viols/sciq-mcqa · Datasets at Hugging Face

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What is the remarkable ring of light around the sun called?	sciq-00600	[ "laguna", "panorama", "magnetic halo", "corona" ]	D
Particles in what state of matter do not experience any force of mutual attraction or repulsion?	sciq-00601	[ "gas", "liquid", "solid", "plasma" ]	A
What is a type of plant tissue consisting of undifferentiated cells that can continue to divide and differentiate?	sciq-00602	[ "tuber", "ganglion", "malignant", "meristem" ]	D
What are basic tools of the cell for organizing metabolism, transport, and storage of molecules?	sciq-00603	[ "vacuoles", "vesicles", "tissues", "membranes" ]	B
The ileum is the last part of what organ, and is where the bile salts and vitamins are absorbed into blood stream?	sciq-00604	[ "small intestine", "gall bladder", "large intestine", "stomach" ]	A
Total internal reflections the princicple behind what type of optics?	sciq-00605	[ "pipes optics", "Blindness", "refined optics", "fiber optics" ]	D
Which cells at the base of the hair root form the outer root sheath?	sciq-00606	[ "basal", "tunnel fibers", "scala media", "scala vestibuli" ]	A
What is the term for sediment deposited by a glacier?	sciq-00607	[ "crater", "moraine", "holocene", "plateau" ]	B
Usually done on computers, what do you call sets of equations that take into account many factors to represent a phenomenon?	sciq-00608	[ "fractals", "mathematical models", "spreadsheets", "analogous models" ]	B
What is the mode of breathing that occurs at rest and does not require the cognitive thought of the individual?	sciq-00609	[ "quiet breathing", "conscious breathing", "forced breathing", "small breathing" ]	A
Rubber is what kind of solid?	sciq-00610	[ "porous", "amorphous", "inorganic", "aqueous" ]	B
What do birds do in mating season?	sciq-00611	[ "migrate", "pair up with the same bird", "find many mates", "reproduce asexually" ]	B
What exciting and evolving field of physics finds that nature on the smallest scale may have its greatest influence on the large-scale character of the universe?	sciq-00612	[ "astrophysics", "proteins physics", "particle physics", "biophysics" ]	C
In genetics, what does it mean when the amount is longer since the amount of time since a species diverged?	sciq-00613	[ "Less difference in DNA", "tilt differences in dna", "greater making in dna", "greater differences in dna" ]	D
Ragweed and poison ivy are common causes of what?	sciq-00614	[ "defects", "mutations", "allergies", "cancers" ]	C
What type of distance is caused by the force you apply to a machine over a given distance?	sciq-00615	[ "response distance", "force distance", "accumulation distance", "input distance" ]	D
What is calculated by dividing the mass by the volume of a certain object?	sciq-00616	[ "radius", "diameter", "density", "median" ]	C
Electric motors transform electrical energy into what other form of energy?	sciq-00617	[ "kinetic", "magnetic", "solar", "thermal" ]	A
The bicoid maternal effect gene is transcribed in which cells of the mother?	sciq-00618	[ "boy cells", "cell walls", "nurse cells", "veteran cells" ]	C
How often an allele occurs in a gene pool relative to the other alleles for that gene is known as _______	sciq-00619	[ "allele frequency", "genomic frequency", "allele succession", "genetic rate" ]	A
If more coils are added to an electromagnet it becomes?	sciq-00620	[ "lighter", "weaker", "stronger", "brighter" ]	C
Which trait of particles causes even cold objects to have some thermal energy?	sciq-00621	[ "constant random motion", "equilibrium", "momentum", "kinetic energy" ]	A
Found in many electric devices, what is a coil of wire wrapped around a bar of iron or other ferromagnetic material?	sciq-00622	[ "superconductor", "actuator", "electromagnet", "battery" ]	C
What is it called when two organisms live close together and form a relationship?	sciq-00623	[ "traits", "definitions", "Family", "symbiosis" ]	D
What does fsh help stimulate in the ovaries and sperm in the testes?	sciq-00624	[ "maturation of eggs", "in vitro fertilization", "dna replication", "spawning" ]	A
The largest phylum of the animal kingdom is what?	sciq-00625	[ "cephalopods", "arthropods", "crustaceans", "mammals" ]	B
During what process is light from the star focused and the star appears to brighten in a characteristic manner?	sciq-00626	[ "excitation", "macrolensing", "spectrometry", "microlensing" ]	D
Much like the processes of dna replication and transcription, translation consists of three main stages: initiation, elongation, and this?	sciq-00627	[ "termination", "isolation", "detonation", "assimilation" ]	A
Each hemisphere of the cerebrum consists of four parts, called what?	sciq-00628	[ "layers", "lobes", "rows", "quarters" ]	B
What is an organic compound that is the primary component of natural gas?	sciq-00629	[ "ethanol", "magnesium", "methane", "sulfur" ]	C
What is raising the temperature of earth’s surface?	sciq-00630	[ "greenhouse effect", "ozone layer", "Coriolis effect", "photosynthesis effect" ]	A
What is a measure of randomness or disorder in a system?	sciq-00631	[ "chaos theory", "biodiversity", "enthropy", "entropy" ]	D
What is the distance between two corresponding points of adjacent waves called?	sciq-00632	[ "wave distance", "wavelength", "variation", "bandwidth" ]	B
Crossing-over is the exchange of genetic material between which chromosomes?	sciq-00633	[ "monogamous", "analogous", "homologous", "metacentric" ]	C
What is a ridge of sand that extends away from the shore?	sciq-00634	[ "a spit", "a scoop", "a dig", "a depression" ]	A
Manganin is made up of metals that include copper, manganese and nickel - what do you generally call a metal of this type?	sciq-00635	[ "silicon", "mixed metal", "alloy", "complex metal" ]	C
Protons and neutrons are located in which central part of the atom?	sciq-00636	[ "shell", "nucleolus", "radius", "nucleus" ]	D
Cancer is the result of unchecked cell division caused by a breakdown of the mechanisms that regulate this?	sciq-00637	[ "cell cycle", "respiration", "digestion", "blood flow" ]	A
Slabs of continents moving around on earth's surface is called what?	sciq-00638	[ "plate tectonics", "edge tectonics", "crator tectonics", "fault tectonics" ]	A
In plants, what structure located above the root cap is where growth in length occurs?	sciq-00639	[ "elections meristem", "primary meristem", "support meristem", "secondary meristem" ]	B
With what does an electromagnetic wave start?	sciq-00640	[ "vibrating charged particle", "kinetic energy", "battery", "static charged particle" ]	A
What kind of overdose do eudicots die from?	sciq-00641	[ "hormonal", "metabolic", "chemical", "nutritional" ]	A
The particles in a colloid are large enough to scatter light, a phenomenon called what?	sciq-00642	[ "tyndall effect", "astral effect", "bowman effect", "jonah effect" ]	A
What two things limit primary production in aquatic ecosystems?	sciq-00643	[ "air and light", "light and nutrients", "air and nutrients", "pollution and nutrients" ]	B
Vascular and non-vascular are two groups of what kind of organism?	sciq-00644	[ "fungi", "plants", "animals", "vertebrates" ]	B
The burning of fossil fuels has increased which effect?	sciq-00645	[ "greenhouse effect", "natural gas effect", "photosynthesis effect", "ozone effect" ]	A
What do you call geographical areas that contain high numbers of endemic species?	sciq-00646	[ "endospots", "warmspots", "multispots", "hotspots" ]	D
What type of climate do most agaves grow in?	sciq-00647	[ "arctic", "arid", "tropical", "rainforest" ]	B
What cells secrete signaling molecules that promote sperm production and can control whether germ cells live or die?	sciq-00648	[ "egg cells", "erythrocytes", "neurons", "sertoli cells" ]	D
Invertebrate chordates use what to filter food out of water?	sciq-00649	[ "gills", "nose", "tails", "pores" ]	A
Because the current is alternating, the magnetic field of the iron core keeps doing what?	sciq-00650	[ "decreasing", "reversing", "changing", "increasing" ]	B
When heat moves out of a system, what is the sign of the enthalpy?	sciq-00651	[ "it depends", "N/A (zero)", "positive", "negative" ]	D
What occurs when light bumps into tiny particles of matter and spreads out in all directions?	sciq-00652	[ "darkness", "rainbow effect", "scattering", "kaleidoscope" ]	C
During unfavorable conditions, mature seeds may enter a period of inactivity or extremely low metabolic activity called what?	sciq-00653	[ "malignancy", "dormancy", "hibernation", "germination" ]	B
Solid coal, liquid petroleum, and liquid natural gas are all types of what?	sciq-00654	[ "nuclear fusion", "fossil fuels", "hydroelectric", "solar electric" ]	B
What everyday beverage commodity is second only to oil in worldwide trade?	sciq-00655	[ "coffee", "water", "soda", "beer" ]	A
Where are ribosomes made?	sciq-00656	[ "cell membrane", "protoplasm", "mitochondria", "the nucleolus" ]	D
What prevents loss of water from the body and keeps out microorganisms?	sciq-00657	[ "the skin'", "sweat", "hydration", "muscles" ]	A
Batteries containing a liquid electrolyte, like those in cars, are referred to as what kind of battery?	sciq-00658	[ "wet cell", "time cell", "sand cell", "lithium cell" ]	A
Stp, which is important in determining information about gas behavior and properties, stands for standard temperature and what?	sciq-00659	[ "push", "pull", "pressure", "power" ]	C
Within a particular habitat, what can be characterized by its size or density?	sciq-00660	[ "population", "total", "percent", "group" ]	A
Animals that eat decomposing organic material, such as dung beetles, make the material available to what organisms that break it down further?	sciq-00661	[ "bacteria", "consumers", "protozoa", "pathogens" ]	A
Skin that acts as camouflage or secretes chemicals poisonous to predators are successful modification in frogs and salamanders, classed as what in the order anura?	sciq-00662	[ "fungi", "reptiles", "amphibians", "parasites" ]	C
What do you call people who study science and are experts in one or more fields of science?	sciq-00663	[ "doctors", "chemists", "scientists", "animals" ]	C
In budding , organisms reproduce by having new individuals split off from what?	sciq-00664	[ "ova", "existing ones", "a sister chromatid", "nuclei" ]	B
What planet, covered by a thick layer of clouds, looks smooth and featureless through a telescope?	sciq-00665	[ "venus", "uranus", "Earth", "mars" ]	A
What type of power is generated via underground sources of heat?	sciq-00666	[ "geothermal", "hydrothermal", "solar", "volcanic" ]	A
Saturn is made mostly of what two elements?	sciq-00667	[ "nitrogen and boron", "carbon and oxygen", "hydrogen and helium", "helium and lithium" ]	C
A homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances is called a what?	sciq-00668	[ "element", "solution", "mixture", "structure" ]	B
What is the term for particles composed of three quarks?	sciq-00669	[ "tachyons", "mesons", "baryons", "nucleons" ]	C
Both glyceraldehyde and glyceric acid are derivatives of biochemical intermediates in metabolism of what?	sciq-00670	[ "proteins", "fats", "lipids", "sugar" ]	D
Instead of insects, crustaceans are the dominant arthropods in what environment?	sciq-00671	[ "marine habitat", "tundra habitat", "arid habitat", "desert habitat" ]	A
The scientific method deals with systematic investigation, reproducible results, the formation and testing of hypotheses, and what two categories of reasoning?	sciq-00672	[ "reduction and deduction", "existence and deduction", "induction and deduction", "method and deduction" ]	C
What is an example of a predator-prey relationship that helps maintain the balance of organisms in ecosystems?	sciq-00673	[ "zebra and elephant", "lion and grass", "lion and zebra", "zebra and air" ]	C
The 'boy in the bubble' is a classic example of someone suffering what type of disease that can cause opportunistic infections?	sciq-00674	[ "hydroencephaly", "retardation", "inherited immunodeficiency", "muscular dystrophy" ]	C
What phase does dna replication occur in the cell cycle?	sciq-00675	[ "Mitosis", "synthesis", "apoptosis", "Gap 0" ]	B
What type of rocks form when magma cools and forms crystals?	sciq-00676	[ "metarmorphic", "sedimentary", "seismic", "igneous" ]	D
What determines the color of a star?	sciq-00677	[ "surface temperature", "size of the star", "age of the star", "core temperature" ]	A
Why do birds build nests?	sciq-00678	[ "get off ground", "hatch eggs", "raise birds", "safe place" ]	D
Flagella, cilia and pseudopods are appendages that protists use for what purpose?	sciq-00679	[ "gravity", "momentum", "pressure", "movement" ]	D
Another interesting phenomenon associated with polarized light is the ability of some crystals to split an unpolarized beam of light into two. such crystals are said to be this?	sciq-00680	[ "birefringent", "reflective", "phosphorescent", "opaque matter" ]	A
A mitotic spindle forms from the what?	sciq-00681	[ "sister chromatids", "centrosomes", "centrioles", "ribosomes" ]	B
What is the transfer of thermal energy between objects that have different temperatures?	sciq-00682	[ "heat", "sweat", "humidity", "warm" ]	A
What is the process in which cells make proteins called?	sciq-00683	[ "catalysis", "apoptosis", "respiration", "synthesis" ]	D
Living things on the ocean floor are known as?	sciq-00684	[ "protozoa", "decomposers", "newts", "benthos" ]	D
A double form of what reproductive process is unique to angiosperms?	sciq-00685	[ "destruction", "infection", "fertilization", "stimulation" ]	C
What is the term for the conversion of a liquid to its vapor below the boiling temperature of the liquid?	sciq-00686	[ "vaporization", "absorption", "evaporation", "oxidation" ]	C
What kind of energy conversion is done by a fuel cell?	sciq-00687	[ "solar into chemical", "wind into nuclear", "electrical into nuclear", "chemical into electrical" ]	D
In which aspect does molality differ from molarity?	sciq-00688	[ "complexity", "accuracy", "numerator", "denominator" ]	D
What is the mass that is "lost" in fission or fusion actually converted to?	sciq-00689	[ "energy", "momentum", "pressure", "hydrogen" ]	A
What does a glacier leave behind when it retreats?	sciq-00690	[ "bare rock", "sediment", "Lakes", "Dirt" ]	A
What law states that matter cannot be created or destroyed even when it changes?	sciq-00691	[ "Action of mass", "modification of mass", "conservation of mass", "Transfer of mass" ]	C
What are natural sponges made of?	sciq-00692	[ "sea shells", "sand", "sea animals", "sea plants" ]	C
The process in which certain bacteria change nitrogen gas to a form that plants can absorb through their roots is known as what?	sciq-00693	[ "pollen fixation", "nitrogen fixation", "dioxide fixation", "oxygen fixation" ]	B
What gas is actually a waste product of photosynthesis?	sciq-00694	[ "nitrogen", "carbon dioxide", "hydrogen", "oxygen" ]	D
Distinguished by the great red spot, what planet has an upper atmosphere containing ammonia clouds?	sciq-00695	[ "saturn", "jupiter", "mars", "uranus" ]	B
What controls what goes in and out of a cell?	sciq-00696	[ "the plasma membrane", "the mitochondria", "the nucleus", "the cilia" ]	A
If the average binding energy per nucleon overcomes the repulsion, the nucleus stays together and it referred to as what?	sciq-00697	[ "stable", "even", "solid", "closed" ]	A
What is mollusks complete digestive system called?	sciq-00698	[ "vesicle", "thallus", "choroid", "coelom" ]	D
Kinetic energy is the energy of what?	sciq-00699	[ "light", "wind", "motion", "heat" ]	C

What is the remarkable ring of light around the sun called?

sciq-00600

[ "laguna", "panorama", "magnetic halo", "corona" ]

D

Particles in what state of matter do not experience any force of mutual attraction or repulsion?

sciq-00601

[ "gas", "liquid", "solid", "plasma" ]

A

What is a type of plant tissue consisting of undifferentiated cells that can continue to divide and differentiate?

sciq-00602

[ "tuber", "ganglion", "malignant", "meristem" ]

D

What are basic tools of the cell for organizing metabolism, transport, and storage of molecules?

sciq-00603

[ "vacuoles", "vesicles", "tissues", "membranes" ]

B

The ileum is the last part of what organ, and is where the bile salts and vitamins are absorbed into blood stream?

sciq-00604

[ "small intestine", "gall bladder", "large intestine", "stomach" ]

A

Total internal reflections the princicple behind what type of optics?

sciq-00605

[ "pipes optics", "Blindness", "refined optics", "fiber optics" ]

D

Which cells at the base of the hair root form the outer root sheath?

sciq-00606

[ "basal", "tunnel fibers", "scala media", "scala vestibuli" ]

A

What is the term for sediment deposited by a glacier?

sciq-00607

[ "crater", "moraine", "holocene", "plateau" ]

B

Usually done on computers, what do you call sets of equations that take into account many factors to represent a phenomenon?

sciq-00608

[ "fractals", "mathematical models", "spreadsheets", "analogous models" ]

B

What is the mode of breathing that occurs at rest and does not require the cognitive thought of the individual?

sciq-00609

[ "quiet breathing", "conscious breathing", "forced breathing", "small breathing" ]

A

Rubber is what kind of solid?

sciq-00610

[ "porous", "amorphous", "inorganic", "aqueous" ]

B

What do birds do in mating season?

sciq-00611

[ "migrate", "pair up with the same bird", "find many mates", "reproduce asexually" ]

B

What exciting and evolving field of physics finds that nature on the smallest scale may have its greatest influence on the large-scale character of the universe?

sciq-00612

[ "astrophysics", "proteins physics", "particle physics", "biophysics" ]

C

In genetics, what does it mean when the amount is longer since the amount of time since a species diverged?

sciq-00613

[ "Less difference in DNA", "tilt differences in dna", "greater making in dna", "greater differences in dna" ]

D

Ragweed and poison ivy are common causes of what?

sciq-00614

[ "defects", "mutations", "allergies", "cancers" ]

C

What type of distance is caused by the force you apply to a machine over a given distance?

sciq-00615

[ "response distance", "force distance", "accumulation distance", "input distance" ]

D

What is calculated by dividing the mass by the volume of a certain object?

sciq-00616

[ "radius", "diameter", "density", "median" ]

C

Electric motors transform electrical energy into what other form of energy?

sciq-00617

[ "kinetic", "magnetic", "solar", "thermal" ]

A

The bicoid maternal effect gene is transcribed in which cells of the mother?

sciq-00618

[ "boy cells", "cell walls", "nurse cells", "veteran cells" ]

C

How often an allele occurs in a gene pool relative to the other alleles for that gene is known as _______

sciq-00619

[ "allele frequency", "genomic frequency", "allele succession", "genetic rate" ]

A

If more coils are added to an electromagnet it becomes?

sciq-00620

[ "lighter", "weaker", "stronger", "brighter" ]

C

Which trait of particles causes even cold objects to have some thermal energy?

sciq-00621

[ "constant random motion", "equilibrium", "momentum", "kinetic energy" ]

A

Found in many electric devices, what is a coil of wire wrapped around a bar of iron or other ferromagnetic material?

sciq-00622

[ "superconductor", "actuator", "electromagnet", "battery" ]

C

What is it called when two organisms live close together and form a relationship?

sciq-00623

[ "traits", "definitions", "Family", "symbiosis" ]

D

What does fsh help stimulate in the ovaries and sperm in the testes?

sciq-00624

[ "maturation of eggs", "in vitro fertilization", "dna replication", "spawning" ]

A

The largest phylum of the animal kingdom is what?

sciq-00625

[ "cephalopods", "arthropods", "crustaceans", "mammals" ]

B

During what process is light from the star focused and the star appears to brighten in a characteristic manner?

sciq-00626

[ "excitation", "macrolensing", "spectrometry", "microlensing" ]

D

Much like the processes of dna replication and transcription, translation consists of three main stages: initiation, elongation, and this?

sciq-00627

[ "termination", "isolation", "detonation", "assimilation" ]

A

Each hemisphere of the cerebrum consists of four parts, called what?

sciq-00628

[ "layers", "lobes", "rows", "quarters" ]

B

What is an organic compound that is the primary component of natural gas?

sciq-00629

[ "ethanol", "magnesium", "methane", "sulfur" ]

C

What is raising the temperature of earth’s surface?

sciq-00630

[ "greenhouse effect", "ozone layer", "Coriolis effect", "photosynthesis effect" ]

A

What is a measure of randomness or disorder in a system?

sciq-00631

[ "chaos theory", "biodiversity", "enthropy", "entropy" ]

D

What is the distance between two corresponding points of adjacent waves called?

sciq-00632

[ "wave distance", "wavelength", "variation", "bandwidth" ]

B

Crossing-over is the exchange of genetic material between which chromosomes?

sciq-00633

[ "monogamous", "analogous", "homologous", "metacentric" ]

C

What is a ridge of sand that extends away from the shore?

sciq-00634

[ "a spit", "a scoop", "a dig", "a depression" ]

A

Manganin is made up of metals that include copper, manganese and nickel - what do you generally call a metal of this type?

sciq-00635

[ "silicon", "mixed metal", "alloy", "complex metal" ]

C

Protons and neutrons are located in which central part of the atom?

sciq-00636

[ "shell", "nucleolus", "radius", "nucleus" ]

D

Cancer is the result of unchecked cell division caused by a breakdown of the mechanisms that regulate this?

sciq-00637

[ "cell cycle", "respiration", "digestion", "blood flow" ]

A

Slabs of continents moving around on earth's surface is called what?

sciq-00638

[ "plate tectonics", "edge tectonics", "crator tectonics", "fault tectonics" ]

A

In plants, what structure located above the root cap is where growth in length occurs?

sciq-00639

[ "elections meristem", "primary meristem", "support meristem", "secondary meristem" ]

B

With what does an electromagnetic wave start?

sciq-00640

[ "vibrating charged particle", "kinetic energy", "battery", "static charged particle" ]

A

What kind of overdose do eudicots die from?

sciq-00641

[ "hormonal", "metabolic", "chemical", "nutritional" ]

A

The particles in a colloid are large enough to scatter light, a phenomenon called what?

sciq-00642

[ "tyndall effect", "astral effect", "bowman effect", "jonah effect" ]

A

What two things limit primary production in aquatic ecosystems?

sciq-00643

[ "air and light", "light and nutrients", "air and nutrients", "pollution and nutrients" ]

B

Vascular and non-vascular are two groups of what kind of organism?

sciq-00644

[ "fungi", "plants", "animals", "vertebrates" ]

B

The burning of fossil fuels has increased which effect?

sciq-00645

[ "greenhouse effect", "natural gas effect", "photosynthesis effect", "ozone effect" ]

A

What do you call geographical areas that contain high numbers of endemic species?

sciq-00646

[ "endospots", "warmspots", "multispots", "hotspots" ]

D

What type of climate do most agaves grow in?

sciq-00647

[ "arctic", "arid", "tropical", "rainforest" ]

B

What cells secrete signaling molecules that promote sperm production and can control whether germ cells live or die?

sciq-00648

[ "egg cells", "erythrocytes", "neurons", "sertoli cells" ]

D

Invertebrate chordates use what to filter food out of water?

sciq-00649

[ "gills", "nose", "tails", "pores" ]

A

Because the current is alternating, the magnetic field of the iron core keeps doing what?

sciq-00650

[ "decreasing", "reversing", "changing", "increasing" ]

B

When heat moves out of a system, what is the sign of the enthalpy?

sciq-00651

[ "it depends", "N/A (zero)", "positive", "negative" ]

D

What occurs when light bumps into tiny particles of matter and spreads out in all directions?

sciq-00652

[ "darkness", "rainbow effect", "scattering", "kaleidoscope" ]

C

During unfavorable conditions, mature seeds may enter a period of inactivity or extremely low metabolic activity called what?

sciq-00653

[ "malignancy", "dormancy", "hibernation", "germination" ]

B

Solid coal, liquid petroleum, and liquid natural gas are all types of what?

sciq-00654

[ "nuclear fusion", "fossil fuels", "hydroelectric", "solar electric" ]

B

What everyday beverage commodity is second only to oil in worldwide trade?

sciq-00655

[ "coffee", "water", "soda", "beer" ]

A

Where are ribosomes made?

sciq-00656

[ "cell membrane", "protoplasm", "mitochondria", "the nucleolus" ]

D

What prevents loss of water from the body and keeps out microorganisms?

sciq-00657

[ "the skin'", "sweat", "hydration", "muscles" ]

A

Batteries containing a liquid electrolyte, like those in cars, are referred to as what kind of battery?

sciq-00658

[ "wet cell", "time cell", "sand cell", "lithium cell" ]

A

Stp, which is important in determining information about gas behavior and properties, stands for standard temperature and what?

sciq-00659

[ "push", "pull", "pressure", "power" ]

C

Within a particular habitat, what can be characterized by its size or density?

sciq-00660

[ "population", "total", "percent", "group" ]

A

Animals that eat decomposing organic material, such as dung beetles, make the material available to what organisms that break it down further?

sciq-00661

[ "bacteria", "consumers", "protozoa", "pathogens" ]

A

Skin that acts as camouflage or secretes chemicals poisonous to predators are successful modification in frogs and salamanders, classed as what in the order anura?

sciq-00662

[ "fungi", "reptiles", "amphibians", "parasites" ]

C

What do you call people who study science and are experts in one or more fields of science?

sciq-00663

[ "doctors", "chemists", "scientists", "animals" ]

C

In budding , organisms reproduce by having new individuals split off from what?

sciq-00664

[ "ova", "existing ones", "a sister chromatid", "nuclei" ]

B

What planet, covered by a thick layer of clouds, looks smooth and featureless through a telescope?

sciq-00665

[ "venus", "uranus", "Earth", "mars" ]

A

What type of power is generated via underground sources of heat?

sciq-00666

[ "geothermal", "hydrothermal", "solar", "volcanic" ]

A

Saturn is made mostly of what two elements?

sciq-00667

[ "nitrogen and boron", "carbon and oxygen", "hydrogen and helium", "helium and lithium" ]

C

A homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances is called a what?

sciq-00668

[ "element", "solution", "mixture", "structure" ]

B

What is the term for particles composed of three quarks?

sciq-00669

[ "tachyons", "mesons", "baryons", "nucleons" ]

C

Both glyceraldehyde and glyceric acid are derivatives of biochemical intermediates in metabolism of what?

sciq-00670

[ "proteins", "fats", "lipids", "sugar" ]

D

Instead of insects, crustaceans are the dominant arthropods in what environment?

sciq-00671

[ "marine habitat", "tundra habitat", "arid habitat", "desert habitat" ]

A

The scientific method deals with systematic investigation, reproducible results, the formation and testing of hypotheses, and what two categories of reasoning?

sciq-00672

[ "reduction and deduction", "existence and deduction", "induction and deduction", "method and deduction" ]

C

What is an example of a predator-prey relationship that helps maintain the balance of organisms in ecosystems?

sciq-00673

[ "zebra and elephant", "lion and grass", "lion and zebra", "zebra and air" ]

C

The 'boy in the bubble' is a classic example of someone suffering what type of disease that can cause opportunistic infections?

sciq-00674

[ "hydroencephaly", "retardation", "inherited immunodeficiency", "muscular dystrophy" ]

C

What phase does dna replication occur in the cell cycle?

sciq-00675

[ "Mitosis", "synthesis", "apoptosis", "Gap 0" ]

B

What type of rocks form when magma cools and forms crystals?

sciq-00676

[ "metarmorphic", "sedimentary", "seismic", "igneous" ]

D

What determines the color of a star?

sciq-00677

[ "surface temperature", "size of the star", "age of the star", "core temperature" ]

A

Why do birds build nests?

sciq-00678

[ "get off ground", "hatch eggs", "raise birds", "safe place" ]

D

Flagella, cilia and pseudopods are appendages that protists use for what purpose?

sciq-00679

[ "gravity", "momentum", "pressure", "movement" ]

D

Another interesting phenomenon associated with polarized light is the ability of some crystals to split an unpolarized beam of light into two. such crystals are said to be this?

sciq-00680

[ "birefringent", "reflective", "phosphorescent", "opaque matter" ]

A

A mitotic spindle forms from the what?

sciq-00681

[ "sister chromatids", "centrosomes", "centrioles", "ribosomes" ]

B

What is the transfer of thermal energy between objects that have different temperatures?

sciq-00682

[ "heat", "sweat", "humidity", "warm" ]

A

What is the process in which cells make proteins called?

sciq-00683

[ "catalysis", "apoptosis", "respiration", "synthesis" ]

D

Living things on the ocean floor are known as?

sciq-00684

[ "protozoa", "decomposers", "newts", "benthos" ]

D

A double form of what reproductive process is unique to angiosperms?

sciq-00685

[ "destruction", "infection", "fertilization", "stimulation" ]

C

What is the term for the conversion of a liquid to its vapor below the boiling temperature of the liquid?

sciq-00686

[ "vaporization", "absorption", "evaporation", "oxidation" ]

C

What kind of energy conversion is done by a fuel cell?

sciq-00687

[ "solar into chemical", "wind into nuclear", "electrical into nuclear", "chemical into electrical" ]

D

In which aspect does molality differ from molarity?

sciq-00688

[ "complexity", "accuracy", "numerator", "denominator" ]

D

What is the mass that is "lost" in fission or fusion actually converted to?

sciq-00689

[ "energy", "momentum", "pressure", "hydrogen" ]

A

What does a glacier leave behind when it retreats?

sciq-00690

[ "bare rock", "sediment", "Lakes", "Dirt" ]

A

What law states that matter cannot be created or destroyed even when it changes?

sciq-00691

[ "Action of mass", "modification of mass", "conservation of mass", "Transfer of mass" ]

C

What are natural sponges made of?

sciq-00692

[ "sea shells", "sand", "sea animals", "sea plants" ]

C

The process in which certain bacteria change nitrogen gas to a form that plants can absorb through their roots is known as what?

sciq-00693

[ "pollen fixation", "nitrogen fixation", "dioxide fixation", "oxygen fixation" ]

B

What gas is actually a waste product of photosynthesis?

sciq-00694

[ "nitrogen", "carbon dioxide", "hydrogen", "oxygen" ]

D

Distinguished by the great red spot, what planet has an upper atmosphere containing ammonia clouds?

sciq-00695

[ "saturn", "jupiter", "mars", "uranus" ]

B

What controls what goes in and out of a cell?

sciq-00696

[ "the plasma membrane", "the mitochondria", "the nucleus", "the cilia" ]

A

If the average binding energy per nucleon overcomes the repulsion, the nucleus stays together and it referred to as what?

sciq-00697

[ "stable", "even", "solid", "closed" ]

A

What is mollusks complete digestive system called?

sciq-00698

[ "vesicle", "thallus", "choroid", "coelom" ]

D

Kinetic energy is the energy of what?

sciq-00699

[ "light", "wind", "motion", "heat" ]

C