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Mammals can feed at various levels of food chains, as herbivores, insectivores, carnivores and what else? A. omnivores B. blood eaters C. vegetarians D. nematodes Answer:
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What are winds that blow over a limited area called? A. trade winds B. Planetary Winds C. local winds D. Periodic Winds Answer:
C
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Descending fibers from the cerebrum have branches that connect to neurons in the pons. those neurons project into the cerebellum, providing a copy of motor commands sent to this? A. spinal cord B. cerebral cortex C. umbilical cord D. neurotransmitters Answer:
A
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An element is defined by the number of ____ it contains? A. protons B. electrons C. particles D. neutrons Answer:
A
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What term is used to describe the distance traveled divided by the time it took to travel that distance? A. movement B. velocity C. speed D. motion Answer:
C
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Which gas is released by the group of archaea known as methanogens? A. methane B. butane C. propane D. sulfur Answer:
A
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Of the four main wobble base pairs, guanine is paired with what? A. cytosine B. uracil C. thymine D. adenine Answer:
B
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The atoms of a compound are held together by what type of bonds? A. covalent B. mineral C. radiation D. chemical Answer:
D
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Unlike energy, what happens to matter in ecosystems? A. it is destroyed B. it is recycled C. it does not exist D. it is filtered Answer:
B
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The anion is the methanoate ion, which is commonly called the what? A. metabolized ion B. glutathione ion C. isomer D. formate ion Answer:
D
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Drinking too much water too fast can lead to what potentially fatal condition, which causes dangerous changes to salt levels? A. water intoxication B. inebriation C. drowning D. osmosis Answer:
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When electrons move from one atom to another, they become what? A. atoms B. neons C. ions D. particles Answer:
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Another way to classify matter is to describe it as a solid, a liquid, or a gas, which was done in the examples of solutions. these three descriptions, each implying that the matter has certain physical properties, represent the three of these? A. phases of mass B. forms of substances C. types of atoms D. phases of matter Answer:
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What is the health-threatening smoke exhaled by a cigarette smoker or released from tobacco products? A. contamination smoke B. primary smoke C. secondary smoke D. secondhand smoke Answer:
D
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Why do waves travel faster through solids? A. particles closer together B. particles pipe together C. particles fuse together D. particles range together Answer:
A
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What is the point on the ground that is located directly above where underground rocks fracture (or the "focus" point)? A. danger zone B. fault line C. epicenter D. seismic point Answer:
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When atoms gain or lose electrons, they can form electrically charged particles called what? A. eons B. toxins C. ions D. crystals Answer:
C
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What do you call a pure substance that cannot be broken down into different types of substances? A. sample B. molecule C. compound D. element Answer:
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Natural selection can only take place if there is variation, or differences, among individuals in a population. importantly, these differences must have some genetic basis; otherwise, the selection will not lead to change in this? A. next generation B. mass extinction C. fertilization D. spontaneous mutation Answer:
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The large hadron collider is the biggest type of what invention, which boosts particles to high energies? A. mass spectrometer B. nuclear reactor C. electron microscope D. particle accelerator Answer:
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Metals, metalloids, and nonmetals are the different classes of what? A. elements B. structures C. ions D. compounds Answer:
A
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What holds homologs together as the spindle forms for the first meiotic division? A. pollenation B. magnetism C. chiasmata D. spirogyra Answer:
C
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In the periodic table, elements are arranged from left to right according to what property? A. atomic mass B. metallic mass C. major mass D. real mass Answer:
A
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What is made of gases that are essential for photosynthesis and other life activities? A. stratosphere B. ocean C. atmosphere D. air Answer:
C
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When a stream flows from a hard to soft rock area, what is often formed? A. a lake B. a riverbank C. a river D. a waterfall Answer:
D
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What term means taking used items and materials and turning them into something new? A. reproducing B. collecting C. recycling D. feeding Answer:
C
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What lets different species of anole lizards live in the same area without competing? A. concentration B. variation C. cooperation D. specialization Answer:
D
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What are made in the first step of the scientific method? A. hypothesis B. observations C. patterns D. conclusions Answer:
B
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What type of organisms do not need blood? A. vertebrate B. cold-blooded C. marine D. single-celled Answer:
D
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What type of plants are the mosses, the hornwarts, and the liverworts considered to be? A. spirogyra B. Vascular C. nonvascular D. xerophyte Answer:
C
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Wearing what will reduce the amplitude of sound waves entering the ears? A. megaphone B. hardhat C. hearing protectors D. goggles Answer:
C
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What type of motion only occurs when there is one force applied at the beginning of the trajectory after which there is no interference apart from gravity? A. thrust B. projectile C. propellant D. velocity Answer:
B
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What type of energy is produced when two objects move together? A. physical energy B. molecular energy C. mechanical energy D. potential energy Answer:
C
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Which form of matter assumes the shape of its container? A. gas B. solids C. liquids D. crystals Answer:
A
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What type of energy is possessed by autumn leaves before they fall? A. radioactive energy B. mechanical energy C. kinetic energy D. potential energy Answer:
D
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The heterotroph eats only or mainly what? A. decomposers B. roots C. animals D. plants Answer:
D
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All carbon atoms have how many protons? A. one B. two C. six D. eight Answer:
C
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The cerebellum is associated with what major human organ? A. bladder B. brain C. heart D. liver Answer:
B
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The kinetic energy of a moving object depends on it's mass and it's what? A. liquid content B. iron content C. shape D. volume Answer:
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Electromagnetic waves are comprised of what two types of energy? A. kinetic and electric B. solar and kinetic C. electric and magnetic D. magnetic and gravitational Answer:
C
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Cranial nerves convey specific sensory information from the head and neck directly to what organ? A. heart B. brain C. nose D. eye Answer:
B
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Where are the viral enzyme and genome packaged inside? A. mitochondria B. pollen grains C. ribosomes D. viral capsid Answer:
D
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What would cause warm receptors to signal the hypothalamic thermostat? A. increased temperature B. hypothermia C. lower temperature D. hyperventilation Answer:
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The direction of the force of gravity is in what direction? A. straight line B. staggered line C. curved line D. fragmented line Answer:
A
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Sickle-cell anemia, leukemia, lymphoma, and hemophilia are examples of what types of disease? A. Cancer B. Bone Diease C. microscopic disease D. blood disease Answer:
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In hypothesis-based science, specific results are predicted from a general premise, which is called what type of reasoning that proceeds from general to particular? A. transitive B. reflexive C. deductive D. reactive Answer:
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The process by which an organism develops from a single-celled zygote to a multi-cellular organism is complex and well regulated. the regulation occurs through signaling between cells and tissues and responses in the form of what? A. spontaneous mutation B. phenotype exchange C. differential gene expression D. dna replication Answer:
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The development of specific structures in specific locations is called what? A. pattern formation B. adaptation C. specialty skills D. speciation Answer:
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An experiment generates what to support a hypothesis? A. reason B. study C. falsehoods D. evidence Answer:
D
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What is the outermost occupied shell of electrons in an atom. A. Inner Shell B. radiative shell C. modular shell D. valence shell Answer:
D
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What ear structure has three fluid filled ducts, including the organ of corti, where sound waves in air go to vibration? A. utricle B. saccule C. cochlea D. semicirciular canal Answer:
C
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What is the name for elements that neither contain carbon nor come from living things? A. pigments B. minerals C. contaminants D. acids Answer:
B
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Kinetic energy is energy of this? A. food B. speed C. motion D. gravity Answer:
C
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Reproduction in prokaryotic cells is by what process of growth, enlargement and division? A. binary fission B. photosynthesis C. mitosis D. budding Answer:
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Why do some dry fruits split open at maturity? A. to release berries B. to regenerate C. to release toxins D. to release seeds Answer:
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What is an ionic bond in nature? A. magnetic B. radioactive C. kinetic D. electrostatic Answer:
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Most air masses form over what two types of regions? A. polar and tropical B. arctic and marine C. polar and arctic D. marine and tropical Answer:
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Earthworms are important deposit feeders that help form and enrich what material? A. coal B. shale C. soil D. wood Answer:
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Growth, morphogenesis, and cell differentiation produce the plant what? A. fur B. tail C. body D. fat Answer:
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What is a fold of the outer skin lining the shell called? A. marble B. cortex C. stack D. mantle Answer:
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What sciences are the study of living organisms? A. earth sciences B. life sciences C. physical sciences D. social sciences Answer:
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Frogs are amphibians that live part of the time in fresh water and rest of the time where? A. in salt water B. underground C. in stagnant water D. on land Answer:
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Name the missing type of friction: static, rolling, fluid _____? A. turning B. falling C. dragging D. sliding Answer:
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What is the study of how living organisms interact with each other and with their environment? A. zoology B. genetics C. ecology D. botany Answer:
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What are electrons lost during the formation of ions called? A. cations B. catalysts C. isotopes D. oxides Answer:
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Making a specific statement based on a general principle is the definition of what type of reasoning? A. transitive B. inductive C. inference D. deductive Answer:
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The earth's magnetic poles have done what repeatedly in the past? A. stayed the same B. demagnetized C. switched places D. rotated Answer:
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What do we call the orderly sequence of events in the life of a cell from the division of a single parent cell to produce two new daughter cells, to the subsequent division of those daughter cells? A. cell death B. cell replication C. cell cycle D. circadian cycle Answer:
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What are natural resources which can be replaced in a relatively short period called? A. replaceable resources B. solvent resources C. renewable resources D. materials resources Answer:
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The biological electron transport chain provides for an orderly, stepwise transfer of electrons. both nadh (reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) and fadh2 (reduced flavin adenine dinucleotide) are energy rich molecules that liberate a large amount of energy during what? A. evaporation B. extrapolation C. conduction D. oxidation Answer:
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The cells within meristems divide relatively frequently, generating additional what? A. cells B. chlorophyll C. proteins D. photosynthesis Answer:
A
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Another unit of energy, used widely in the health professions and everyday life, is _______? A. carbs B. calorie ( cal ) C. body index D. biomass ( cal ) Answer:
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What are the specfic types of proteins that determine your blood type called? A. antibodies B. antigens C. Globulins D. Plasma Answer:
B
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Which layer of soil experiences the most weathering? A. humus B. top layer C. subsoil D. bedrock Answer:
B
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Osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, fractures, and sprains are problems affecting what system? A. digestive system B. nervous system C. skeletal system D. tissues system Answer:
C
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What are typically arranged into complex tubular networks with extensive surface areas? A. alveoli B. hair follicles C. Golgi apparatus D. transport epithelia Answer:
D
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What is the simplest unit of structure and function of all living organisms called? A. partical B. atom C. molecule D. cell Answer:
D
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Activities that can reduce the effects of what condition include exercises to keep the blood and lymph flowing through affected areas? A. inflammation B. edema C. asthma D. anemia Answer:
B
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An alloy is a mixture of metals that has bulk metallic properties different from those of its what? A. system elements B. mineral elements C. constituent elements D. nuclear elements Answer:
C
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There are two types of digestion, mechanical and what else? A. chemical B. mineral C. radiation D. thermal Answer:
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What is the rate at which energy is being transferred called? A. pressure B. power C. electric D. force Answer:
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Where does the process of assembling amino acids into a protein take place? A. in the chitin B. in chromosomes C. in the nucleus D. in the ribosome Answer:
D
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Where can you find sodium acetate? A. a cold pack B. table salt C. a heat pack D. baking soda Answer:
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For a given amount of solute, do smaller particles have a greater or lesser surface area? A. lesser B. greater C. neither D. equal Answer:
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What is the functional unit of compact bone? A. the canton B. the osteon C. the auteron D. the boron Answer:
B
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Mineralocorticoids are hormones synthesized by the adrenal cortex that affect what balance, by regulating sodium and water levels? A. homeostasis B. blood pressure C. osmotic D. equilibrium Answer:
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The pulmonary circulation carries blood between what two organs? A. lungs and kidney B. kidney and heart C. heart and lungs D. heart and pancreas Answer:
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The ancient greek philosopher aristotle thought that all matter consists of just four what, which he identified as earth, air, water, and fire? A. compounds B. structures C. ingredients D. elements Answer:
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What are archaea that live in extremely hot environments called? A. tardigrades B. thermophiles C. hemophiliacs D. hypothermic Answer:
B
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Warming conditions and, perhaps, human activities contributed to what fate of many organisms of the pleistocene era? A. evolution B. extinction C. accumulation D. overpopulation Answer:
B
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Practical limits of van de graaff generators arise because the large electric fields polarize and eventually do what to surrounding materials? A. isolate B. displace C. decompose D. ionize Answer:
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The remainder is transferred by contraction of what before the ventricles begin to contract? A. the arteries B. the atria C. the large intestine D. the stomach Answer:
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Chromatin condenses into chromosomes during prophase, the first and longest phase of what process? A. mitosis B. meiosis C. apoptosis D. reproduction Answer:
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What do plants lose the most of through the stomata? A. water B. heat C. chlorophyll D. energy Answer:
A
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Unburned hydrocarbons can more easily be converted to carbon dioxide and water in the presence of a what? A. temperature B. Ethanol C. catalyst D. methane Answer:
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What do plasmodesmata connect to in the plant cell? A. sporozoans B. nuclei C. pores D. cytoplasms Answer:
D
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What are compounds composed of only two elements called? A. binary compounds B. kinetic compounds C. digital compounds D. symbiotic compounds Answer:
A
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What type of gases trap heat in the atmosphere, causing earth to have a moderate temperature? A. sulfuric gases B. ozone gases C. carbon monoxides D. greenhouse gases Answer:
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What system is the brain the control center of? A. fibrous B. circulatory C. nervous D. adrenal Answer:
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Air pollution can cause disease of what system by affecting the health of your lungs? A. respiratory B. digestive C. cardiac D. excretory Answer:
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