viols/sciq-mcqa · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Using less energy or using energy more efficiently are the basic methods of what?	sciq-00500	[ "energy conservation", "demand conservation", "pressure conservation", "moral conservation" ]	A
What will a fertilized ovule develop into?	sciq-00501	[ "a seed", "a spermazoa", "a spore", "a gonad" ]	A
What type of particles do acids release, by definition?	sciq-00502	[ "quarks", "nucleic acids", "hydrogen ions", "fission ions" ]	C
An alpha particle, which is relatively large and easily stopped by matter, is a type of what?	sciq-00503	[ "plant emission", "radioactive emission", "free emission", "waste emission" ]	B
What does antifreeze do to the boiling point of coolant?	sciq-00504	[ "accelerates it", "raises it", "lowers it", "has no effect" ]	B
What are rhythmic, involuntary contractions of the reproductive structures?	sciq-00505	[ "sexual paroxysms", "seizure", "reproductive spasms", "orgasm" ]	D
What happens when oppositely charged regions of neighboring water molecules are attracted to each other?	sciq-00506	[ "hydrogen bonds form", "metabolic bonds form", "oxygen is released", "potassium bonds form" ]	A
What occurs when the vapor pressure of a liquid is equal to the atmospheric pressure?	sciq-00507	[ "melting", "boiling", "evaporation", "freezing" ]	B
The mitotic spindle is an apparatus of microtubules that controls chromosome movement during what?	sciq-00508	[ "mitosis", "metaphase", "prometaphase", "anaphase" ]	A
Pluto’s orbit is in the kuiper?	sciq-00509	[ "area", "zone", "field", "belt" ]	D
What does fluoride in toothpaste help prevent?	sciq-00510	[ "tooth decay", "cavities", "gum disease", "plaque build up" ]	A
The mass of 1 mol of molecules in grams is numerically equivalent to the mass of how many molecules in atomic mass units?	sciq-00511	[ "two", "one", "half", "ten" ]	B
A diagram that represents feeding relationships is also called what?	sciq-00512	[ "life chart", "form chain", "food chain", "fuel chain" ]	C
What is touching a charged object to the earth called?	sciq-00513	[ "insulating", "drifting", "grounding", "stabilizing" ]	C
Branchiopoda are mostly small, freshwater animals that feed on?	sciq-00514	[ "fishery and detritus", "nutrient and detritus", "plankton and detritus", "algae and plankton" ]	C
What is the name for groups of tens to hundreds of thousands of stars?	sciq-00515	[ "elliptical clusters", "globular clusters", "nebuli", "constellations" ]	B
Proteins may be defined as compounds of high molar mass consisting largely or entirely of chains of these?	sciq-00516	[ "fatty acids", "amino acids", "nucleic acids", "enzymes" ]	B
Continental drift and mantle convection are supported by data originating where?	sciq-00517	[ "the moon", "ocean's surface", "the sun", "seafloor" ]	D
Baroreceptors are specialized stretch receptors located within thin areas of blood vessels and heart chambers that respond to the degree of stretch caused by the presence of this?	sciq-00518	[ "water", "bacteria", "blood", "bile" ]	C
What structure forms a barrier between the cytoplasm and the environment outside the cell?	sciq-00519	[ "Cytoskeleton", "Flippases", "Lipid bilayer", "cell membrane" ]	D
What are waxes made up of?	sciq-00520	[ "long - project fatty acids", "long - chain pyroclastic acids", "long-chain fatty acids", "long-chain natural acids" ]	C
The biggest drawback of what type of reproduction is lack of genetic variation, since all offspring are identical?	sciq-00521	[ "asexual reproduction", "organic reproduction", "sexual reproduction", "meiosis" ]	A
What is the name given to the daily wake/sleep cycle?	sciq-00522	[ "behavioral rhythms", "nocturnal rhythms", "variable rhythms", "circadian rhythms" ]	D
Where is the seafloor youngest?	sciq-00523	[ "inland", "sand bars", "deep currents", "mid-ocean" ]	D
What is the term for the interaction of waves with other waves?	sciq-00524	[ "wave interference", "tsunami", "shockwave", "current" ]	A
Filter feeders called rotifers collect digestive and excretory wastes in what primitive organ?	sciq-00525	[ "liver", "bile duct", "simple stomach", "cloacal bladder" ]	D
What mass of abnormal cells do cancer cells cause?	sciq-00526	[ "tumor", "sebaceous cyst", "inflammation", "bacteria" ]	A
Ultraviolet light has higher frequencies and shorter wavelengths than visible light, which means it has more what?	sciq-00527	[ "length", "energy", "pressure", "width" ]	B
What planet has a surface temperature of over 400 degrees celsius, no oxygen, an atomsphere comprised mainly of carbon dioxide and tremendous atmospheric pressure?	sciq-00528	[ "uranus", "Mars", "venus", "Earth" ]	C
Which is the body system that normally fights infections and defends against other causes of disease?	sciq-00529	[ "infectious system", "immune system", "circulatory system", "reproductive system" ]	B
What is used to calculate ejection fraction?	sciq-00530	[ "svs", "rws", "cns", "umts" ]	A
How does a sexually transmitted infection spread?	sciq-00531	[ "linear contact", "dramatic contact", "enviromental contact", "sexual contact" ]	D
Stem cells are unspecialized cells that can reproduce themselves via cell division, sometimes after years of inactivity. under certain conditions, they may differentiate into tissue-specific or organ-specific cells with special these?	sciq-00532	[ "chromosomes", "enzymes", "functions", "mutations" ]	C
What is the process of soil dissolving in rain called?	sciq-00533	[ "abrasion", "migration", "erosion", "sedimentation" ]	C
What are all living things on earth formed of?	sciq-00534	[ "carbon compounds", "dioxide compounds", "iron compounds", "hydrogen compounds" ]	A
What is another name for critical speed?	sciq-00535	[ "terminal speed", "impossible velocity", "gravity", "normal speed" ]	A
Prokaryotes are much simpler than what in many of their features?	sciq-00536	[ "meteorites", "eukaryotes", "membranes", "microorganisms" ]	B
Which two atoms are found in most organic compounds?	sciq-00537	[ "potassium and carbon", "magnesium and carbon", "hydrogen and carbon", "hydrogen and magnesium" ]	C
How are heat changes in chemical reactions measured?	sciq-00538	[ "amperes", "watts", "velocities", "joules" ]	D
What is a genetic disorder in which blood fails to clot properly because a normal clotting factor in the blood is lacking?	sciq-00539	[ "hypertension", "sickle cell", "anemia", "hemophilia" ]	D
Fungi that reproduce sexually create what?	sciq-00540	[ "a zygospore", "a chromoplast", "an ova", "a sperm cell" ]	A
A long strip of sand is referred to as what?	sciq-00541	[ "a component island", "a barrier island", "a volcano", "a composition island" ]	B
Which viruses are being studied for cancer treatments?	sciq-00542	[ "oncolytic viruses", "astringent viruses", "osteophobic viruses", "endophytic viruses" ]	A
Mercury looks a lot like earth's moon. why do you think it does? both have been struck by a lot of what?	sciq-00543	[ "particles", "floods", "waves", "asteroids" ]	D
What is the smallest particle of an element that still has the properties of that element?	sciq-00544	[ "neutron", "electron", "atom", "nucleus" ]	C
What is the three-dimensional structure of a single polypeptide called?	sciq-00545	[ "tertiary structure", "Cysteine structure", "immature Structure", "immature structure" ]	A
What term is used to descibe the movement of molecules from an area of high concentration of the molecules to an area with a lower concentration?	sciq-00546	[ "convection", "diffusion", "radiation", "permeation" ]	B
A source of what is needed to disturb matter and start a mechanical wave?	sciq-00547	[ "energy", "magnetism", "hydrogen", "respiration" ]	A
Much of the damage from hurricanes may be caused by?	sciq-00548	[ "storm surge", "insurance fraud", "hail", "wind chill" ]	A
Color blindness, hemophilia and muscular dystrophy are three x-linked what?	sciq-00549	[ "alleles", "genes", "chromosomes", "phenotypes" ]	D
An apocrine sweat gland is usually associated with hair follicles in densely hairy areas, such as armpits and genital regions. apocrine sweat glands are larger than eccrine sweat glands and lie deeper in the dermis, sometimes even reaching this?	sciq-00550	[ "papillary dermis", "stratum corneum", "epidermis", "hypodermis" ]	D
What is the only way to transfer thermal energy without matter?	sciq-00551	[ "evaporation", "radiation", "ultraviolet light", "osmosis" ]	B
When plants are shut off from environmental cues they become?	sciq-00552	[ "extinct", "pollinated", "synchronized", "desynchronized" ]	D
What part of vertebrates integrates the endocrine and nervous systems?	sciq-00553	[ "the hypothalamus", "the notochord", "the cerebellum", "the forebrain" ]	A
An individual grows quickly and develops new abilities during infancy and?	sciq-00554	[ "childhood", "adulthood", "senior years", "embryonic stage" ]	A
Prokaryotes are unicellular organisms that lack organelles surrounded by what?	sciq-00555	[ "tissues", "membranes", "particles", "cells" ]	B
What part of a plant is the food making factory?	sciq-00556	[ "the leaves", "the growing tips", "the main stem", "the roots" ]	A
What type of molecules do hydrogen bonds hold together?	sciq-00557	[ "gas", "water", "carbon", "air" ]	B
The greenhouse effect is associated with what negative phenomenon, blamed mainly on human activity?	sciq-00558	[ "advanced warming", "cool warming", "resulting warming", "global warming" ]	D
What "color" (that is actually not a color at all) is associated with the absence of light?	sciq-00559	[ "opaque", "black", "clear", "grey" ]	B
What science is the study of matter and how it behaves?	sciq-00560	[ "geneology", "biology", "geology", "chemistry" ]	D
What do we call the study of life and living things?	sciq-00561	[ "chemistry", "engineering", "physics", "life science" ]	D
The average global temperature has been rising since the end of what era?	sciq-00562	[ "pleistocene", "miocene", "flintstone", "glacial" ]	A
What are animals that eat a prey animal?	sciq-00563	[ "scavengers", "predators", "carnivores", "herbivores" ]	B
What are the only decomposers that can break down tough plant substances, including lignin and cellulose?	sciq-00564	[ "fungi", "bacteria", "insects", "flatworms" ]	A
What type of carbon compound is methane?	sciq-00565	[ "volatile organic compounds", "alternating compounds", "dynamic organic compounds", "stable compounds" ]	A
In diffusion, substances tend to move from an area of high concentration to an area of what kind of concentration?	sciq-00566	[ "drop", "Increase", "rise", "low" ]	D
In what kind of state are particles fixed in place relative to one another?	sciq-00567	[ "solid state", "liquid state", "hybrid state", "useful state" ]	A
What is defined as the amount of energy needed to increase the temperature of one gram of water by 1°c. one calorie equals 4.184 joules?	sciq-00568	[ "weight", "fat", "calorie", "sulfur" ]	C
About a third of all bacteria in the gut are members of what species?	sciq-00569	[ "actinomyces", "trematodes", "spirochetes", "bacteroides" ]	D
What form of feedback occurs when an accumulation of an end product slows the process that makes that product?	sciq-00570	[ "negative feedback", "positive feedback", "optimal feedback", "particular feedback" ]	A
What is the term for a disease in which the immune system makes an inflammatory response to a harmless antigen?	sciq-00571	[ "influenza", "diabetes", "nausea", "allergy" ]	D
Why is it easier to move boxes on a wheeled dolly than by sliding them?	sciq-00572	[ "increase surface tension", "starting friction", "rolling friction", "more total work" ]	C
What is the protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen in the bloodstream?	sciq-00573	[ "rH factor", "insulin", "hemoglobin", "plasma" ]	C
Space shuttles are reusable vehicles designed to get astronauts where?	sciq-00574	[ "the 6th dimension", "distant solar systems", "space", "underwater" ]	C
Specialized peroxisomes called glyoxysomes are found in the fat-storing tissues of what?	sciq-00575	[ "plant seeds", "chloroplasts", "plant leaves", "plant stems" ]	A
The nervous system, together with what system, controls all the other organ systems?	sciq-00576	[ "limb system", "skeletal system", "reproductive system", "endocrine system" ]	D
What is the physical breakdown of chunks of food into smaller pieces?	sciq-00577	[ "mechanical accumulation", "mechanical digestion", "mechanical catalyst", "dissolving" ]	B
Technically, which cells are the only autotrophic parts of the plant?	sciq-00578	[ "brown", "green", "yellow", "red" ]	B
This is the study of evolutionary history of groups of related organisms?	sciq-00579	[ "phrenology", "phylogeny", "paleontology", "synonymy" ]	B
What does urine leave the body through?	sciq-00580	[ "the skin", "the intestine", "the vagina", "the urethra" ]	D
What phase is pure chlorine present as?	sciq-00581	[ "mist", "gas", "liquid", "oil/gas" ]	B
When electrons from two atoms are each attracted to the nucleus of the other atom, what type of bond is formed?	sciq-00582	[ "covalent bond", "hydrogen bond", "electrochemical bond", "ionic bond" ]	A
Wave cut platforms are level areas formed by what?	sciq-00583	[ "shock erosion", "wave erosion", "surge erosion", "glaciers" ]	B
Electronegativities are used to determine the polarity of covalent bonds. the polarity of a covalent bond can be judged by determining the difference of the electronegativities of what involved in the covalent bond?	sciq-00584	[ "six atoms", "seven atoms", "three atoms", "two atoms" ]	D
What are the cell walls of fungi made of?	sciq-00585	[ "chitin", "lectin", "proteins", "casein" ]	A
All the water in the open ocean is referred to as what zone, which is further divided by depth?	sciq-00586	[ "aquatic", "pelagic", "terrestrial", "oceanic" ]	B
How many embryonic cell layers do flatworms have?	sciq-00587	[ "four", "three", "five", "two" ]	B
When gasoline is burned, what pollutant is produced?	sciq-00588	[ "carbon dioxide", "fluorocarbons", "methane", "oxygen" ]	A
What kingdom of organisms is characterized by having sensory organs, movement, and internal digestion?	sciq-00589	[ "plants", "animals", "fungi", "bacteria" ]	B
What is the base numbering system of metric units?	sciq-00590	[ "ones", "tens", "sixes", "twos" ]	B
What do fungi lack which makes it impossible for them to use photosynthesis?	sciq-00591	[ "ammonia", "roots", "sodium", "chlorophyll" ]	D
Spicules are most conspicuously present in which class?	sciq-00592	[ "phylum", "trichina", "hexactinellida", "spirogyra" ]	C
Most of the food that they bring to their chicks is very rich in what?	sciq-00593	[ "grains", "lipids", "glucose", "proteins" ]	B
Two plates may slide past each other in opposite directions, this is called what?	sciq-00594	[ "transform plate boundary", "downstream plate boundary", "shearing plate boundary", "earthquake" ]	A
What term is used to describe elements with unstable nuclei?	sciq-00595	[ "larvae", "waste", "explosive", "radioactive" ]	D
What is the third gene of lac operon in addition to lacz and lacy?	sciq-00596	[ "leya", "Lacy", "laca", "ghara" ]	C
The majority of species in the phylum chordata are found in what subphylum, which includes animals ranging from lampreys to mammals?	sciq-00597	[ "lophotrochozoa", "organelles", "tardigrada", "vertebrates" ]	D
Why is having grasping hands and feet important for primates?	sciq-00598	[ "protecting habitat", "foraging for food", "hang on trees", "migrating" ]	C
The rising and sinking of warm and cooler material is called what?	sciq-00599	[ "diffusion", "insulation", "depression", "convection" ]	D

Using less energy or using energy more efficiently are the basic methods of what?

sciq-00500

[ "energy conservation", "demand conservation", "pressure conservation", "moral conservation" ]

A

What will a fertilized ovule develop into?

sciq-00501

[ "a seed", "a spermazoa", "a spore", "a gonad" ]

A

What type of particles do acids release, by definition?

sciq-00502

[ "quarks", "nucleic acids", "hydrogen ions", "fission ions" ]

C

An alpha particle, which is relatively large and easily stopped by matter, is a type of what?

sciq-00503

[ "plant emission", "radioactive emission", "free emission", "waste emission" ]

B

What does antifreeze do to the boiling point of coolant?

sciq-00504

[ "accelerates it", "raises it", "lowers it", "has no effect" ]

B

What are rhythmic, involuntary contractions of the reproductive structures?

sciq-00505

[ "sexual paroxysms", "seizure", "reproductive spasms", "orgasm" ]

D

What happens when oppositely charged regions of neighboring water molecules are attracted to each other?

sciq-00506

[ "hydrogen bonds form", "metabolic bonds form", "oxygen is released", "potassium bonds form" ]

A

What occurs when the vapor pressure of a liquid is equal to the atmospheric pressure?

sciq-00507

[ "melting", "boiling", "evaporation", "freezing" ]

B

The mitotic spindle is an apparatus of microtubules that controls chromosome movement during what?

sciq-00508

[ "mitosis", "metaphase", "prometaphase", "anaphase" ]

A

Pluto’s orbit is in the kuiper?

sciq-00509

[ "area", "zone", "field", "belt" ]

D

What does fluoride in toothpaste help prevent?

sciq-00510

[ "tooth decay", "cavities", "gum disease", "plaque build up" ]

A

The mass of 1 mol of molecules in grams is numerically equivalent to the mass of how many molecules in atomic mass units?

sciq-00511

[ "two", "one", "half", "ten" ]

B

A diagram that represents feeding relationships is also called what?

sciq-00512

[ "life chart", "form chain", "food chain", "fuel chain" ]

C

What is touching a charged object to the earth called?

sciq-00513

[ "insulating", "drifting", "grounding", "stabilizing" ]

C

Branchiopoda are mostly small, freshwater animals that feed on?

sciq-00514

[ "fishery and detritus", "nutrient and detritus", "plankton and detritus", "algae and plankton" ]

C

What is the name for groups of tens to hundreds of thousands of stars?

sciq-00515

[ "elliptical clusters", "globular clusters", "nebuli", "constellations" ]

B

Proteins may be defined as compounds of high molar mass consisting largely or entirely of chains of these?

sciq-00516

[ "fatty acids", "amino acids", "nucleic acids", "enzymes" ]

B

Continental drift and mantle convection are supported by data originating where?

sciq-00517

[ "the moon", "ocean's surface", "the sun", "seafloor" ]

D

Baroreceptors are specialized stretch receptors located within thin areas of blood vessels and heart chambers that respond to the degree of stretch caused by the presence of this?

sciq-00518

[ "water", "bacteria", "blood", "bile" ]

C

What structure forms a barrier between the cytoplasm and the environment outside the cell?

sciq-00519

[ "Cytoskeleton", "Flippases", "Lipid bilayer", "cell membrane" ]

D

What are waxes made up of?

sciq-00520

[ "long - project fatty acids", "long - chain pyroclastic acids", "long-chain fatty acids", "long-chain natural acids" ]

C

The biggest drawback of what type of reproduction is lack of genetic variation, since all offspring are identical?

sciq-00521

[ "asexual reproduction", "organic reproduction", "sexual reproduction", "meiosis" ]

A

What is the name given to the daily wake/sleep cycle?

sciq-00522

[ "behavioral rhythms", "nocturnal rhythms", "variable rhythms", "circadian rhythms" ]

D

Where is the seafloor youngest?

sciq-00523

[ "inland", "sand bars", "deep currents", "mid-ocean" ]

D

What is the term for the interaction of waves with other waves?

sciq-00524

[ "wave interference", "tsunami", "shockwave", "current" ]

A

Filter feeders called rotifers collect digestive and excretory wastes in what primitive organ?

sciq-00525

[ "liver", "bile duct", "simple stomach", "cloacal bladder" ]

D

What mass of abnormal cells do cancer cells cause?

sciq-00526

[ "tumor", "sebaceous cyst", "inflammation", "bacteria" ]

A

Ultraviolet light has higher frequencies and shorter wavelengths than visible light, which means it has more what?

sciq-00527

[ "length", "energy", "pressure", "width" ]

B

What planet has a surface temperature of over 400 degrees celsius, no oxygen, an atomsphere comprised mainly of carbon dioxide and tremendous atmospheric pressure?

sciq-00528

[ "uranus", "Mars", "venus", "Earth" ]

C

Which is the body system that normally fights infections and defends against other causes of disease?

sciq-00529

[ "infectious system", "immune system", "circulatory system", "reproductive system" ]

B

What is used to calculate ejection fraction?

sciq-00530

[ "svs", "rws", "cns", "umts" ]

A

How does a sexually transmitted infection spread?

sciq-00531

[ "linear contact", "dramatic contact", "enviromental contact", "sexual contact" ]

D

Stem cells are unspecialized cells that can reproduce themselves via cell division, sometimes after years of inactivity. under certain conditions, they may differentiate into tissue-specific or organ-specific cells with special these?

sciq-00532

[ "chromosomes", "enzymes", "functions", "mutations" ]

C

What is the process of soil dissolving in rain called?

sciq-00533

[ "abrasion", "migration", "erosion", "sedimentation" ]

C

What are all living things on earth formed of?

sciq-00534

[ "carbon compounds", "dioxide compounds", "iron compounds", "hydrogen compounds" ]

A

What is another name for critical speed?

sciq-00535

[ "terminal speed", "impossible velocity", "gravity", "normal speed" ]

A

Prokaryotes are much simpler than what in many of their features?

sciq-00536

[ "meteorites", "eukaryotes", "membranes", "microorganisms" ]

B

Which two atoms are found in most organic compounds?

sciq-00537

[ "potassium and carbon", "magnesium and carbon", "hydrogen and carbon", "hydrogen and magnesium" ]

C

How are heat changes in chemical reactions measured?

sciq-00538

[ "amperes", "watts", "velocities", "joules" ]

D

What is a genetic disorder in which blood fails to clot properly because a normal clotting factor in the blood is lacking?

sciq-00539

[ "hypertension", "sickle cell", "anemia", "hemophilia" ]

D

Fungi that reproduce sexually create what?

sciq-00540

[ "a zygospore", "a chromoplast", "an ova", "a sperm cell" ]

A

A long strip of sand is referred to as what?

sciq-00541

[ "a component island", "a barrier island", "a volcano", "a composition island" ]

B

Which viruses are being studied for cancer treatments?

sciq-00542

[ "oncolytic viruses", "astringent viruses", "osteophobic viruses", "endophytic viruses" ]

A

Mercury looks a lot like earth's moon. why do you think it does? both have been struck by a lot of what?

sciq-00543

[ "particles", "floods", "waves", "asteroids" ]

D

What is the smallest particle of an element that still has the properties of that element?

sciq-00544

[ "neutron", "electron", "atom", "nucleus" ]

C

What is the three-dimensional structure of a single polypeptide called?

sciq-00545

[ "tertiary structure", "Cysteine structure", "immature Structure", "immature structure" ]

A

What term is used to descibe the movement of molecules from an area of high concentration of the molecules to an area with a lower concentration?

sciq-00546

[ "convection", "diffusion", "radiation", "permeation" ]

B

A source of what is needed to disturb matter and start a mechanical wave?

sciq-00547

[ "energy", "magnetism", "hydrogen", "respiration" ]

A

Much of the damage from hurricanes may be caused by?

sciq-00548

[ "storm surge", "insurance fraud", "hail", "wind chill" ]

A

Color blindness, hemophilia and muscular dystrophy are three x-linked what?

sciq-00549

[ "alleles", "genes", "chromosomes", "phenotypes" ]

D

An apocrine sweat gland is usually associated with hair follicles in densely hairy areas, such as armpits and genital regions. apocrine sweat glands are larger than eccrine sweat glands and lie deeper in the dermis, sometimes even reaching this?

sciq-00550

[ "papillary dermis", "stratum corneum", "epidermis", "hypodermis" ]

D

What is the only way to transfer thermal energy without matter?

sciq-00551

[ "evaporation", "radiation", "ultraviolet light", "osmosis" ]

B

When plants are shut off from environmental cues they become?

sciq-00552

[ "extinct", "pollinated", "synchronized", "desynchronized" ]

D

What part of vertebrates integrates the endocrine and nervous systems?

sciq-00553

[ "the hypothalamus", "the notochord", "the cerebellum", "the forebrain" ]

A

An individual grows quickly and develops new abilities during infancy and?

sciq-00554

[ "childhood", "adulthood", "senior years", "embryonic stage" ]

A

Prokaryotes are unicellular organisms that lack organelles surrounded by what?

sciq-00555

[ "tissues", "membranes", "particles", "cells" ]

B

What part of a plant is the food making factory?

sciq-00556

[ "the leaves", "the growing tips", "the main stem", "the roots" ]

A

What type of molecules do hydrogen bonds hold together?

sciq-00557

[ "gas", "water", "carbon", "air" ]

B

The greenhouse effect is associated with what negative phenomenon, blamed mainly on human activity?

sciq-00558

[ "advanced warming", "cool warming", "resulting warming", "global warming" ]

D

What "color" (that is actually not a color at all) is associated with the absence of light?

sciq-00559

[ "opaque", "black", "clear", "grey" ]

B

What science is the study of matter and how it behaves?

sciq-00560

[ "geneology", "biology", "geology", "chemistry" ]

D

What do we call the study of life and living things?

sciq-00561

[ "chemistry", "engineering", "physics", "life science" ]

D

The average global temperature has been rising since the end of what era?

sciq-00562

[ "pleistocene", "miocene", "flintstone", "glacial" ]

A

What are animals that eat a prey animal?

sciq-00563

[ "scavengers", "predators", "carnivores", "herbivores" ]

B

What are the only decomposers that can break down tough plant substances, including lignin and cellulose?

sciq-00564

[ "fungi", "bacteria", "insects", "flatworms" ]

A

What type of carbon compound is methane?

sciq-00565

[ "volatile organic compounds", "alternating compounds", "dynamic organic compounds", "stable compounds" ]

A

In diffusion, substances tend to move from an area of high concentration to an area of what kind of concentration?

sciq-00566

[ "drop", "Increase", "rise", "low" ]

D

In what kind of state are particles fixed in place relative to one another?

sciq-00567

[ "solid state", "liquid state", "hybrid state", "useful state" ]

A

What is defined as the amount of energy needed to increase the temperature of one gram of water by 1°c. one calorie equals 4.184 joules?

sciq-00568

[ "weight", "fat", "calorie", "sulfur" ]

C

About a third of all bacteria in the gut are members of what species?

sciq-00569

[ "actinomyces", "trematodes", "spirochetes", "bacteroides" ]

D

What form of feedback occurs when an accumulation of an end product slows the process that makes that product?

sciq-00570

[ "negative feedback", "positive feedback", "optimal feedback", "particular feedback" ]

A

What is the term for a disease in which the immune system makes an inflammatory response to a harmless antigen?

sciq-00571

[ "influenza", "diabetes", "nausea", "allergy" ]

D

Why is it easier to move boxes on a wheeled dolly than by sliding them?

sciq-00572

[ "increase surface tension", "starting friction", "rolling friction", "more total work" ]

C

What is the protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen in the bloodstream?

sciq-00573

[ "rH factor", "insulin", "hemoglobin", "plasma" ]

C

Space shuttles are reusable vehicles designed to get astronauts where?

sciq-00574

[ "the 6th dimension", "distant solar systems", "space", "underwater" ]

C

Specialized peroxisomes called glyoxysomes are found in the fat-storing tissues of what?

sciq-00575

[ "plant seeds", "chloroplasts", "plant leaves", "plant stems" ]

A

The nervous system, together with what system, controls all the other organ systems?

sciq-00576

[ "limb system", "skeletal system", "reproductive system", "endocrine system" ]

D

What is the physical breakdown of chunks of food into smaller pieces?

sciq-00577

[ "mechanical accumulation", "mechanical digestion", "mechanical catalyst", "dissolving" ]

B

Technically, which cells are the only autotrophic parts of the plant?

sciq-00578

[ "brown", "green", "yellow", "red" ]

B

This is the study of evolutionary history of groups of related organisms?

sciq-00579

[ "phrenology", "phylogeny", "paleontology", "synonymy" ]

B

What does urine leave the body through?

sciq-00580

[ "the skin", "the intestine", "the vagina", "the urethra" ]

D

What phase is pure chlorine present as?

sciq-00581

[ "mist", "gas", "liquid", "oil/gas" ]

B

When electrons from two atoms are each attracted to the nucleus of the other atom, what type of bond is formed?

sciq-00582

[ "covalent bond", "hydrogen bond", "electrochemical bond", "ionic bond" ]

A

Wave cut platforms are level areas formed by what?

sciq-00583

[ "shock erosion", "wave erosion", "surge erosion", "glaciers" ]

B

Electronegativities are used to determine the polarity of covalent bonds. the polarity of a covalent bond can be judged by determining the difference of the electronegativities of what involved in the covalent bond?

sciq-00584

[ "six atoms", "seven atoms", "three atoms", "two atoms" ]

D

What are the cell walls of fungi made of?

sciq-00585

[ "chitin", "lectin", "proteins", "casein" ]

A

All the water in the open ocean is referred to as what zone, which is further divided by depth?

sciq-00586

[ "aquatic", "pelagic", "terrestrial", "oceanic" ]

B

How many embryonic cell layers do flatworms have?

sciq-00587

[ "four", "three", "five", "two" ]

B

When gasoline is burned, what pollutant is produced?

sciq-00588

[ "carbon dioxide", "fluorocarbons", "methane", "oxygen" ]

A

What kingdom of organisms is characterized by having sensory organs, movement, and internal digestion?

sciq-00589

[ "plants", "animals", "fungi", "bacteria" ]

B

What is the base numbering system of metric units?

sciq-00590

[ "ones", "tens", "sixes", "twos" ]

B

What do fungi lack which makes it impossible for them to use photosynthesis?

sciq-00591

[ "ammonia", "roots", "sodium", "chlorophyll" ]

D

Spicules are most conspicuously present in which class?

sciq-00592

[ "phylum", "trichina", "hexactinellida", "spirogyra" ]

C

Most of the food that they bring to their chicks is very rich in what?

sciq-00593

[ "grains", "lipids", "glucose", "proteins" ]

B

Two plates may slide past each other in opposite directions, this is called what?

sciq-00594

[ "transform plate boundary", "downstream plate boundary", "shearing plate boundary", "earthquake" ]

A

What term is used to describe elements with unstable nuclei?

sciq-00595

[ "larvae", "waste", "explosive", "radioactive" ]

D

What is the third gene of lac operon in addition to lacz and lacy?

sciq-00596

[ "leya", "Lacy", "laca", "ghara" ]

C

The majority of species in the phylum chordata are found in what subphylum, which includes animals ranging from lampreys to mammals?

sciq-00597

[ "lophotrochozoa", "organelles", "tardigrada", "vertebrates" ]

D

Why is having grasping hands and feet important for primates?

sciq-00598

[ "protecting habitat", "foraging for food", "hang on trees", "migrating" ]

C

The rising and sinking of warm and cooler material is called what?

sciq-00599

[ "diffusion", "insulation", "depression", "convection" ]

D