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Insulin is produced by what part of the body?
A. kidneys
B. liver
C. thyroid
D. pancreas
Answer: | D | sciq |
What color is the brittle metalloid tallurium?
A. brownish black
B. purplish blue
C. silvery white
D. yellowish green
Answer: | C | sciq |
What compounds, which serve as fuels and are used in manufacturing, are called the driving force of western civilization?
A. gas
B. hydrocarbons
C. fossils
D. forests
Answer: | B | sciq |
What is the main type of organism that gets its energy directly from the sun?
A. animals
B. carnivores
C. consumers
D. plants
Answer: | D | sciq |
What are the two factors that affect the pressure of fluids?
A. depth and density
B. viscosity and gravity
C. momentum and density
D. depth and decrease
Answer: | A | sciq |
What consists of four major components: inorganic mineral matter, organic matter, water and air, and living matter?
A. soil
B. nitrogen
C. color
D. rocks
Answer: | A | sciq |
What is the term for the movement of substances due to random thermal molecular motion?
A. convection
B. diffusion
C. Transfusion
D. condensation
Answer: | B | sciq |
Most metals exist in which form at room temperature?
A. solids
B. liquids
C. oils
D. gases
Answer: | A | sciq |
A stem cell is an unspecialized cell that can divide without limit as needed and can, under specific conditions, differentiate into these?
A. germ cells
B. clones
C. infectious cells
D. specialized cells
Answer: | D | sciq |
What monthy cycle causes changes in the ovaries and uterus?
A. sleep-wake cycle
B. tides
C. water cycle
D. the menstrual cycle
Answer: | D | sciq |
Chytridiomycota are considered the most primitive of what kingdom?
A. plants
B. protists
C. fungi
D. animals
Answer: | C | sciq |
What is a soft, gray, nontoxic alkaline earth metal?
A. pewter
B. calcium
C. potassium
D. magnesium
Answer: | B | sciq |
In many polychaetes, the parapodia are richly supplied with blood vessels and also function as what?
A. gills
B. tails
C. scales
D. pores
Answer: | A | sciq |
What is formed when plant bodies are lithified?
A. coal
B. fossils
C. methane
D. copper
Answer: | A | sciq |
What is the term for the direct manipulation of genes for practical purposes?
A. manual engineering
B. genetic engineering
C. genetic cloning
D. genetic testing
Answer: | B | sciq |
When both momentum and kinetic energy are conserved in a closed system, the collision is called what?
A. an elastic collision
B. an accidental collision
C. a spontaneous collision
D. a static collision
Answer: | A | sciq |
What are the two groups of therian mammals?
A. felines and canines
B. dolphins and whales
C. monotremes and mollusks
D. placental mammals and marsupials
Answer: | D | sciq |
What is the name of the spacecraft that has performed the closest flyby of uranus?
A. Mercury 7
B. Zodiac 4
C. centaur 2
D. voyager 2
Answer: | D | sciq |
What is the group of all the eukaryotes that are not fungi, animals, or plants called?
A. filamentous
B. arthropods
C. lizards
D. protists
Answer: | D | sciq |
What have a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a photosynthetic organism?
A. amphibians
B. lichens
C. crustaceans
D. sponges
Answer: | B | sciq |
Define motion.
A. change of position
B. gravitational pull
C. speed of objects
D. distance traveled
Answer: | A | sciq |
Most tissues regulated by the autonomic nervous system receive both sympathetic and parasympathetic input from?
A. postganglionic neurons
B. peristaltic neurons
C. parasympathetic neurons
D. Chemosensory center
Answer: | A | sciq |
What is responsible for the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria?
A. mosquitoes
B. negative mutations
C. bacterial mutations
D. flu shots
Answer: | C | sciq |
Many cancers, as well as autism, are thought to have what component, which is certainly a factor in asthma?
A. critical
B. emotional
C. ecological
D. environmental
Answer: | D | sciq |
The first plants probably evolved from what?
A. mould
B. moss
C. dry green algae
D. aquatic green algae
Answer: | D | sciq |
What is the unit of liquid measurement in the metric system?
A. gallon
B. pint
C. liter
D. cylinder
Answer: | C | sciq |
Wavelength and frequency are defined in the same way for electromagnetic waves as they are for which other waves?
A. sonar
B. gravitational
C. light
D. mechanical
Answer: | D | sciq |
What covers the body of a fish to help the move their body to swim?
A. skin
B. scales
C. hairs
D. gelatin
Answer: | B | sciq |
What type of bond forms by unpaired electrons from two atoms "matching up"?
A. magnetic bond
B. covalent bond
C. reactive bond
D. accretion bond
Answer: | B | sciq |
When gas pressure-forces are used to move an object the work is done on the object by?
A. expanding gas
B. kinetic energy
C. contracting gas
D. gravitational pull
Answer: | A | sciq |
A lymphocyte is the type of which cell involved in an immune system response?
A. red blood cell
B. white immunity cell
C. white brain cell
D. white blood cell
Answer: | D | sciq |
Most fossils form when a dead organism is buried in what?
A. sand
B. ash
C. sediment
D. soil
Answer: | C | sciq |
What do you call an object that attracts certain materials such as iron?
A. magnet
B. neutron
C. antenna
D. electron
Answer: | A | sciq |
Coral and the algae living inside of them have what type of relationship, since the algae relies on the coral to stay close to the water's surface?
A. parasitic
B. peculiar
C. symbiotic
D. competitive
Answer: | C | sciq |
Because opposite charges attract, oppositely charged ions attract each other to form what?
A. nuclear bonds
B. ionic bonds
C. soluble bonds
D. particle bonds
Answer: | B | sciq |
A major source of primary pollutants is the burning of oil and coal, which are types of what?
A. greenhouse gases
B. renewable fuels
C. erosion fuels
D. fossil fuels
Answer: | D | sciq |
What causes natural ripening in fruit?
A. sulfur
B. acid
C. ethylene
D. chloride
Answer: | C | sciq |
In species with sexual reproduction, each cell of the body has two copies of each what?
A. chromosome
B. dna strand
C. rna strand
D. cell
Answer: | A | sciq |
On what part of bones would you expect to find cartilage?
A. marrow
B. end
C. interior
D. exterior
Answer: | B | sciq |
Who invented the taxonomic classification system?
A. Isaac Newton
B. Pascal
C. carl linnaeus
D. gregor mendel
Answer: | C | sciq |
What type of pathogen is responsible for african sleeping sickness?
A. Trichinella spiralis
B. streptococcus
C. trypanosoma
D. salmonella
Answer: | C | sciq |
How many underlying principles does the science of biology have?
A. eleven
B. five
C. three
D. four
Answer: | D | sciq |
What are biochemical compounds, such as fats and oils, that consist of fatty acids and store energy?
A. oils
B. proteins
C. tissues
D. lipids
Answer: | D | sciq |
The temperature at which all molecular motion has ceased is called what?
A. 0 degrees kelvin
B. 0 degrees celcius
C. absolute zero
D. stopping point
Answer: | C | sciq |
What term means controlling body temperature within a narrow range from the inside through biochemical or physical means?
A. endothermy
B. exothermy
C. regulation
D. evaporation
Answer: | A | sciq |
The most important characteristic of extant amphibians is a moist, permeable skin used for this?
A. cutaneous respiration
B. benign respiration
C. avian respiration
D. simple respiration
Answer: | A | sciq |
Fertilized mollusk eggs develop into what?
A. larvae
B. leaf
C. bark
D. shrimp
Answer: | A | sciq |
Proper kidney function is essential for homeostasis of what level, which in turn helps ensure the functioning of enzymes?
A. ions
B. ph
C. oxygen
D. calcium
Answer: | B | sciq |
Proteins include 20 common types of what compounds?
A. amino acids
B. mitochondria
C. rna acids
D. dna
Answer: | A | sciq |
Isotopes have different number of these in their nuclei?
A. neutrons
B. protons
C. atoms
D. electrons
Answer: | A | sciq |
What can destroy living cells, produce mutations and cause cancer?
A. plasma rays
B. prismatic rays
C. stingrays
D. gamma rays
Answer: | D | sciq |
What type of feeders are sponges?
A. filter feeders
B. surface feeders
C. bottom feeders
D. layer feeders
Answer: | A | sciq |
The first consumption of breast milk or formula floods the baby's gastrointestinal tract with what?
A. enzymes
B. beneficial bacteria
C. nerves
D. hemoglobin
Answer: | B | sciq |
Weight refers to what force acting on a mass?
A. solar
B. electronic
C. gravitational
D. magnetic
Answer: | C | sciq |
Being exposed to sunlight will produce what vitamin in the skin?
A. B-complex
B. vitamin A
C. vitamin d
D. Vitamin E
Answer: | C | sciq |
Modern plants reflect what kind of changes that have occurred over many, many years?
A. unknown changes
B. tendency changes
C. evolutionary changes
D. tissue changes
Answer: | C | sciq |
What device measures current that flows through wire?
A. protractor
B. Geiger counter
C. ammeter
D. resistor attachment
Answer: | C | sciq |
In science, what is defined as a change in position?
A. direction
B. gravity
C. speed
D. motion
Answer: | D | sciq |
What makes up the core of the endoskeleton?
A. vertebral column
B. dermis
C. thorax
D. notochord
Answer: | A | sciq |
The bottom of the ocean is called what?
A. Intertidal zone
B. Final zone
C. Demersal zone
D. the benthic zone
Answer: | D | sciq |
Made of hot, solid rock, the mantle is beneath what layer of the earth?
A. volcanic
B. crust
C. core
D. liquid
Answer: | B | sciq |
What happens to the volume of the gas when temperature increases but amount of gas and its pressure are constant?
A. volume remains constant
B. volume increases
C. nothing
D. volume decreases
Answer: | B | sciq |
Meiosis, like mitosis, is preceded by the duplication of what?
A. chloroforms
B. chromosomes
C. ribosomes
D. neutrons
Answer: | B | sciq |
The invention of what instrument in the 1930s allowed scientists to see viruses for the first time?
A. telescopes
B. electron microscope
C. spy glass
D. magnifying glass
Answer: | B | sciq |
What is the name of the chart that allows you to easily determine the expected percentage of different genotypes in the offspring of two parents?
A. punnett square
B. periodic square
C. DNA helix
D. Trafalgar Square
Answer: | A | sciq |
What is the functional unit of compact bone?
A. collagen
B. scleroprotein
C. spongin
D. osteon
Answer: | D | sciq |
Because the nuclei of each h atom contain protons, the electrons in the bond are attracted to the nuclei (opposite charges attract). but because the two atoms involved in the covalent bond are both h atoms, each nucleus attracts the electrons by the same amount. thus the electron pair is equally shared by these?
A. two atoms
B. one atom
C. four atoms
D. nine atoms
Answer: | A | sciq |
What is the term for when the phenotype of offspring is partly determined by the phenotype of its mother, irrespective of genotype?
A. uterine effect
B. maternal effect
C. oceanic effect
D. congenital effect
Answer: | B | sciq |
Natural methods of asexual reproduction, such as cuttings or budding, include strategies that plants have developed to perform what?
A. multi-propagation
B. mono-propagation
C. iso-propagation
D. self-propagation
Answer: | D | sciq |
Many metals react with acids to produce what gas?
A. helium
B. hydrogen
C. mercury
D. neon
Answer: | B | sciq |
What is the process of a cell membrane surrounding a particle and engulfing it calles?
A. mitosis
B. active transport
C. ingestion
D. phagocytosis
Answer: | D | sciq |
What type of rocks are very useful for determining the deformation history of an area?
A. sedimentary
B. crystalline
C. igneous
D. limestone
Answer: | A | sciq |
What is the term for dating a rock based on composition decay?
A. fuel dating
B. carbon dating
C. safe dating
D. radioactive dating
Answer: | D | sciq |
What is the term for a very rapid motor response that is not directed by the brain?
A. instinct
B. reflex
C. adaptation
D. sensor
Answer: | B | sciq |
Crossover occurs between non-sister chromatids of which chromosomes?
A. compound chromosomes
B. homologous
C. identical chromosomes
D. analogous
Answer: | B | sciq |
Water is an oxide of what element?
A. nitrogen
B. hydrogen
C. carbon
D. helium
Answer: | B | sciq |
What term is used to describe the parts of the brain involved in the reception and interpretation of sensory stimuli collectively?
A. glial cells
B. sensorium
C. neurons
D. medulla oblongata
Answer: | B | sciq |
Experiments show that each o2 molecule has two unpaired what?
A. quarks
B. protons
C. neutrons
D. electrons
Answer: | D | sciq |
Acidity is measured by what physical property?
A. amp
B. ps
C. ph
D. kω
Answer: | C | sciq |
Antacids are bases that neutralize what in the digestive tract?
A. hormones
B. acids
C. salts
D. fats
Answer: | B | sciq |
What is the climate of a small area called?
A. microclimate
B. microevolution
C. ecosystem
D. biome
Answer: | A | sciq |
The rate of what process depends on how many of an organism’s genes have changed over a period of time and on the generation time of a particular species?
A. photosynthesis
B. respiration
C. evolution
D. digestion
Answer: | C | sciq |
The sticky stigma at the tip of the carpel receives what?
A. salt
B. bacteria
C. nitrogen
D. pollen
Answer: | D | sciq |
Are the joints between the vertebrae contained in your backbone fully movable, partially movable, or unmovable?
A. none of these
B. partially movable
C. unmovable
D. fully movable
Answer: | B | sciq |
Which branch of biology uses fossils to study life's history?
A. zoology
B. paleontology
C. geology
D. morphology
Answer: | B | sciq |
What do you call prokaryotes that do not need oxygen for respiration?
A. chloroflexus
B. anaerobic
C. aerobic
D. enzymatic
Answer: | B | sciq |
When a glacier no longer moves, what is it called?
A. a glacial lake
B. an iceberg
C. an ice cylinder
D. an ice sheet
Answer: | D | sciq |
What did roots evolve from that plants used for aborption?
A. leguminous
B. seeds
C. rhizoids
D. oomycetes
Answer: | C | sciq |
Although lots of symbiotic relationships help both organisms, sometimes one of the organisms is harmed. when that happens, the organism that benefits, and is not harmed, is called a what?
A. child
B. parasite
C. viruses
D. infection
Answer: | B | sciq |
What are named for major physical or climatic features and for their predominant vegetation?
A. terrestrial substrates
B. geological formations
C. celestial bodies
D. terrestrial biomes
Answer: | D | sciq |
Similarity of crystal structures is used to categorize what non-living materials?
A. grains
B. salts
C. corals
D. minerals
Answer: | D | sciq |
Diabetes is a non-infectious disease in which the body is unable to control the amount of what in the blood?
A. sugar
B. protein
C. plasma
D. water
Answer: | A | sciq |
All living organisms are classified into one of six broad categories called what?
A. nobles
B. cities
C. kingdoms
D. tribes
Answer: | C | sciq |
What is the most common type of cancer in adult males?
A. liver cancer
B. lung cancer
C. prostate cancer
D. stomach cancer
Answer: | C | sciq |
What occurs when an unstable nucleus emits an alpha particle and energy?
A. radar decay
B. nucleus decay
C. alpha radition
D. alpha decay
Answer: | D | sciq |
What molecule can be used by the body to synthesize cholesterol ?
A. ethylene coa
B. chloride coa
C. hydroxide coa
D. acetyl coa
Answer: | D | sciq |
Full siblings share how many genes with each other?
A. 100%
B. half
C. 25%
D. 75%
Answer: | B | sciq |
Which highly valuable substance found in jewelry has a density of about 19 g/cm^3?
A. rubies
B. silver
C. gold
D. diamonds
Answer: | C | sciq |
Sperm propel themselves through secretions in the uterus and enter what tube?
A. ovarian
B. gaseous
C. uterine
D. fallopian
Answer: | D | sciq |
What type of minerals are often found where seas once covered the land?
A. magnesium
B. carbonate
C. sea salt
D. crystals
Answer: | B | sciq |
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