BIOLOGY
This invertebrate group has the most complex nervous system out of the following:
1) Crustaceans
2) Cephalopods
3) Scyphozoans
4) Segmented worms
What is 2? (Accept Cephalopods)
Options: Water freezing, Dry ice sublimation, salt dissolving in water, gasoline burning
What is water freezing?
This mineral commonly comprises green sand beaches forming in volcanic areas.
What is olivine?
This individual is generally credited with defining the term horsepower.
Who is Watt? (James Watt more specifically)
This is the amount of unique 5-letter arrangements possible from the letters in the word PAPER.
What is 60?
What is H2O? (Accept: water)
This element is a metalloid out of the following:
1) Copper
2) Magnesium
3) Silicon
4) Sulfur
What is silicon?
This mountain range out of the following, exhibits basin and range topography:
1) Cascade Mountains
2) Rocky Mountains
3) Appalachian Mountains
4) Wasatch Mountains
What are the Wasatch Mountains? What is 4?
This is the immediate use of glucose produced by photosynthesis.
Answer choices: To capture light, To form fats and lipids, To be consumed by heterotrophs, An energy source for cellular respiration
What is an energy source for cellular respiration?
This is equivalent to 25log58.
What is 64?
This group consists only of organisms incapable of photosynthesizing without the aid of symbiotic organisms.
Hint: dinoflagellates, radiolarians, diatoms, bacteria
What are radiolarians?
The energy of a photon is DIRECTLY proporational to this property.
What is frequency?
This Galilean moon experiences the strongest tidal forces.
What is Io?
This is the typical electrical efficiency of a large energy-efficient electric motor.
Hint: 74%, 89%, 94%, or 99%
If f(x) = (x^2 - 9)/(x-3), what is the limit of f(x) as x approaches 3?
What is 6?
This method of fish harvesting is most damaging to benthic habitats.
Hint: The options are purse-seining, long-lining, drift-net fishing, or bottom trawling
What is bottom trawling?
According to the VSEPR model, this is the molecular geometry of carbon dioxide.
What is linear?
This volcano erupted the most sulfuric acid into the atmosphere out of the following:
1) Mount St. Helens
2) Pinatubo
3) Tambora
4) Toba
What is 4? (Accept: Toba)
The half life of radium is 1600 years. This fraction of the original quantity of radium has decayed after 9600 years.
What is 63/64?
This is the length (to the nearest tenth of a centimeter) of an arc of a circle with a radius of 6 centimeters that is intercepted by a central angle that measure 15 degrees.
What is 1.6?
This is the correct order of the following four choices from proximal to distal of the trachea. 1) bronchiole, 2) alveolar, 3) primary bronchus, 4) alveolar duct
What is 3, 1, 4, 2? (ACCEPT: PRIMARY BRONCHUS, BRONCHIOLE, ALVEOLAR DUCT, ALVEOLAR SAC)
This is a conjugate acid-base pair that will NOT function as a buffer:
1) HNO3 and NO3-
2) NH3 and NH4+
3) CH3COOH and CH3COO-
4) HF and F-
What is 1? (Accept: HNO3 and NO3-)
This type of mudflor resulted from glacial melting and caused extensive damage.
What is lahar?
These are two primary products of combustion of methane gas in increasing order of molar amount.
1) Water vapor and carbon dioxide
2) Carbon monoxide and water vapor
3) Carbon dioxide and water vapor
4) Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide
What is 3? (Carbon dioxide and water vapor)
If the position of a moving object in meters is given by s(t) = 4t3 - 6lnt (s of t equals 4 t cubed minus 6 natural log of t), this is its velocity in meters per second at t=3 seconds.
What is 106?