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200
Connecting a magnesium rod to an underground steel pipeline protects the pipeline from corrosion. because magnesium (e° = −2.37 v) is much more easily oxidized than iron (e° = −0.45 v), the mg rod acts as the anode in a what?
[ "galvanic cell", "voltaic cell", "anode cell", "stimulation cell" ]
A
201
Matrix is the term for the fluid-filled interior of what structure, where most of the cell’s atp is made?
[ "Golgi apparatus", "nucleus", "mitochondria", "enzyme" ]
C
202
Chitin, also found in the exoskeleton of insects, gives structural strength to the cell walls of fungi. the cell wall protects the cell from what?
[ "starvation and predators", "entrainment and predators", "fermentation and predators", "desiccation and predators" ]
D
203
What is the term for air moving over earth’s surface?
[ "tidal", "humidity", "spin cycle", "wind" ]
D
204
Each of what paired organs is enclosed within a cavity surrounded by the pleura?
[ "heart", "lungs", "bones", "ovaries" ]
B
205
What are the best-known extinct vertebrates?
[ "dinosaurs", "snakes", "trees", "trilobites" ]
A
206
Centrioles help organize the chromosomes before cell division so that each daughter cell has the correct number of what?
[ "ribosomes", "cells", "chromosomes", "receptors" ]
C
207
What development is less risky for the mother?
[ "marsupial", "gastrointestinal", "atypical", "mutation" ]
A
208
What does the term decay in chemistry refer to with regards to atoms?
[ "pressures in nuclei", "destruction of nuclei", "separation of nuclei", "changes in nuclei" ]
D
209
How does increasing the temperature of reactants affect the rate of their reaction?
[ "it decreases it", "it increases it", "it patterns it", "it is unchanged" ]
B
210
What type of eclipse happens when a full moon moves through earth's shadow?
[ "cycle", "planetary", "solar", "lunar" ]
D
211
Dynamite is an example of what type of potential energy?
[ "carbon", "chemical", "thermal", "mineral" ]
B
212
All the atoms of a given element have the same number what?
[ "protons and electrons", "neutrons and electrons", "neutrons and protons", "cells and electrons" ]
A
213
What structures located on chromosomes control characteristics of life and are passed from parents to offspring?
[ "axons", "cells", "genes", "eggs" ]
C
214
The lattice energy is usually the most important energy factor in determining the stability of what?
[ "ionic compound", "harmonic compound", "saline compound", "magnetic compound" ]
A
215
What kind of organisms helps hold soil in place to slow erosion?
[ "plants", "flowers", "animals", "bacteria" ]
A
216
Water found on the surface of the earth is referred to as what?
[ "runoff", "reservoir water", "surface water", "groundwater" ]
C
217
Which planet is named after the roman goddess of love?
[ "Mercury", "venus", "Jupiter", "Neptune" ]
B
218
In astronomy, what are so dense that not even light can escape their gravity?
[ "dwarf stars", "red holes", "black holes", "black rods" ]
C
219
What are the simplest organic compounds?
[ "proteins", "carbohydrates", "hydrocarbons", "enzymes" ]
C
220
Animals are classified according to morphological and developmental characteristics, such as a body plan. with the exception of sponges, the animal body plan is symmetrical. this means that their distribution of body parts is balanced along this?
[ "axis", "radius", "skull", "ulna" ]
A
221
Competition that occurs between members of the same species, which improves the species’ adaptations, is called what?
[ "commensalism", "intraspecific competition", "interspecies competition", "adaptive behavior" ]
B
222
When we were dealing with electrical effects, it was very useful to speak of an electric field that surrounded what?
[ "electrical charge", "liquid charge", "sunlight charge", "stellar charge" ]
A
223
Plants require air, water, nutrients, and what in order to live and survive?
[ "light", "entertainment", "gravity", "money" ]
A
224
Exothermic reactions, like all chemical reactions, require what to get started?
[ "specific energy", "activation energy", "surface energy", "membrane energy" ]
B
225
What broad group of animals are the first true tetrapods, vertebrates with four limbs?
[ "fish", "mammals", "amphibians", "reptiles" ]
C
226
In most fungi, the haploid nuclei contributed by each parent do not do what right away?
[ "filter", "vaporize", "disperse", "fuse" ]
D
227
What is telomere shortening associated with?
[ "reducing", "aging", "sleeping", "changing" ]
B
228
What gas is released when dead organisms and other organic materials decompose?
[ "carbon monoxide", "hydrogen peroxide", "nitrous oxide", "carbon dioxide" ]
D
229
What type of lens is thicker at the edges than it is in the middle?
[ "surface lens", "convex lens", "glass lens", "concave lens" ]
D
230
A collapsing nebula leads to what process?
[ "nuclear fusion", "destructive fusion", "chemical reaction", "nuclear reaction" ]
A
231
Lenses that focus light are called what?
[ "active lenses", "powering lenses", "sensing lenses", "converging lenses" ]
D
232
What happens to the pressure when more gas is added to a rigid container?
[ "increases", "occurs", "Higher", "changes" ]
A
233
Often represented by an arrow, a vector is a measurement that has both size and what?
[ "pressure", "direction", "reason", "location" ]
B
234
A solenoid wrapped around a bar of iron or other ferromagnetic material forms what?
[ "impoundment", "compass", "electromagnet", "compress" ]
C
235
Enzymes can catalyze up to several million reactions per what?
[ "minute", "second", "hour", "day" ]
B
236
Unipolar, bipolar, multipolar, and pseudounipolar are the four basic types of what?
[ "protons", "electrons", "neurons", "ions" ]
C
237
How many families are known quarks divided into?
[ "three", "five", "four", "two" ]
A
238
The nervous system has two main parts, called the central nervous system and the what?
[ "peripheral nervous system", "functional nervious system", "useful nervous system", "obsolete nervous system" ]
A
239
What makes up the dense outer layer of bones?
[ "ligaments", "plasma", "compact bone", "adipose tissue" ]
C
240
What type of behaviors are rigid and predictable, and usually involve basic life functions?
[ "protective behaviors", "diverse behaviors", "impulsive behaviors", "innate behaviors" ]
D
241
Yeasts, molds, and mushrooms are all different kinds of what?
[ "pollen", "fungi", "fossil", "bacteria" ]
B
242
What is the term for the preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived in the past?
[ "detritis", "fossils", "bones", "corals" ]
B
243
What process, which is analogous to mitosis, is a series of events that arrange and separate chromosomes and chromatids into daughter cells?
[ "meiosis", "inhibition", "apoptosis", "digestion" ]
A
244
All of the elements in group 9 have nine of which electrons?
[ "valence", "gradient", "ionic", "shell" ]
A
245
The force of attraction between a positively charged metal ion and the valence electrons it shares with other ions of the metal is called?
[ "metallic bond", "ionic bond", "metallic yield", "temporal bond" ]
A
246
When a car is brought to a stop by friction on level ground, it loses what?
[ "exhibit energy", "residual energy", "mass energy", "kinetic energy" ]
D
247
What system of the body is responsible for transmitting, processing, and responding to most of the sensory information that is created by various stimuli?
[ "respiratory system", "circulatory system", "attentive system", "nervous system" ]
D
248
Do vascular or nonvascular plants lack tracheids?
[ "nonvascular", "both do", "vascular", "neither do" ]
A
249
When the earth is between the moon and the sun, what type of moon shows?
[ "waning moon", "half moon", "crescent moon", "a full moon" ]
D
250
The stored chemical energy of trees and other plants is called what?
[ "biomass energy", "byproduct energy", "biocomposte energy", "decomposition energy" ]
A
251
What is the star nearest the earth named?
[ "apollinaris centauri", "alpha centauri", "andromeda centauri", "proxima centauri" ]
D
252
What are the majority of solution properties dependent upon?
[ "gas state of solute", "chemical state of solute", "similar state of solute", "acid state of solute" ]
B
253
What must be combined with a halogen to give it a positive oxidation number?
[ "carbon", "nitrogen", "oxygen", "calcium" ]
C
254
Hormones are often regulated through what?
[ "alternating loops", "feedback loops", "response loops", "intensity loops" ]
B
255
Surging hormones will cause adolescents to have what?
[ "bulging muscles", "mood swings", "growth spurts", "blackouts" ]
B
256
What is the term for the force that a magnet exerts on certain materials?
[ "magnetic force", "potential force", "positive force", "gravitational force" ]
A
257
What cells does the skeletal system make?
[ "brain cells", "Dendritic cells", "blood cells", "Osteoclast" ]
C
258
When a stream or river slows down, it starts dropping its what?
[ "sediments", "fragments", "organisms", "pollutants" ]
A
259
What process, which is in many ways the opposite of photosynthesis, shows the interdependence of producers and consumers?
[ "cellular respiration", "decomposition", "osmosis", "primarily respiration" ]
A
260
Which membranous organelles in a cell sequence enzyme and electron molecules for efficient cellular respiration?
[ "bacterial", "protons", "mitochondria", "glucose" ]
C
261
In a plant, the flower contains what?
[ "bees and blossoms", "bud and stem", "pollen and eggs", "seed and leaves" ]
C
262
What forms when one substances dissolves in another?
[ "concentrate", "a transition", "a solution", "complex" ]
C
263
What are thought to have evolved at least 200 million years ago from gymnosperms like gnetae?
[ "cone-bearing plants", "yeasts", "deciduous trees", "flowering plants" ]
D
264
The chemical and/or physical agents that cause mutations are called what?
[ "organelles", "dioxins", "mutagens", "genes" ]
C
265
What is the force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are touching?
[ "vibration", "friction", "tension", "gravity" ]
B
266
Skeletal, cardiac, and smooth are all types of what?
[ "Nervous", "Connective", "muscle", "Epithelial" ]
C
267
The speed of a wave through connected harmonic oscillators depends on the distance between them, the spring constant, and the what?
[ "temperature", "mass", "concentrations", "density" ]
B
268
Traits may also be controlled by multiple alleles or multiple what?
[ "chromosomes", "lesions", "genes", "eggs" ]
C
269
How many atoms does water contain?
[ "6", "9", "4", "3" ]
D
270
What is the only light that people can see?
[ "visible light", "infrared light", "spectrum light", "UV light" ]
A
271
What is the name of the system that consists of a hierarchy of taxa, from the kingdom to the species?
[ "Bohr's law", "Mendelian system", "linnaean system", "zoology" ]
C
272
If the dna from all 46 chromosomes in a human cell nucleus was laid out end to end, it would measure approximately how long?
[ "four meters", "two meters", "three meters", "one meter" ]
B
273
What is a mixture of a solute in a solvent called?
[ "transition", "link", "structure", "solution" ]
D
274
Silver is an example of a mineral containing only one kind of what?
[ "mass", "chemical", "matter", "element" ]
D
275
What particles ancient greeks propose that matter consists of ?
[ "molecules", "ether", "atoms", "ions" ]
C
276
Repolarization occurs when the membrane potential begins to move back toward its resting what?
[ "tension", "charge", "voltage", "resistance" ]
C
277
Mollusks have a true coelom and a complete what?
[ "tissues system", "skeletal system", "nerve system", "digestive system" ]
D
278
Which organelles, made of protein and ribosomal rna, build cellular proteins in the cytoplasm?
[ "chromosomes", "chloroplasts", "dna", "ribosomes" ]
D
279
What type of matter makes up most of the universe?
[ "liquid", "gas", "plasma", "carbon" ]
C
280
Most mammals are viviparous, which refers to what reproductive result?
[ "laying eggs", "live birth", "spawning", "identical twins" ]
B
281
Proteins are polymers of what kind of acids?
[ "lactic", "acetic", "lipids", "amino" ]
D
282
What is the official name for the study of life?
[ "botany", "geology", "chemistry", "biology" ]
D
283
What does an invertebrate, like a snail, not have?
[ "a heart", "eyes", "reproductive organs", "backbone" ]
D
284
What is the dinosaur genus that's closest to modern birds?
[ "diplodocus", "sauropods", "Rapter", "deinonychus" ]
D
285
In what type of organisms are daughter cells individuals?
[ "multicellular organisms", "hematopoietic organisms", "unicellular organisms", "macroscopic organisms" ]
C
286
What group was long considered part of the plant kingdom because of obvious similarities; both are immobile, have cell walls, and grow in soil?
[ "fungi", "bacteria", "mosses", "coral" ]
A
287
What type of waves transmit the energy of an earthquake?
[ "tectonic waves", "sonic waves", "volcanic waves", "seismic waves" ]
D
288
In our bodies, the chest cavity is a clear example of a system at what?
[ "scale", "default", "rest", "resonance" ]
D
289
How do prokaryotic cells divide?
[ "Fusion", "binary fission", "function fission", "multiple fission" ]
B
290
What is the term for a series of biochemical reactions by which an organism converts a given reactant to a specific end product?
[ "internal pathway", "metabolic pathway", "direct pathway", "hydrogen pathway" ]
B
291
Exemplified by sea stars and sand dollars, echinoderms have a calcareous structure developed by pigment cells and made of ossicles, which is called what?
[ "thorax", "hydrostatic skeleton", "endoskeleton", "exoskeleton" ]
C
292
What phase does the nuclear envelope begin to break down?
[ "interphase", "pasiphaë i", "nitrogenase i", "prophase i" ]
D
293
What are formed when cells from the male and female parts of the plant combine?
[ "trees", "varieties", "atoms.", "seeds" ]
D
294
What is another name for anther pollen sacs?
[ "microsporangia", "Gametangia", "Megasporangia", "ganglia" ]
A
295
What is released to lubricate the vagina to facilitate intercourse?
[ "blood", "vaginal secretions", "semen", "urine" ]
B
296
Cnidarians are an example of organisms that possess a simple type of what system, used for sensing touch?
[ "lymphatic system", "circulatory system", "bacterial system", "nervous system" ]
D
297
What can we learn about a wave by finding the product of the wavelength and frequency?
[ "type", "decibels", "speed", "volume" ]
C
298
Where are liverworts most often found?
[ "along stream beds", "in the ocean", "on mountains", "in deserts" ]
A
299
What does a continuous string of earthquakes indicate about a volcano?
[ "it is cooling down", "extinction is close", "eruption is close", "it is heating up" ]
C