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allenai/sciq_0
Compounds that are capable of accepting electrons, such as o 2 or f2, are called what?
[ "residues", "Oxygen", "antioxidants", "oxidants" ]
D
allenai/sciq_1
What term in biotechnology means a genetically exact copy of an organism?
[ "male", "phenotype", "clone", "adult" ]
C
allenai/sciq_2
Vertebrata are characterized by the presence of what?
[ "Bones", "Thumbs", "Muscles", "backbone" ]
D
allenai/sciq_3
What is the height above or below sea level called?
[ "elevation", "variation", "latitude", "depth" ]
A
allenai/sciq_4
Ice cores, varves and what else indicate the environmental conditions at the time of their creation?
[ "magma", "fossils", "tree rings", "mountain ranges" ]
C
allenai/sciq_5
What chemical signals in plants control different processes?
[ "nitrogen hormones", "plant hormones", "Human Hormones", "produce hormones" ]
B
allenai/sciq_6
Meiosis is part of the process of gametogenesis, which is the production of what?
[ "egg only", "sperm only", "chromosomes", "sperm and eggs" ]
D
allenai/sciq_7
Which type of tree is dominant in temperate forests?
[ "fungus", "deciduous", "vines", "shrubs" ]
B
allenai/sciq_8
What kind of viscosity is found in long-chain hydrocarbons?
[ "highly viscous", "low viscosity", "increased viscosity", "intense viscosity" ]
A
allenai/sciq_9
Ionic compounds have strong electrostatic attractions between oppositely charged ions in this?
[ "incorrect array", "normal array", "occasional array", "regular array" ]
D
allenai/sciq_10
About how tall can mid-ocean ridges be?
[ "about 2 feet", "about 2 meters", "2 inches", "about 2 km" ]
D
allenai/sciq_11
What are by far the most common type of invertebrate?
[ "insects", "spiders", "crustaceans", "corals" ]
A
allenai/sciq_12
What do waves deposit to form sandbars and barrier islands?
[ "magma", "glaciers", "sediments", "organisms" ]
C
allenai/sciq_13
Penis, testes, and epididymis are organs in what system?
[ "plant reproductive system​", "virus reproductive system​", "female reproductive system​", "male reproductive system" ]
D
allenai/sciq_14
Only about one percent of plants have lost what ability, turning them into consumers and even predators, instead of producers?
[ "rooting", "growth", "flowering", "photosynthesis" ]
D
allenai/sciq_15
How does a neon light produce visible light?
[ "luminescence", "electroluminescence", "radiation", "mitosis" ]
B
allenai/sciq_16
The bird ancestor that lived in trees developed what feature commonly associated with birds?
[ "beaks", "tails", "wings", "webbed feet" ]
C
allenai/sciq_17
What do most living things use to make atp from glucose?
[ "enzymes", "nitrogen", "carbon", "oxygen" ]
D
allenai/sciq_18
What are the two most common silicates?
[ "Micas\t and feldspar", "feldspar and quartz", "Micas\t and quartz", "Olivine and quartz" ]
B
allenai/sciq_19
What term means the amount of water vapor in the air?
[ "humidity", "pressure", "temperature", "ambient" ]
A
allenai/sciq_20
Paracrine signals move by what method through the extracellular matrix?
[ "transfusion", "diffusion", "deposition", "osmosis" ]
B
allenai/sciq_21
Presence of a cell wall, large central vacuole, and organelles called plastids distinguish what type of cell?
[ "plant", "heterotroph", "animal", "reproductive" ]
A
allenai/sciq_22
What happens when mammals raise their hair with tiny muscles in the skin?
[ "bleeding", "bruising", "goosebumps", "balding" ]
C
allenai/sciq_23
What are people with osteoporosis at increased risk of?
[ "epilepsy", "senility", "bone fractures", "growth spurt" ]
C
allenai/sciq_24
Where is energy stored in a chemical substance?
[ "in molecules", "inside atoms", "between atoms", "on the surface" ]
C
allenai/sciq_25
By the year 2050, 25 percent of the population of the united states will be 60 years of age or older. the cdc estimates that 80 percent of those 60 years and older have one or more chronic disease associated with deficiencies of this?
[ "blood vessels", "immune system", "respiratory system", "cardiovascular system" ]
B
allenai/sciq_26
Upon death of an organism, during composition, what returns to the soil as ammonium ions?
[ "nitrogen", "hydrogen", "potasium", "calcium" ]
A
allenai/sciq_27
Most insects reproduce quickly and through what type of reproduction?
[ "asexual reproduction", "photosynthesis", "sexual reproduction", "spores" ]
C
allenai/sciq_28
Digestion of proteins begins with acids in what organ?
[ "liver", "colon", "brain", "stomach" ]
D
allenai/sciq_29
Many species of rotifers exhibit haplodiploidy, which is a method of what?
[ "gender determination", "respiration", "digestion", "circulation" ]
A
allenai/sciq_30
What is the most abundant metal of the earth's crust?
[ "aluminum", "calcium", "magnetite", "copper" ]
A
allenai/sciq_31
What is the term for the total kinetic energy of moving particles of matter?
[ "heavy energy", "mechanical energy", "Newton's energy", "thermal energy" ]
D
allenai/sciq_32
What part of the eye allows light to enter?
[ "iris", "eyelid", "pupil", "retina" ]
C
allenai/sciq_33
The body cannot sustain for very long the bursts of energy mediated by epinephrine and norepinephrine, hormones associated with what stress response?
[ "fight-or-flight", "fainting", "do-or-die", "sink-or-swim" ]
A
allenai/sciq_34
What system enters the brain stem and influences activity in the cerebellum, spinal cord, and cerebral cortex?
[ "lipids system", "vasculature system", "vestibular system", "ventrical system" ]
C
allenai/sciq_35
In what type of animals may a body cavity be present or absent?
[ "vertebrate", "bicellular", "nonvascular", "triploblastic" ]
D
allenai/sciq_36
Chemical reactions involve a transfer of heat energy. measured in what?
[ "joules", "amperes", "thermals", "amps" ]
A
allenai/sciq_37
Trees and shrubs are example of what type of plant?
[ "annuals", "grasses", "biennial", "perennials" ]
D
allenai/sciq_38
The products of what process are needed for cellular respiration, and vice versa?
[ "digestion", "circulation", "photosynthesis", "spermatogenesis" ]
C
allenai/sciq_39
Most fungi get organic compounds from what?
[ "carnivorous organisms", "living organisms", "dead organisms", "inorganic material" ]
C
allenai/sciq_40
How do very massive stars end their lives?
[ "consumed by black hole", "explode", "become red supergiants", "become super novas" ]
C
allenai/sciq_41
Pairs of nitrogenous bases are attached to each other by?
[ "magnetism", "hydrogen bonds", "potassium bonds", "ionic bonds" ]
B
allenai/sciq_42
Rupture can cause fragments of what to travel via the bloodstream and become lodged in other arteries?
[ "enamel", "plaque", "white blood cells", "red blood cells" ]
B
allenai/sciq_43
The strength of a base depends on the concentration of _______ it produces when dissolved in water?
[ "monoxide ions", "calcium ions", "hydroxide ions", "combustion ions" ]
C
allenai/sciq_44
The overall voltage of the battery is therefore the sum of ________ of the individual cells.
[ "weights", "resistances", "voltages", "currents" ]
C
allenai/sciq_45
Organisms that live deep in the ocean must be able to withstand what?
[ "significant water pressure", "extreme water pressure", "the sun", "tsunamis" ]
B
allenai/sciq_46
Which system are the brain and spinal cord apart of?
[ "central nervous system", "limbic system", "cerebral cortex", "large nervous system" ]
A
allenai/sciq_47
What are biochemical catalysts that speed up biochemical reactions?
[ "metabolites", "enzymes", "polymers", "inhibitor" ]
B
allenai/sciq_48
What process can cause harmful alleles to become fixed?
[ "mutation", "migration", "genetic drift", "natural selection" ]
C
allenai/sciq_49
What record shows that dinosaurs originated 200-250 million years ago?
[ "biological record", "species record", "ancient record", "fossil record" ]
D
allenai/sciq_50
What instrument is used to make very sensitive mass measurements in a laboratory, usually in grams?
[ "scale", "thermometer", "speedometer", "analytical balance" ]
D
allenai/sciq_51
What is the purpose of bright colors on a flower's petals?
[ "to absorb light", "to distract predators", "to attract pollinators", "to attract a mate" ]
C
allenai/sciq_52
Collateral ganglia controls organs in which cavity in the body?
[ "abdominal", "pelvic", "cranial", "cardiac" ]
A
allenai/sciq_53
A bee will sometimes do a dance to tell other bees in the hive where to find what?
[ "food", "water", "enemies", "honey" ]
A
allenai/sciq_54
The lens focuses light on the retina , which covers the back of the inside of the eye. the retina has light-sensing photoreceptor cells called?
[ "holes and cones", "tubes and rods", "rods and cones", "cones and tubes" ]
C
allenai/sciq_55
Temperature, water, soil, and air are examples of nonliving factors of an ecosystem, also termed what?
[ "nucleic factors", "conditional factors", "diverse factors", "abiotic factors" ]
D
allenai/sciq_56
Ibuprofen and albuterol are examples of drugs whose _________ have different effects.
[ "nanoparticles", "analogous", "misnomers", "enantiomers" ]
D
allenai/sciq_57
Although magma once filled our moon's craters, what is thought to have ended there over a billion years ago?
[ "oceanic activity", "deserts activity", "mineral activity", "volcanic activity" ]
D
allenai/sciq_58
Sensory nerves carry nerve impulses from sensory receptors to what system?
[ "IRCULATORY SYSTEM", "ENDOCRINE SYSTEM", "MUSCULAR SYSTEM", "central nervous" ]
D
allenai/sciq_59
Which kind of muscle regulates air flow in lungs?
[ "vascular", "striated", "smooth", "alveoli" ]
C
allenai/sciq_60
What type of bonds are formed by the side-to-side overlap of p orbitals?
[ "sigma bonds", "omega bonds", "theta bonds", "pi bonds" ]
D
allenai/sciq_61
On what day of the cycle does ovulation usually occur?
[ "17th", "7th", "14th", "1st" ]
C
allenai/sciq_62
The majority of animals belong to what category, characterized by the lack of a backbone?
[ "vertebrate", "nematode", "arthropod", "invertebrate" ]
D
allenai/sciq_63
What is another name for the vertebral column?
[ "pillar", "nerve column", "brain stem", "backbone" ]
D
allenai/sciq_64
The temperature at which a substance melts is called its what point?
[ "melting", "freezing", "boiling", "change" ]
A
allenai/sciq_65
Oogenesis, which is gametogenesis in females, begins with what type of ste cells?
[ "secretion", "uterian", "digestive", "ovarian" ]
D
allenai/sciq_66
Humans are among the most versatile of mammals with what type of diet?
[ "vegetarian", "herbivore", "carnivore", "omnivore" ]
D
allenai/sciq_67
Solute potential is also called osmotic potential because solutes affect the direction of what?
[ "osmosis", "electrolysis", "electrolysis", "permeability" ]
A
allenai/sciq_68
Newton’s second law of what is more than a definition; it is a relationship among acceleration, force, and mass?
[ "change", "gravity", "interference", "motion" ]
D
allenai/sciq_69
What is the physical transformation of an insect moving through stages of life?
[ "metamorphosis", "parthenogenesis", "Growth and Development", "Transition" ]
A
allenai/sciq_70
When equal amounts of a strong acid such as hydrochloric acid are mixed with a strong base such as sodium hydroxide, the result is what kind of solution?
[ "a thermodynamic one", "a neutral one", "a lateral one", "a economical one" ]
B
allenai/sciq_71
What are fast moving rivers of air that are going in opposite directions called?
[ "jet streams", "burst streams", "cause streams", "air streams" ]
A
allenai/sciq_72
Nephrons, renal tubules and the loop of henle are part of the process of blood filtration by what organs?
[ "liver", "bladder", "lungs", "kidneys" ]
D
allenai/sciq_73
Fungi, such as black bread mold (rhizopus nigricans), have haploid-dominant what?
[ "gene pools", "life cycles", "mutations", "birth cycles" ]
B
allenai/sciq_74
The electrode at which oxidation occurs is called?
[ "cathode", "diode", "the anode", "calomel" ]
C
allenai/sciq_75
There are about 6200 known species of what?
[ "reptiles", "mammals", "primates", "amphibians" ]
D
allenai/sciq_76
The lens and other parts of the eye work together to focus a real image on what eye structure?
[ "cornea", "iris", "pupil", "retina" ]
D
allenai/sciq_77
What is required to move or change matter from one state to another?
[ "evolution", "food", "energy", "gravity" ]
C
allenai/sciq_78
A food web can be broken up into what further subdivision that usually has a few links in it?
[ "water chain", "oxygen chain", "food pyramid", "food chain" ]
D
allenai/sciq_79
What living species of bird is considered the largest of the raptors?
[ "peregrine falcon", "pteradactyl", "California condor", "golden eagles" ]
D
allenai/sciq_80
What contains positive protons and neutral neutrons?
[ "nucleus", "ions", "electrons", "epidermis" ]
A
allenai/sciq_81
Horny ridges on the jaws serve the same function as what, for turtles?
[ "hairs", "taste buds", "skin", "teeth" ]
D
allenai/sciq_82
Natural gas is the predominately made up of?
[ "sulfur", "hydrogen", "carbon", "methane" ]
D
allenai/sciq_83
Which organs control the amount of water, ions, and other substances in the blood by excreting more or less of them in urine?
[ "tongue", "lungs", "ears", "kidneys" ]
D
allenai/sciq_84
What unit of measurement is defined to be the number of atoms in 12g of carbon-12?
[ "one quark", "one joule", "one ohm", "one mole" ]
D
allenai/sciq_85
What involves sensing and focusing light from people and objects?
[ "echolocation", "projection", "vision", "sensory perception" ]
C
allenai/sciq_86
What is a therian mammal in which the embryo is born at an early, immature stage?
[ "rodent", "carnivore", "bat", "a marsupial" ]
D
allenai/sciq_87
What are fungi which feed on living cells called?
[ "parasitic", "predatory", "symbiotic", "static" ]
A
allenai/sciq_88
What rock group offers the richest source of fossils?
[ "igneous", "geode", "metamorphic", "sedimentary" ]
D
allenai/sciq_89
What is the diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane down its concentration gradient
[ "mirrors", "nutrients", "osmosis", "Permable" ]
C
allenai/sciq_90
Isotopes are named for their number of protons plus what?
[ "isomers", "neutrons", "nuclei", "electrons" ]
B
allenai/sciq_91
Movements in the mantle cause the plates to move over time in a process called what?
[ "boundary drift", "continental expansion", "continental shift", "continental drift" ]
D
allenai/sciq_92
In phyisics, what is considered to be the rotational version of force?
[ "pressure", "energy", "torque", "work" ]
C
allenai/sciq_93
Skeletal muscles are attached to the skeleton by tough connective tissues called what?
[ "fibers", "veins", "cords", "tendons" ]
D
allenai/sciq_94
What is the ability to see called?
[ "thought", "hearing", "smell", "vision" ]
D
allenai/sciq_95
Which two major innovations allowed seed plants to reproduce in the absence of water?
[ "seed and pollen", "root and pollen", "bee and pollen", "salt and pollen" ]
A
allenai/sciq_96
Water can be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen gases by the addition of what?
[ "motion", "demand", "mineral", "energy" ]
D
allenai/sciq_97
What anatomical feature is shared by all chordates?
[ "isochord", "botachord", "laxchord", "notochord" ]
D
allenai/sciq_98
With wavelengths from 400-700 nm, what kind of light represents only a very small portion of the spectrum?
[ "sunlight", "visible light", "ultraviolet light", "invisible light" ]
B
allenai/sciq_99
In humans, the only haploid cells are what reproductive cells?
[ "uteral and sperm", "sperm and egg", "dna and egg", "sperm and dna" ]
B
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