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Which characteristic is present in most crustaceans.

exoskeleton

The graph shows changes overtime in a population of bacteria added to a test tube of growth medium. What activity characterizes the growth cycle during phase 2?

Bacteria are increasing in a metabolic activity, though not dividing.

What is the major force that changes peat to coal?

pressure

The graph shows changes overtime in a population of bacteria added to a test tube of growth medium. What activity characterizes the growth cycle during phase 2?

Bacteria are increasing in metabolic activity, though not dividing.

Where are the reproductive organs located in angiosperms?

flowers

CARBON-14 is an example of an?

isotope

Which occupation would most likely involved in genome mapping?

Geneticist

Which of the following blood components is responsible for forming a clot at a wound site?

platelets

What is a measuring unit for the pressure of a liquid?

Pounds per square inch (PSI)

Which of the following terms is used to describe an organisms tendency to maintain its idea internal state relative to properties such as a temperature and a pH?

Homeostasis

Which of the following processes occurs when a substance changes phase from solid directly to vapor?

Sublimation

Which of the following is the PH of a neutral solution?

7

What term refers to the force of attraction between two objects?

Friction

The science of classification is called?

taxonomy

At an airport, 25% of the flights arrive from within the state, 35% from out of state, and the rest from other countries. How many flights arrived from out of state, if a total of 240 flights arrived.

84

A friend gives a neighbor 13 2/3 of twine from a brand new spool, leaving 38 2/5 feet of twine on the spool how many feet of twine were originally on the spool?

52 1/15

If an employee invest 5% of his pretax salary into a retirement plan, the company will match 25% of that amount how much will the company contribute to the plan if the employee earns $50,000 before taxes?

$625

Two tanks are each partially filled with 96 gallons of water, as shown in the illustration. Tank a is 4/5 full and tank B is 2/3 full. What is the maximum amount of water that can be held in both tanks together?

192 gallons

Sherwin has a small rectangular garden plot that has a 24 foot perimeter. The width width of the garden is exactly 1/2 of its length. What is the area of Sherlyn's garden in square feet?

32

A photograph was reduced to width of 15.6 cm using a scale factor of 3:2. What was the width of the original photograph?

23.4 cm

The music concert is three hours long. During the concert there is 127 minute intermission. Approximately what percentage of the concert is the intermission.

12%

I sweater design cost for the following balls of yarn: 10 white, 3 green, and 2 yellow. What percentage of the yarn is green?

5%

A poster is 18 inches high and 24 inches long. It was made by enlarging a photograph that was 3 inches high. If the photograph was proportionally enlarged, how long was the original photograph?

6 inches

A square room has a 12 foot long wall. What is the full area?

144 sq.ft

Two brothers plan to mow lawn together. If one brother can mow six lines in one hour, and the other brother can mow 12 lines in one hour and 30 minutes, how many lines can they mow altogether in two hours?

18

A clerk processes, 62 invoices in four hours. How many invoices can the clerk process by working at this rate for 40 hours per week for six weeks?

2,480

A person wants to install an inground swimming pool that will be 25 feet long, 18 feet wide, and 4 feet deep. What volume of dirt will need to be excavated for this pool?

450 cu.ft

The life of watch battery is typically three years. If a watches battery is 18 months old, what portion of it remains

1/6

If you have $6000 in the bank and you earn 3% interest in a year, how much interest will you earn in one year?

$180

The newspapers carried out and UNRELENTING campaign.

Persistent

CONFIDANTE most nearly means

close friend

ADORN most nearly means

decorate

SPITE most nearly means?

malice

The argument was not only wrong, it was INCOHERENT .

disjointed

REMNANT most nearly means?

part left over

ABODE most nearly means

Dispute

ALLEVIATE most nearly means

Lessen

It will just be enough to PIQUE our interest

Arouse

The featured automobile is an intentional QUIRK of an automotive design

Advantage

It was another MUNDANE day at work

Dull

DEVIATION most nearly means

Dividing line

EMBARK most nearly means

Welcome

EXHILARATE

undergo

PROSPERITY most nearly means

Richness

One of a group of talented, and sometimes ruthless, entrepreneurs, Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant, worked his way up from modest beginnings to become one of the richest people in 19th century America. In 1873 he organized his own steel company in Pittsburg, and it soon dominated the industry. In 1901 he sold his holdings in the company for $480 million to banker J. P. Morgan. Carnegie believed that the wealthy are merely trustees of their money and are obligated to use their resources for the benefit of society. Convinced that the best way to improve the lives of others was to provide them with access to knowledge, Carnegie funded thousands of public libraries. By the time of his death in 1919, he had given away most of his fortune to support a variety of philanthropic causes.

Which of the following phrases best characterizes the tone of this passage?

cynical about Carnegie's motives in trying to help society

In response to concerns at many universities that professors spend too much time publishing and not enough time educating their students, some schools are establishing rules that set strict limits on the amount of material that a full-time professor may publish over a certain time period. This policy will come back to haunt these schools, because a professor's prestige within the larger academic community is often directly related to the significance of a professor's published work. As a result, many excellent, prospective candidates will opt not to accept full-time positions, which in turn may lead to a shortage of high-quality, full-time professors at those universities.

Restrictions on publishing by professors will likely have a negative effect on universities

In 1885, Saint Paul, Minnesota, was one of the fastest growing urban centers in the United States and had become the nation's third largest city. Despite its popularity, a news reporter from New York called Saint Paul "another Siberia, unfit for human habitation in the winter." Determined to counter this impression of their city, community leaders created a winter festival to celebrate winter and show that its residents didn't hibernate during the cold winter months. The following year, the inaugural Saint Paul Winter Carnival included parades, skiing, a giant snow slide, snow and ice sculptures, and the main attraction of the event--an ice castle. Since that first year, there hasn't always been an ice castle because of the cost. But in 2004, an ice castle was built that covered five acres and reached eight stories high. The locals like to think of the carnival as "The Coolest Celebration on Earth."on The passage imp

was created to influence public opinion.

The trickster is a character in many folk tales who is considered clever, lascivious, gluttonous, vain, and deceptive. Most trickster tales are humorous, although some are not. Often, tricksters are underdogs who make up in brains what they lack in brawn. Usually any good that results from a trickster's actions is inadvertent.

According to the paragraph, the trickster is always

Cunning

After hearing reports on the dangers of mercury vapor from silver fillings, many people have decided to have these fillings replaced with a nonmetal material. While researchers note that mercury levels are slightly higher in people with silver fillings than in people without silver fillings, it would take at least 100 fillings to reach an unsafe level of mercury.

The passage implies that people with normal numbers of silver fillings

are not at risk from mercury vapor.

International Falls, Minnesota, a city on the U.S. and Canadian border, earned the legal right to call itself the "Icebox of the Nation" after battling the ski town of Fraser, Colorado, for the title. After learning that Fraser had been using the slogan, which their own town had claimed since 1948, International Falls officials headed for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and successfully obtained a registration certificate. The legal victory is about more than simple bragging rights. International Falls uses the icebox moniker to market itself as the country's best location for cold-weather testing projects.

Question 6 of 10

The passage implies that the "Icebox of the Nation" slogan

brings both dollars and recognition to International Falls.

The American newspaper columnist Art Buchwald wrote humor columns--first for the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune in the 1950s and later for the Washington Post. Rather than the stinging wit of some of his contemporaries, Buchwald's style was kindly. Every once in a while, however, his patience with a politician, institution, or policy would wear thin, and his readers would see another, less avuncular side. Art Buchwald's newspaper column was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1982. Over the course of his career he would write newspaper columns and publish humorous books for half a century.

One can infer from the passage that Art Buchwald's writing, when he nearly lost his patience, was

Biting

The accumulation of tiny genetic changes could account for the vast differences between humans and chimpanzees, researchers recently reported. They found that less than 1.5 percent of the DNA found on chromosome 22 in humans differs from the DNA on the equivalent chromosome in chimps. But these small variations are far from the whole story. Eight-three percent of chimpanzee chromosome 22 proteins are different from their human counterparts. This means that only 17 percent of the chromosome 22 genes are identical, indicating that the evolutionary gulf between humans and chimps is much wider than the 98.5 percent match their DNA might appear to indicate.

According to the paragraph, human beings

have 17 of the same genes as chimps, but 83 different ones.

Before calling a technician this time, only to learn the culprit was a hairball in a sink drain, I decided to troubleshoot the plumbing problem myself. I consulted resources and learned that my home's drain, waste, and vent system took advantage of gravity and was designed so that water into my home's drains flowed downhill from start to finish. The waste water from each sink, toilet, shower, tub, and appliance collected into ever larger pipes, finally merging into the main sewer line from my home to the city sewer.

Based on my research, the fact that I had two sinks, a tub, and the toilets all backing up indicated that the solution was beyond a few simple doses of chemical drain cleaner this time. Instead, it was more likely that there was a clog in the main sewer drain from my home, meaning tree roots, a damaged pipe, or a major-clog was responsible.

According to the passage, which of the following is true about th

They involved interruptions to the flow of gravity-driven water.

In order for a human to hear a sound, many things have to happen. The first is that sound waves must travel through matter, such as air, to the outer ear.

Once they reach the outer ear, the sound waves travel through the ear canal and hit the eardrum, causing it to vibrate. This also causes vibration in the ossicles in the middle ear. These three bones, the smallest in the human body, are called the malleus (or hammer), the incus (or anvil), and the stapes (or stirrup). Their vibration amplifies the force of the sound waves and passes the sound information to the inner ear. The fluid in the inner ear, along with thousands of tiny hairs cells of the organ of Corti, then transmits nerve impulses through the cochlear nerve to the brain. It is here that the nerve impulses are interpreted as sound.

According to the passage, in what part of the body is the force of sound waves amplified?

Inner ear

Which of the values of z would NOT satisfy 3 - z > 7?

-3

Factor: (x2 - 11x + 24)

(x-8)(x-3)

The factors of x2 - 8xy + 15y are

(x - 5y) (х - 3У)

What is the reciprocal of 15 2/3

15 3/2

1/2+ 1/3+ 1/4

13/12

What is the value of x 2/5 x-17=15

80

Simplify: 3x^2- 2x(3x - 4)

3x2 - 6x + 8

Which of the following numbers is NOT prime?

Question

39

What is the volume of a cube with edge lengths of 7 cm?

343 cm^3

If a right triangle has one side that measures 12 cm and one side that measures 5 cm, what is the measure of the hypotenuse?

17 cm

|13-15|=

2

Factor: 3xy^2 + 15x^4y^3 - 10x^2y

ху(3у + 15x^3y^2 - 10x)

Solve for x: x^2- x - 6 = 0

-1 or 6

What is the value of 3x2 - 2y, when x = 2 and y = -1?

10

If -2(2x - 11) = 3(x - 9), then x =

2

A switch starts or stops the flow of electric current in a circuit by means of its

contacts

A computer's microprocessor is actually

A serial port

Which part of a television is the output device?

Screen

In the circuit shown in the illustration, the battery illuminates a lamp and sounds a horn. Opening switch 2 will

silence the horn and leave the lamp on.

When an outlet is grounded, it is connected to

A red wire

Which of the following describes an object with low electrical resistance?

Conductor

Which of the following components is found in a simple electromagnet?

transistor array

A "short circuit" is a circuit

that can fit on a small printed circuit board so it can occupy a confined space.

When an outlet draws more amps than it is rated to handle,

the breaker for the circuit trips.

A circuit breaker is a type of electrical

Switch.

Which of these would store the most information in a computer?

5 Gb

Traces on a computer motherboard carry

Light waves

The capacity of a household electric circuit is commonly measured in units that describe its ability to deliver

Current

If an extension cord has a smaller gauge than is required by the appliance, it

May heat up and cause a fire

Soldered connections provide a

physical bond and conduction of electricity.

The function of brake fluid in an automobile is to

Lubricate the brakes

Identify the camshaft in the picture.

C

Identify the combustion chamber in the picture.

B

What has replaced carburetion on all passenger cars and light trucks?

fuel pump

One of the functions of piston rings is to

seal the combustion chamber at the piston.

What is the name of the component shown in the illustration?

Shock absorber

An intake manifold is used to

filter gasoline during fill-ups.

What is the twisting force on a shaft called?

Compression

Multiple gears in a transmission are necessary to allow for

the engine to run at a quieter noise level.

Body roll can be prevented by which of the following components?

stabilizer or sway bar

What is the name of the tool shown in the illustration?

Jointer

The hold on a drill bit is tightened by turning a

chuck key

This device is used for

Threading cable through conduit

This tool is used to

Drill holes

Which tool shown in the illustration is a wood chisel?

C

Which of the following saws would most efficiently cut a 2" × 4" × 10' board to length?

Saber