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The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves is called what?
sciq-00200
[ "electromagnetic radiation", "particulate radiation", "mechanical radiation", "magnetic radiation" ]
A
The noble gases are unreactive because of their?
sciq-00201
[ "cell configurations", "carbon content", "electron configurations", "proton configurations" ]
C
Some birds, such as gulls and terns and other waterfowl have what type of feet used for swimming or floating?
sciq-00202
[ "lobed", "webbed", "quad toed", "bipedal" ]
B
Bones are considered organs because they contain what, specifically?
sciq-00203
[ "calcium", "blood", "DNA", "tissue" ]
D
Plants take in carbon dioxide and give off what?
sciq-00204
[ "methane", "oxygen", "chlorophyll", "nitrogen" ]
B
For a scientific theory to be valid, in what way should it be verified?
sciq-00205
[ "directly", "systematically", "optimally", "experimentally" ]
D
For plants, the amount of water, sunlight, nutrients, and space to grow are the important resources, whereas in animals, important resources include food, water, shelter, nesting space, and this?
sciq-00206
[ "entertainment", "pairs", "eggs", "mates" ]
D
Which is the main organ of the respiratory system?
sciq-00207
[ "the stomach", "the liver", "the mouth", "the lungs" ]
D
Why is runoff from artificial fertilizer harmful to the chesapeake bay ecosystem?
sciq-00208
[ "causes pollution", "starts combustion", "leaks food", "causes erosion" ]
A
What system do trees need to transport nutrients?
sciq-00209
[ "circulatory", "photosynthetic system", "vascular", "passive transport membrane" ]
C
Food allergies, ulcers, and heartburn all affect what organ system?
sciq-00210
[ "nervous system", "skeletal system", "lymphatic system", "digestive system" ]
D
Like ammonia, hydrazine is both a brønsted base and which other base?
sciq-00211
[ "floyd base", "unit base", "dynamic base", "lewis base" ]
D
What is the layman's term for a state in which external stimuli are received but not consciously perceived?
sciq-00212
[ "immunity", "sleep", "homeostasis", "dreaming" ]
B
What are the tiny, negatively charged particles in an atom that move around the positive nucleus at the center?
sciq-00213
[ "quarks", "protons", "electrons", "neutrons" ]
C
Enzymes, antibodies, and muscle fiber are all types of what?
sciq-00214
[ "proteins", "carbohydrates", "lipids", "acids" ]
A
What are formed by the loss of one or two electrons from an element?
sciq-00215
[ "isotopes", "cations", "amines", "ions" ]
B
Betelgeuse is an example of what "colorful" stage in the life of very massive stars?
sciq-00216
[ "blue star", "blue supergiant", "white supergiant", "red supergiant" ]
D
What single word can be defined as the ability to cause change in matter and the ability to do work?
sciq-00217
[ "energy", "gas", "explosion", "job" ]
A
Wearing clothes that trap air next to your body on a cold day helps you retain what type of energy?
sciq-00218
[ "alumal energy", "adjacent energy", "thermal energy", "caloric energy" ]
C
How many steps are involved in blood clotting?
sciq-00219
[ "six", "two", "three", "five" ]
C
What type of pressure is the amount of force that is exerted by gases in the air surrounding any given surface?
sciq-00220
[ "atmospheric", "vapor", "gravitational", "fluid" ]
A
What series of reactions is common to fermentation and cellular respiration?
sciq-00221
[ "glycolysis", "photosynthesis", "spermatogenesis", "metabolism" ]
A
In which ways may sponges reproduce?
sciq-00222
[ "sexually and vertically", "meiosis and mitosis", "internally and externally", "sexually and asexually" ]
D
What do barnacles anchor to?
sciq-00223
[ "fossils", "eggs", "scales", "rocks" ]
D
Organic compounds produced by what process provide the energy and building material for ecosystems?
sciq-00224
[ "cyclogenesis", "photosynthesis", "nuclear fusion", "glycolysis" ]
B
As you increase the temperature of a liquid what happens to the solubility of a solute?
sciq-00225
[ "solubility increases", "turbidity increases", "hydrophilic increases", "viscosity increases" ]
A
The relative sizes of the atoms show several trends with regard to what visual method of organization?
sciq-00226
[ "vibrations table", "chemistry table", "periodic table", "oscillations table" ]
C
Toward the end of pregnancy, the synthesis of oxytocin receptors in what reproductive organ increases?
sciq-00227
[ "lungs", "stomach", "uterus", "liver" ]
C
If an animal eats large pieces of food it is known as a?
sciq-00228
[ "bulk feeder", "many feeder", "bulk producer", "large consumer" ]
A
What are the two vibrating fields that electromagnetic waves consist of?
sciq-00229
[ "electric and magnetic", "flammable and magnetic", "magnetic and mechanical", "radioactive and magnetic" ]
A
What is the process by which plants and animals increase in size?
sciq-00230
[ "growth", "birth", "reproduction", "activity" ]
A
How do endocrine hormones travel throughout the body?
sciq-00231
[ "in the blood", "in urea", "in the lymph", "in mucus" ]
A
The post-anal tail is at the end of the organism opposite what?
sciq-00232
[ "head", "fingers", "legs", "knees" ]
A
What is the term for the moles of solute divided by the kilograms of solvent?
sciq-00233
[ "kilocalorie", "molar weight", "molality", "molar solvency" ]
C
Active transport moves substances from an area of lower concentration to an area of?
sciq-00234
[ "flat concentration", "the same concentration", "higher concentration", "low concentration" ]
C
How does the skin eliminates excess water and salts?
sciq-00235
[ "itch", "burn", "sweat", "peel" ]
C
Organophosphates typically interfere with nerve signal transmission by inhibiting the enzymes that degrade what?
sciq-00236
[ "transmitter molecules", "prototype molecules", "protein molecules", "potassium molecules" ]
A
What is the horizontal distance between two waves, measured at a common point (crest to crest or trough to trough), called?
sciq-00237
[ "absorption", "linear", "frequency", "wavelength" ]
D
Steroid hormones, such as cortisol and ecdysteroid, are lipids that contain four fused what?
sciq-00238
[ "nitrogen rings", "carbon rings", "oxide rings", "acid rings" ]
B
The solubility of gases, liquids, and solids are affected by changes in what?
sciq-00239
[ "elevation", "volume", "temperature", "friction" ]
C
Only animals have muscle tissue and what other type of tissue?
sciq-00240
[ "nonvascular tissue", "cartilage", "nervous", "vascular tissue" ]
C
What type of matter transmits light but scatters the light as it passes through?
sciq-00241
[ "opaque matter", "translucent matter", "a mirror", "refractive matter" ]
B
During an earthquake, the ground shakes as stored up energy is released from what?
sciq-00242
[ "fossils", "the soil", "rocks", "grass" ]
C
Tunnel vision involves the loss of what visual fields?
sciq-00243
[ "peripheral", "underwater", "distant", "quickly-moving" ]
A
Systemic mycoses spread to internal organs, most commonly entering the body through this?
sciq-00244
[ "skeletal system", "respiratory system", "digestive system", "infestation system" ]
B
The three features that are unique to the large intestine are the teniae coli, haustra, and what?
sciq-00245
[ "binary appendages", "disc appendages", "radial appendages", "epiploic appendages" ]
D
Most living things build proteins from the same 20 different what?
sciq-00246
[ "atomic isolates", "uncommon acids", "acid peptides", "amino acids" ]
D
What reaction, along with photosynthesis, provides energy to the vast majority of living things?
sciq-00247
[ "devices respiration", "primarily respiration", "cellular respiration", "Internal Respiration" ]
C
Some animals increase body fat in winter to stay?
sciq-00248
[ "aware", "cold", "warm", "thin" ]
C
Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of what, which forms when organic matter is under pressure for millions of years?
sciq-00249
[ "complex carbohydrates", "solar fuels", "nuclear fission", "fossil fuels" ]
D
Protists play critically important ecological roles as producers and, on the other end of food webs, as what?
sciq-00250
[ "dissolvers", "decomposers", "absorbers", "probiotics" ]
B
Where do physical laws govern energy flow and chemical cycling?
sciq-00251
[ "ecosystems", "environments", "oceans", "habitats" ]
A
The distribution of thermal speeds depends strongly on temperature. as temperature increases, the speeds are shifted to higher values and the distribution is what?
sciq-00252
[ "broadened", "decreased", "removed", "improved" ]
A
Carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids are the four classes of what type of compounds?
sciq-00253
[ "reversible compounds", "biochemical compounds", "chromosomal compounds", "nutrient compounds" ]
B
What is the most important factor in soil formation?
sciq-00254
[ "fertilizer", "carbon", "worms", "climate" ]
D
What is the outer layer of cells in a root called?
sciq-00255
[ "igneous", "epidermis", "muscles", "skeletal" ]
B
What type of feeders are the largest sharks and rays?
sciq-00256
[ "resulting feeders", "month feeders", "suspension feeders", "resting feeders" ]
C
Chemical digestion couldn't take place without the help of what?
sciq-00257
[ "melatonin", "neurotransmitters", "pigments", "digestive enzymes" ]
D
Where would you find three tiny bones called the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
sciq-00258
[ "middle ear", "neck", "foot", "tail bone" ]
A
Energy resources can be put into two categories — renewable or?
sciq-00259
[ "reusable", "synthetic", "nonrenewable", "precious" ]
C
Even the age of earth has been estimated on the basis of what?
sciq-00260
[ "radioisotopes", "membranes", "gasses", "tree rings" ]
A
In the primary response to infection, what are secreted first from plasma cells?
sciq-00261
[ "platelets", "parasites", "antibodies", "pathogens" ]
C
A hookworm is classified as what type of organism?
sciq-00262
[ "predator", "parasite", "bacterium", "virus" ]
B
A pigment within plant cells which absorbs light is called?
sciq-00263
[ "green", "carbonate", "chlorophyll", "xylem" ]
C
Where does slime mold typically live?
sciq-00264
[ "in the soil and in glaciers", "decaying plant life and in the soil", "in the jungle", "in the sea" ]
B
Genital warts is an sti caused by what?
sciq-00265
[ "human polyoma virus", "human conoil virus", "human papova virus", "human papilloma virus" ]
D
What do ectotherms use to regulate body temperature?
sciq-00266
[ "external energy sources", "result energy sources", "combustion energy sources", "Flexible Energy Source" ]
A
What event occurred at the close of the precambrian era?
sciq-00267
[ "ecosystem succession", "spontaneous mutation", "a mass extinction", "natural selection" ]
C
A balanced equation has an equal number of what on each side?
sciq-00268
[ "protons and neutrons", "electrons and neutrons", "protons and reactions", "valencies and electrons" ]
A
Pure substances have a constant composition and can only be changed by what?
sciq-00269
[ "chemical reactions", "radiation", "carbon reactions", "growth" ]
A
Earthquakes occur most often at which natural feature?
sciq-00270
[ "plate holes", "pattern boundaries", "plate boundaries", "artificial boundaries" ]
C
How many atmospheric circulation cells are there?
sciq-00271
[ "six", "three", "two", "five" ]
A
Proper chemical formulas for ionic compounds balance the total positive charge with what?
sciq-00272
[ "total electric charge", "total atomic charge", "total negative charge", "total ionic charge" ]
C
Which process helps microorganisms make food with chemicals pouring out of deep-sea vents?
sciq-00273
[ "synaptogenesis", "chemosynthesis", "biosynthesis", "photosynthesis" ]
B
What is a combination of two or more substances in any proportion called?
sciq-00274
[ "combination", "mixture", "solvent", "solution" ]
B
Where is the youngest seafloor located?
sciq-00275
[ "at the ridge", "at the reefs", "at the floor", "at the base" ]
A
What kind of mixture consists of two or more phases, exemplified when a combination of oil and water forms layers?
sciq-00276
[ "complex miture", "homogeneous", "heterogeneous", "simple mixture" ]
C
The values of strangeness assigned to various particles are based on what?
sciq-00277
[ "thermal energy", "atomic mass", "decay systematics", "penetration potential" ]
C
Together, the muscular and skeletal organs are known as what?
sciq-00278
[ "musculoskeletal system", "nervous system", "lymphatic system", "cardiovascular system" ]
A
What do factories and power plants use to remove particulates and waste gases from exhaust before releasing it?
sciq-00279
[ "compressors", "scrubbers", "catalytic converters", "mufflers" ]
B
Humans typically have how many pairs of chromosomes?
sciq-00280
[ "23 pairs", "17 pairs", "25 pairs", "14 pairs" ]
A
Correlation is different from what term that refers to the factor that is producing the effect?
sciq-00281
[ "causation", "correlation", "manifestation", "differentiation" ]
A
What organelles do animal cells use to convert food into energy?
sciq-00282
[ "nucleus", "flagellum", "endoplasmic reticulum", "mitochondria" ]
D
Where does egg production happen?
sciq-00283
[ "ovaries", "testes", "uterus", "fallopian tube" ]
A
What can be used to estimate the energy change of a chemical reaction?
sciq-00284
[ "chemical energy", "isoenergies", "bond magnitudes", "bond energies" ]
D
Destructive interference occurs when two identical waves are superimposed exactly out of phase. a standing wave is one in which two waves superimpose to produce a wave that varies in amplitude but does not do this?
sciq-00285
[ "membrane", "propagate", "substrate", "reproduce" ]
B
What is the layer outside the cell wall in a prokaryote?
sciq-00286
[ "capsule", "membrane", "pod", "rim" ]
A
What delivers natural gas from rock that might not otherwise be obtainable?
sciq-00287
[ "fracking", "rippling", "drilling", "grinding" ]
A
Name the white blood cells that can squeeze through capillary walls and swallow particles.
sciq-00288
[ "lymphocytes", "platelets", "hemoglobin", "neutrophils" ]
D
Permanent dipole-dipole interactions are found in what kind of molecules?
sciq-00289
[ "polar", "dual", "geologic", "directional" ]
A
The energy released during an earthquake is called what?
sciq-00290
[ "radiation", "hydro", "magnitude", "tidal" ]
C
Many replication forks develop along a what?
sciq-00291
[ "allele", "chromosome", "genome", "nucleus" ]
B
What is the term for the strength of an acid or base?
sciq-00292
[ "carbon", "acidity", "texture", "pH" ]
B
A bog is a type of ____
sciq-00293
[ "plant", "lake", "wetland", "stream" ]
C
In projectile motion, the horizontal displacement of an object is called its what?
sciq-00294
[ "height", "variety", "width", "range" ]
D
An oil drop is stationary when what downward force exactly equals the upward electrical force on the drop?
sciq-00295
[ "gravitational", "newtonian", "radiation", "magnetic" ]
A
The secretion of what may influence the body’s circadian rhythms?
sciq-00296
[ "melatonin", "serotonin", "human growth hormone", "testosterone" ]
A
Photosynthesis takes the energy of sunlight and combines water and carbon dioxide to produce sugar and oxygen as this?
sciq-00297
[ "reactive product", "secondary product", "waste product", "primary product" ]
C
Purkinje fibers have a fast inherent what?
sciq-00298
[ "electromagnetic rate", "conduction rate", "induction rate", "replication rate" ]
B
What process affecting genes or chromosomes causes genetic disorders?
sciq-00299
[ "infection", "graduation", "mutation", "radiation" ]
C