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What happens when water reaches zero degrees Celsius?
[ "bees", "seaweed", "running", "monkeys", "humans", "germs", "athletes", "coral" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
With a change in temperature, what does a solid become?
[ "malnutrition", "oysters", "energy", "exercise", "cooking", "nutrients", "pathogens", "toxins" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
condensing means changing from a gas into a liquid by reducing what?
[ "swea", "tree", "bushes", "fields", "ground", "autumn", "plate", "holder" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
If fossils of a fish are found in a place then that place used to be covered by what in the past.
[ "greenhouse gasses", "chemical changes", "pollution", "plants to die", "harmful substances", "tornadoes", "sleepiness", "lima beans" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
Biodiversity generally increases from the poles to the area where what is found?
[ "fossil fuels", "headaches", "voltage", "heat or cold", "cell cycles", "critical organs", "cerebellum", "migraines" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
What use energy and minerals to make food?
[ "disease", "pollution", "allergies", "shadows", "the sun", "sun's heat", "the moon", "the inside of eyelids" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
Doing what to food can extend shelf life by removing microorganisms?
[ "waves", "rays or beams", "a battery", "an object", "barrel-shaped", "nerves", "loud noises", "it needs them" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
What causes H20 to expand when frozen?
[ "sex", "diploid", "ovum", "bird", "ovary", "eggs", "gametes", "dna" ]
A
QASC
irrelevant
Some birds are pollinators that co-evolved with what other type of organism?
[ "they do nothing", "fissures of hot acidic water", "they make it increase", "they make it decrease", "forest is destroyed", "damages them", "they displace all water", "move to different locations" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
When a plant grows , the size of _ of that plant may increase
[ "heat energy", "electricity", "wind", "water", "to move people", "oxygen", "sensory neurons", "engines" ]
B
QASC
irrelevant
A cactus stem is used for storing what?
[ "epidermis and dermis", "in their leaves", "location tissue", "conducting tissue type", "veins and arteries", "sedimentary rocks", "root canals", "eye sockets" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
What is proprioception part of?
[ "feet", "speed", "size", "bills", "limbs", "beaks", "wings", "tail" ]
A
QASC
irrelevant
what does the sun attract?
[ "forces", "voltage", "seats", "brakes", "friction", "stationary", "nerves", "arteries" ]
A
QASC
irrelevant
Why is it good for animals to carry seeds?
[ "cacti", "insects", "nematodes", "conifers", "ferns", "barnacles", "most plants", "humans" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
what does transportation do?
[ "gold", "heat energy", "helium", "fossil fuels", "sodium chloride", "calcium carbonate", "dihydrogen monoxide", "salinity" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
What relaxes, thereby causing aneurysms?
[ "space", "dry conditions", "warm regions", "cold regions", "colder and wetter", "body water", "the ground", "moon" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
What are viruses not?
[ "size", "traits", "mass", "age", "energy", "forces", "snps", "shape" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
What happens to Genes located on the same chromosome
[ "mammals", "fur seals", "tortoises", "sharks", "animals", "elephants", "snakes", "alpacas" ]
G
QASC
irrelevant
Reduced water supply occurs when what amounts decrease?
[ "microorganisms", "solid liquid gas", "share properties", "characteristics", "chemical energy", "causes of rapid growth", "that material's properties", "organic compounds" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
What protects a bear from the cold?
[ "plants growth", "root growth", "to move people", "permineralization", "cell division", "veins and arteries", "movement", "plant reproduction" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
Water vapor cooling releases what?
[ "koalas", "swea", "voles", "bees", "bats", "birds", "cats", "bears" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
Phase changes do not change
[ "proteins", "photons", "light", "sun's heat", "nutrients", "mitochondria", "sugar", "plasma" ]
B
QASC
irrelevant
What help prokaryotes to move?
[ "disease", "h2o formation", "death", "injury", "rabies", "pregnancy", "hair growth", "deadly" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
Biomass is the total mass of what at a trophic level?
[ "resistance", "fish", "harmful substances", "chemical energy", "encoded information", "contamination", "ice", "dust" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
What can help decrease emissions?
[ "an area swollen with pus", "the immune system fails", "irradiation", "bacteria dies", "antibodies are formed", "major threat to health", "something that causes allergies", "viruses reproduce" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
Thyroid hormones increase the rate of
[ "joules", "television", "a wave", "photons", "streams", "the sun", "images", "fire" ]
G
QASC
irrelevant
What can result in extinction?
[ "stamina", "fur", "cilia", "hair", "kinetic", "nerves", "motors", "elastic" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
what increases a body's strength
[ "lizards", "horses", "elephants", "fur seals", "a fish", "squids", "barnacles", "animals" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
What organism can adapt to cold temperatures?
[ "activation energy", "fragments", "motors", "kinetic energy", "oscillations", "shards", "heat energy", "energy" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
What absorbs all visible light?
[ "forest is destroyed", "damage water supplies", "heat is produced", "organisms and their habitat", "reflect objectstowards the eye", "contamination", "plant growth is reduced", "cause their death" ]
B
QASC
irrelevant
What attracts pollinators to the flower?
[ "toxins", "pollution", "excretion", "chemicals", "citric acid", "bleach", "vapors", "water" ]
G
QASC
irrelevant
what can you fold to cause it to change shape?
[ "humans", "mountains", "loose soil", "clouds", "body water", "crust", "weathering", "pacific" ]
H
QASC
irrelevant
What is the consistency of the Himalayan rocks?
[ "light", "energy", "metal", "electric", "positive", "passive", "heat", "heat energy" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
What contains DNA but not much else?
[ "good", "cacti", "chlorophyll", "annelids", "storms", "bugs", "dust", "bees" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
What converts chemical energy into mechanical energy?
[ "no heat", "sunlight", "less water", "dormant state", "pollution", "evaporation", "no sun", "no water" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
What can cause harm to living things?
[ "ligt", "coat", "fur", "skin", "two", "water", "fats", "air" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
What can living underground keep animals from being?
[ "insects", "h2o", "most plants", "plant reproduction", "viruses", "adult sponges", "mold", "spread flower seeds" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
What do astronauts require for long flights?
[ "deforestation", "dehydration", "massive damage", "influenza", "colder weather", "disease", "toxins", "winter wind" ]
H
QASC
irrelevant
What can the sun create more quickly by adding heat?
[ "condensation", "aqueous solution", "streams", "pollution", "evaporation", "organic compounds", "vaporization", "burning coal" ]
H
QASC
irrelevant
When gametes fuse, the resultant zygote is:
[ "cats", "bears", "h2o", "clouds", "goats", "humans", "dogs", "trees" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
Dropping an object into the water does what?
[ "barnacles", "chickens", "fur seals", "humans", "heterotrophs", "mammals", "animals", "rabbit" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
A fire requires a by-product of what?
[ "huddle together", "writing", "during the day", "pheromones", "chemical energy", "waving their arms", "decibels", "talking" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
What promotes the division of cells with damaged DNA?
[ "vaporization", "mouth of rivers", "fall down a hole", "rise and fall", "condensation", "sink into the crust", "disappear forever", "it gets heated up" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
What is vital for healthy roots?
[ "motion", "rapid expansion", "kinetic", "sympathetic", "mechanical", "movement", "animal transport", "matter vibrating" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
What can separate salt from water?
[ "hydrogen and oxygen", "carbon monoxide", "direct energy", "dropping spheres", "electromagnetic energy", "a hydraulic system", "nuclear fission", "farm animals" ]
G
QASC
irrelevant
What geological formation must occur for the availability of material for silver jewelry to occur?
[ "energy", "pollution", "evaporation", "moist soil", "energy", "flooding", "kinetic energy", "heat energy" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
What turns from a liquid into a solid?
[ "sun's heat", "fossils", "greenhouse gasses", "animals", "global warming", "the environment", "darwin", "greenhouse gases" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
What increases the risk of getting skin cancer?
[ "driving", "firecrackers", "air compressor", "engines", "gas engine", "generator", "neuron", "transmission" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
Many squirrels are protected from what by their burrows
[ "sedimentary rocks", "loose soil", "silts", "swamp vegetation", "dams", "fossil fuels", "coral reef", "waterways" ]
A
QASC
irrelevant
Plants create what through photosynthesis?
[ "ground", "forces", "objectives", "earth", "energy", "oxygen", "helium", "the sun" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
What aspect of light changes when it enters water?
[ "organ", "wrapped", "coiled", "three", "flat", "springed", "alleles", "protected" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
What is a tape measure used for?
[ "wool", "metal", "paper", "rubber", "the sun", "a prism", "light", "energy" ]
B
QASC
irrelevant
What is formed from extreme heat and pressure?
[ "invasive species", "water", "insects", "food", "tornadoes", "recycling", "plants", "scientists" ]
G
QASC
irrelevant
what relies on a relatively narrow range of acidity?
[ "solar energy", "for survival", "for reproduction", "flow of electrons", "by indirect light", "to store water", "circulatory system", "to create carbon dioxide" ]
B
QASC
irrelevant
Passive immunity decreases with
[ "different cycles of day and night", "genetic diversity", "identical atmospheres", "life", "structure and function", "water", "global ecosystems", "important habitats" ]
A
QASC
irrelevant
What can develop into new haploid individuals without being fertilized?
[ "animals", "reptiles", "bird", "humans", "mammals", "insects", "goats", "animal fur" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
How can mammals generate heat?
[ "nutrients", "light", "solar energy", "meat", "sunlight", "rocks", "dust", "seeds" ]
A
QASC
irrelevant
What is used to measure the base unit of the metric system which is the meter?
[ "fungi", "grass", "fish", "vegetation", "flowers", "vertebrates", "plant life", "plants" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
These belong to the class of creature that were the first true tetrapods:
[ "energy", "voltage", "synergy", "burns", "chains", "heat", "changes", "energy" ]
G
QASC
irrelevant
Which animal would use earth's magnetic patterns to find locations?
[ "roots", "flowers", "water", "light", "seeds", "dark", "the sun", "trees" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
A flashlight does this.
[ "after too much water received", "movement of tectonic plates", "at the peak of a mountain", "a hemisphere is tilted away from the sun", "exposure to cold", "clouds", "soil", "the sun" ]
B
QASC
irrelevant
Adding salt to a liquid changes what aspect of the liquid?
[ "living", "be repotted", "grow", "energy", "die off", "growth", "get sick", "sugar" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
What can be used to protect plants from the cold?
[ "saliva", "breathe", "water", "air", "oxygen", "blood", "veins", "liquid" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
What vibrating can cause something received through the ears.
[ "the environment", "major threat to health", "it dies", "it comes out of the bowels", "it goes to the next person", "it becomes dormant", "plant growth is reduced", "eat plants or other animal" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
An egg requires _ to survive
[ "desire", "sound", "saliva", "humans", "light", "dna", "zoos", "gametes" ]
B
QASC
irrelevant
what is used to produce electricity by burning in power stations?
[ "movements in the earth's crust", "tectonic plates being pushed together", "religion", "a hemisphere is tilted away from the sun", "movement of tectonic plates", "growth", "cells losing ability to divide", "taxes" ]
G
QASC
irrelevant
what are used to see small things by biologists to make them appear bigger?
[ "mouth of rivers", "layers of fat", "mouth", "throat", "it helps them survive", "small intestine", "the environment", "esophagus" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
what requires electrical energy to function?
[ "sunlight", "glucose", "heat", "nutrients", "hydrocarbons", "electron", "water vapor", "vitamin c" ]
A
QASC
irrelevant
what do cells do with glucose?
[ "more abundant", "scarce resources", "too sad to talk to", "too large to touch", "major threat to health", "too small to see", "too big to see", "important habitats" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
Which gender is more likely to cause harm or pain during the mating season?
[ "neutralizing threats", "dismissal of nutrients", "heat produced", "transfers energy", "retention of nutrients", "decomposition", "agriculture", "iron in water" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
Where do fossil fuels come from?
[ "structure", "four limbs", "organ", "chlorophyll", "energy", "layers of fat", "health", "energy" ]
A
QASC
irrelevant
being exposed to wind can cause scarring to what?
[ "hydrocarbons", "volatile substances", "kinetic energy", "an area swollen with pus", "chemical energy", "competing for resources", "add a solute", "positive charges" ]
B
QASC
irrelevant
What can killing snakes cause?
[ "pollen", "infertility", "gametes", "orchids", "seeds", "no physical contact", "honeybees", "isolation" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
What does skin help keep out?
[ "sound of water", "thickness of food", "density of substances", "temperature", "all liquids", "creaminess of texture", "objects that have mass", "air mass over earth's surface" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
What does a porcupine do with its spines when it's threatened?
[ "protect them", "eat them", "pollenate them", "move them", "harm them", "exfoliation", "damages them", "kill them" ]
B
QASC
irrelevant
what does not accept heat very well?
[ "photosynthesis", "division of bodies", "metabolic reaction", "it helps them survive", "leptospirosis", "division of brains", "division of organs", "division of the cytoplasm" ]
H
QASC
irrelevant
What kind of animal breathes by converting oxygen in water into oxygen in blood?
[ "photomorphism", "phototropism", "photosynthesis", "peachleaf willow", "conifers", "exfoliation", "vegetation", "photochromic" ]
B
QASC
irrelevant
Plant reproduction may require what?
[ "a magnet", "a vacuum", "a windmill", "a battery", "arteries", "barnacles", "animals", "engines" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
What can HPV cause?
[ "insects", "trees", "birds", "animals", "ducks", "scorpions", "rocks", "goats" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
what are steroid hormones made of?
[ "fibers", "tube", "heat", "light", "zinc", "sight", "warmth", "tissue" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
With specialization, what do competing species evolve to do?
[ "dehydration", "allergies", "emissions", "cell regeneration", "decrease stamina", "death of cells", "lung capacity", "aerobic ability" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
What does biodiversity do towards the poles?
[ "injury", "bonding", "pain", "death", "toxins", "no reaction", "cancer", "science" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
When you reuse products you reduce resources but also protect the?
[ "vernal equinox", "summer", "photons", "autumn", "mild", "winter", "trh", "two" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
What are encoded in DNA and called genetic traits?
[ "damaged hearing", "pesticides", "cats", "insects", "sea urchins", "barnacles", "humans", "fish" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
What can be used to separate a solute from a solvent in a solution?
[ "coral growth", "plant reproduction", "humans", "biodiversity", "important habitats", "coral reefs", "genetic diversity", "moss growth" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
What are used to move people?
[ "energy", "chemicals", "trees", "potatoes", "acids", "allow growth", "store", "proteins" ]
H
QASC
irrelevant
a means of reproduction are commonly found in what?
[ "snow", "energy", "food", "ecosystems", "erosion", "fossil fuels", "forces", "energy" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
Oxygen deprivation in cells result in what?
[ "the digestive system", "an external framework", "energizing crystals", "veins and arteries", "spinning wheels", "burning energy", "arteries", "changing tires" ]
F
QASC
irrelevant
what typically travels long distances?
[ "it helps them survive", "the area was once underwater", "resistance activities", "it needs them", "allow growth", "more abundant", "nucleotide sequences", "heat produced" ]
G
QASC
irrelevant
What does planting trees have a positive impact on?
[ "corn", "air", "coal", "fats", "oil", "rust", "man", "mold" ]
B
QASC
irrelevant
What does an egg require to survive?
[ "immunities are destroyed", "an area swollen with pus", "plague clogs arteries", "deadly and devastating", "cause people to become sick", "microorganisms", "cells divide out of control", "the body lacks insulin" ]
G
QASC
irrelevant
What does almost all plant and animal life depend on?
[ "salt and water", "deoxyribonucleicacid", "water and iodine", "looseness", "veins and arteries", "salt and calcium", "salt and oxygen", "deoxyribonucleic acid" ]
A
QASC
irrelevant
What do power outages do to light bulbs?
[ "pressure regulated", "to move people", "the body's largest organ", "solid liquid gas", "matter vibrating", "layers of fat", "principals of aerodynamics", "it keeps an organism warm" ]
A
QASC
irrelevant
What are molecules that the immune system recognizes as foreign to the physical entity?
[ "soil", "cracks", "thrust", "rain", "biome", "spring", "potash", "tube" ]
A
QASC
irrelevant
adult what are attached permanently, immobile?
[ "h2o", "temperature", "rays or beams", "winter and summer", "density", "dry conditions", "gravity", "population movement" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
What causes iron to rust?
[ "animals", "fur", "feathers", "fur and fat", "mammals", "warm-blooded", "hair", "eyes" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant
What uses organic compounds from dead organisms?
[ "garden", "sunlight", "concrete", "an electron lens", "power plant", "adding heat", "potted plant", "sun's heat" ]
E
QASC
irrelevant
what are are chemical elements that are essential for body processes
[ "wind", "gravity", "density", "volume", "humans", "heat energy", "some mammals", "referees" ]
H
QASC
irrelevant
what are social?
[ "germination", "uv", "urea", "h2o", "sunflower", "rain", "oil", "newtons" ]
D
QASC
irrelevant
Most carcinogens can cause cancer by causing mutations to what?
[ "tiny", "h20", "h2o", "carbon", "hydrogen", "rain", "oxygen", "dew" ]
C
QASC
irrelevant