WorksheetsQuizz 3/27
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 40mins
Multiple Choice Which of the following species does NOT have at least two equally favorable resonance structures
C6H6
NO2-
CO2
SO2
EARTH AND SPACE Short Answer What is the Hubble classification for disk galaxies with very little gas and poorly defined spiral arms
(a)
BIOLOGY Short Answer Which fatty structure in the forehead of a toothed whale appears to focus and direct outgoing sound waves
(a)
BIOLOGY Short Answer Name all of the following 4 cells that are leukocytes: neutrophil; basophil; melanocyte; macrophage
(a)
BIOLOGY Multiple Choice Following a stroke that affects the left cerebral hemisphere in an elderly female patient, the patient has halting speech, poor articulation and loss of the ability to write. The patient can still read and understand speech. A PET scan would reveal damage to which of the following parts of the brain?
Wernicke’s area
Amygdala [uh-MIG-duh-luh]
Broca’s area
Thalamus [THAL-uh-muhs]
PHYSICS Multiple Choice When a clay pigeon breaks into pieces after being shot, which of the following can be said about the shape of the trajectories of these pieces of clay?
They are always elliptical
They are always parabolic
They are always hyperbolic
They may be any of elliptical, parabolic, or hyperbolic depending on the speed of the components
CHEMISTRY Multiple Choice Which of the following substances would you expect to have the highest molar entropy at standard conditions?
Argon gas
Butane gas
Sulfur dioxide gas
Gaseous water
MATH Short Answer A regular decagon with a perimeter of 40 units has an area of 40k square units. Find its apothem.
(a)
EARTH AND SPACE Multiple Choice Which of the following contains most of the angular momentum about the Sun in the solar system?
Jupiter
The Kuiper belt
The Sun
Neptune
EARTH AND SPACE Short Answer What is the name of the classification system used to rate a hurricane's intensity
(a)
BIOLOGY Short Answer Identify all of the following four digestive enzymes that are produced by the human pancreas: 1) carboxypeptidase [kahr-bok-see-PEP-ti-days], 2) lactase, 3) chymotrypsin [ky-moh-TRIP-sin], 4) amylase [AM-uh-lays].
(a)
CHEMISTRY Short Answer A mass of hot copper with a heat capacity of 2.0 joules per Kelvin is dropped into the same volume of water and loses 80 joules of thermal energy. The final temperature of the copper is 295 Kelvin. What was its initial temperature in Kelvin?
(a)
PHYSICS Short Answer Three 300-microfarads capacitors are connected in series to a 12 volt battery. What is the energy stored in one of these capacitors in microjoules after the circuit has reached steady state?
(a)
ENERGY Multiple Choice As more zero variable cost generators are added to an electric power market, how would you expect the average cost of power in the entire market to change?
It would increase
It would decrease
There would be no change
It would fluctuate
CHEMISTRY Multiple Choice Free radical polymerization can be initiated in several different ways. Peroxides and azo compounds frequently act as which of the following types of initiator?
Thermal
Photochemical
Ionizing
Redox
CHEMISTRY Short Answer A buffer solution is 0.05 molar in lactic acid and 0.5 molar in sodium lactate. If the pKa of lactic acid is 3.85, what is the pH of this solution?
(a)
MATH Multiple Choice Which of the following represents the solution in degrees of the equation 4sin^2(x) = 1 in the open interval from 0° to 180°? W)
30
30, 60
30, 150
60, 120
EARTH AND SPACE Short Answer What is the polymorph of graphite that is formed in Earth’s mantle
(a)
BIOLOGY Short Answer What phylum within the animal kingdom is characterized by having no symmetry and no true tissues
(a)
BIOLOGY Short Answer What is the name of the gland in insects that produces juvenile hormone?
(a)
PHYSICS Multiple Choice A mass is suspended from the ceiling by two ropes. Rope 1 makes a larger angle with the horizontal than Rope 2 does. Which of the following statements is true about the tension in the ropes?
The tensions in the ropes are equal
The tension in Rope 1 is greater than the tension in Rope 2
The tension in Rope 2 is greater than the tension in Rope 1
The tension in Rope 2 is zero
PHYSICS Short Answer A 5 microcoulomb charge is uniformly distributed in a 1-meter diameter sphere. Given that the coulomb constant is 9 x 10^9 newton meters squared per coulomb squared, what is the electric field in newtons per coulomb at a radius of 0.25 from the center of the sphere?
(a)
ENERGY Multiple Choice Assuming similar wind velocity and turbine swept area, of the following places, where would you anticipate the largest power output from a wind turbine?
Denver
Nebraska
Rhode Island
West Texas
BIOLOGY Short Answer What is the term for the unique, chitinous [KY-tin-ous], tooth-like, feeding structure found in many mollusks
(a)
BIOLOGY Short Answer Identify all of the following four parts of the human body in which you would find simple cuboidal epithelium [KYOO-boid-uhl ep-uh-THEE-lee-uhm]: 1) thyroid gland, 2) bronchioles [BRONG-kee-ohls], 3) kidney, 4) lining of arteries.
(a)
CHEMISTRY Multiple Choice Which of the following compounds is insoluble in water?
Potassium acetate
Aluminum sulfide
Lithium carbonate
Magnesium bromide
EARTH AND SPACE Short Answer Patterns of paleomagnetism along seafloor spreading centers support plate tectonic theory and are based on what process that occurs, on average, every 200,000 to 250,000 years?
(a)
EARTH AND SPACE Multiple Choice Which of the following best approximates the percentage of solar-type binary stellar systems?
0.1%
1%
10%
50%
BIOLOGY Multiple Choice Which of the following animals uses a vomeronasal organ?
Crocodile
Garter snake
Toad
House fly
BIOLOGY Short Answer Name all of the following four amino acids that would have a net positive charge in Tris glycine buffer at pH 8.6: 1) glycine [GLY-seen], 2) alanine [AL-uh-nin], 3) lysine [LY-seen], 4) arginine [AHR-juh-neen].
(a)
Earth and Space Multiple Choice \n As the Atlantic Ocean began to open, around 200 million years ago, which of the following regions was most, directly adjacent to the crust, that now underlies the eastern margin of the United States? \n
The British Isles
The southwest margin of Scandinavia
The northwest margin of Africa
The Walvis Ridge
Chemistry Multiple Choice \n Which of the following elements is most electronegative, according to the Pauling scale?
Carbon
Iron
Arsenic
Tellurium
Energy Short Answer \n A team of Berkeley Lab researchers recently published a study, using a thin monolayer of, an sp2-hybridized material to image electric fields. What is the common name of the material they used?
(a)
Biology Short Answer \n Identify all of the following three molecules, that should be able to pass through a nuclear pore, in a eukaryotic cell: 1) mRNA; 2) Glucose-1-phosphate; 3) Histone.
(a)
Earth and Space Multiple Choice \n Which of the Milankovitch cycles, account for climate changes over a 41,000 year period? \n
Eccentricity
Obliquity
Procession of the equinox
Apsidal precession
Energy Short Answer \n William Robert Grove proposed the idea, that if water can be broken down to hydrogen and oxygen with electricity, the opposite reaction should produce electricity. What device did he then go on to invent based on this idea?
(a)
Energy Short Answer \n The Planck and BICEP2 experiments, partially supported by the Department of Energy, were constructed to attempt to confirm what event in the early history of the universe?
(a)
Chemistry Short Answer \n Identify all of the following three statements that are true, of concentration cells: \n 1) They have standard cell potentials equal to zero; \n 2) The spontaneous reaction is always from the less-concentrated solution to the more-concentrated solution; \n 3) Concentration cells can always proceed spontaneously.
(a)
Physics Short Answer \n A 2-kilogram ball, is thrown directly down, from the top of a tall building. If a 6-kilogram ball, is thrown directly upwards, at the same speed from the top of the same building, what is the ratio of the total energy of the 6-kilogram ball to that of the 2-kilogram ball?
(a)
Earth and Space Multiple Choice \n In which of the following locations in the Atlantic Ocean, would you find a deep water formation site?
Off the southern coast of Greenland
In the Caribbean Sea
Off the coast of New York
Along the coast of Argentina
BIOLOGY Short Answer What cell in the peripheral blood is the immediate precursor of the macrophage?
(a)
BIOLOGY Short Answer Name all of the following 4 cells that are leukocytes: neutrophil; basophil; melanocyte; macrophage
(a)
PHYSICS Short Answer As opposed to spontaneous emission, what is the type of emission, first theorized by Albert Einstein, where a photon interacts with an atom’s electron which, when it returns to a ground state, emits a coherent photon?
(a)
EARTH SCIENCE Multiple Choice Which of the following is NOT true of an El Nino:
when an El Nino is present, fish are less abundant off the west coast of South America
El Ninos typically come along every 4 to 5 years
during a peak El Nino, strong high pressure will be present in the eastern Pacific with lower pressure to the west
El Nino affects global weather patterns
ASTRONOMY Multiple Choice The BEST explanation of why population I (read as: one) stars have a higher proportion of elements heavier than helium than population II ( read as: two) stars, is because Population I stars are:
younger than population II stars
older than population II stars
usually closer to planetary nebula than population II stars
often found near H-I (read as: H, one) regions
PHYSICS Short Answer Rounded to the nearest hundred joules, how much work is done inpulling a sled across a pond for 3 meters with 100 newtons of force, with a rope that makes a 45 angle with the pond?
(a)
ASTRONOMY Multiple Choice Which of the following is closest to the range for the Balmer series
microwave
infrared through UV
UV to soft x-ray
visible light to UV
ASTRONOMY Short Answer Choosing from upper right, lower right, lower left, and upper left, in what area of the Hertzsprung Russell diagram will the Sun end its life?
(a)
BIOLOGY Multiple Choice Which of the following is NOT true of the most common form of DNA:
it is a right-handed helix
it has 3.4 nanometers between each successive nucleotide base of the same strand
the strands are considered anti-parallel
each strand has a 3-prime phosphate and a 5-prime hydroxyl at opposite ends
MATH Short Answer An object is launched straight up from the ground with an initial velocityof 176 feet per second. What is the height of the object above the ground, in feet, 2 seconds into theflight
(a)
