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Convection is the transfer of thermal energy by particles moving through what? A. tissue B. Metal C. fluid D. Solid Answer:
C
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What happens when waves reach the shore? A. topple and break B. repel and attract C. diffuse and recede D. surge and drown Answer:
A
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What is an involuntary muscle contraction that moves rapidly along an organ like a wave called? A. esophagus B. peristalsis C. ruptured nerve D. apoptosis Answer:
B
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What is the purpose of water molds in fresh water environments? A. wave production B. fish food C. oxygen production D. decomposition Answer:
D
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What corrosive substances capable of dissolving many metals can cause contamination if spilled? A. ions B. acids C. bases D. salts Answer:
B
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What is always conserved in chemical reactions? A. bonds B. force C. energy D. mass Answer:
D
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A polyatomic ion is an ion composed of more than one what? A. atom B. neutron C. pair bond D. nucleus Answer:
A
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Mutualism is an interaction between individuals of two different species that has what effect on both of them? A. neutral B. abnormal C. beneficial D. harmful Answer:
C
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What are the structural and functional units of the nervous system, which transmit nerve impulses to other cells? A. axions B. electrons C. ions D. neurons Answer:
D
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If hot water becomes trapped, pressure may build up. when the water breaks free, it creates what? A. groundwater B. steam C. geyser D. glacier Answer:
C
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What electrical force is responsible for fission? A. friction B. momentum C. velocity D. repulsion Answer:
D
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Which law states that a pair of alleles is separated, or segregated, during the formation of gametes? A. law of equals B. separation anxiety C. de facto segregation D. law of segregation Answer:
D
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Sounds or pictures can be encoded in pulses of what, which are then sent through an optical fiber? A. quasars B. microwaves C. laser light D. kinetic energy Answer:
C
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What substance are physical objects are made of? A. friction B. energy C. matter D. gravity Answer:
C
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Why do mangrove trees rise high above the water? which characteristic help them to do so? A. stilt like roots B. fat roots C. heavy roots D. no roots Answer:
A
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What fertilizes an egg during sexual reproduction? A. cytoplasm B. mucus C. gametes D. sperm Answer:
D
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How does the fungus benefit from the photosynthesizer? A. shade B. supply of carbon dioxide C. supply of food D. protection from chemicals Answer:
C
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What is the name for unsaturated hydrocarbons that contain at least one double bond? A. acids B. alkenes C. lipids D. enzymes Answer:
B
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What is the term for a loop in which a product feeds back to control its own production? A. feedback mechanism B. load mechanism C. Adaptive Mechanism D. Recondition Mechanism Answer:
A
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During what period on earth was coal formed? A. Mesozoic B. the carboniferous period C. Neoproterozoic era D. Neoproterozoic Answer:
B
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What is the term for the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum? A. gravity B. electricity C. chroma D. light Answer:
D
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Which vertebrates were the first with four limbs? A. reptiles B. bony fishes C. birds D. amphibians (or tetrapods) Answer:
D
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How do plants support themselves above the ground to get light and oxygen? A. stiff stems B. momentum C. flaccid stems D. symbiosis Answer:
A
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What process starts with glucose and ends with two pyruvate molecules, a total of four atp molecules and two molecules of nadh? A. secretion B. photosynthesis C. absorption D. glycolysis Answer:
D
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What paired organs help regulate blood pressure through sodium ion and water retention and loss? A. lungs B. tissues C. kidneys D. lymph nodes Answer:
C
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What is the age-related disorder that causes the gradual loss of bone density and strength? A. fibrosis B. arthritis C. osteoporosis D. mitosis Answer:
C
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What are microfilaments made out of? A. two DNA chains B. two halophilic chains C. two actin chains D. two microscopy chains Answer:
C
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Which bones are the large, curved bones that form the lateral and anterior aspects of the pelvis? A. foot B. hip C. cranium D. toe Answer:
B
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What bifurcates into the right and left bronchi in the lungs? A. neck B. trachea C. cornea D. aorta Answer:
B
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What is the spreading of white light into its full spectrum of wavelengths called? A. condensation B. radiate C. saturation D. dispersion Answer:
D
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What type of fertilization usually occurs in aquatic environments where both eggs and sperm are released into the water? A. external B. Internal C. material D. static Answer:
A
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What is the energy of motion called? A. kinetic energy B. inertia C. harmonic energy D. stasis Answer:
A
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Overharvesting is especially challenging for species with what type of habitat? A. allowed B. tundra C. restricted D. classified Answer:
C
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What is a representation of the valence electrons of an atom that uses dots around the symbol of the element? A. right structure B. time structure C. watson structure D. lewis structure Answer:
D
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Massive quanta, like electrons, also act like macroscopic particles—something we expect, because they are the smallest what? A. battalions of matter B. regiments of matter C. depth of matter D. units of matter Answer:
D
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The simplest example of what type of 'organ system' is the gastrovascular cavity found in organisms with only one opening for the process? A. cardiovascular B. nervous C. respiratory D. digestive Answer:
D
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Photographs of the heat emitted by an object are called what? A. thermal images B. variable images C. radio images D. cosmic images Answer:
A
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Graphite is a form of elemental carbon what is another form? A. iron B. diamond C. carbonite D. magnite Answer:
B
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If everything else stays the same in a system with a gas in it, and the gas gets warmer, what will happen to its pressure, generally? A. it stays the same B. it increases C. it drops D. it's eliminated Answer:
B
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What term means a failure, insufficiency, or delay in the response of the immune system, which may be acquired or inherited? A. immunodeficiency B. pathogenic C. vitamin deficiency D. anemia Answer:
A
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The mature pollen grain is composed of two cells: the pollen tube cell and which other cell? A. ova B. generative cell C. photosynthesis cell D. glial cell Answer:
B
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The neck of the uterus, called the cervix, opens into what? A. vagina B. retina C. testicle D. bladder Answer:
A
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Where does the small intestine begin? A. colon B. spleen C. mouth D. stomach Answer:
D
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What type of shape does a pelvic inlet have? A. oval shape B. cylindrical C. cubic D. conical Answer:
A
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Which stage of life is typically easier for learning multiple languages? A. infancy B. adulthood C. childhood D. adolescenc Answer:
C
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What is released from the body during ejaculation? A. blood B. saliva C. urine D. sperm Answer:
D
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An organism's unique role in the ecosystem is called its what? A. purpose B. focus C. adaptation D. niche Answer:
D
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With the exception of water, what accounts for more mass than any other component of living organisms? A. proteins B. nervous tissue C. hormones D. fats Answer:
A
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Atoms are combined, separated, or rearranged during what? A. radiation B. spontaneous mutation C. chemical reactions D. physical reactions Answer:
C
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How many electrons does lithium have? A. three B. four C. two D. seven Answer:
A
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What is considered the center of the solar system? A. nebulla B. earth C. heat D. sun Answer:
D
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What is the purpose of your body's first line of defense? A. heal wounds B. to keep out pathogens C. reject foreign bodies D. fight or flight Answer:
B
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What functions as a framework that reinforces the shape of the leaf? A. the stylised structure B. the vascular structure C. the central structure D. the normal structure Answer:
B
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Like quarks, gluons may be confined to systems having a total color of what? A. yellow B. red C. blue D. white Answer:
D
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The ozone layer protects the earth from what? A. radio waves B. uv radiation C. light waves D. pollution Answer:
B
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What type of learning is based on past experience and reasoning? A. insight B. theory C. experiment D. reflect Answer:
A
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What type of energy from a warm cola results in melting when it is transferred to the much colder ice? A. protective energy B. gaseous energy C. cyclic energy D. thermal energy Answer:
D
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What is the term for a connection between a neuron and its target cell? A. dendrite B. impulse C. synapse D. axon Answer:
C
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What does the slope of a position-time graph represent? A. velocity B. trajectory C. direction D. acceleration Answer:
A
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What effect causes an object to appear to have a change of motion? A. resonant effect B. centrifugal effect C. coriolis effect D. momentum effect Answer:
C
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A carcinogen is nything in the environment that can cause what disease? A. glaucoma B. cancer C. diabetes D. alzheimers Answer:
B
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What does the blue color of the pulmonary arteries reflect? A. they are lost B. they are deoxygenated C. they are oxygenated D. they are done Answer:
B
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The trade winds are nearest what? A. inland B. boundary plates C. poles D. equator Answer:
D
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Digestion of polysaccharides and disaccharides in the small intestine produces glucose and other? A. monosaccharides B. protein C. fat D. nitrates Answer:
A
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What is the term for the smallest blood vessels? A. capillaries B. Aortas C. arteries D. muscles Answer:
A
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In what type of body of water is most of the earth's water located? A. seas B. oceans C. streams D. rivers Answer:
B
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What is one problem with current methods of aluminum production? A. environmental contaminants B. recycling is cheap C. food shortages D. competition Answer:
A
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What makes the earth habitable for humans? A. carbonate of water B. availability of water C. aridity of water D. abundance of water Answer:
D
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Which kind of flowers carry both male and female floral organs? A. Upward Flowers B. stunning flowers C. perfect flowers D. creating flowers Answer:
C
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Historically, certain bacteriophages have also been used as cloning vectors for making what? A. diverse libraries B. specific libraries C. ultraviolet libraries D. genomic libraries Answer:
D
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An allele is an alternative form of what structure? A. amino acid B. enzyme C. protein D. gene Answer:
D
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All photosynthetic organisms contain a pigment called what? A. Fiber B. sodium C. carbonate D. chlorophyll Answer:
D
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Mammals may either be herbivores, omnivores or what else? A. neither B. polyvores C. herbivores D. carnivores Answer:
C
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What phenomenon sometimes causes harmful alleles to become fixed? A. competition B. spontaneous mutation C. genetic drift D. natural selection Answer:
C
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How do you determine the atomic weight of an element? A. subtract protons from electrons B. add up protons and neutrons C. divide protons and neutrons D. multiply protons and neutrons Answer:
B
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Sodium and chlorine combine to make what? A. seawater B. gold C. salt D. iron Answer:
C
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What can bacterial stis be cured with? A. pesticides B. antioxidants C. antibiotics D. antiviral drugs Answer:
C
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What do bees do for flowering plants? A. eat B. pollinate C. create D. feed Answer:
B
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Where do streams often start? A. oceans B. plains C. mountains D. valleys Answer:
C
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Deletions remove one or more what from the dna? A. genes B. exons C. nucleotides D. codons Answer:
C
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For geneticists, the findings of what massive undertaking are significant in determining disease-causing alleles? A. human produce project B. human organisms project C. Visible Human Project D. human genome project Answer:
D
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Does deforestation increase or decrease carbon dioxide levels around the world? A. accelerate B. increase C. eliminate D. decrease Answer:
B
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Which material used in oxyacetylene torches helps cut and weld metals? A. carbon B. dioxide C. acetylene D. sulfur Answer:
C
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Peroxisomes perform a couple of different functions, including lipid metabolism and chemical detoxification. in contrast to the digestive enzymes found in lysosomes, the enzymes within peroxisomes serve to transfer hydrogen atoms from various molecules to oxygen, producing what? A. water B. calcium C. hydrogen D. hydrogen peroxide Answer:
D
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Ethylene, gibberellins, cytokinins, absciscic acid, and auxins are examples of what? A. animal proteins B. plant hormones C. animal hormones D. insect hormones Answer:
B
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What are some uses of chlorine gas? A. fueling airplanes B. rooting plant cuttings C. cleaning, disinfecting and in swimming pools D. washing hands Answer:
C
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Designed to exchange materials, what spongy structure consists of membranes and blood vessels from both mother and embryo? A. uterus B. umbilicus C. endometrium D. placenta Answer:
D
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Even though tellurium does indeed have a greater average atomic mass than iodine, it is properly placed before iodine in the? A. periodic table B. theory table C. phases table D. cycles table Answer:
A
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In a fullerene, what atoms are bonded to three other atoms in a soccer ball pattern? A. oxygen B. hydrogen C. carbon D. positive Answer:
C
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What do you call the light particles that travel through the radiative zone? A. photons B. neutrons C. ions D. electrons Answer:
A
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What is a mixture of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal? A. gasoline B. gunpowder C. TNT D. cyanide Answer:
B
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Opportunistic diseases are usually the direct cause of death of people with what disease? A. parkinson B. aids C. heart D. liver Answer:
B
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What is the name of an uncharged particle whose weight is nearly equal to that of a proton? A. electron B. proton C. a neutron D. a nuclei Answer:
C
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The chemical symbol of which ion is written first in ionic compounds? A. good metal ion B. last ion C. negative ion D. positive metal ion Answer:
D
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What is the opposite of rarefaction zones, where air molecules in waves are loosely packed? A. molecules zones B. pressure wave C. compression zones D. measurements zones Answer:
C
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What organs secrete hormones that help maintain homeostasis? A. the lungs B. the kidneys C. the gonads D. the digestion organs Answer:
B
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The nuclear envelope is a double-layered plasma membrane like the cell membrane, although without what? A. membrane proteins B. cytoplasm C. nucleic acids D. cell walls Answer:
A
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What is another name for a radioactive isotope? A. kilocalorie B. radiostope C. xerophyte D. nono particle Answer:
B
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Dietary proteins are broken down into amino acids during what process? A. accumulation B. filtration C. photosynthesis D. digestion Answer:
D
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Some gametophytes develop underground and form mycorrhizal associations with what? A. fungi B. animals C. protists D. plants Answer:
A
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