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What is a measure of how much energy is needed to change the temperature of a substance? A. specific heat B. specific gravity C. momentum D. thermal potential Answer:
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What is the common term for animals in the phylum porifera? A. corals B. crustaceans C. sponges D. sharks Answer:
C
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What term is used to describe a change in the characteristics of living things over time? A. evolution B. reproduction C. customization D. generation Answer:
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What can accept a wide range of carbohydrates for catabolism? A. glycolysis B. enzymes C. photosynthesis D. cellular respiration Answer:
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What includes all living things within all their environments, including everywhere life exists, from the upper atmosphere, to the top of the soil, to ocean bottoms? A. biosphere B. community C. habitat D. biome Answer:
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What is unique and found in all living things because it can form up to four covalent bonds between atoms or molecules? A. carbon B. oxygen C. hydrogen D. potassium Answer:
A
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What kind of rock is gypsum? A. igneous B. basalt C. metamorphic D. sedimentary Answer:
D
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What component of a prokaryote is unique in molecular composition and mechanism of propulsion? A. the sporangia B. the membrane C. the flagella D. the amoeba Answer:
C
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The sum of the masses of the atoms in the formula is referred to as what? A. atomic mass B. nucleus mass C. magnetic mass D. molecular mass Answer:
D
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What size of ring will a summer drought cause in a tree? A. medium B. giant C. smaller D. larger Answer:
C
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What is the technical term for species that produce their own body heat and regulate their internal temperature independently of the outside temperature? A. hydrostatic B. endothermic C. osmotic D. Phototrophic Answer:
B
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What is the transparent outer covering of the eye? A. cornea B. retina C. iris D. pupil Answer:
A
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Photoreceptors in each ocellus receive light only through the opening where there are none of which cells? A. secreted B. opqaue C. clear D. pigmented Answer:
D
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What helps form the walls of internal organs such as the heart and stomach? A. valves B. blood C. muscles D. tissues Answer:
C
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How many valence electrons does helium have? A. three B. two C. six D. Five Answer:
B
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What is continuously changing within a circuit in an analog signal? A. energy B. frequency C. voltage D. amplitude Answer:
C
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What is made and stored primarily in the cells of the liver and muscles? A. glucose B. oxygen C. glycogen D. carbon dioxide Answer:
C
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Electromagnetic waves vary in wavelength and in what property, which is lower in waves of longer wavelengths? A. frequency B. resonance C. size D. density Answer:
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In the case of transverse waves, the movement of the medium is perpendicular to the direction of the what? A. energy movement B. friction movement C. fuel movement D. pressure movement Answer:
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Inserting an extra plane of atoms into a crystal lattice produces what? A. edge location B. spot location C. edge dislocation D. spot dislocation Answer:
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The core of a nuclear reactor generates a large amount of what type of energy from the decay of fission products, even when the power-producing fission chain reaction is turned off? A. thermal B. erosion C. elastic D. evaporation Answer:
A
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Electric current is measured in coulombs per second, also called what? A. voltages B. amperes C. joules D. watts Answer:
B
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What is the name of the "point" that refers to the temperature at which water vapor condenses? A. dew point B. brine point C. melting point D. water point Answer:
A
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Body plans do provide a succinct way to compare and contrast what? A. distinctive animal features B. missing animal features C. degenerative animal features D. key animal features Answer:
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Once classified as plants, fungi have chitin rather than cellulose in what cell structures? A. cell ridges B. mitochondria C. platelets D. cell walls Answer:
D
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What type of oceans are hostile to algae and cytoplankton? A. shallower B. deeper C. colder D. warmer Answer:
D
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Organelles whose membranes are specialized for aerobic respiration are called what? A. chloroplasts B. mitosis C. vacuoles D. mitochondria Answer:
D
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The regions of a material where the north and south poles of atoms are aligned are called what? A. magnetic rays B. observed domains C. magnetic domains D. cores Answer:
C
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What is another term for body chromosomes? A. subsets B. Chromosomes C. autosomes D. quasars Answer:
C
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Unlike amphibians, reptiles do not have what stage? A. reproductive B. larval C. adult D. egg Answer:
B
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What basic plant structure can add support and anchorage? A. lower leaves B. soils C. roots D. stems Answer:
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Locus refers to the position of what on a chromosome, which controls the characteristics of an organism? A. rna B. gamete C. gene D. genome Answer:
C
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Fish hatch into larvae that are different from the adult form of? A. species B. parasites C. color D. sex Answer:
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What kind of islands provide natural protection to shorelines? A. edge islands B. patch islands C. locational islands D. barrier islands Answer:
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Fruit-eating bats receive food from plants and, in return, help these plants by doing what? A. protecting them B. spreading seeds C. fertilizing them D. pollinating seeds Answer:
B
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What is determined by the amount of energy in molecules? A. state of matter B. momentum C. radioactivity D. kingdom Answer:
A
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Biomass is the mass of biological what? A. lipids B. organisms C. tissues D. proteins Answer:
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The primary nitrogenous waste material secreted by ureotelic animals is what substance? A. urea B. carbon C. ammonia D. nitrate Answer:
A
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What system makes sure leaked blood returns back to the bloodstream? A. lymphatic B. somatic C. cerebral D. symptomatic Answer:
A
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Enthalpy changes are measured by using what? A. infraction B. calorimetry C. fluorescence D. inversion Answer:
B
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The cell walls of fungi are made of what? A. cartilage B. mucous C. lectin D. chitin Answer:
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When blood engorged capillaries leak fluid into neighboring tissues, what occurs? A. swelling B. bleeding C. seeping D. infection Answer:
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Will contour lines ever cross? A. no B. in rare cases C. always D. yes Answer:
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Species of organisms that have permanently died out can also be called what? A. inherited B. extinct C. succinct D. occuring Answer:
B
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Are the majority of archaea chemotrophs or photosynthetic? A. neither B. photosynthetics C. autotrophs D. chemotrophs Answer:
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Oxygen is essentially just a waste product of the light reactions of what? A. glycolysis B. electrolysis C. Fibrinolysis D. photosynthesis Answer:
D
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What is the process by which almost all plants make food? A. digestion B. melting C. photosynthesis D. reactions Answer:
C
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Some enzymes require the presence of a non-protein molecule to function properly. what is that molecule called? A. coenzymes B. cofactor C. prothetic D. substrate Answer:
B
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What stimulates the changes of pubery? A. mutation B. sex education C. sex hormones D. parenting Answer:
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What are the male reproductive cells called? A. plasma B. sperm C. mucus D. ova Answer:
B
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What is one function of the nervous system in humans? A. controlling emotion B. controlling muscles C. producing hormones D. controlling thought Answer:
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What is the diversity of living things called? A. degradation B. ecosystem C. biodiversity D. life cycle Answer:
C
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What kind of mammalian reproduction is risky for the offspring but not the mother? A. cactaceae B. sexual C. asexual D. monotreme Answer:
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What do we call the force of attraction or repulsion between electrically charged particles? A. chemical force B. mechanical force C. gravitational pull D. electromagnetic force Answer:
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Mendeleev organized what basic units into rows and columns? A. compounds B. solutions C. elements D. animals Answer:
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What do you call compounds that have covalent bonds? A. ions B. reflectivity compounds C. valence compound D. covalent compounds Answer:
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What is the term for magma that erupts onto earth's surface? A. lava B. debris C. steam D. obsidian Answer:
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What changes nitrogen gas from the atmosphere to nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb? A. tumors B. viruses C. pathogens D. bacteria Answer:
D
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In vertebrates, ovipary, ovovivipary, and vivipary are different strategies for what vital process? A. circulation B. absorption C. respiration D. reproduction Answer:
D
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What waves do radio and television use? A. gamma waves B. sound waves C. light waves D. radio waves Answer:
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Which factor causes a cannon ball to move horizontally and then fall on the ground? A. cone motion B. projectile motion C. downward motion D. fluid motion Answer:
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What do electrons lose during their transfer from organic compounds to oxygen? A. mechanical energy B. potential energy C. thermal energy D. actual energy Answer:
B
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What are plastids that contain other pigments? A. chloroplasts B. chromoplasts C. lucoplasts D. cytoplasm Answer:
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Each species of legume is associated with a strain of __________ A. heliotropium B. rhizobium C. fungi D. agrobacterium Answer:
B
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Algae convert energy from the sun into food by means of what process? A. compression B. photosynthesis C. glycolysis D. luminosynthesis Answer:
B
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Which process helps provide cleaner water for agriculture? A. purification B. sterilization C. osmosis D. process of desalinization Answer:
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What element is an essential part of many molecules needed by living organisms? A. hydrogen B. helium C. silicon D. nitrogen Answer:
D
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An atom is the smallest unit of what that maintains the identity of the latter? A. mixture B. organism C. cell D. element Answer:
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When a solution freezes, only what particles come together to form a solid phase, while the presence of solute particles interferes with that process? A. hydrogen B. solvent C. pigment D. diluent Answer:
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Liquefaction ccurs when the molecules of a gas are cooled to the point where they no longer possess sufficient kinetic energy to overcome what? A. gravitational attractive forces B. bonding attractive forces C. intermolecular gravitational forces D. intermolecular attractive forces Answer:
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What is the term for the series of life stages and events that a sexually reproducing organism goes through? A. existence B. age C. life cycle D. society cycle Answer:
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What is absorbed from food waste in the large intestine before it passes out of the body as feces? A. inactive water B. dependent water C. distilled water D. excess water Answer:
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What do hydrocarbons consist of? A. carbon and oxygen B. carbon and hydrogen C. carbon and helium D. carbon and water Answer:
B
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A major diversification of what animal group occurred about 50 million years ago, possibly spurred by worldwide climate change? A. insects B. amphibians C. reptiles D. mammals Answer:
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Like a house, your body has what kind of mechanism that responds to changes in temperature? A. internal thermostat B. sensitive thermostat C. mechanical thermostat D. external thermostat Answer:
A
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An isometric type of what occurs as the muscle produces tension without changing the angle of a skeletal joint? A. compression B. contraction C. extension D. acceleration Answer:
B
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What are important coenzymes or precursors of coenzymes, and are required for enzymes to function properly? A. carbohydrates B. supplements C. vitamins D. Drugs Answer:
C
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What have cell-surface antigen receptors for foreign molecules? A. capillaries B. lymphocytes C. dendrites D. erythrocytes Answer:
B
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In birds, modified front legs are actually what? A. claws B. tails C. arms D. wings Answer:
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The number of waves that pass a fixed point in a given amount of time is called what? A. spread of a wave B. frequency of a wave C. wavelength of a wave D. spectroscopy of a wave Answer:
B
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How does litmus paper indicate the ph value of a solution? A. by shape B. by texture C. by smell D. by color Answer:
D
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What is another term for movable joints? A. synovial B. sesamoidal C. interstitial D. fibrous Answer:
A
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What device is a magnetic disc that provides long-term storage for programs and data? A. software B. cassette C. hard drive D. floppy drive Answer:
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Debroglie proposed in 1924 that any object exhibits a wavelength that is inversely proportional to its? A. momentum B. frequency C. inertia D. velocity Answer:
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What travels at the interface between the sea surface and the atmosphere? A. ocean waves B. ocean tides C. ocean currents D. ocean breeze Answer:
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What is the only light that humans can see? A. dark light B. distinct light C. visible light D. bright light Answer:
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What directs the amino acids to be introduced into the growing protein chain in the proper sequence? A. rna template B. organism template C. organelle template D. gene template Answer:
A
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Cellular respiration in humans involves the combustion of what simple sugar? A. glutamate B. starch C. glucose D. insulin Answer:
C
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What still causes fatal lung disease in nonsmokers? A. tobacco smoke B. nicotine C. chewing tobacco D. alcohol Answer:
A
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Like ants and termites, they grow fungi inside the bark of trees and use it to help do what? A. weaken enemies B. clean the nest C. digest food D. kill prey Answer:
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For fertilization to occur in angiosperms, pollen has to be transferred to the stigma of what? A. leaf B. root C. stem D. flower Answer:
D
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Exothermic reactions in organisms are called what? A. biogenic reactions B. catabolic reactions C. nebular reactions D. nuclear reactions Answer:
B
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Prior to birth, the lungs are filled with amniotic fluid, mucus, and what else? A. plasma B. surfactant C. air D. blood Answer:
B
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At what point during a chemical reaction is there no net change? A. bonding B. ionization C. formation D. equilibrium Answer:
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The solution with the higher solute concentration is called what? A. hypertonic B. unsaturated C. hypotonic D. acetic Answer:
A
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The three stages of transcription are initiation, elongation, and what? A. prolongation B. termination C. degradation D. separation Answer:
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A rounded hollow carved in the side of a mountain by a glacier is known as? A. a crest B. a cirque C. a crater D. a cavern Answer:
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Where do most cnidarians live? A. hills B. rocks C. ocean D. grass Answer:
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What do a group of cells that work together form? A. tissue B. organ C. molecule D. organelle Answer:
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Plants alternate between haploid and what? A. monoplooid B. monoxoid C. triploid D. diploid Answer:
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