting cells Answer:
D
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What are the female gametes that form in the ovaries? A. spermatozoa B. eggs C. sperm D. genes Answer:
B
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What are plants in the diploid generation called? A. keratinocytes B. monocots C. sporophytes D. haplocytes Answer:
C
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Through what do moving particles transfer thermal energy? A. tissue B. plasma C. gas D. fluid Answer:
D
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What is the name for the water-splitting step of photosynthesis? A. hydrolysis B. photolysis C. peristalsis D. cellular respiration Answer:
B
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The entropy change is positive as the solid state changes into which state? A. chemical B. mixture C. gas D. liquid Answer:
D
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The process when heat is released is referred to as what? A. geothermal B. exothermic C. endothermic D. insular Answer:
B
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What is a large space that helps the organism digest & move nutrients around the cnidarian body? A. thorax B. vacuole C. abdominal wall D. gastrovascular cavity Answer:
D
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An infection of the brain is called? A. syphilis B. tuberculosis C. encephalitis D. influenza Answer:
C
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The converging of continental plates can form what kind of geological feature? A. streams B. mountains C. shores D. plains Answer:
B
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Mammals generally lack a cloaca and have a separate opening for the what? A. tissues tract B. digestive tract C. physical tract D. urinary tract Answer:
B
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Chordates are defined by a set of four characteristics that are shared by these animals at some point during their? A. death B. birth C. response D. development Answer:
D
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What is produced during the light reactions in photosynthesis? A. oxygen B. carbon C. nitrogen D. waste Answer:
A
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Nerves of the hands, arms, feet, legs, and trunk are part of what system? A. circulatory system B. cardiovascular system C. urinary system D. peripheral nervous system Answer:
D
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Generally, momentum implies a tendency to continue on course—to move in the same direction—and is associated with great mass and speed. momentum, like energy, is important because it is what? A. conserved B. invisible C. endless D. sequences Answer:
A
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Which types of muscles cause bones to move when they retract? A. active muscles B. working muscles C. skeletal muscles D. bone muscles Answer:
C
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Which is the final step of cell division? A. Mitosis B. cytokinesis C. genesys D. electrolysis Answer:
B
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What are xylem and phloem responsible for transporting to the cells of leaves? A. water and minerals B. light and gas C. air and dirt D. water and blood Answer:
A
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What kind of cell is a cell with two chromosomes? A. neurotic cell B. mutated cell C. haploid cells D. diploid cell Answer:
D
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Which term literally means 'spore in a vessel'? A. cyanobacteria B. Carboid C. germination D. sporangia Answer:
D
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Human culture is related to evolutionary theory in the discipline of what? A. psychopathology B. ethnology C. astrology D. sociobiology Answer:
D
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Which forces hold particles together in more ordered states? A. particular B. gravitational C. natural D. intermolecular Answer:
D
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What is the movement of muscle in the digestive system called? A. apoptosis B. peristalsis C. acid reflux D. labor contractions Answer:
B
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Smoking increases the risk of cancer from what radioactive gas that can also be detected with a test kit for your home? A. radon B. arsenic C. carbon monoxide D. carbon dioxide Answer:
A
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What is the main function of the cardiovascular system? A. to transport B. digestion C. respiration D. implanatation Answer:
A
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When something is described as "hydrophilic", you can determine something about how it interacts with what? A. water B. iron C. air D. hydrogen Answer:
A
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What human traits are controlled by more than one gene? A. maladaptive traits B. polygenic traits C. mutant traits D. autolysis traits Answer:
B
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