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Almost all vascular plants have mycorrhizae and rely on their fungal partners for what? A. respiration B. air C. nutrients D. sunlight Answer:
C
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What occurs when there is a sudden and large falling of rocks down a slope? A. avalanche B. earthquake C. tsunami D. landslide Answer:
D
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What are gymnosperms lacking compared to most angiosperms? A. vascular elements B. muscle elements C. use elements D. vessel elements Answer:
D
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Calculations are described showing conversions between molar mass and what for gases? A. volume B. length C. density D. weight Answer:
C
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What sudden ground movement is caused by the sudden release of the energy stored in rocks, which is transmitted in seismic waves? A. quicksand B. eruption C. sandstorm D. earthquake Answer:
D
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What is the name for the cooler, darker areas on the sun’s surface? A. corona B. sunspots C. anomalies D. aurora borealis Answer:
B
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Plants need sunlight for what process? A. photosynthesis B. metamorphosis C. glycolysis D. cyclogenesis Answer:
A
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The vast majority of what phenomena occurs along one of three types of plate boundaries? A. earthquake B. volcanoes C. tornados D. hurricane Answer:
A
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What weather events move with the prevailing winds and originate in the trade winds in the northern hemisphere? A. droughts B. hurricanes C. tsunamis D. earthquakes Answer:
B
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What is the name for the male reproductive organs or gonads? A. nucleus B. testes C. anus D. ovaries Answer:
B
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What glands in the breast secrete milk? A. primordial glands B. adrenal glands C. fetal glands D. mammary glands Answer:
D
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Sutures, gomphoses, and syndesmoses are types of what, which are found where adjacent bones are strongly united by connective tissue? A. metallic joints B. cartilage C. ligaments D. fibrous joints Answer:
D
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Heat, electricity, or light might provide what necessary input to the process of decomposition? A. source B. food C. energy D. material Answer:
C
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What is made up of a watery substance called cytosol and contains other cell structures such as ribosomes? A. cytoplasm B. cytoskeleton C. rna D. plasma Answer:
A
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What type of energy is required in all chemical reactions? A. solar B. conduction C. activation D. function Answer:
C
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What type of image is formed when light rays diverge in front of a mirror? A. fake B. reversed C. large D. virtual Answer:
D
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What is the condition of a plant in which the fluid in a cell exerts a pressure against the cell wall? A. tumor B. turgor C. hydration D. constriction Answer:
B
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What phenomenon, crucial for evolution, creates new genetic variation in a gene pool and is how all new alleles first arise? A. mutation B. radiation C. adaptation D. natural selection Answer:
A
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What is the name of the stage of life when a child becomes sexually mature? A. pre-adolescence B. puberty C. adulthood D. reproductive stage Answer:
B
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A man made lake is known as what? A. Lake B. Pond C. resevoirs D. Lagoon Answer:
C
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Alchemy helped improve the study of metallurgy and the extraction of metals from what? A. water B. air C. ores D. wood Answer:
C
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What are the two types of vascular tissues? A. ganglia and phloem B. xylem and phloem C. ectoderm and phloem D. epidermis and phloem Answer:
B
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The spinal cord develops, cells making up the wall of the neural tube proliferate and differentiate into what? A. jelly and glia B. neurons and glia C. muscles and glia D. membrane and glia Answer:
B
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Eventually the parent cell will pinch apart to form two identical types of what cells? A. son cells B. brother cells C. father cells D. daughter cells Answer:
D
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The body cells cannot use insulin properly in which type of diabetes? A. type 2 diabetes B. type 1 diabetes C. type 3 diabates D. type 4 diabetes Answer:
A
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Birds belong to a group of diapsids called the what? A. aviators B. archosaurs C. mammals D. conifers Answer:
B
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How many limbs to birds have? A. five B. ten C. six D. four Answer:
D
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Planes fly in what layer of the atmosphere because there is less friction and turbulence? A. stratosphere B. crust C. ozone layer D. mesosphere Answer:
A
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What is a group of similar ecosystems with the same general abiotic factors and primary producers? A. family B. taxon C. biome D. ecoregion Answer:
C
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Interferons are produced in virally infected cells and cause them to secrete signals for surrounding cells to make what? A. antiviral proteins B. overwhelm proteins C. Raising Proteins D. resist proteins Answer:
A
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What slow process is required for formation of soil? A. leaching B. fossilization C. weathering D. digestion Answer:
C
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What is defined as superheated gas with a positive electrical charge? A. supernova B. greenhouse gas C. plasma D. ion Answer:
C
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Materials, such as iron, that exhibit strong magnetic effects are labeled what? A. ultramagnetic B. superconducting C. ferromagnetic D. paramagnetic Answer:
C
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Like birds, most other reptiles excrete their nitrogenous wastes as what acid? A. hydrochloric B. sulphuric C. uric D. lactic Answer:
C
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The two main fundamental particles that make up neutrons are quarks and what else? A. atoms B. prions C. leptons D. gluons Answer:
D
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Birds have evolved a respiratory system that enables them to fly. flying is a high-energy process and requires a lot of this? A. oxygen B. weight C. nitrogen D. adaptation Answer:
A
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Lysosomes have what type of enzymes that break down old molecules into parts that can be recycled? A. bacterial B. probiotics C. corrosive D. digestive Answer:
D
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The breasts contain what to give milk to feed a baby? A. mammary glands B. fetal glands C. sebaceous glands D. primordial glands Answer:
A
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What form when water vapor condenses in the air around specs of matter? A. condensation B. storms C. humidity D. clouds Answer:
D
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All other forms of life, including plants and animals, are composed of what kind of cells? A. cytoplasmic B. synthetic C. eukaryotic D. bacterial Answer:
C
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A mycorrhiza refers to what kind of relationship between a fungus and the roots of a plant? A. semantic B. symbiotic C. familial D. predator-prey Answer:
B
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What is earth's main source of energy? A. the atmosphere B. the moon C. the sun D. the core Answer:
C
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Kirchhoff’s second rule (the loop rule) is an application of conservation of what? A. mineral B. Rock C. heating D. energy Answer:
D
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Evolution over a short period of time at the level of the population is called what? A. redistributions B. grammaticalization C. macroevolution D. microevolution Answer:
D
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When water is heated by magma and makes it's way to the surface what is created? A. geyser B. eruption C. volcanic D. trough Answer:
A
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The mechanical and digestive processes have one goal: to convert food into molecules small enough to be absorbed by the epithelial cells of what? A. alveoli B. stomach cilia C. intestinal villi D. bile ducts Answer:
C
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Influenza virus is packaged in a viral envelope, which fuses with the what? A. plasma membrane B. bacteria C. cell wall D. nucleus Answer:
A
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A desert is a type of what community in an ecosystem? A. population B. colony C. culture D. biome Answer:
D
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What are the two types of properties that matter has? A. size and shape B. nature and purpose C. composition and weight D. physical and chemical Answer:
D
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What is the hormone produced in high-stress situations? A. adrenalin B. testosterone C. somatostatin D. thyroxine Answer:
A
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What type of reaction causes two substances to combine to make a single substance? A. metabolism B. spontaneous mutation C. composition reaction D. component reaction Answer:
C
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Hay fever is actually an allergy to what substance, vital to plant reproduction? A. nitrogen B. pollen C. fungi D. grass Answer:
B
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Endotherms are warmed mostly by heat generated by what? A. the sun B. electricity C. metabolism D. movement Answer:
C
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If a ball is released from rest when air resistance is negligible, velocity is seen to increase linearly, while what related property is a constant? A. time B. density C. speed D. acceleration Answer:
D
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What term is used to describe the ability of matter to burn? A. reactivity B. permeability C. flammability D. volatility Answer:
C
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What is the evolutionary history of group of related organisms A. iteration B. phylogeny C. substructure D. history Answer:
B
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What forms a ketone when oxidized? A. secondary alcohol B. aldehyde C. carbolic acid D. enzyme Answer:
A
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What is the energy that flows as a result of a difference in temperature? A. heat B. polarity C. magnetism D. electricity Answer:
A
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Exposure to toxins is most damaging during weeks 4 through 8 of the embryonic stage due to development of what during this period? A. pain B. faith C. samples D. organs Answer:
D
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What evolutionary process may affect the distribution of a polygenic trait? A. flow selection B. artificial selection C. natural selection D. characteristic selection Answer:
C
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What type of force exists between two touching surfaces? A. friction B. opposing C. centrifugal D. tension Answer:
A
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A short reflex is completely what and only involves the local integration of sensory input with motor output? A. peripheral B. central C. neuronal D. physiological Answer:
A
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The urea cycle, a set of biochemical reactions that produces urea from ammonium ions to prevent toxicity, occurs to some extent in the kidney, but primarily in what organ? A. skin B. spleen C. colon D. liver Answer:
D
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Cellular respiration is the reverse or opposite of what? A. glycolysis B. photosynthesis C. reproduction D. spermatogenesis Answer:
B
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What force pulls object downwards to the earth? A. momentum B. gravity C. motion D. kinetic energy Answer:
B
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How does deeper material cause convection in the mantle? A. sinks then rises B. folds C. remains stable D. rises then sinks Answer:
D
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From what did the first proto-oncogenes arise? A. carcinogens B. spores C. viral infections D. bacteria Answer:
C
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What material used for helium-filled balloons is dense, strong and opaque, with a high molecular mass that forms films that have many fewer pores than rubber? A. mylar B. foil C. cellophane D. fiberglass Answer:
A
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What do erythrocytes carry and deliver to tissues in the body? A. carbon B. oxide C. oxygen D. Helium Answer:
C
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How many neutrons do 99% of carbon atoms have? A. sixteen B. five C. six D. eight Answer:
C
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What are the two metals within a battery called? A. sheath and a cathode B. anode and diode C. anode and sheath D. anode and a cathode Answer:
D
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What is one thing that can not happen to energy? A. it cannot stay the same B. it cannot decrease C. it can not be destroyed D. it cannot increase Answer:
C
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Where do most biochemical reactions take place? A. outside of cells B. upper atmosphere C. within cells D. stomach Answer:
C
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The ends of linear chromosomes are maintained by the action of which enzyme? A. telomerase B. cytokine C. insulin D. pepsin Answer:
A
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Through which process does water from the oceans enter the atmosphere? A. absorption B. perspiration C. oxidation D. evaporation Answer:
D
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In what type of process does heat flow into its surroundings and cause an increase in kinetic energy? A. chemical process B. oscillating process C. biochemical process D. exothermic process Answer:
D
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Prokaryotic organisms, like bacteria, reproduce through what process, where they grow and divide in half? A. singular fission B. binary fission C. multiple fission D. symbiotic fission Answer:
B
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Displacement is a vector quantity, which means it has both direction and what else? A. rate B. magnitude C. waves D. radiation Answer:
B
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Waste leaves the body in the form of what? A. stomach acid B. saliva C. feces D. impurities Answer:
C
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What process can occur when atoms are exposed to high levels of radiation or when atoms transfer electrons to or from other atoms? A. ionization B. diffusion C. fusion D. oxidation Answer:
A
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Who should an obese person with an eating disorder seek for help? A. body builder B. social worker C. health professional D. psychiatrist Answer:
C
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The period of life between the start of puberty and the beginning of adulthood is called? A. youth B. adolescence C. prenatal D. old age Answer:
B
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What element once commonly used in paint and gasoline has now been found to have dangerous effects? A. chromium B. plastic C. lead D. niacin Answer:
C
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What can happen spontaneously or as a result of mutagens in the environment? A. traits B. combustion C. lesions D. mutations Answer:
D
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Abnormally high activity or low activity of the parathyroid gland can cause disorders related to levels of what bone mineral? A. calcium B. collagen C. magnesium D. potassium Answer:
A
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Unlike other tetrapod vertebrates (reptiles, birds, and mammals), amphibians do not produce what type of eggs? A. umbilical B. amniotic C. prokaryotic D. epithelial Answer:
B
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What is the name for an underground layer of rock that is saturated with groundwater? A. aqueous cavity B. aquifer C. artesian well D. gradient Answer:
B
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What are prepared by the oxidation of secondary alcohols? A. ions B. more alcohol C. protons D. ketones Answer:
D
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Saturated and unsaturated are the two main kinds of what? A. fats B. sugars C. polymers D. acids Answer:
A
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Most reptiles lay what kind of eggs? A. roe B. umbilical C. hard-shelled D. amniotic Answer:
D
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Sulfur can combine with oxygen to produce what? A. sulfur dioxide B. sulfur trioxide C. sulfur bioxide D. sulfur oxide Answer:
B
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The nitrogen that enters living systems by nitrogen fixation is successively converted from organic nitrogen back into nitrogen gas by what? A. pollen B. algae C. viruses D. bacteria Answer:
D
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What term describes the amount of solute in a given amount of solution? A. density B. temperature C. cloudiness D. concentration Answer:
D
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Which process helps absorptive protists absorb food molecules across their cell membranes? A. diffusion B. activation C. secretion D. metabolism Answer:
A
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When matter recycles and changes state what does it gain or lose by doing so? A. energy B. volume C. density D. fuel Answer:
A
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Where does oxygen enter the blood? A. in the liver B. in the heart C. in the lungs D. in the veins Answer:
C
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What kind of compounds change color when bases come into contact with them, so they can be used to detect bases? A. indicators B. liquid C. parameters D. metals Answer:
A
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Concentric circles that spread out through the water around the droplets are actually types of what moving through the water? A. winds B. waves C. lines D. troughs Answer:
B
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The smallest units of matter that retain the unique properties of an element are known as what? A. atoms B. protons C. molecules D. neutrons Answer:
A
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What is a process that changes some chemical substances into other chemical substances? A. spontaneous mutation B. a chemical reaction C. a bio reaction D. cellular respiration Answer:
B
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