TRIO
The director of Century College TRIO Upward Bound Program.
Who is Mr. Lor?
Listen to this 10-second song, guess both the artist and the song.
Who is Huntrix, and what is "Golden?"
This advisor has a pet cat.
Who is Haylee?
[English]
Read the passage:
Every summer at the Choctaw Indian Fair in central Mississippi, hundreds of men, women, and children gather to take part in the fair's main event: the Choctaw World Series of Stickball. [A] This multiday tournament in summer celebrates the fast-paced, aggressive game of stickball (also called toli or istaboli), possibly the oldest sport in North America. Players come not only for the sport but also for the sense of community that stickball affords.
1.) Which choice is least redundant in context?
A. No Change
B. multiday tournament in Mississippi
C. annual multiday tournament
D. multiday tournament
What is choice D?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What is Como, Harding, Johnson, and North High School?
Listen to this 8-second song, guess both the artist and the song.
Who is Justin Bieber, and what is "Beauty and the Beat?"
This advisor is married.
Who is Leslie?
[English]
Read the sentence:
Instead, the set of mallets are built in, secured to the frame of the instrument and positioned such that each mallet hovers over its corresponding bar.
47.) Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
A. No Change
B. mallet are
C. mallets is
D. mallet is
What is choice C?
What is a beluga whale?
The number of students in Century College TRIO Upward Bound Program.
What is 140?
Listen to this 6-second song, guess both the artist and the song.
Who is Sza, and what is "Snooze?"
This advisor graduated from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse.
Who is Ms. Cynthia?
[Math]
Read the question:
16.) A circle in the standard (x, y) coordinate plane has its center at (3, -4) and passes through (0, 0). Which of the following is an equation for the circle?
F. x2 + y2 = 5
G. (x - 3)2 + (y + 4)2 = 25
H. (x + 3)2 + (y - 4)2 = 7
J. (x + 3)2 + (y - 4)2 = 25
What choice is G?
The ocean covers ____% of the Earth's surface.
What is 71%?
The year that TRIO Upward Bound was created.
What is 1964?
Listen to this 4-second song, guess both the artist and the song.
Who is Taylor Swift, and what is "Red?"
This advisor recently completed her master's degree.
Who is Padra?
[Math]
Read the question:
43.) It took Sam x minutes to bike the d miles from home to work. Returning home on the same route, it took Sam y minutes. On the way home, his average speed was 2 times his average speed on the way to work. Which of the following equations gives y in terms of x?
A. y = x/2
B. y = x - 2
C. y = x + 2
D. y = 2x
What choice is A?
These marine arthropods haven't changed in 450 million years.
What is a horseshoe crab?
The year Century College TRIO Upward Bound Program was established/created.
What is 1989?
Listen to this 2-second song, guess both the artist and the song.
Who is BTS, and what is "2.0?"
These advisors all completed their Bachelor's degrees.
Who are Haylee, Cynthia, Leslie, Padra, and Paw Law?
[Science]
Read the passage:
Star formation begins with the gravitational collapse of matter in an interstellar gas cloud. A protostar (forming star) affects gas in the surrounding portions of the cloud in 2 ways:
• The protostar’s gravitational field attracts gas, causing the gas to accrete (accumulate onto the protostar).
• Radiation pressure (RP) associated with the protostar’s emissions causes gas to be pushed away from the protostar, inhibiting accretion.
Star formation ends when the effect of RP overcomes that of gravity. At that point, the protostar can no longer gain mass by accretion and is considered a fully formed star. Three scientists debate whether the maximum mass that a protostar can reach by accretion is great enough to account for the most massive stars observed.
Scientist 1
The effect of RP is uniform in all directions around a protostar. As a result, the maximum mass that a protostar can reach by accretion is 20 MS (1 MS = mass of the Sun). Any further increase in mass requires at least 1 stellar merger (the combination of 2 or more fully formed stars into 1). Because stars tend to form in clusters, stellar mergers are likely.
Scientist 2
Scientist 1 is correct that stellar mergers are likely. However, because a protostar rotates about its axis, a disk of gas forms in the plane of the protostar’s equator. This reduces the effect of RP in that plane, allowing gas from the disk to readily accrete. As a result, the maximum mass that a protostar can reach by accretion is 40 MS. Any further increase in mass requires at least 1 stellar merger.
Scientist 3
Stellar mergers are very unlikely given the vast distances between stars, even within clusters. Scientist 2 is correct about the formation and the effect of the disk. In addition, a protostar produces bubble-like regions of radiation that increase the effect of RP near the protostar’s poles, promoting the flow of gas into the disk. As a result, accretion continues until the surrounding portions of the cloud are nearly depleted of gas. Therefore, the maximum mass that a protostar can reach by accretion is limited only by the amount of available gas.
7.) Based on Scientist 2's argument, do gas particles more likely accrete near the equator or near the poles of a protostar with a disk?
A. Near the equator, because the effect of RP is increased there.
B. Near the equator, because the effect of RP is reduced there.
C. Near the poles, because the effect of RP is reduced there.
D. Near the poles, because the effect of RP is reduced there.
What is choice B?
This fish was thought to be extinct alongside the dinosaurs 70 million years ago, until it was caught in 1938. This fish has unique traits, such as leg-like fins and a hinged skull.
What is a coelacanth?