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What is the term for a random change in allele frequencies that occurs in a small population?
[ "genetic drift", "speciation", "mutation", "evolution" ]
A
Aerobic exercise helps improve the cardiovascular system, while what exercise causes muscles to get bigger and stronger?
[ "anaerobic", "skeletal", "enzymatic", "endurance" ]
A
An excessive posterior curvature of the thoracic region is also known as what?
[ "lordosis", "osmosis", "babesiosis", "kyphosis" ]
D
What are the two main divisions of the human nervous system?
[ "somatic and autonomic", "central and identical", "left and right", "central and peripheral" ]
D
What is composed of two strands of nucleotides in a double-helical structure?
[ "dna", "molecule", "bacteria", "RNA" ]
A
The body is made up of how many types of tissue?
[ "four", "five", "seven", "six" ]
A
The great astronomer edwin hubble discovered that all distant galaxies are receding from our milky way galaxy with velocities proportional to their what?
[ "paths", "dimensions", "masses", "distances" ]
D
What is friction that acts on objects while it is rolling over a surface called?
[ "blowing friction", "surface friction", "opposing friction", "rolling friction" ]
D
Traditionally, mammals were divided into groups based on what?
[ "their behaviors", "their sizes", "their characteristics", "their colors" ]
C
What type of bonds do alkanes only contain?
[ "hydrogen-carbon bonds", "hydrogen bonds", "carbon-hydrogen bonds", "carbon-carbon single bonds" ]
D
Which part of the wave helps make the wave bend and cause refraction?
[ "bright part", "shallow part", "heavy part", "dense part" ]
B
What are passed from one generation to the next so species can survive?
[ "selections", "adaptatioins", "mutations", "fluctuations" ]
B
What kind of lines does a diffraction grating produce?
[ "randomly spaced lines", "evenly spaced lines", "nearly spaced lines", "properly spaced lines" ]
B
Which type of ferns have yellow sporangia and no leaves?
[ "whisk ferns", "Ostrich fern", "Hothouse fern", "Boston fern" ]
A
Ice masses, acquifers, and the deep ocean are examples of water what?
[ "reservoirs", "seas", "lakes", "fields" ]
A
This heat is used to convert water into steam, which is then used to turn a turbine, thus generating what?
[ "solar power", "electrical power", "heating power", "radiation power" ]
B
What atmospheric layer lies above the highest altitude an airplane can go and below the lowest altitude a spacecraft can orbit?
[ "mesosphere", "stratosphere", "troposphere", "thermosphere" ]
A
Where are sensors for thermoregulation concentrated in the brain?
[ "medulla", "thyroid", "the hypothalamus", "pituitary gland" ]
C
What is the first step in the breakdown of glucose to extract energy for cellular metabolism?
[ "mutation", "photosynthesis", "mitosis", "glycolysis" ]
D
What charge do atoms carry?
[ "neutral", "negative", "positive", "static" ]
A
The pleura that surrounds the lungs consists of how many layers?
[ "one", "three", "four", "two" ]
D
Organisms that obtain food from outside themselves (i.e. they don't make their own food) are known as what?
[ "fungi", "heterotrophs", "autotrophs", "zygotes" ]
B
In scientific investigations, descriptive statistics are useful for summarizing the characteristics of large what?
[ "samples", "organisms", "questions", "tissues" ]
A
The process of the cytoplasm splitting apart and the cell pinching in two is known as what?
[ "cytokinesis", "budding", "mitosis", "electrolysis" ]
A
What kind of mountainous formation can often be found near trenches?
[ "craters", "volcanoes", "caves", "earthquakes" ]
B
Because it can be controlled intentionally, skeletal muscle is also called what type of muscle?
[ "involuntary", "automatic", "voluntary", "necessary" ]
C
What effect in the atmosphere ensures that the earth maintains the correct temperature to support life?
[ "coriolis effect", "smog effect", "ozone effect", "greenhouse effect" ]
D
Felsic, intermediate, mafic, and ultramafic are types of composition of what rock group?
[ "igneous", "asteroids", "Sedimentary", "metamorphic" ]
A
What is the base of nearly all food chains on earth?
[ "glycolysis", "photosynthesis", "synthesis", "atherosclerosis" ]
B
The skull is a part of a vertebrate endoskeleton that encloses and protects what organ?
[ "brain", "heart", "lung", "nervous system" ]
A
The global pattern of precipitation is influenced by movements of what?
[ "clouds", "air valleys", "air masses", "pollution masses" ]
C
What is the name of the region of a magnet that has the most pull?
[ "grid", "center", "pole", "tail" ]
C
How many major forces of elevation cause allele frequencies to change?
[ "three", "four", "five", "one" ]
B
Where in the atom is a neutron found?
[ "orbit", "proton", "electron", "the nucleus" ]
D
In physics, what is defined as the average kinetic energy of the particles of matter?
[ "density", "magnetism", "temperature", "friction" ]
C
What organelles are known as the "power plants" of the cell?
[ "flagella", "plastid", "mitochondria", "golgi body" ]
C
Dalton's law and henry's law both describe aspects of what type of exchange?
[ "electron", "energy", "liquid", "gas" ]
D
What vesicles store neurotransmitters?
[ "hydrophobic", "synaptic", "dendritic", "Golgi apparatus" ]
B
What temperature scale is obtained by adding 273 degrees from the corresponding celsius temperature?
[ "seismic scale", "ph scale", "kelvin scale", "whittle scale" ]
C
Hemoglobin is a large molecule made up of proteins and iron. it consists of four folded chains of a protein called this?
[ "peptide", "histone", "insulin", "globin" ]
D
A new species is said to have evolved if separated members of a species evolve genetic differences that prevent what from occurring with the original members??
[ "evolution", "extinction", "re-population", "interbreeding" ]
D
What term describes the orientation of a body lying face-down?
[ "Supine", "prone", "Diagnal", "Under" ]
B
What happens to energy when an atom gains an electron?
[ "it is released", "it is used", "it increases", "it is folded" ]
A
What is the name of the second most electronegative element?
[ "oxygen", "carbon", "Hydrogen", "nitrogen" ]
A
What is the term for species evolving together?
[ "coevolution", "specmutation", "conjuration", "interconnection" ]
A
Where do the eggs develop?
[ "the ovaries", "the uterus", "the follicles", "the glands" ]
A
What's the other term for your wind pipe?
[ "cochlea", "trachea", "cornea", "esophagus" ]
B
When food is scarce, starving cells secrete a molecule that stimulates neighboring cells to do what?
[ "compete", "hoard energy", "aggregate", "die off" ]
C
What do cells secrete that binds to receptors?
[ "endorphans", "proteins", "stress", "factor" ]
D
What is the term for the tube that carries sound waves into the ear?
[ "tone canal", "flap canal", "ear canal", "sound canal" ]
C
In the cardiovascular system, what blood vessels carry blood away from the heart?
[ "capillaries", "veins", "cilia", "arteries" ]
D
Molecules in the gas phase can collide with the liquid surface and reenter the liquid via what?
[ "condensation", "fermentation", "combustion", "liquidation" ]
A
What guards the opening between the right atrium and the right ventricle?
[ "brachiocephalic trunk", "superior vena cava", "aorta", "tricuspid valve" ]
D
The water cycle involves movement of water between air and what?
[ "animals", "land", "tree", "air" ]
B
When we consider a chemical reaction, we need to take into account both the system and what?
[ "sorroundings", "time", "date", "fluctuations" ]
A
What is a layer of tissue that lies between the shell and the body?
[ "mantle", "stem", "node", "silt" ]
A
In what country can some of the largest natural crystals be found?
[ "germany", "spain", "mexico", "canada" ]
C
What are the primary producers in terrestrial biomes?
[ "soil", "plants", "animals", "gases" ]
B
Where are aerofoils found?
[ "birds and cars", "airplanes and plants", "birds and airplanes", "birds and busses" ]
C
What is the si unit for pressure?
[ "le", "laurent", "pascal", "watt" ]
C
Marine fishes take in divalent ions by incessantly drinking what?
[ "sand", "seawater", "oxygen", "algae" ]
B
The simplest and smallest particle of matter that still has chemical properties of the element is called?
[ "an atom", "a nucleus", "a molecule", "an isotope" ]
A
Frequency and intensity are two measurable properties of what?
[ "lines", "heat", "troughs", "wave" ]
D
While most mammals give birth to live young, monotremes can do what?
[ "steal eggs", "reproduce asexually", "lay eggs", "adopt offspring" ]
C
What happens to old oceanic crust at convergent boundaries?
[ "dissolves", "created", "destroyed", "emerges" ]
C
When electrons are shared between two atoms, they make a bond called a what?
[ "ionic bond", "hydrogen bond", "covalent bond", "metallic bond" ]
C
What happens to the temperature of matter as light is absorbed?
[ "it triples", "it stays the same", "it drops", "it increases" ]
D
By shocking ocean water, earthquakes can cause what deadly ocean waves?
[ "typhoons", "ebb tides", "deep currents", "tsunamis" ]
D
Where are the desmosome found in a cell?
[ "coating", "neuron", "epithelium", "epithelial" ]
C
An action potential that starts at the axon hillock moves along the axon only toward what?
[ "the synaptic terminals", "ionic pathways", "polar synapses", "nerve endings" ]
A
Fission is a type of radioactivity in which large nuclei spontaneously break apart into what?
[ "faster nuclei", "light nuclei", "smaller nuclei", "active nuclei" ]
C
Bones are the main organs of what system, which also includes cartilage and ligaments?
[ "lymphatic system", "skeletal system", "digestive system", "endocrine system" ]
B
Most waves strike the shore at an angle. this causes what?
[ "fontaine drift", "tide", "longshore drift", "erosion" ]
C
What is the difference between the daily high and the daily low?
[ "margin of error", "sunrise and sunset", "weather forecast", "tidal change" ]
D
Spermatogonia are the stem cells of what male sex organs?
[ "ovaries", "testes", "Epididymis", "Prostate" ]
B
Sensory neurons transmit nerve impulses from sense organs and internal organs to the brain via the?
[ "nerve endings", "spinal cord", "nervous system", "spinal column" ]
B
Sexually reproducing organisms alternate between which stages?
[ "binary and haploid", "diploid and traploid", "binary and diploid", "haploid and diploid" ]
D
Acids turn blue litmus paper which color?
[ "purple", "red", "grey", "white" ]
B
The development of a head region is called what?
[ "spore", "cocklebur", "cephalization", "trichina" ]
C
Which hormone helps cells absorb sugar from the blood?
[ "insulin", "estrogen", "cortisol", "adrenaline" ]
A
What is the number of electrons equal to in every electrically neutral atom?
[ "molecules", "protons", "Electrons", "nucleus" ]
B
Does climate change have a positive or negative effect on reproductive success?
[ "negative", "positive", "neither", "both" ]
A
What is the most common form of dwarfism in humans?
[ "achondroplasia", "anemia", "alopecia", "malnutrition" ]
A
What is the term for groups of three successive nucleotide bases in dna?
[ "tertiary bases", "triads", "triplets", "triple play" ]
C
The coccyx, or tailbone, results from the fusion of four small what?
[ "alangulam vertebrae", "rib vertebrae", "arsine vertebrae", "coccygeal vertebrae" ]
D
What is a pure substance that cannot be separated into any other substances called?
[ "Cells", "light", "Spears", "element" ]
D
How many different types of stresses are there?
[ "five", "three", "seven", "four" ]
D
A molecule has two structures that can be generated. what is this called?
[ "isomerism", "resonance hybrids", "congruence", "ethnocentrism" ]
A
An antigen is a molecule that reacts with some component of the what response?
[ "hormones", "digestion", "fight or flight", "immune" ]
D
What bodily system is primarily responsible for fighting pathogens in the body?
[ "digestion", "Cardiovascular", "immune", "Muscular" ]
C
Displacement, velocity, acceleration, and force are examples of what type of quantity that has magnitude and direction?
[ "wave", "frequency", "cycles", "vector" ]
D
Gases such as co2 and methane can trap what energy in earth's atmosphere, before radiating it into space?
[ "mechanical energy", "potential energy", "thermal energy", "sunlight energy" ]
C
What happens when heated water is released into a body of water?
[ "geysers", "thermal pollution", "crystalline pollution", "gaseous pollution" ]
B
What term is used to describe a chemical released by an animal that affects the behavior or physiology of animals of the same species?
[ "amino", "pheromone", "isolate", "enzyme" ]
B
Producers at the base of ecological food webs are also known as?
[ "symbiotic", "mutualistic", "endoscopic", "autotrophic" ]
D
What is the term for the gas in smog that can damage plants?
[ "ozone", "sulphur", "carbon", "dioxide" ]
A
What must happen for two ions to form an ionic bond?
[ "two ions need to have opposite charges", "Two ions need to be the same size", "two ions need to have the same charge", "two ions need to have neutral charges" ]
A
What is the study of the similarities and differences in the embryos of different species?
[ "comparative embryology", "example embryology", "diversified embryology", "prenatal biology" ]
A
What are the main organs of the respiratory system?
[ "lungs", "kidneys", "intestines", "ovaries" ]
A
What do you call the traits that allow a plant, animal, or other organism to survive and reproduce in its environment?
[ "settings", "additions", "adaptations", "advantages" ]
C