Science Bowl

C (KILOGRAM-METER PER SECOND SQUARED)

A Newton is equal to which of the following? A. kilogram-meter per second B. meter per second squared C. kilogram-meter per second squared D. kilogram per meter-second

ANSWER: B - VISCOSITY

A Poise is the unit of measure of which of the following? A. pressure B. viscosity C. force D. mass

ANSWER: 1.8 METERS

A ball leaves a girl's hand with an upward velocity of 6 meters per second. What is the maximum height of the ball above the girl's hand?

ANSWER: 10 MILES

A biker goes EAST for 4 miles, NORTH for 12, EAST for another 4 and SOUTH for 6. What is the magnitude of the displacement?

ANSWER: 1) SEPARATION OF THE TWO STAR 2) THE STARS' PERIOD OF REVOLUTION

A binary star system lends itself very well to a determination of the total mass of the binary star system. What TWO observables must be measured to make the total mass determination.

Answer: 200 Milliliters

A patient in the Emergency Room required 20 grams of a clotbusting drug based on his body weight of 150 pounds. The weight per volume (w/v) of the drug solution is 10%. How many milliliters of the drug solution should be administered?

ANSWER: B -- THE RAILROAD CAR IS ACCELERATING TO THE LEFT.

A pendulum which is suspended from the ceiling of a railroad car is observed to hang at an angle of 10 degrees to the right of vertical. Which of the following answers could explain this phenomena? A. The railroad car is at rest. B. The railroad car is accelerating to the left. C. The railroad car is moving with constant velocity to the right. D. The railroad car is accelerating to the right.

Answer: A

A person with lung cancer is given an MRI. Four radiologists examine each MRI independently. If each specialist can detect lung cancer with 80% accuracy, what is the probability that at least one of them will detect cancer in this patient: A. 0.998 B. 0.01 C. 0.25 D. 0.8

ANSWER: 4/3 FARADS

A two farad and a four farad capacitor are connected in series. What single capacitance is "equivalent" to this combination?

ANSWER: C -- 200 BILLION

A typical galaxy, such as our Milky Way galaxy, contains how many billion stars? Is it approximately: A. 10 billion B. 40 billion C. 200 billion D. 800 billion

ANSWER: D -- ALL OF THE ABOVE (accept: A, B and C)

A virtual image can be formed by one or more of the following single mirrors? Identify them. A. plane mirror B. concave spherical mirror C. convex spherical mirror D. all of the above

ANSWER: PI METERS or 3.14 METERS

A wheel is rolling without slipping on a flat surface. If the diameter of the wheel is 1 meter, how far does the hub of the wheel move when the wheel turns once?

ANSWER: D -- 200 JOULES

A worker lifts a 10 kilogram block a vertical height of 2 meters. The work he does on the block is: A. 5 Joules B. 20 Joules C. 49 Joules D. 200 Joules

C (BACKSWAMP)

A yazoo stream flows through which of the following? A. gorge B. divide C. backswamp D. water gap

105. Who is considered the father of Taxonomy?

ANSWER: (CAROLUS) LINNAEUS

82. Complete the sentence. The alternative forms of gene at the same locus on homologous chromosomes are called what?

ANSWER: ALLELES

86. In studies of the human body, what is used to describe a blood-filled sac formed by an outpouching in an arterial or venous wall?

ANSWER: ANEURYSM

113. What molecule is the energy source for virtually all of the work done by the cell?

ANSWER: ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate)

94. What genetic term describes the situation when a part of a chromosome is broken off and lost?

ANSWER: CHROMOSOMAL DELETION

83. The human pelvic girdle is composed of 3 fused bones on each side for a total of 6 bones. Name the 3 fused bones.

ANSWER: ILLIUM, ISCHIUM, and PUBIS

Family, Class, Genus, Phylum, Order, Kingdom and Species. Give the order of these terms from least specific to most specific.

ANSWER: KINGDOM, PHYLUM, CLASS, ORDER, FAMILY, GENUS, SPECIES

92. In biology, what is the word used to describe the appearance of an individual without regard to its hereditary constitution?

ANSWER: PHENOTYPE

100. What is the term given to a fatty acid that has more than one set of double bonds between carbons

ANSWER: POLYUNSATURATED

90. What process in all living things releases carbon dioxide as a waste product?

ANSWER: RESPIRATION

84. What are rings of muscle which CLOSE body openings such as the lips called?

ANSWER: SPHINCTERS

ANSWER: C -- 100,000

About how many light years across is the Milky Way? Is it: A. 1,000 B. 10,000 C. 100,000 D. 1,000,000

Answer: normal sets

According to "Set Theory", sets that do NOT contain themselves are typically referred to as:

Answer: C

According to Bronsted-Lowry definition, a base is: A. a proton donor B. an electron donor C. a proton acceptor D. an electron acceptor

16 times

According to Coulomb's Law, if two charged particles are repelled with a given force at a distance d, by what multiple will the force decrease by if d is increased by 4 times?

ANSWER: A - ELLIPSES

According to Kepler's Laws, all orbits of the planets are: A. ellipses B. parabolas C. hyperbolas D. square

ANSWER: NITROGEN

After carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, the next most abundant element in proteins is:

83

All elements with an atomic number greater than what number are unstable?

Answer: Ice

All of Saturn's moons are composed predominantly of what substance?

B (SANDSTONE)

All of the following are examples of chemically precipitated sedimentary rock except: A. limestone B. sandstone C. dolomite

25. What is the most common physiological term used to denote how the body maintains a stable internal environment in the face of a constantly changing external environment?

Answer: Homeostasis

49. Order the following from the largest taxonomic group to the smallest group: order, genus, kingdom, class, family, species

Answer: Kingdom, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

29. This anatomical term means "nearer the midsagittal plane":

Answer: Medial

48. In the classification of organisms, four of the 5 Kingdoms are Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, and Protista. What is the fifth?

Answer: Monera

37. Which white blood cell is typically known as the body's first line of defense:

Answer: Neutrophil

39. Mendel did most of his original experimentation using this type of plant:

Answer: Pea

38. What is the botanical name for the horizontal stems that allow a plant to spread underground?

Answer: Rhizomes

34. Biologists usually refer to the head of a tapeworm by what name?

Answer: Scolex

33. For a flower to be complete, it must possess what four types of floral appendages?

Answer: Sepals, Petals, Stamens, And Carpels

77. What three main parts make up the carpel of a plant?

Answer: Stigma, Style, And Ovary

78. What accessory organ allows bony fish to remain at a certain depth in the water without swimming?

Answer: Swimbladder

31. When the body is in a time of stress, which of the 2 divisions of the autonomic nervous system is primarily directing the response?

Answer: Sympathetic System

30. The gustatory system has to do mostly with what human sense?

Answer: Taste

76. What is the vector for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?

Answer: The Tick

Samples are treated with an electron-dense material and then cut into thin layers. While inside the microscope's column, electrons that are passed through the sample and differentially scattered to show a silhouetted image on a phosphorescent screen:

Answer: Transmission Electron Microscopy

80. Vibration of this membrane moves 3 small bones that span the cavity of the middle ear:

Answer: Tympanic Membrane

75. In plants, this naturally occurring auxin has the abbreviation IAA:

Answer: indole acetic acid

26. Where is intracellular fluid normally found?

Answer: inside of cells

C (5)

Apatite is what number on Moh's (pron: moes: rhyme with toes) hardness scale? A. 1 B. 3 C. 5 D. 7

ANSWER: B -- A MIXTURE OF THREE PARTS OF CONCENTRATED HYDROCHLORIC ACID AND ONE PART CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID

Aqua regia is: A. concentrated nitric acid B. a mixture of three parts of concentrated hydrochloric acid and one part concentrated nitric acid C. concentrated hydrochloric acid D. a mixture of sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid

ANSWER: A -- 2.0 METERS PER SECOND

As a 10 kilogram mass on the end of a spring passes through its equilibrium position, the kinetic energy of the mass is 20 joules. The speed of the mass is: A. 2.0 meters per second B. 4.0 meters per second C. 5.0 meters per second D. 6.3 meters per second

ANSWER: A -- VIBRATE IN A PATH PARALLEL TO THE PATH OF THE WAVE

As a longitudinal wave moves through a medium, the particles of the medium: A. vibrate in a path parallel to the path of the wave B. vibrate in a path perpendicular to the path of the wave C. follow the wave along its entire path D. do not move

ANSWER: A - INCREASES

As a pendulum is raised to higher altitudes, its period: A. increases B. decreases C. remains the same D. decreases, then remains the same

ANSWER: A -- A SCALAR QUANTITY

As defined in physics, work is: A. a scalar quantity B. always a positive quantity C. a vector quantity D. always zero

Striations

As glaciers erode the surface over which they move, sets of parallel linear grooves are sometime worn into the rock surface. These grooves are called:

D. 3¢

B

D. Are used in sprinkler systems

B

D. Because wind mills attract more tourists to coastal areas

B

D. Binary power plant

B

D. Biomass can only be used as a resource for heat energy

B

D. Birds can be killed by the turbines

B

D. Using steam from underground to generate electricity

B

D. a Kleinfelter's individual

B

D. all of the above

B

D. an enzymatic refractory period

B

D. any of the above

B

D. dehydration

B

D. diseased organisms must be recovered from the body of the inoculated animal

B

D. duplication

B

D. glycolysis

B

D. none of his sons will pass the recessive allele

B

D. pectins, intermediate filaments, and microfilaments

B

D. pelvic

B

D. physical immunity

B

D. t-primed RNA

B

D. visible light

B

D. weekly

B

E. 15

B

E. Indonesia

B

E. No choices are correct

B

E. Texas

B

Answer: December

Based on "best altitude conditions", during what month in the northern hemisphere is it the best time to observe the full moon?

ANSWER: C -- BAILY'S BEADS

Beads of light visible around the rim of the moon at the beginning and end of a total solar eclipse are called: A. Lunar Beads B. Solar Beads C. Baily's Beads D. Rim Beads

ANSWER: PLASMA

Besides solid, liquid, and gas, what is the fourth form of matter?

D. 500,000

C

D. 60 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit

C

D. 68

C

D. <5

C

D. All of the above

C

D. Arkansas, Virginia, Michigan, Alabama

C

D. Calculators

C

D. Can be recycled

C

D. Carbon Monoxide

C

D. Carbon-14

C

D. Decaying fish

C

D. Dyes

C

D. Heats homes by direct means

C

D. Land animals

C

D. Monterius

C

D. New York, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Ohio

C

D. None of the above

C

D. Nuclear energy

C

D. Nuclear plants

C

D. Nuclear power

C

D. Pacinian corpuscles

C

D. Potential energy stored behind dams

C

D. Solar power plants are very energy inefficient

C

D. South Dakota

C

D. There is always solar energy available

C

D. Tidal turbines

C

D. To cut down on the costs of landfill disposal

C

D. Wind Amplified Rotor Platform (WARP)

C

D. actin

C

D. apical terminus

C

D. ascaris

C

D. both species are harmed

C

D. carbon dioxide regulation

C

D. carotenoids

C

D. endoplasmic reticulum

C

D. exchange

C

D. existence of oncogenes

C

D. exons

C

D. lysosomes

C

D. macroevolution

C

D. osmosis

C

D. posterior vena cava

C

D. produce carbohydrates

C

D. scientists who all began working as lens grinders

C

D. spermatocytes

C

D. steroids

C

D. synapses

C

D. viral infections

C

D. zygote and embryo

C

E. Boise, Idaho

C

E. Wood

C

D. Coal

D

D. Condensation Power Plant

D

D. Dairy products

D

D. Every 30 years

D

D. France

D

D. Germany and Spain

D

D. It cleans the air

D

D. capillaries

D

D. diatoms

D

D. elbow

D

D. glycogen

D

D. half the grandsons will be color blind

D

D. infectious disease

D

D. is used to heat swimming pools

D

D. it does not require stores of potential energy

D

D. it reduces the population of bacteria

D

D. leprosy

D

D. pollen tube growth

D

D. shrimp

D

D. spiders

D

D. telophase

D

D. tracheophytes have vessels to transport materials

D

D. vinegar

D

E. New York

D

E. Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota, Hawaii

D

ANSWER: ELECTRONS ACTED LIKE WAVES

Davisson and Germer scattered electrons from a crystal of nickel. The scattered electrons formed a strong diffraction pattern. What important conclusion was drawn from this experiment?

Answer: 10

Farmer John grows corn, tomatoes, potatoes and squash. He has only 2 fields for growing these products and cannot grow more than one product per field. How many planting combinations can be done in one season?

A (IN THE SOIL AGAINST THE FORCE OF GRAVITY)

Field capacity represents the maximum quantity of water held: A. in the soil against the force of gravity B. in the ground water zone C. in the intermediate zone D. below the water table

ANSWER: Y = -(1/2)x + 2.5 or y - 2 = (-1/2)(x - 1)

Find the equation of the line that passes through the point (1,2) and is perpendicular to the line y = 2x + 1.

ANSWER: 1/25 or .04

Find x if log[base 5](x) = -2.

D (PLAGIOCLASE)

Fine parallel lines, or striations, are most likely to be seen on a cleavage surface of which of the following minerals? A. quartz B. orthoclase C. hornblende D. plagioclase (pron: play-gee-o-klase)

Answer: A

Fish in an aquarium require oxygen to live, which is usually done by pumping air into the fish tank using a mechanical pump. If all other things remain constant, the most effective transfer of oxygen to water comes from: A. small bubbles of air B. large bubbles of air C. bubbling of cold air D. slow bubbling of air

ANSWER: B -- UNIFORM INSIDE THE SPHERE AND EQUAL TO THE ELECTRIC POTENTIAL

Five coulombs of charge are placed on a thin-walled conducting shell. Once the charge has come to rest, the electric potential inside the hollow conducting shell is found to be: A. zero B. uniform inside the sphere and equal to the electric potential on the surface of the sphere C. smaller than the electric potential outside the sphere D. varying as one over r squared.

D (4)

Fluorite is what number on Mohs hardness scale? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

ANSWER: B -- POINT RADIALLY IN TOWARD THE CHARGE

For a negative point charge, the electric field vectors: A. circle the charge B. point radially in toward the charge C. point radially away from the charge D. cross at infinity

ANSWER: C -- A DIVIDED BY D

For a parallel-plate capacitor with plate area "A" and plate separation "d", the capacitance is proportional to which of the following? A. A divided by d squared B. A times d C. A divided by d D. d divided by A

ANSWER: ¾

For a right triangle, the sin(A) is 3/5. To what value is the tan(A) (read: tangent of A) equal?

ANSWER: B -- ARE PERPENDICULAR TO THE SHEET OF CHARGE AND POINT AWAY

For an infinite sheet of positive charge, the electric field lines: w) run parallel to the sheet of charge A. are perpendicular to the sheet of charge and point in toward the sheet B. are perpendicular to the sheet of charge and point away from the sheet C. fall off as one over r squared

D (DIRECTED RADIALLY INWARD)

For an object moving in uniform circular motion, the direction of the instantaneous acceleration vector is: A. tangent to the path of motion B. equal to zero C. directed radially outward D. directed radially inward

C

For particles that have mass, such as electrons, quantum theory gives the relationship of wavelength to momentum by which of the following formulas, where c is the speed of light, v is the particle's speed, h is Planck's constant, m is the particle's mass, and f is frequency: A. wavelength = mc2 B. wavelength = c / ƒ C. wavelength = h /mv D. wavelength = hf

45 degrees

For projectiles fired at identical speeds but various angles from the ground, neglecting air resistance and the curvature of the Earth, at what angle will the maximum horizontal distance be attained?

ANSWER: B - ELECTROSTATIC

Forces in ionic crystalline solids are primarily which of the following? A. covalent B. electrostatic C. Van der Waals D.magnetic

ANSWER: LITHIUM, BERYLLIUM, BORON, CARBON

Four of the lightest ten elements in the periodic table are solids at standard temperature and pressure. Name these four elements.

C (LEAD)

Galena is a primary ore of which of the following metals? A. zinc B. tungsten C. lead D. silver

ALLUVIUM (or ALLUVIAL)

Give the general term used to designate the sand, silt, and mud deposited by a stream, along its bank or upon its floodplain, during periods of high water.

Answer: 31

Give the range for the following six values 2, 7, 11, 19, 25, 33:

Answer: -8, 1/5, 0

Give the rational numbers in the following set: -8, - 3 , 1/5, 0, π

Answer: Pb

Give the symbol for the element that is derived from the Latin word Plumbum

ANSWER: SINE and COSECANT

Give two trigonometric functions which are NEGATIVE in BOTH the third and fourth quadrants.

ANSWER: .18

Given that the log[base 10](2) = .30 and that the log[base 10](3) =.48, what is the log[base 10](1.5) equal to?

ANSWER: .903

Given that the log[base 10](2) = .301, what is the log[base 10](8) equal to?

ANSWER: B -- FARADAY'S LAW

Induced electric currents can be explained using which of the following laws? A. Gauss's Law B. Faraday's Law C. Ohm's Law D. Ampere's Law

ANSWER: A - JUPITER

Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are satellites of what planet? A. Jupiter B. Saturn C. Neptune D. Uranus

ANSWER: C - FERROMAGNETIC

Iron is what type of magnetic material? Is it: A. diamagnetic B. paramagnetic C. ferromagnetic D. non-magnetic

45 DEGREES WEST

It is 9:00 p.m. in Greenwich, England. You are on a ship whose local time is 6:00 p.m. What is the longitude of your ship?

Answer: Glucose And Fructose

It is estimated that each person in the United States consumes an average of 100 pounds of sucrose each year. Which two simple sugars are linked to make a sucrose molecule?

A (as hot as the surface of the sun)

It is estimated that the temperature of the Earth's core is: A. as hot as the surface of the sun B. much hotter than the surface of the sun C. much cooler than the surface of the sun D. it cannot be estimated

ANSWER: CARBONYL GROUP pr C DOUBLE BOND O

Ketones are organic compounds. Name the functional group that all ketone molecules contain.

Answer: 26 Protons, 24 Electrons

Knowing that Iron has an atomic number of 26, how many protons and how many electrons does Fe+2 have?

Answer: B

Light from distant galaxies comes mostly from which of the following: A. low mass stars B. high mass stars C. ionized hydrogen nebula D. large globular clusters of stars

ANSWER: C -- L / 2N

Light is normally incident on a thin soap film and is reflected. If the wavelength of this light is "L" and the index of refraction of the soap film is "N", complete destructive interference will occur for a film thickness of: A. L / 8N B.L / 4N C. L / 2N D. 3L / 4N

Answer: Black Holes

Most astronomers believe that these celestial bodies are at the center of quasars and are the main reason for their large energy emissions:

Answer: Muscle

Myoglobin binds oxygen in what tissue in the human body?

Antarctica And Greenland

Name 2 places on earth where continental glaciers exist:

ANSWER: HELIUM, NEON, ARGON, KRYPTON, XENON, OR RADON

Name any five of the six noble gases.

ANSWER: LITHIUM, SODIUM, POTASSIUM, RUBIDIUM, CESIUM, AND FRANCIUM

Name any four alkali metals.

ANSWER: (JOHN C.) ADAMS

Name the English astronomer and professor at Cambridge University who determined the orbit of the then unknown planet Neptune.

KAOLINITE

Name the clay mineral produced by the alteration of potash feldspar which is also used in ceramics.

ANSWER: B - URANIUM

Name the element discovered upon its extraction from pitchblende? A. platinum B. uranium C. iridium D. plutonium

ADOBE

Name the extremely fine-grained, wind-blown clay particularly characteristic of the arid and semi-arid southwestern United States, Mexico and South America. This material was used by the southwestern Indians and Mexicans for constructing huts and buildings from prehistoric times.

ANSWER: (ISAAC) NEWTON

Name the famous mathematician/physicist who was born in the year Galileo died.

ANSWER: (MARIA GOEPPERT) MAYER

Name the female physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1963 for her discovery concerning the shell structure of the nucleus.

ANSWER: CASSIOPEIA (pron: cass-e-o-pe-yw)

Name the northern latitude constellation that is easily recognized by 5 bright stars forming an irregular "W", some observers seeing not only a W but also a chair. One of the brightest novae on record appeared in this constellation in 1572.

ANSWER: HELIOPAUSE

Name the outer boundary of the sun's magnetic field?

Answer: The Photosphere

Name the part of the Sun that we can see without any instruments:

ANSWER: C -- DMITRI MENDELEEV

Name the person who developed a table of elements which revealed regularities in elemental properties in 1869? A. Theodore Richards B. Antoine Lavoisier C. Dmitri Mendeleev D. Svante Arrhenius

ANSWER: ENTHALPY

Name the state function that represents the heat content of a system.

ANSWER: ENTROPY

Name the thermodynamic state function that is a measure of randomness.

ANSWER: PEGASUS, ANDROMEDA

Name the two constellations that make up the famous "Great Square of Pegasus".

ANSWER: (SIR ISAAC) NEWTON AND (BARON VON) LEIBNITZ

Name the two discoverers of the fundamental theorem of calculus. Last names only are acceptable.

Answer: Hyydrogen And Helium

Name the two most abundant elements in the universe?

Answer: Calcium

Never found uncombined on Earth, what element occurs abundantly in limestone, gypsum and fluorite:

ANSWER: B -- EQUIVALENT WEIGHTS OF SOLUTE PER LITER OF SOLUTION

Normality is defined as the number of: A. moles of solute per 1000 grams of solvent B. equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution C. kilograms of solute per liter of solution D. moles of solute per 1000 grams of solution

D (JURASSIC)

Of the following four geologic periods, which is the most recent? A. Devonian B. Silurian C. Permian D. Jurassic

B (SILURIAN)

Of the following four geologic periods, which is the oldest? A. Devonian B. Silurian C. Permian D. Jurassic

ANSWER: D -- ONE MILLION YEARS

Of the following four times, which one best represents the time it takes energy generated in the core of the sun to reach the surface of the sun and be radiated? A. Three minutes B. Thirty days C. One thousand years D. One million years

ANSWER: C - GRANITE

Of the following types of material, which is the one that is heterogeneous? Is it: A. quartz B. feldspar C. granite D. mica

D (QUARTZITE)

Of the following, the rock that is most resistant to both chemical and mechanical weathering is: A. shale B. limestone C. marble D. quartzite

C (Cirrocumulus)

Of the following, which are clouds formed at the highest altitude: A. altocumulus B. altostratus C. cirrocumulus D. nimbostratus

ANSWER: C - PRESSURE

Of the following, which has units of "Pascal". A. force B. volume C. pressure D. viscosity

ANSWER: VENUS AND MERCURY

Of the nine known planets, seven have one or more natural satellites. Name the only two moonless planets.

ANSWER: PLUTO

Of the planets that circle the Sun, which planet has the most eccentric orbit?

SCLERACTINIAN

Of the three types of corals, Scleractinian, Rugose and Tabulate, which one is still in existence today?

Answer: Stony Meteorites

Of the three types of meteorites, which is the most common, in terms of the number of samples, to fall to Earth in recorded history:

B (BATHYMETRIC LINES)

On a topographic map, lines that indicate water depth are termed: A. isogonic lines (pron: eye-seh-gone-ik) B. bathymetric lines (pron: bath-i-meh-trik)C. isopachs D. none of these

resistor

On an electric schematic, what does the symbol of a horizontal line interrupted by a saw tooth shaped line represent?

B (PERMIAN)

On the Phanerozoic (pron: fan-eh-reh-zO-ik) Time Scale, which of the following geologic periods occurred approximately 225 to 280 million years ago? Is it: A. Jurassic B. Permian C. Carboniferous D. Silurian

D (SILURIAN)

On the Phanerozoic (pron: fan-eh-row-zo-ick) Time Scale, which of the following geologic periods occurred approximately 395 to 430 million years ago? Is it: A. Jurassic (pron: ju-ras-ick) B. Permian C. Carboniferous D. Silurian

Tropic Of Capricorn

On the day of the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the sun can be seen directly overhead at what location around the globe?

ANSWER: JUNE 21

On which day of the year does the summer solstice usually occur?

ANSWER: B -- 9 HRS 50 MIN

One Jupiter day is equal to which of the following? A. 30 hrs 40 min B. 9 hrs 50 min C. 3 hrs 20 min D. 52 hrs 10 min

ANSWER: B - STARCHES

One of the following is NOT a lipid. Is it: A. fats and oils B. starches C. steroids D. waxes

ANSWER: D - MARS

One of the largest volcanos in our solar system-if not the largest-is named Olympus Mons. This volcano is located on: A. Jupiter's moon Callisto B. Venus C. Saturn's moon Titan D. Mars

METAMORPHIC

Rocks are classified depending upon how they are formed. In which class would slate be found?

Answer: 6

Rounded off to the nearest trillion, how many miles is in a light year?

Answer: 20 years

Rounded off to the nearest whole year, how many years would it take for your money to double in an investment that was increasing with an annual compound rate of 3.5%?

ANSWER: B -- 88 DAYS

Rounded to the nearest day, the Mercurian year is equal to: A. 111 days B. 88 days C. 50 days D. 25 days

Answer: Bolometer

Sam Langley invented what instrument, which allows astronomers to measure the energy output of the Sun and other stars:

A

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory invented the forerunner of the PET, which was subsequently found to be well- suited for wide use in institutions around the world for which of the following: A. metabolic studies and clinical tests B. deep sea drilling C. nuclear spallation D. deep space studies

B (VOLCANIC NECK)

Shiprock in New Mexico is a: A. laccolith B. volcanic neck C. cinder cone D. caldera

ANSWER: TRANSISTOR

Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen won a Nobel prize for what small invention?

ANSWER: 2 ln x + CONSTANT

Solve this indefinite integral: [2/x] dx (read: the integral of 2 over x, dx).

infrasonic

Sound frequencies below 16 Hertz are usually referred to by scientists as:

ANSWER: B -- ZEEMAN EFFECT

Spectral line splitting due to the influence of magnetic fields is called: A. Boltzmann Effect B. Zeeman Effect C. Planck Effect D. Zanstra's Effect

A (ZINC)

Sphalerite is a primary ore of which of the following metals? A. zinc B. tin C. copper D. iron

A (stratovolcanoes)

Steep-sided volcanoes such as Mounts Rainier, Hood, and Fuji, are examples of what kind of volcanoes: A. stratovolcanoes B. tephra cone volcanoes C. shield volcanoes D. tower volcanoes

ANSWER: SUPERNOVAS or NOVAS

Superbubbles and chimneys are both galactic structures theorized to result from what explosive phenomena?

Answer: B

Systematic random samp ling is to be used to select 5 addresses from an ordered list containing 500 addresses. A 1- in-100 systematic sample is used to select the 5 addresses. What is the chance that any specific address will be chosen: A. 1/5 B. 1/100 C. 5/100 D. 5

ANSWER: ALBEDO

Technically, the reflecting power of an object is defined as the ratio of the radiation reflected from an object to the total amount incident upon the object. What term is used in astronomy to indicate the reflecting power of an object?

Answer: B

Ten grams of dietary fat contains how many food calories? A. 40 calories B. 90 calories C. 60 calories D. 120 calories

ANSWER: A -- RADIO WAVELENGTHS

The 2.7 Kelvin cosmic background radiation is concentrated in the: A. radio wavelengths B. infrared C. visible D. ultraviolet

Answer: A

The 29 ½ days it takes the Moon to complete an orbit around the Earth is called a: A. synodic month B. sidereal month C. orbital month D. solar month

C (66 ½oSouth)

The Arctic Circle lies at which of the following latitudes: A. 66 ½oNorth B. 90oNorth C. 66 ½oSouth D. 90oSouth

Answer: D

The Babylonian number system is base 60, which makes it: A. vigesimal B. quinary C. binary D. sexagesimal

A

The Department of Energy's B-Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Lab is designed to collide electron and positron beams of unequal energies and produce millions of these particles, which are commonly called: A. B mesons B. B leptons C. B muons D. B neutrons

ANSWER: ANDROMEDA

The English nickname for this CONSTELLATION is "The Chained Maiden". What is the astronomer's name for this constellation?

B (tornadoes)

The Fujita Scale is used to classify intensities of: A. hurricanes B. tornadoes C. earthquakes D. volcanic eruptions

D (ABSORBING OUTGOING LONG WAVE RADIATION FROM THE EARTH)

The Greenhouse Effect is caused primarily by which of the following processes? A. blocking incoming short wave solar energy B. absorbing incoming short wave solar energy C. heating of the Earth's stratosphere D. absorbing outgoing long wave radiation from the Earth

ANSWER: B and C -- TEMPERATURE AND LUMINOSITY (Size and distance of stars can be inferred from H-R diagram but not directly)

The Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram of stars DIRECTLY compares what TWO of the following properties of stars? A. size B. temperature C. luminosity D. density

Answer: Meteor Showers

The Kappa Cygnids and the Northern Delta Aquarids are names for what phenomena?

ANSWER: B-1972

The LAST manned moon flight was made in what year? A. 1971 B. 1972 C. 1973 D. 1974

Answer: Galaxies

The Magellan clouds are actually what type of celestial body?

ANSWER: A -- IRREGULAR GALAXIES

The Magellanic Clouds are A. irregular galaxies B. spiral galaxies C. elliptical galaxies D. large clouds of gas and dust

ANSWER: C -- AN "ETHER"

The Michelson interferometer was designed to study the nature of: A. water waves B. sound waves C. an "ether" D. sunlight

ANSWER: B - QUANTIZED

The Millikan experiment showed that electric charge was: A. negative B. quantized C. positive D. unmeasurable

D (TERTIARY)

The Miocene, Eocene and Paleocene epoches belong to what geologic period on the Phanerozoic Time Scale? Is it the: A. Devonian B. Permian C. Triassic (pron: try-as-ick) D. Tertiary

ANSWER: EMISSION NEBULA

The Orion Nebula is a good example of what kind of nebula?

Answer: August

The Persied's Meteor Showers are viewed in the State of Maine during what month?

ANSWER: D - PASCAL

The SI unit of pressure is the: A. Torr B. dyne per centimeter squared C. atmosphere D. pascal

ANSWER: B -- MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTH

The Tesla and the Gauss are units of measure of: A. conductance B. magnetic field strength C. magnetic flux D. electrical current

Answer: A

The Tyndall Effect can be demonstrated when light is passed through which of the following: A. a colloidal suspension B. supercritical water C. aqueous solutions D. mixtures of gasses

ANSWER: D - IONOSPHERE

The VISUAL aurora consists of luminous arcs, rays or bands in the night sky, usually confined to high latitudes and located in the: A. troposphere B. stratosphere C. ozonosphere D. ionosphere

A (Permeability)

The ability of rock or soil to transmit water is called its: A. permeability B. porosity C. viscosity D. wetability

ANSWER: B - SPIRAL

The andromeda Galaxy is which of the following types of galaxies? A. elliptical B. spiral C. barred-spiral D. irregular

A (0 degrees)

The angle of insolation on the Earth's surface is most direct at which latitude: A. 0o B. 90oNorth or South C. 66 ½oNorth or South D. 23 ½oNorth or South

Answer: A

The apparent speed of the Sun along the ecliptic: A. is constant B. varies during the solar year C. varies only during winter D. varies only during summer

ANSWER: 106 YARDS (accept 96 to 116)

The area bounded by the race track at your high school is a rectangle with semicircles at each end. The radius of the circular parts is 30 yards and the perimeter of the area bounded by the track is 40 yards. Within ten yards, how long is each straight section of the track?

A

The atom's nucleus is held together by which of the following: A. strong interactions of the quark and gluon constituents of the atom's nucleus B. strong interactions of the quark and lepton constituents of the atom's nucleus C. weak interactions of the quark and lepton constituents of the atom's nucleus D. strong interactions of the lepton and gluon constituents of the atom's nucleus

ANSWER: C - CERES

The biggest asteroid known is: A. Vesta B. Icarus C. Ceres D. Eros

D (BASALT)

The black sand of the Hawaiian Islands is composed of which of the following? A. dark limestone B. quartz C. gypsum D. basalt

ANSWER: B -- NONPOLAR COVALENT

The bond in Fluorine is which of the following types? Is it A. ionic B. nonpolar covalent C. polar covalent D. covalent network

ANSWER: C -- POLAR COVALENT

The bond in hydrogen chloride is which of the following types? Is it A. ionic B. nonpolar covalent C. polar covalent D. covalent network

ANSWER: TAURUS

The brightest star in this constellation is Aldebaran (pron: al-DEB-ar-on). In which constellation can this star be found?

ANSWER: LYRA

The brightest star in this constellation is Vega. In which constellation can ega be found?

Answer: Declination

The celestial coordinate analogous to latitude is called:

ANSWER: C - COMPTON

The collision between a photon and a free electron was first explained by which of the following scientists? A. Einstein B. Heisenberg C. Compton D. Bohr

C (100-1000 PARTS PER MILLION (the exact number is 350 ppm as of this time))

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is in the range of: A. 1-10 parts per million B. 10-100 parts per million C. 100-1000 parts per million D. 1000-10,000 parts per million

ANSWER: 200 WATTS

The constant potential difference across a 2 ohm resistor is 20 volts. How many watts of power are dissipated by this resistor?

Answer: Pythagorean Theorem

The converse of this theorem is: if the sum of the squares of two sides of a triangle equal the square of the third side then the triangle is a right triangle. What is the name of the theorem?

ANSWER: D -- 2.7K

The cosmic background radiation, a remnant of the Big Bang, is at what temperature? A. 100K B. 0K C. 5.3K D. 2.7K

ANSWER: B or -COT(-A)

The cotangent of the angle A is equal to which of the following? A. cot(-A) B. -cot(-A) C. -cot(A) D. none of the above

B (ROCK FLOUR)

The deposits of loess in the United States probably originated as which of the following? A. talus B. rock flour C. humus D. geyserite

C (MESOZOIC)

The disappearance of the dinosaurs also marks the end of which geological era? A. Precambrian B. Cambrian C. Mesozoic (pron: mez-ah-zo-ik) D. Cenozoic (pron: see-nah-zo-ik)

Answer: Denaturation

The disruption of the three-dimensional shape of a protein by factors such as heat, acids, bases, and organic solvents, is called what?

B (10,000 TO 20,000 YEARS AGO)

The earth's climate has been warming since the last glacial period which ended about how many years ago? A. 1,000 to 2,000 years ago B. 10,000 to 20,000 years ago C. 100,000 to 200,000 years ago D. 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 years ago

ANSWER: CARBON

The element I am thinking about has several interesting characteristics. It occupies the same column in the periodic table as lead. Resistors which are commonly found in electronic circuits are often made out of this element. In addition, in one of its forms, this element is one of the hardest substances on earth. What element am I thinking about?

ANSWER: B - HYPERBOLA

The equation: [(x - 2)2 /6] - [(y - 3)2 /5] = 2 defines which of the following? (read: the quantity x minus 2 squared divided by 6 MINUS the quantity y minus 3 squared divided by 5 equals 2) A. ellipse B. hyperbola C. spiral D. parabola

ANSWER: IRIDIUM

The extraterrestrial impact hypothesis of dinosaur extinction is based on finding anomalously high concentrations of a certain element at the geological boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. What is the name of this element which was found?

ANSWER: GALILEO, JUPITER

The first U.S. planetary probe released since the Challenger accident was launched in October, 1989. What is its name and which planet is its primary and final destination?

ANSWER: 8/3 METER or 2.66 METERS IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR

The focal length of a concave mirror is 2 meters. An object is positioned 8 meters in front of the mirror. Where is the image of this object formed?

ANSWER: 2 METERS

The focal length of a concave spherical mirror is equal to 1 meter. What is the radius of curvature of this mirror?

ANSWER: C -- COULOMB'S LAW

The force acting between two point charges can be computed using which of the following laws? A. Ohm's Law B. Ampere's Law C. Coulomb's Law D. Newton's Second Law.

ANSWER: 1250 METERS/SECOND

The frequency of a wave is 50 Hertz and its wavelength is 25 meters. What is the velocity of this wave?

A

The fundamental forces of nature are most correctly given as: A. gravitational, electromagnetic, strong interactive, weak interactive B. chemical, mechanical, friction and atomic C. gravitational, electromotive, magnetic, atomic D. graviton, photon, lepton, hadron

Answer: Desalination

The general term for the removal of salts from brackish water or seawater to make it useable is called:

ANSWER: A - APHELION

The greatest distance of a planet from the sun is called what? Is it the planet's: A. aphelion (pron: ah-feel-yen) B. perihelion (pron: per-eh-heel-yen) C. helix D. eccentricity

ANSWER: D -- 90 DEGREES

The greatest induced EMF will occur in a straight wire moving at constant speed through a uniform magnetic field when the angle between the direction of the wire's motion and the direction of the magnetic field is A. 0 degrees B. 30 degrees C. 60 degrees D. 90 degrees

Answer: C

The hydrogen envelope that surrounds the comet's nucleus derives its hydrogen most directly from: A. gases escaping from the melting comet's ice B. hydrogen captured from interstellar space C. breakdown of water by ultraviolet light D. hydrogen in the solar winds

ANSWER: C - SAPONIFICATION

The hydrolysis of a fat using a solution of a strong hydroxide is called: A. neutralization B. esterification C. saponification D. condensation

B (KAOLIN)

The hydrolysis of orthoclase results in the formation of: A. shale B. kaolin C. lime D. hydrochloric acid

A (LABRADOR CENTER IN EASTERN CANADA)

The ice sheet that covered northeastern United States came from which of the following locations? A. Labrador center in eastern Canada B. Keewatin center in central Canada C. Cordilleran center in the Rocky Mountains D. Greenland

ANSWER: B -- BOHR

The idea that electrons revolved in orbits around the nucleus of an atom without radiating energy away from the atom was postulated by: A. Thompson B. Bohr C. Rutherford D. Einstein

Answer: HYDROGEN

The ideal fuel for fuel cell use is: A. compressed natural gas B. reformulated gasoline C. hydrogen D. methanol

B (IS DECREASED BY URBANIZATION)

The lag time between precipitation period and peak discharge period of a river: A. is increased by urbanization B. is decreased by urbanization C. is shorter for a large drainage basin than for a small one D. depends upon the hydraulic heads

ANSWER: A - JUPITER

The largest circular storm in our solar system is on the surface of which of the following planets? A. Jupiter B. Venus C. Uranus D. Earth

ANSWER: 3 FEET (accept 36 inches)

The scale on a blueprint of a bicycle says one half inch equals 1 foot. What will be the actual DIAMETER of the bicycle wheel if they are drawn with a RADIUS of ¾ inches.

ANSWER: C or 2 TIMES THE SIN(A) TIMES THE COS(A)

The sin(2A) (read: the sine of angle 2A) is equal to which of the following relationships? A. sin(A) - cos(A) B. 3sin(A) / cos(A) C. 2 sin(A) cos(A) D. tan(A) - 1

ANSWER: A or (1/2)[1 - cos(A)]

The sin2(A/2) (read: sine squared of angle A divided by 2) is equal to which of the following relationships? Is it: A. (1/2)[1 - cos(A)] B. (1/2)[1 - sin(A)] C. 2 sin(A) cos(A) D. none of the above

ANSWER: 2 METERS

The speed at which a wave propagates down a string is 300 meters per second. If the frequency of this wave is 150 Hertz, what is the wavelength of this wave?

ANSWER: D - COSMOLOGY

The study of the origin and evolution of the universe is known as: A. tomography B. cystoscopy C. cryology D. cosmology

ANSWER: B -- 11 YEARS

The sunspot cycle is: A. 3 years B. 11 years C. 26 years D. 49 years

Answer: C

The surface of a sphere subtends a solid angle of what amount at its center: A. π B. 2π C. 4π D. ½ π

ANSWER: C or -TAN(A)

The tan(-A) (read: tangent of the angle minus A) is equal to which of the following? A. tan(A) B. -tan(-A) C. -tan(A) D. none of the above

ANSWER: A or TAN(A)

The tan(180o + A) (read: tangent of the quantity 18 degrees plus A) is equal to which of the following? A. tan(A) B. -tan(A) C. tan(-A) D. none of the above.

C (ULTRAVIOLET RAYS)

The tanning rays of the sun are called: A. infrared rays B. visible light C. ultraviolet rays D. gamma rays

B (1-10 CENTIMETERS PER YEAR)

The tectonic plates on which India and the adjacent portion of Asia ride are colliding at a rate of: A. 1-10 millimeters per year B. 1-10 centimeters per year C. 1-10 meters per year D. 1-10 decimeters per year

beats

The throbbing caused by sounds of slightly different frequencies that results because of periodic constructive and destructive interference is called:

Answer: B

The time between two successive meridian transits of the Sun as observed from a stationary spot on the Earth's surface is called: A. the stellar day B. an apparent solar day C. lunar day D. an apparent solar month

ANSWER: D -- A SYNODIC PERIOD (conjunction and opposition are names of specific configurations)

The time interval between two successive occurrences of a specific type of alignment of a planet (or the moon) with the sun and the earth is referred to as: A. a conjunction B. an opposition C. a sidereal period D. a synodic period.

ANSWER: A -- 1.5 SECONDS

The time needed for a net force of 10 newtons to change the velocity of a 5 kilograms mass by 3 meters/second is: A. 1.5 seconds B. 6 seconds C. 16.7 seconds D. 150 seconds

ANSWER: B or [cos(A)]2 - [sin(A)]2

The trigonometric function cos(2A) is equal to which of the following relationships? A. 1 - [sin(A)]2 B. [cos(A)]2 - [sin(A)]2 C. 2[sin(A)][cos(A)] D. none of the above

D (S WAVES CANNOT PASS THROUGH IT)

We know that the OUTER core of the Earth is liquid because: A. P waves pass through it B. S waves pass through it C. P waves cannot pass through it D. S waves cannot pass through it

Answer: 14, 15, and 16

What 3 consecutive numbers add up to 45?

Answer: Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma

What are the 4 physical states of matter?

ANSWER: (3, -2) (accept x = 3 and y = -2 but not x = -2, y = 3)

What are the cartesian coordinates of the point of intersection of the two lines x - y = 5 and x + y = 1? (read: x minus y equals 5 and x plus y equals 1)

Neap Tides

What are the names of the tides that occur when the sun's tidal bulges and the moon's tidal bulges are at right angles to each other?

Answer: Venus And Uranus

What are the only two planets to rotate from East to West?

Answer: Umbra And Penumbra

What are the scientific names for the two regions of a sunspot?

Answer: Ethanol And Carbon Dioxide

What are the two most common end-products of alcoholic fermentation?

ANSWER: ALCOHOL

What class of organic compounds is characterized by an -OH group bonded to an alkyl group?

Answer: Methanol

What colorless liquid was originally produced from the distillation of wood and is often referred to as wood alcohol:

Sand Paper

What common type of paper contains substantial amounts of corundum and magnetite?

Carnot Cycle

What cycle most directly describes the working cycle of a heat engine operating as an ideal engine of maximum thermal efficiency?

ANSWER: FOUCAULT PENDULUM

What device first proved that Earth rotates on its axis?

ANSWER: FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN IN SPACE

What distinction is Sally K. Ride known for?

Answer: Zenith

What do Astronomers call the point in the sky that is directly overhead?

ANSWER: ECLIPTIC

What do we call the path in the sky that the sun appears to traverse over the course of a year?

Answer: Gold

What element does the symbol Au stand for?

Answer: non-euclidean geometry

What form of geometry is one in which the parallel postulate of Euclidean Geometry does NOT hold:

KE=½ mv2

What formula is most appropriate to compute the kinetic energy of a block of ice sliding down an inclined plane?

ANSWER: CARBON DIOXIDE

What gas is the main component of the atmosphere of Mars?

NITROGEN

What gas makes up the majority of our atmosphere?

Answer: Nitrogen

What gas was discovered by Daniel Rutherford in 1772 by placing a mouse inside a bell jar, removing all the oxygen in the jar by burning a substance in it, and demonstrating the asphyxiation of the mouse:

ANSWER: ESCAPE VELOCITY

What is 25,000 miles per hour on earth, and 5,300 miles per hour on the Moon?

ANSWER: 3

What is 81 1/4 (read: 81 to the one-fourth power)?

BLOODSTONE

What is another name for the semi-precious stone heliotrope?

ANSWER: A SUPERNOVA or TYPE II SUPERNOVA or NEUTRON STAR or BLACK HOLE

What is formed when a massive star, after reaching supergiant status, explodes?

ANSWER: THE FIRST MANNED SPACECRAFT

What is the Vostok 1?

Answer: CO2

What is the acid anhydride of H2CO3?

ANSWER: 1.5 (do NOT accept -1.5)

What is the amplitude of the curve y = -1.5 sin x (read: y equals minus 1 point 5 sine x)?

ANSWER: 7/3 (or 2 and 1/3 or 2.333)

What is the area bounded by the curve y = x2 and the axis between x = 1 and x = 2?

Answer: Electrochemistry

What is the branch of chemistry that deals with the relationship between electricity and chemical reactions?

ANSWER: ASTEROIDS

What is the collection of small rocky bodies, otherwise known as minor planets, 99.8 percent of whose orbits lie between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

ANSWER: QUICKLIME or LIME

What is the common name for calcium oxide, CaO?

The Brinell Test

What is the common name for the test that gives the hardness of the material by the size of an indent left in it by a standard steel ball?

Answer: Hydrogen Peroxide

What is the common name of the molecule dihydrogen dioxide?

Answer: 1 PPB

What is the concentration, in parts per billion, of a solution that contains 1 microgram of solute per liter?

Answer: Solar Constant

What is the constant called that is the average flux of the Sun's energy arriving at the Earth:

ANSWER: 5

What is the distance between the points P and Q if their cartesian coordinates are (5, 5,1) and (1, 5, -2)? (read: 5 comma, 5 comma, 1 and 1 comma, 5 comma, minus 2)

resonance

What is the dramatic increase in amplitude called when the frequency of forced vibrations on a body matches the body's natural vibration frequency?

ANSWER: RUBIDIUM

What is the element represented by the symbol Rb?

ANSWER: TIN

What is the element represented by the symbol Sn?

ANSWER: STRONTIUM

What is the element represented by the symbol Sr?

ANSWER: ALKALI METALS

What is the family name given to the elements in group 1A of the periodic table?

Archimedes' Principle

What is the following statement most commonly known as: "A body immersed in a fluid is supported by a force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces."

Amber

What is the fossilized resin of ancient trees which forms through the natural polymerization of sap:

Dielectric

What is the general term for the kind of material usually placed between the conducting plates of a capacitor?

Answer: 6

What is the greatest common divisor for the numbers 102 and 30?

ANSWER: PLUTO'S MOON

What is the heavenly body Charon (pron: kar-en), that's spelled C-h-a-r-o-n?

ANSWER: -1

What is the imaginary unit "i" when raised to the power 10?

ANSWER: NEPTUNE

What is the last planet Voyager II visited?

ANSWER: 1

What is the limit of the cos(X) (read: cosine of X) a X approaches zero?

ANSWER: 0

What is the limit of the fraction 1/x as x approaches infinity?

ANSWER: 1

What is the limit of the fraction x/(x+1) as x approaches infinity?

ANSWER: -2

What is the log[base 5](1/25) equal to?

Answer: 50

What is the mean for the following data set of 5 numbers: 84, 50, 73, 27, 16

D (atoll)

What is the name for a roughly circular coral reef enclosing a shallow lagoon: A. barrier reef B. fringing reef C. shallow reef D. atoll

Answer: Nebula

What is the name for the celestial body of interstellar gas and dust where stars are sometimes born?

Transform Fault Margins

What is the name for the margin where two plates in the lithosphere slide past each other?

Planck's Constant

What is the name for the physical constant with a value of 6.62 X 10-27 erg seconds?

MESA (or BUTTE)

What is the name given to a flat-topped plateau bordered on all sides by cliffs?

SUBDUCTION ZONE

What is the name given to a region where one plate of the earth's crust is sliding under another?

ANSWER: SYZYGY (pron: siz-a-je)

What is the name given to the configuration when three celestial bodies are in a line?

ANSWER: APOTHEM

What is the name given to the radius of a circle that can be inscribed in any regular polygon?

Asthenosphere

What is the name given to the region of the Earth's mantle located from about 75 to 300 kilometers below the surface, where rocks have little strength?

ANSWER: FIREBALLS

What is the name given to very bright meteors or bolides?

MESOSPHERE

What is the name of the atmosphere layer of upwardly diminishing temperature situated above the stratosphere and topped by the mesopause?

transistor

What is the name of the device that is made by combining two basic types of solid state rectifiers allowing the device to both rectify and amplify a current?

ANSWER: (JOHN) BARDEEN

What is the name of the first American physicist to win two Nobel prizes?

ANSWER: LAETRILE

What is the name of the organic compound whose chemical name is amygdalin (pron: a- MIG-da-lin) and is found in the pits of apricots and peaches?

(GREENHOUSE EFFECT)

What is the name of the phenomenon that causes an accumulation of heat in the lower atmosphere because of the absorption of long-wave radiation from the Earth's surface?

ANSWER: TRIPLE POINT

What is the name of the temperature and pressure conditions at which water can be in the solid, liquid and gas phases simultaneously?

B (KAOLIN)

What is the name of the white clay which has been used for thousands of years in the fabrication of ceramic bodies? Is it: A. Talc B. Kaolin C. Feldspar D. Quartz

Pyrrhotite

What is the only common mineral to be strongly magnetic other than magnetite:

Answer: Helium

What is the only known substance for which there is no triple point:

ANSWER: +3 (Accept 3)

What is the oxidation number of nitrogen in NaNO2:

Answer: C

What is the pH of a solution with a hydronium ion concentration of 1 X 10-8 moles/dm3? A. 7 B. 6 C. 8 D. 7.5

ANSWER: p /2 (or 1/2 p)

What is the period of the function t = cos 4s? (read: t equals the cosine of 4 s)

Paleontologist

What is the professional name for the person who studies fossils?

C (25%)

What is the relative humidity when the absolute humidity is 3 grams per cubic meter and the air has a capacity of 12 grams per cubic meter? A. 4% B. 9% C. 25% D. 400%

ANSWER: ½

What is the slope of the curve y = ln x (read: y equals the natural logarithm of x) at x =2?

ANSWER: -6

What is the slope of the curve y = x3 - 6x + 2 when it crosses the y axis?

ANSWER: - 2/3 or -0.667

What is the slope of the line 2x + 3y = 7? (read: 2 x plus 3 y equals 7)

ANSWER: -2 (read: minus 2)

What is the slope of the straight line whose x-intercept is +4 (read: plus 4) and whose yintercept is +8 (read: plus 8)?

Answer: 16

What is the square root of 256?

ANSWER: ALPHA CENTAURI or PROXIMA CENTAURI

What is the star nearest to the sun?

ANSWER: 5050

What is the sum of the first 100 positive integers?

Answer: 540°

What is the sum of the internal angles of a pentagon:

ANSWER: 4 pi R squared or 12.566 x R squared

What is the surface area of a sphere of radius "r"?

ANSWER: MARE (singular) or MARIA (plural)

What is the term applied to the dark, relatively smooth LUNAR plains whose name is derived from the Latin for "sea"?

Spring

What is the term for groundwater emerging naturally at the ground surface, where the water table intersects the surface:

Answer: A

What is the term for the amount of energy released from each square meter of an object's surface each second: A. energy flux B. Pascal's Law C. Boltzman's Equation D. Kelvin's Law

Answer: Isoelectric Point

What is the term for the pH at which an amino acid or protein becomes electrically neutral?

escape velocity

What is the term for the speed at which an object will overcome the gravitational attraction of the Earth?

LANGLEY

What is the term used to measure the intensity of solar radiation and is equal to one gram calorie per square centimeter per minute?

Answer: The Corona

What is the thinnest layer of the Sun's atmosphere?

Answer: 360 Degrees

What is the total angular distance in degrees over a sphere?

The Water Table

What is the upper surface of the saturated zone of groundwater called:

ANSWER: 25

What is the value of 125 to the two-thirds power?

ANSWER: 1

What is the value of the integral from 1 to e of du/u (read: d u divided by u), where e is the base of the natural logarithm?

ANSWER: (1/3)pr2h

What is the volume of a right circular cone with radius r and height h?

ANSWER: (4/3) pi R cubed

What is the volume of a sphere of radius "R"?

Sedimentary Rocks

What kind of rocks are formed by the lithification of sediments:

C

What large machine, which came on line in the summer of 2000 at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Lab, is the world's highest energy ion collider: A. Advanced Photon Source B. CERN supercollider C. Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider D. Phoenix

Bragg's Law

What law yields an equation that is used in determining crystal structure from interference patterns produced by monochromatic X-rays?

ANSWER: ROBOT

What mechanical and electronic device has a name derived from a Czechoslovakian word meaning "work; compulsory service"?

Answer: Lactic Acid

What molecule is characteristically prevalent in sour milk and tired muscles?

Answer: Triton

What moon of Neptune orbits in a retrograde direction?

ANSWER: GEMINI

What name was given to the series of two-man U.S. space missions undertaken in the mid 1960's?

Answer: B

What percent of stars in the sky that appear to be single stars are actually binary stars: A. about 90% B. about 50% C. about 20 % D. about .5%

ANSWER: D -- .001%

What percentage of the Sun's mass has been converted to energy? A. 50% B. 1% C. 2% D. .001% (read: one-thousandth of a percent)

C (21%)

What percentage of the earth's atmosphere does O2 comprise? A. 75% B. 50% C. 21% D. 32%

Answer: Strontium

What radioactive isotope of this alkaline earth element formed as a fission product of uranium and is of particular importance because it is assimilated in the body much like calcium:

magenta

What secondary color of light is produced by mixing the primary colors of red and blue?

Answer: Methane Gas

What substance is responsible for Neptune's blue-green color?

Answer: Proper Motion

What term is most commonly used to refer to the actual motion that stars have in relation to each other, and over many years will lead to changes in the shapes of constellations?

ANSWER: SCALENE

What term is used to describe a triangle that has three UNEQUAL sides?

ANSWER: STERLING

What term is used to describe silver which contains 7.5% copper?

ANSWER: C -- IRRATIONAL NUMBERS

What type of numbers are included in the real number line that are not included in the rational number line? A. whole numbers B. integers C. irrational numbers D. fractional numbers

ANSWER: D - M

What type of visible star is the coolest? A. O (pron: oh) B. A C. G D. M

Nikola Tesla

When Thomas Edison was promoting the wide use of direct current, this personal enemy of Edison's was the chief proponent and expert in alternating current:

Green

When a green colored object is illuminated by a green light it will appear as what color to the human eye?

ANSWER: B -- ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE

When a metal becomes a superconductor, there is a tremendous decrease in its: A. total volume B. electrical resistance C. length D. density

B

When a person whirls a rock on the end of a string and maintains it in uniform circular motion, the force exerted on the rock is most accurately referred to as: A. centrifugal B. centripetal C. rotational D. center fleeing

ANSWER: C - QUANTIZED

When a physical property such as charge exists in discrete "packets" rather than in continuous amounts, the property is said to be: A. discontinuous B. abrupt C. quantized D. noncontinuous

Answer: Parabola

When a quadratic function is plotted on a typical graph, it assumes what shape?

Answer: 90o

When a superior planet is at quadrature in reference to the Earth, what is its elongation in degrees?

ANSWER: B - OXIDATION

When an aldehyde is heated with Fehling's solution, the aldehyde undergoes one of the following processes. Does it undergo: A. neutralizationB. oxidation C. reduction D. esterification

ANSWER: SUMMER

When the earth if farthest from the sun, what season is it in the Northern Hemisphere?

ANSWER: B - CONJUNCTION

When two heavenly bodies occupy the same longitude, the bodies are said to be in: A. sympathy B. conjunction C. parallel D. series

A (at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary)

When, in the geologic column, did dinosaurs become extinct: A. at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary B. at the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary C. at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary D. at the Permian-Triassic boundary

B (Triassic)

When, in the geological time scale, did dinosaurs first appear: A. Jurassic B. Triassic C. Cretaceous D. Tertiary

ANSWER: BETWEEN TWO RINGS OF SATURN

Where in space is Cassini's division?

Answer: zero

Where is the y intercept for y = sin x?

ANSWER: B and D -- RIGHT ASCENSION AND DECLINATION

Whereas latitude and longitude are the coordinates of places on earth, the coordinates used for star locations are two of the following; choose two: A. ascension B. right ascension C. altitude D. declination E. polar angle

ANSWER: PLUTO

Which "planet" has a moon almost as big as the planet itself?

Answer: Neon

Which element has the following ground-state electron configuration: 1s22s22p6

Hydrogens

Which element has the simplest absorption spectrum?

ANSWER: BORON

Which element is represented by the symbol B?

Autumnal Equinox

Which equinox marks the moment when fall begins in the Northern Hemisphere?

ANSWER: ASTATINE

Which halogen has the largest atomic radius:

C (it is generated as a byproduct of refrigerants and aerosols)

Which is NOT true about the concentration of methane gas in the atmosphere: A. it is generated by biological activity related to rice cultivation B. it is generated as a byproduct of the digestive processes of cattle C. it is generated as a byproduct of refrigerants and aerosols D. it has an atmospheric lifetime of about 10 years

A (it is of a different composition than the underlying rock)

Which is the best reason for proposing that a boulder lying in an area that was once glaciated is an erratic: A. it is of a different composition than the underlying rock B. it is rounded and worn C. it is larger than any surrounding rocks D. it is located near a glacial lake

ANSWER: MERCURY (used to be Pluto, but that's no longer a planet)

Which is the smallest planet in our solar system?

B (LACK A WINTER SEASON)

Which is true for Low-Latitude Climates? A. have a winter season B. lack a winter season C. are wet throughout the year D. are dry throughout the year

Answer: Titan

Which moon is the only other body in our solar system, besides the Earth, that has an atmosphere of mostly nitrogen?

ANSWER: D - RADON

Which noble gas has the highest melting point ? A. argon B. krypton C. xenon D. radon

Answer: D

Which of the following are NOT carbonate minerals: A. calcite B. magnesite C. dolomite D. graphite

A (500 MILLION)

Which of the following areas is closest to the total surface area of the earth in square kilometers? A. 500 million B. 500 billion C. 500 thousand D. 5 billion

ANSWER: D - PROTEINS

Which of the following choices are considered to be polymers of amino acids? Are they: A. nucleotides B. carbohydrates C. lipids D. proteins

C

Which of the following colors of light has the greatest angle of refraction in normal glass: A. yellow B. green C. violet D. red

ANSWER: D - RED

Which of the following colors of visible light has the longest wavelength? Is it: A. violet B. green C. yellow D.red

ANSWER: B - MOLALITY

Which of the following concentration expressions is defined as the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent: A. molarity B. molality C. normality D. equivalents

Answer: B

Which of the following constellations cannot be seen in the summer sky of the northern hemisphere? A. Libra B. Orion C. Ursa Major D. Cygnus

ANSWER: B - ALKENES

Which of the following contain sp2 hybridized carbon atoms? A. alkanes B. alkenes C. alkynes D. cycloalkanes

ANSWER: C - TETRAHEDRAL

Which of the following describes the orientation of bonds in an sp3 hybridized atom? A. triagonal B. linear C. tetrahedral D. planar

Answer: D

Which of the following does NOT yield a periodic non-terminating decimal: A. 5/6 B. 1/27 C. 1/18 D. 7/8

Answer: NITROGEN

Which of the following dominates the gasses in the Earth's atmosphere, making up some 78% of the air by volume: A. nitrogen B. oxygen C. helium D. hydrogen

C (GEOTHERMAL)

Which of the following energy sources does NOT originally come from the Sun? A. wind B. Ocean thermal energy conversion C. geothermal D. hydroelectric

D

Which of the following exhibits the least resistivity at 0°C: A. mercury B. tungsten C. gold D. silver

ANSWER: B - COPERNICUS

Which of the following first hypothesized that the Earth orbited the sun? A. Alexander the Great B. Copernicus C. Socrates D. Tycho Brahe

ANSWER: B - ALGEBRAIC

Which of the following functions is NOT a transcendental function? Is it: A. trigonometric B. algebraic C. logarithmic D. exponential

C (CARBON DIOXIDE)

Which of the following gases is given off in the acid test of a carbonate mineral? A. chlorine B. nitrogen C. carbon dioxide D. sulfur dioxide

Answer: D

Which of the following has the same electron configuration as neon: A. Ar B. F C. Cl- D. Na+

Answer: D

Which of the following instruments would typically be used to measure the smallest quantities of mass: A. double-pan balance B. triple-beam hanging balance C. triple-beam platform balance D. analytic balance

Answer: CARBON DIOXIDE

Which of the following is NOT a final product of the overall cell reaction in a hydrogen fuel cell: A. heat B. electric power C. carbon dioxide D. water

ANSWER: A -- HIGH SOLUBILITY (The hydroxides of the alkali metals are soluble in water but all the other metal hydroxides are only moderately or sparingly soluble.)

Which of the following is NOT a general property of hydroxide bases in aqueous solution? A. High solubility B. Bitter taste C.Ability to neutralize aqueous acid solutions D. Ability to change phenolphthalein from colorless to red

ANSWER: A -- BURNING COKE IN THE ABSENCE OF AIR

Which of the following is NOT a means of preparing carbon dioxide? A. burning coke in the absence of air B. combustion of methane C. heating certain normal carbonates D. action of acids on carbonates

ANSWER: A -- BROWN COLOR (Crystalline boron is transparent.)

Which of the following is NOT a physical property of crystalline boron? A. brown color B. diamond hardness C. brittleness D. high electrical resistance

Answer: B

Which of the following is NOT a superior planet: A. Jupiter B. Venus C. Mars D. Pluto

ANSWER: D - BENZENE

Which of the following is NOT an aliphatic hydrocarbon? A. n-octane B. propylene C. n-tridecane D. benzene

ANSWER: B - HEXANE

Which of the following is NOT an aromatic hydrocarbon? A. naphthalene B. hexane C. styrene D. xylene

D

Which of the following is NOT an example of a transverse wave: A. ocean wave B. light wave C. microwave D. sound wave

Answer: D

Which of the following is NOT another name for the Pleiades? A. M45 B. the seven sisters C. the false dipper D. the bull's bowl

D (dike)

Which of the following is NOT likely to have been formed by glaciers: A. arête B. hanging valley C. fjord D. dike

Answer: C

Which of the following is NOT true about cholesterol: A. there is no cholesterol in plants B. cholesterol is found in meats, milk and eggs C. cholesterol is not synthesized in the human body D. cholesterol is a component of cellular membranes

Answer: D

Which of the following is NOT true about meteorites: A. most of the meteorites that have been found have a high iron content B. iron meteorites often contain 10 - 20% nickel C. most of the iron meteorites are octahedrites D. on rare occasions, acid-etched iron meteorites display a pattern called the Widmanstatten pattern

Answer: A

Which of the following is NOT true about the Periodic Table: A. metals tend to gain ele ctrons while nonmetals tend to lose electrons B. metals tend to lose electrons while nonmetals tend to gain electrons C. elements with metallic properties are found on the left side of the table D. alkali metals are found in the vertical column that contains lithium

D

Which of the following is NOT true of Guglielmo Marconi's experiments on wireless transmission: A. in 1901 he transmitted a signal from Newfoundland to England B. he defied current belief on line-of-sight transmission C. his work was a practical application of the work of James Clerk Maxwell D. his success was a vindication of his belief in the reflective properties of the ionosphere

Answer: C

Which of the following is NOT true of helium? A. deep sea divers breath a mixture of helium and oxygen B. breathing helium causes a temporary change in the pitch and quality of one's voice C. helium gas is commonly used by dentists as a mild anesthetic D. a mixture of helium and neon gas produced the first gas laser

ANSWER: D -- AN EFFECT DUE TO THE PROJECTION OF PLANET ORBITS ONTO THE SKY

Which of the following is TRUE for Retrograde motion? Retrograde motion is: A. caused by epicycles B. undergone only by superior planets C. undergone only by inferior planets D. an effect due to the projection of planet orbits onto the sky

B (YOSEMITE FALLS)

Which of the following is a famous hanging trough waterfall? A. Yellowstone Falls B. Yosemite Falls C. Niagara Falls D. Victoria Falls

ANSWER: A - SOAP

Which of the following is a metallic salt of a fatty acid? Is it: A. soap B. plastic C. rubber D. petroleum

D (MARBLE)

Which of the following is a metamorphic rock? A. sandstone B. granite C. quartz D. marble

ANSWER: C -- OPPOSITE SPINS

Which of the following is a necessary characteristic for electrons that share an s orbital? A. coplanar spins B. parallel spins C. opposite spins D. none of these

Answer: D

Which of the following is a nonpolar molecule: A. HCl B. NaCl C. CaCl D. H2

Answer: B

Which of the following is a pulsating variable star whose brightness varies in a very regular time period of about 1-50 days: A. Lyrae star B. Cepheid C. Mira star D. Cannon Star

Answer: H2CO3 AND NaHCO3

Which of the following is an example of a buffer system: A. H2CO3 and water B. H2CO3 and NaHCO3 C. NH3 and N2 D. NaCl and KCl

A (gneiss)

Which of the following is an example of a metamorphic rock: A. gneiss B. granite C. sandstone D. limestone

A (GRANITE)

Which of the following is an igneous rock? A. Granite B. Shale C. Coal D. Slate

Answer: CH4

Which of the following is an organic molecule: A. CaSO4 B. CH4 C. NH3 D. H2O

B

Which of the following is measured in Hertz? A. speed B. frequency C. wavelength D. amplitude

D (gravity)

Which of the following is primarily involved in the movement of a glacier: A. running water B. ambient temperature C. topology D. gravity

Answer: CELLULOSE

Which of the following is the best example of a polysaccharide: A. glucose B. galactose C. sucrose D. cellulose

C

Which of the following is the emission source for microwaves in a typical microwave oven: A. small cyclotron B. cadmium disk bombarded with a soft x-ray source C. magnetron C. laser lamp

Answer: D

Which of the following is the mathematical term for a radical that expresses an irrational number: A. turk B. radicand C. finical D. surd

B (ASTHENOSPHERE)

Which of the following is the name of the partly melted rock layer on which the plates move? A. lithosphere B. asthenosphere C. hydrosphere D. outer core

Answer: A

Which of the following is the surface area of a perfect sphere with a radius of 10 meters? A. 1256.7 m2 B. 1200.5 m2 C. 628 m2 D. 125.7 m2

Answer: A

Which of the following is true about the Kinetic Theory of Gases: A. gas particles do not attract or repel each other B. gas particles are attracted to the walls of the container they are in C. the kinetic energy of gas particles is unrelated to temperature D. gas particles attract and repel each other

ANSWER: B -- A CONSTELLATION

Which of the following is true for ORION? Orion is: A. the brightest star in the sky B. a constellation C. the name given to a NASA spacecraft D. an asteroid

Answer: B

Which of the following is true of an oxidation reaction: A. in an electrolytic cell, oxidation takes place at the cathode B. in the following reaction, bromine is oxidized Br2 + 2e- à 2Br- C. in a chemical reaction, the substance that is being oxidized is also known as the reducing agent D. in a chemical reaction, the substance that is being oxidized is also known as the oxidizing agent

Answer: B

Which of the following is true of bases: A. they give rise to hydrogen ions when dissolved in water B. they are substances that accept or react with hydrogen ions C. they always contain the hydroxide ion in it's structure D. they have a pH below 7

B (50oNorth on June)

Which of the following latitudes and dates would coincide with the longest duration of insolation: A. 23 ½oSouth on September 21 B. 50oNorth on June 21 C. 50oSouth on March 21 D. 0oon June 21

B (SILICON CARBIDE)

Which of the following materials is the hardest? A. calcite B. silicon carbide C. topaz D. quartz

Answer: B

Which of the following mathematicians is responsible for the Cartesian plane that is also known as the rectangular coordinate system: A. Pythagoroas B. Rene Descartes C. Kirk Godel D. Fredric Gauss

ANSWER: C - COPERNICUS

Which of the following men wrote the book "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"? A. Kepler B. Euclid C. Copernicus D. Newton

Answer: SODIUM

Which of the following metals react violently with water to produce hydrogen gas: A. sodium B. zinc C. platinum D. silver

D (mica)

Which of the following minerals best illustrates the property of cleavage: A. quartz B. chrysotite C. pyrite D. mica

D (MAGNETITE)

Which of the following minerals is NOT a silicate? A. orthoclase B. muscovite C. augite (pron: aw-jIt) D. magnetite

C (MALACHITE)

Which of the following minerals is a source of copper? A. Bauxite (pron: box-ite) B. Hematite C. Malachite D. Galena

B (MUSCOVITE)

Which of the following minerals is noted for its one perfect cleavage? A. calcite B. muscovite C. quartz D. pyrite

C (GRANITE AND LIMESTONE)

Which of the following pairs contains one igneous and one sedimentary rock? A. shale and marble B. sandstone and quartzite C. granite and limestone D. obsidian and gneiss

ANSWER: A -- FLUORINE-ARGON

Which of the following pairs do NOT show similar chemical properties? A. fluorine-argon B. beryllium-aluminum C. boron-silicon D. lithium-magnesium

ANSWER: A -- HAHN AND STRASSMAN

Which of the following pairs of German scientists discovered the atomic fission of uranium and set the stage for the nuclear age? A. Hahn and Strassman B. Nernst and Planck C. Ostwald and Heisenberg D. Bohr and Rutherford

ANSWER: A -- HCL AND NaCl

Which of the following pairs of compounds could NOT be used to create a buffer solution? Would it be: A. HCL and NaCl B. HCN and NaCN C. NH3 and NH4Cl D. HNO2 and NaNO2

D

Which of the following particles has not yet been observed but is generally theorized to exist: A. mesons B. gluons C. fermionic hadrons D. gravitons

ANSWER: A -- CHARACTERISTIC REACTIVITY OF AN ALKENE

Which of the following phrases is NOT appropriate for a description of benzene? A. characteristic reactivity of an alkene B. volatile liquid C. aromatic hydrocarbon D. resonance hybridization

Answer: C

Which of the following planets has the highest escape velocity: A. Saturn B. Uranus C. Jupiter D. Mars

Answer: D

Which of the following properties would you use to compute the chances of rolling either a 7 or an 11 with a pair of dice: A. multiplicative B. conditional C. independent D. additive

ANSWER: D -- REACTION OF POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE WITH NITRIC ACID

Which of the following reactions involve NEITHER oxidation nor reduction? A. burning antimony in chlorine B. decomposition of potassium chlorate C. reaction of sodium with water D. reaction of potassium hydroxide with nitric acid

ANSWER: A - SLAG

Which of the following refers to an easily melted product of the reaction between the flux and the impurities of an ore? A. slag B. slurry C. slug D. none of the above

ANSWER: B -- TYNDALL EFFECT

Which of the following refers to the scattering of light by colloidal particles? A. Rutherford effect B. Tyndall effect (pron: tin-dahl) C. Thompson effect D. none of these

Answer: A

Which of the following represents the simplest chemical formula: A. empirical formula B. molecular formula C. structural formula D. primary formula

ANSWER: A - EINSTEIN

Which of the following scientists explained the photoelectric effect? Was it: A. Einstein B. Planck C. Bohr D. Chadwick

ANSWER: A - LAVOISIER

Which of the following scientists first stated the law of conservation of mass? Was it:A. Lavoisier B. Dalton C. Proust D. Boyle

ANSWER: D -- DE BROGLIE

Which of the following scientists hypothesized that it would be possible for particles to have wave-like properties ? Was it: A. Planck B. Heisenberg C. Einstein D. de Broglie

ANSWER: D - PAULI

Which of the following scientists is responsible for the exclusion principle which states that two objects may NOT occupy the same space at the same time? Was it: A. Heisenberg B. Bohr C. Teller D. Pauli

ANSWER: D -- MARIE CURIE

Which of the following scientists was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1911 for the discovery of the radioactive elements, radium and polonium? A. John Dalton B. Dmitri Mendeleev C. Emil Fischer D. Marie Curie

ANSWER: A -- BOTH ROTATE FASTER THAN THE EARTH

Which of the following statements is true for BOTH Saturn and Jupiter? A. both rotate faster than the Earth B. both rotate slower than the Earth C. only one rotates rapidly while the other rotates very slowly D. their periods of rotation are linked to their period of revolution

A (DIAPHANEITY)

Which of the following terms is used to describe the appearance of a mineral in transmitted light? Is it: A. diaphaneity (pron: die-ah-fah-na-ah-tee) B. translucence C. opaqueness D. porosity

ANSWER: B - MODERATOR

Which of the following terms refers to a material which slows neutrons? A. retarder B. moderator C. buffer D. bottleneck

ANSWER: A -- COORDINATION NUMBER

Which of the following terms refers to the number of molecules or ions attached to a central metallic atom? A. coordination number B. connection number C. bonding number D. none of these

B (MISSISSIPPIAN AND PENNSYLVANIAN)

Which of the following time periods describes the age of the coal deposits of the Eastern United States? A. Jurassic and Cambrian B. Mississippian and Pennsylvanian C. Pliocene and Miocene D. none of these

D

Which of the following units is a measure of potential difference: A. erg B. ohm C. joule D. volt

B (Mineralogy and texture)

Which of the following would give the best indication of how a rock was formed: A. structure and color B. mineralogy and texture C. structure and weight D. shape and size

B (QUARTZ AND ORTHOCLASE)

Which of these pairs of minerals are always found in granites? A. muscovite and calcite B. quartz and orthoclase C. hornblende and talc D. augite and magnetite

ANSWER: C - OXYGEN

Which one of the following atoms has two unpaired electrons in its ground state: A. Sodium B. Calcium C. Oxygen D. Aluminum

Answer: Zn

Which one of the following has the greatest tendency to lose an electron? A. Zn B. Cl- C. Br2 D. A mixture of PbSO4 and H2O

ANSWER: C - TRYPSIN

Which one of the following is NOT a vitamin? A. ascorbic acid B. niacin (pron: nI-eh-sen) C. trypsin (pron: trip-sen) D. riboflavin (pron: rye-bow-fla-vin)

C (HALITE)

Which one of the following minerals does NOT contain silica tetrahedrons? A. quartz B. muscovite C. halite D. orthoclase

ANSWER: B-- A CRATER

Which one of the following moon features is named Copernicus? Is it a: A. sea B. crater C. mountain range D. rill

ANSWER: D -- HEAT CAPACITY IS THE SAME FOR ALL NOBLE GASES

Which one of the following statements is TRUE regarding the molar heat capacity for the noble gases? A. heat capacity decreases from Helium to Xenon B. heat capacity increases from helium to argon C. heat capacity increases from Helium to Argon, then decreases to Xenon D. heat capacity is the same for all noble gases

Answer: B

Which one of the following statements is true about the neutralization of an acid by a base: A. the pH decreases when the base is added to the acid B. a salt and water are end products C. gas is an end product D. organic compounds are end products

Answer: A

Which one of the following statements is true about the specific gravity of a substance: A. specific gravity is one of the few unitless values encountered in chemistry B. the specific gravity of water is 1 gram per milliliter C. specific gravity is calculated by dividing the density of water by the density of the substance D. specific gravity is measured with an instrument called the densitometer

A (AN ESKER)

Which one of these glacial features is believed to have formed in the bed of a subglacial stream? A. an esker B. a kame C. a drumlin D. a moraine

D (ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION AND REFLECTION)

Which physical phenomenon or principle is most often applied in the search for petroleum reservoirs? A. gravitational attraction B. magnetic field distortions C. natural radioactive decay of minerals D. acoustic wave transmission and reflection

Answer: venus

Which planet in our solar system has the most circular orbit?

ANSWER: VENUS

Which planet is usually the brightest in the sky?

ANSWER: VENUS AND MERCURY

Which planets can never be in opposite direction from the Sun in earth's sky?

ANSWER: B -- WHITE DWARF

Which type of star is maintained by the pressure of an electron gas? A. Main Sequence Star B. White Dwarf C. Neutron Star D. Black Hole

ANSWER: APOLLO 13

Which unlucky Apollo lunar landing was canceled after an oxygen tank exploded?

B (alluvil fan)

Which will most likely form when a steep mountain stream flows abruptly onto a flat plain: A. delta B. alluvial fan C. braided stream D. mid-channel bar

Carbon 14

While at Berkeley, Melvin Calvin used this radioisotope to decipher many of the complex processes of photosynthesis:

B, D (NITROGEN and OXYGEN)

While many different gases are found in the atmosphere, a number do NOT contribute significantly to solar heating of the atmosphere. Which TWO of the following gases do NOT absorb much heat? A. carbon dioxide B. nitrogen C. water vapor D. oxygen

Kepler

Who determined that the square of a planet's period is proportional to the cube of its average distance from the sun?

ANSWER: SCHRODINGER

Who developed the equation that is used to determine the PROBABILITY of finding the electron in any given place?

ANSWER: (PAUL ADRIEN MAURICE) DIRAC

Who first theoretically predicted the existence of the positron, a positively charged electron? He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933.

ANSWER: HEISENBERG

Who hypothesized that it would be impossible to know the exact location and exact momentum of a particle at the same time?

ANSWER: JAMES CHADWICK

Who is accredited in the history of modern chemistry of proving that neutrons existed?

ANSWER: (CARL FERDINAND) BRAUN

Who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909 with Guglielmo Marconi for his contribution to the development of wireless telegraphy?

ANSWER: THEODORE RICHARDS

Who was the first American chemist to receive a Nobel Prize? He was selected in 1914 for his precise determination of atomic weights. A. Edward Frankland B. Theodore Richards C. John Bardeen D. Paul Dirac

ANSWER: (GUION S.) BLUFORD

Who was the first black American astronaut in space?

ANSWER: D - HIPPARCHUS

Who was the first man to classify stars according to their brightness? A. Aristarchus B. Pythagorus C. Copernicus D. Hipparchus

Answer: Copernicus

Whose book, titled "Concerning the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres", is considered to mark the birth of modern astronomy?

ANSWER: B -- HUYGEN'S PRINCIPLE

Whose principle or law states that each point on a wavefront may be considered a new wave source? Is it: A. Snell's Law B. Huygen's Principle C. Young's Law D. Hertz's Law.

D (THE DOT PRODUCT OF FORCE AND DISPLACEMENT)

Work is equal to which of the following? A. the cross product of force and displacement. B. the product of force times time C. force divided by time D. the dot product of force and displacement

D (THE BRITISH ISLES)

You are adrift off the coast of Miami, Florida in the Gulf Stream. Where would you most likely land? A. Argentina B. Louisiana C. New York D. The British Isles

ANSWER: OZONE

This allotrope of oxygen is formed in the upper atmosphere by the action of ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Name it.

Answer: Germanium

This metal lies between silicon and tin in its chemical and physical properties and used extensively in the making of transistors:

Fe2O3

This mineral has the nickname "bloodstone" because it gives a deep red color on a streak test. What is its chemical formula?

centrifugal force

This perceived force, that seems to want to throw a person off a merry-go-round, is often regarded by physicists as a fictitious force:

Ben Franklin

This person established the "one fluid theory" of electricity and performed some of the first investigations into electrical grounding and insulation:

Answer: The Hubble Telescope

This powerful telescope weighs about 11 tons, has a primary mirror 7.9 feet in diameter, and orbits about 380 miles above the earth:

B (TRAVERTINE)

This sedimentary rock was used to build the Pantheon and the Colossium: A. marble B. travertine C. sandstone D. ironstone

ANSWER: A - CANOPUS

This yellow-white, spectral F-type star is located in the constellation Carina south of the ecliptic. It ranks second in apparent brightness among the stars. Is this star: A. Canopus B. Alpha Centauri C. Castor D. Rigel

ANSWER: B -- THE MAGNITUDE OF THE CHARGE IS THE SAME ON ALL OF THE CAPACITOR PLATES

Three capacitors with different capacitances are connected in series. Which of the following statements is TRUE? A. All three of the capacitors have the same potential difference between their plates. B. The magnitude of the charge is the same on all of the capacitor plates. C. The capacitance of the system depends on the voltage applied across the three capacitors.

ANSWER: A -- HIGH RESISTANCE IN SERIES

To convert a galvanometer to a voltmeter, you should add a: A. high resistance in series B. high resistance in parallel C. low resistance in series D. low resistance in parallel

Answer: 228 Millimeters Of Mercury, Or Torr

To the nearest whole number, convert 0.300 atmosphere into millimeters of mercury, or torr:

1.0

To two significant figures, what is the index of refraction of air?

ANSWER: ½

To what value does the infinite series 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + . . . ..converge? (read: one fourth plus one eighth plus one sixteenth, etc.)

25%

To within 5%, how much has atmospheric CO2 concentration INCREASED since the year 1800?

A (SUBTROPICAL HIGH PRESSURE AND EQUATORIAL DOLDRUM)

Trade winds are persistent easterly winds develop between: A. subtropical high pressure and equatorial doldrum B. subtropical high pressure and subpolar low pressure C. westerlies and polar highs D. none of the above

ANSWER: NITROGEN

Triton, Neptune's moon, has an ocean made of a liquid. What is this liquid?

ANSWER: 7

Twelve socks are in a drawer; 4 are red, 7 are blue, and 1 is green. What is the maximum number of socks that you can pull out and only have 2 matching pairs?

ANSWER: 1/3

Two fair coins are tossed and at least one is a head. What is the probability that both coins are heads?

ANSWER: B -- 5 NEWTONS

Two forces have magnitudes of 11 newtons and 5 newtons. The magnitude of their sum could NOT be equal to which of the following values? A. 16 newtons B. 5 newtons C. 9 newtons D. 7 newtons

ANSWER: A -- ONE WAVELENGTH

Two light rays will interfere constructively with maximum amplitude if the path difference between them is: A. one wavelength B. one-half wavelength C. one-quarter wavelength D. one-eighth wavelength

ANSWER: -1

Two off-axis lines are perpendicular if and only if the product of their slopes is equal to what?

ANSWER: C - DOUBLED

Two steel balls are at a distance S from one another. As the mass of ONE of the balls is doubled, the gravitational force of attraction between them is: A. quartered B. halved C. doubled D. quadrupled

ANSWER: B -- 1/2 CYCLE

Two vibrating particles that are "out of phase" differ in the phase of their vibration by: A. 1/4 cycle B. 1/2 cycle C. 3/4 cycle D. 1 cycle

Answer: B

Under which of the following conditions will iron rust: A. in water B. in water and oxygen C. in oil D. in oil and water

Answer: Noble Gases

Until the early 1960's, what group of elements were called the inert gases:

ANSWER: 1.25 AMPS

Used normally, a 150-watt, 120 volt light bulb requires how many amps of current?

Answer: A

Using an x- y coordinate axis, a parabola is represented by the equation x2 = 6y. The vertex of this parabola is at what coordinate point: A. (0, 0) B. (1, 1) C. (1, 2) D. (2, 2)

ANSWER: (0,1/4)

Using an x-y coordinate axis, a parabola is given by the equation y = x2. Give the x-y coordinates of the focal point for this parabola.

ANSWER: (0,0) or x = 0, y = 0

Using an x-y coordinate axis, a parabola is represented by the equation x2 = 6y. The vertex of this parabola is at what coordinate point?

ANSWER: (0,0)

Using an x-y coordinate axis, the figure represented by the equation [x2/36] + [y2/16] = 1 is centered about what x-y coordinate point?

Answer: Peptide Bonds

Long chains of amino acids are linked together through what type of bond?

Lava

Magma that reached the Earth's surface is called:

Answer: C

Magnesium can exist as three naturally occurring isotopes. These isotopes would all have the same: A. atomic weight B. number of neutrons C. number of protons D. nucleus

Answer: Alkali Metals

Many of the groups of elements in the periodic table have acquired common names. The elements in Group IA, with the exception of hydrogen, are called what?

Answer: A

Maria on the moon are: A. darker and smoother parts of the moon's surface B. mountains of the moon C. irregular craters D. highland areas which show up as irregular contours

Answer: carbon dioxide

Mars has a thin atmosphere composed mainly of what gas?

ANSWER: D -- THE NUMBER OF COLUMNS OF A EQUALS THE NUMBER OF ROWS

Matrix C is the product of matrix A times matrix B Which of the following must be TRUE. A. The number of rows of A equals the number of rows of B. B. The number of columns of A equals the number of columns of B. C. The number of rows of A equals the number of columns of B. D. The number of columns of A equals the number of rows of B.

ANSWER: ONE AND ONE-HALF

Mercury's year lasts how many Mercury sidereal days?

ANSWER: ALUMINUM

Metallic elements are often obtained from ores. Name the metallic element which is produced from the ore Bauxite.

Answer: Oxygen Is The Solute; Nitrogen Is The Solvent

4.0 liters of oxygen are mixed with 8.0 liters of nitrogen. Identify the solute and solvent in this mixture:

52. In mammals, the embryos have a physiological connection to the mothers body during development. This is an example of:

A

C. progesterone and estrogen

A

D. 100 millirems

A

D. 2.7 billion

A

D. 4 tons

A

D. 50

A

D. 500 millirem

A

D. a helium nucleus

A

D. all of these

A

D. citric acid

A

D. exons are spliced out of pre-DNA

A

D. in yeast as a protective measure

A

D. it is associated with infrequent changes of super absorbent tampons

A

D. make it easy to see

A

D. most genes are arranged in operon-like clusters

A

D. ovaries

A

D. the initial product of a metabolic pathway inhibits the next reaction

A

D. the theory that disease was caused by astrological events

A

D. vascular, ground, meristematic, mesodermal

A

E. Asphalt / road oil

A

E. Biomass

A

E. Russia

A

and cytosine

A

ANSWER: A - ALGEBRA

A "reunion of broken parts" is the meaning of the root of what word: A. algebra B. calculus C. mathematics D. none of the above

ANSWER: 200 COULOMBS

A 10 farad capacitor is used in a circuit. The voltage difference between the plates of the capacitor is 20 volts. What is the magnitude of the charge on each of the capacitor's plates?

ANSWER: B - 3000

A block of metal which weighs 60 newtons in air and 40 newtons under water has a density, in kilograms per meter cubed, of: A. 1000 B. 3000 C. 5000 D. 7000

ANSWER: 30 NEWTON-SECONDS or 30 KILOGRAM-METER PER SECOND

A box is initially at rest on a horizontal, frictionless table. If a force of 10 Newtons acts on the box for 3 seconds, what is the momentum of the box at the end of the 3 second interval?

20 METERS PER SECOND DOWN

A boy is standing on an elevator which is traveling downward with a constant velocity of 30 meters per second. The boy throws a ball vertically upward with a velocity of 10 meters per second relative to the elevator. What is the velocity of the ball, relative to the elevator shaft the instant the boy releases the ball?

ANSWER: 1.22 SECONDS (accept: 1.2 seconds)

A boy throws a ball vertically upward with a velocity of 6 meters per second. How long does it take the ball to return to the boy's hand?

heat

A bullet of mass m travelling at velocity v has a kinetic energy of ½mv2 when it strikes a ballistic pendulum of mass 1000 grams. The kinetic energy of the two masses moving together just after the moment of impact is about a thousand times smaller than ½mv2. What has most of the bullet's initial kinetic energy been converted to?

ANSWER: 4

A curve represented by the equation y = - 5 x2 intersects the line y = -20 at two points. What is the straight-line distance between the two intersections?

ANSWER: $0.97

A customer purchased a candy bar costing $0.78 and was 3 cents short of having the exact amount without breaking a $1 bill. How much change did the customer have after the $1 bill was broken?

D (chinook)

A famous downslope wind that occurs in North America on the East side of the Rocky Mountains is called a: A. sirocco B. mistral C. foehn D. chinook

Answer: 11

A farmer wishes to make a straight barbed wire fence 80 feet long. He wants to have a fence post every 8 feet. How many fence posts does he need?

ANSWER: B -- FARTHEST FROM THE SUN

A planet is said to be at aphelion when it is: A. closest to the sun B. farthest from the sun C. at it's highest point above the ecliptic D. at it's lowest point below the ecliptic

ANSWER: 90 DEGREES

A quarter of a wavelength is equal to how many degrees of phase?

Answer: B

A solar eclipse can only occur at a: A. full moon B. new moon C. ½ gibbous moon D. ¼ gibbous moon

Crystal

A solid compound whose internal structural pattern is expressed as plane faces that can be seen with the unaided eye is generally known as a:

ANSWER: D -- STRONGLY BASIC

A solution with a pH of 12 is: A. weakly acidic B. strongly acidic C.weakly basic D. strongly basic

ANSWER: A -- UPPER TRIANGULAR

A square matrix which has all zeros below the main diagonal is called: A. upper triangular B. singular C. lower triangular D. invertable

ANSWER: X -- 1/4 WAVELENGTH

A standing wave is formed on a tightly stretched string. The distance between a node and an antinode is: A. 1/8 wavelength B. 1/4 wavelength C. 1/2 wavelength D. 1 wavelength

ANSWER: y = 4

A straight line intersects a circle in the first and second quadrants for x values of +3 and -3. The equation of the circle is " x2 + y2 = 25 ". What is the EQUATION of the straight line?

ANSWER: y = x + 3 or y = -x + 3

A straight line is plotted on an XY coordinate axis. The line intercepts the y axis at 3 and makes an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the x axis. Give the equation for this line.

ANSWER: 3 (no units specified)

A student finds that the numerical values for the area and the volume of a sphere are equal. What is the radius for this sphere?

ANSWER: 2 METERS PER SECOND SQUARED

A toy train moves in a circle of 8 meters radius with a speed of 4 meters per second. What is the magnitude of the acceleration of the train?

D (there is evidence of eye formation and sustained wind speeds of 74 mph)

A tropical storm will be declared a hurricane when: A. there is evidence of eye formation B. wind speeds reach 64 mph C. wind gusts are in excess of 74 mph D. there is evidence of eye formation and sustained wind speeds of 74 mph

SYNCLINE

A troughlike downfold of strata is called a:

B (COMPOSITE CONE)

A volcano which is composed of lava flows and pyroclastic material and which is steep-sided and very tall is known as: A. Syncline B. Composite cone C. Anticline D. none of these

D (20 METERS)

A wave with a wavelength of 40 meters and a height of 2 meters will NOT be refracted in water with a depth of more than: A. 1 meter B. 2 meters C. 10 meters D. 20 meters

ANSWER: THE WOMAN IS 53 YEARS OLD, THE DAUGHTER IS 31 YEARS OLD.

A woman is 22 years older than her daughter. Nine years ago she was twice as old as her daughter. What are their present ages?

ANSWER: C -- SQUARE OF THE PERIOD

According to Kepler's Laws, the cube of the mean distance of a planet from the sun is proportional to the: A. area that is swept out B. cube of the period C. square of the period D. fourth power of the mean distance

Answer: B

According to Kepler's Third Law, plotting the squares of the periods of the planet against the cubes of the semi- major axes of their orbits will result in what sort of graph: A. a parabolic line B. a straight line C. an irregular jagged line D. a hyperbolic line

Neutrino

According to the standard model of particle physics, what is the name for the three leptons that have no electric charge and little if any mass?

D

According to the standard model of particle physics, which of the following is a force-carrying particle: A. proton B. neutron C. quark D. photon

ANSWER: D -- SALT AND WATER

Acids react with bases to form which of the following? Do they form: A. salt and acidic anhydride B. water and basic anhydride C. basic anhydride and salt D. salt and water

ANSWER: SULFUR

All proteins contain at least 5 specific elements. Four of them are carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen. What is the fifth element?

ANSWER: D -- GREEN PHOSPHORUS

Allotropic modifications of phosphorus include each of the following EXCEPT: A. red phosphorus B. black phosphorus C. white phosphorus D. green phosphorus

ANSWER: C -- ALPHA RAYS HAVE A POSITIVE CHARGE AND BETA RAYS HAVE A NEGATIVE CHARGE

Alpha rays are different from beta rays in one of the following ways. Are they different since: A. alpha rays are deflected in a magnetic field and beta rays are not B. alpha rays are identical to the electron in mass, and beta rays are not C. alpha rays have a positive charge and beta rays have a negative charge D. alpha rays are produced within the nucleus and beta rays are produced outside the nucleus

ANSWER: A - ELECTRONS

Ammonia can be considered a Lewis base because it can donate: A. electrons B. protons C. hydronium ions D. hydroxide ions

ANSWER: D - LIGNITE

Among the following, the substance that is considered to be the earliest stage in coal formation is: A. sub-bituminous B. bituminous C. anthracite D. lignite

ANSWER: A - INDUCTION

An electroscope charged WITHOUT contacting a charged body is charged by: A. induction B. conduction C. convection D. insulation

ANSWER: 12

An ellipse is represented by the equation [x2/36] + [y2/16] = 1. What is the length of the major axis of this ellipse?

Answer: A

An emission or bright line spectrum consists of: A. a series of bright lines superimposed on a black or continuous background. B. a series of bright and dark lines superimposed on a black-lined grid C. a series of faint black lines superimposed on a bright background D. a circular array of dark ring patterns on a bright background

ANSWER: D -- BOTH MOMENTUM AND ENERGY

An x-ray photon collides with a free electron, and the photon is scattered. During this collision there is conservation of: A. momentum but not energy B. neither momentum nor energy C. energy but not momentum D. both momentum and energy

Answer: D

Another name for heavy water is: A. ice B. salt water C. deuterium D. deuterium oxide

32. How many different cranial nerves are there in the human body?

Answer: 12

28. What are the main products of plasma cells called?

Answer: Antibodies

50. The biological term for programmed cell death is:

Answer: Apoptosis

74. What reflex causes the extension of the big toe and fanning of the other toes when the bottom of the foot is stroked?

Answer: Babinski

35. What morphological scientific name is given to a spherically shaped bacterium?

Answer: Coccus

36. What is the name of a graffian follicle after it releases an egg, turns into a yellow body, and begins to secrete progesterone?

Answer: Corpus Luteum

27. In 1884, the Danish microbiologist Hans Christian Gram invented the gram stain, which delineates the difference between what two general types of bacteria?

Answer: Gram Positive And Gram Negative

79. In many arthropods, the segments of the body are grouped into 3 distinct parts. Name all three parts:

Answer: Head, Thorax, And Abdomen

72. Germs that cause fever usually act on this section of the brain, which is sometimes referred to as the body's thermostat:

Answer: Hypothalamus

ANSWER: C -- NUCLEAR CHARGE

As one goes across a period in the periodic table, the ionization energy generally increases for one of the following reasons. Is it because of the increasing A. atomic radius B. melting point C. nuclear charge D. density

ANSWER: 30 DEGREES

Assume a ray of light is incident on a smooth reflecting surface at an angle of incidence of 15 degrees to the normal. What is the angle between the incident ray and the reflected ray?

Answer: B

Assuming a year in a dog's life is equivalent to 7 years of a human's life, what is 1 hour of a dog's life approximately equivalent to in a human's life? A. 3 ½ hours B. 7 hours C. 5 hours D. 4 ½ days

2 Newtons

Assuming friction is negligible, if a lever has a mechanical advantage of 5, how much effort in newtons is needed to lift a 10 newton load?

588 Newtons

Assuming g = 9.8 m/sec2, what is the weight on Earth, in Newtons, of a 60 kilogram person?

Answer: C

Astronomers usually detect the electromagnetic emissions of a single neutron star in what single form: A. cosmic radiation B. microwaves C. radio waves D. infrared waves

Answer: D

At a location half-way from the Equator to the North Pole, which of the following correctly describes the stars apparent motion: A. they move in circles parallel with the horizon B. they rise and set vertically C. they remain stationary D. they rise and set at an angle to the horizon

D. 10

B

D. 15

B

D. 30% efficient

B

D. Brazil

B

D. German Electric

B

D. Ice

B

D. Light

B

D. Louisiana

B

D. None of the above

B

D. Receding oceans

B

D. Solar power tower

B

D. Solar sensor dish

B

D. Sun cartridge

B

D. The neutrons of atoms collide to produce energy

B

D. There are no existing geothermal plants

B

D. Top secret government agencies

B

D. Vegetable oil

B

LITHOSPHERE

Biosphere describes the earth realm where life occurs What describes the entire solid earth realm and is composed of mineral matter?

electromagnet

By passing current through a wire wrapped around an iron rod, William Sturgeon invented the:

inclined plane

By primarily using what simple machine did Galileo come to the conclusion on the existence of friction?

D. 127,000

C

D. 200 - 800, 5-6

C

D. 40-45

C

D. 400-500

C

D. 5 nanometers

C

Answer: Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen

Carbohydrates are made of what three elements?

Answer: Glucose

Cellulose is a polymer of repeating units of what molecule?

B

Certain products have been designed so that people wearing headphones do not hear the objectionably loud sound from certain machinery with which they are working. These headphones most likely work based on which one of the following principles: A. doppler effect B. destructive interference C. constructive interference D. audiopolarization

C (ACID RAIN)

Certain substances are classified as water pollutants, others as air pollutants and still others as land pollutants. Which of the following pollutes all three parts of our environment? A. fluorocarbons B. smog C. acid rain D. ozone

ANSWER: C—SULFUR

Cinnabar, pyrite and galena are minerals which consist of one or more metals combined with the same element. Which one of the following is the element that is common to all three of these minerals? Is it: A. iron B. copper C. sulfur D. sodium

C (MADE OF ICE CRYSTALS)

Cirrus clouds are: A. rain clouds B. thick and fleecy C. made of ice crystals D. low cloud layers

ANSWER: A -- AS A REFRIGERANT

Compounds of iodine are NOT used for which of the following? A. as a refrigerant B. in photographic film C. as an essential part of diet D. as an antiseptic

lead

Considering the specific heat of aluminum is 0.21, iron is 0.10, and lead is 0.03, which metal will show the largest increase in temperature per calorie added to one gram of that metal?

Answer: C

Continuing up the number sequence of natural numbers, prime numbers become which of the following: A. non-existent at a certain point B. all even after a certain point C. less and less frequent D. more frequent

Answer: -40oF-32/1.8 = -40o Centigrate

Convert -40oF into Centigrade:

Answer: 15%

Convert 3/20 into a percentage:

Answer: 400oC

Convert 673 Kelvin into degrees centigrade:

Answer: CH3CH2CH2CH2CH3

Convert the molecular structure of the hydrocarbon C5H12 into its straight-chain Condensed Structural Formula:

C. Tidal energy has not been widely utilized in the past D. All of the above

D

D. 3%

D

D. 600,000-1,000,00

D

D. 96%

D

D. All of the Above

D

D. All of the above

D

D. Biodiesel produces slightly higher amounts of nitrogen oxide

D

D. California

D

D. Cape Cod

D

D. Methane

D

D. One to two miles underground

D

D. Parabolic trough, solar dish, solar power tower

D

D. Peel

D

D. The blades are controlled randomly by the wind changes

D

D. Tidal Wall

D

D. Voluminous

D

D. a helium nucleus

D

C (COULOMBS/SECOND)

Electric current may be expressed in which one of the following units? A. coulombs/volt B. joules/coulomb C. coulombs/second D. ohms/second

Answer: B

Element A is a nonmetal with an electronegativity value of 3.0 and element B is a nonmetal with an electronegativity value of 2.5. What kind of bonding will occur between these two elements: A. nonpolar covalent B. polar covalent C. ionic D. fission

A (LYMAN SERIES)

For the hydrogen atom, which series describes electron transitions to the N=1 orbit, the lowest energy electron orbit? Is it the: A. Lyman series B. Balmer series C. Paschen series D. Pfund series

it is doubled

For two objects separated by a distance d, if the mass of one of the objects is doubled, what will happen to the gravitational attraction between them?

ANSWER: A -- A SKY CAMERA

For what reason was the Schmidt telescope specially built? Was it to serve as: A. a sky camera B. a radio telescope C. an optical telescope D. a solar telescope

ANSWER: 45o or p/4 RADIANS or (45o + n times 180o)

For what value of the angle "A" is the cos(A) equal t the sin(A)?

ANSWER: B - NITRATES

For which of the following classes of salts are all of its compounds soluble in water? A. sulfates B. nitrates C. hydroxides D. chlorides

ANSWER: X < 2 (read: X less than 2)

For which values of X from the set of real numbers does the following inequality hold: 8x - 6 < 2x + 6 (read: 8 x minus 6 is less than 2 x plus 6)

ANSWER: x < 2 (read: x LESS THAN 2)

For which values of x from the set of real numbers does the following inequality hold: 4x + 5 < x + 11 (read: 4 x plus 5 is less than x plus 11)

ANSWER: FLUORINE, CHLORINE, BROMINE, AND IODINE

Give me the names, in order of increasing mass, of the four lightest members the halogen family.

Answer: Earthshine

Give the common name for the phenomenon which is the result of sunlight reflecting off the Earth and faintly illuminating the darkened portion of the moon:

Pitchblende

Give the common name of the historic mineral that was the original source of radium and the first substance in which helium was discovered on earth:

ANSWER: C10H8

Give the empirical formula for the organic compound naphthalene?

ANSWER: (x - 8)2 + (y)2 = 82 or (x + 8)2 + (y)2 = 82

Give the equation of one of the circles which satisfy the following criteria: a circle with a radius of 8 which is tangent to the y-axis and whose center lies on the x-axis.

ANSWER: 2.477

Given that the log[base 10](3) = .477, what is the log[base 10] of 300?

D (METHANE AND CARBON DIOXIDE)

Global climate change is being attributed to the atmospheric increase in what two gases produced by human activities? A. oxygen and hydrogen B. ozone and methane C. nitrous oxide and sulfur dioxide D. methane and carbon dioxide E. ozone and carbon monoxide

Answer: One Million

Green How many more times louder is 70 decibels than 10 decibels?

C (sinkholes)

Ground depressions in areas of Karst topography are called: A. kettles B. grabens C. sinkholes D. cirques

the second law

Heat cannot pass from a cooler substance to a warmer substance without some other process being involved. This is an example of which law of thermodynamics?

ANSWER: C -- THE SUN

Heliocentric (pron: he-lee-o-sen-trik) means around: A. Jupiter B. the Moon C. the Sun D. Neptune

C (IRON)

Hematite is a primary ore of which of the following metals? A. zinc B. tungsten C. iron D. none of the above

ANSWER: AUTUMN

Hercules is a constellation which is commonly viewed in the summer in North America. In which of the seasons is the constellation "Pegasus" normally viewed?

ANSWER: E

How is the number 14 represented in the hexadecimal system?

ANSWER: 180 DEGREES

How many degrees are there in pi radians?

Answer: 180o

How many degrees are there in π radians:

ANSWER: D -- FOUR TIMES AS GREAT

If the distance between the earth and moon were halved, the force of the attraction between them would be: A. one fourth as great B. one half as great C. twice as great D. four times as great

ANSWER: C -- 1/9 THE ORIGINAL FORCE

If the distance between two objects, each of mass 'M', is tripled, the force of attraction between the two objects is: A. 1/2 the original force B. 1/3 the original force C. 1/9 the original force D. unchanged

4

If the distance separating two charges is doubled, the force between them decreases by what multiple factor?

ANSWER: 8

In a body-centered structure for cesium chloride how many nearest neighbor chloride ions surround a cesium ion?

FARAD

In the SI system of measure, what is the unit of capacitance?

light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

Laser is an acronym for what?

A (CAMBRIAN)

On the Phanerozoic (pron: fan-eh-reh-zO-ik) time scale, which of the following geologic periods occurred approximately 500 to 570 million years ago? Is it: A. Cambrian B. Ordovician (pron: ord-eh-vish-en) C. Carboniferous D. Silurian

ANSWER: VENUS

Only one planet in the solar system has a day which lasts longer than its year. Name this planet.

Answer: 6.543 X 10-3

Round the following number to four significant figures and express the result in standard exponential notation: 0.006543210

Answer: 720

Six factorial equals what number?

ANSWER: B -- 0.625 GRAMS

The half-life of an isotope of an element is 5 days. The mass of a 10 gram sample of this isotope remaining after 20 days is: A. 0.312 grams B. 0.625 grams C. 1.25 grams D. 2.50 grams

B (CALMS OF CANCER)

The horse latitude which occurs at approximately 30o - 35o north is also known as the: A. doldrums B. calms of Cancer C. calms of Capricorn D. trough of the Pacific

Answer: the square root of negative 1

The imaginary unit "i" is numerically defined as what?

B (STORM SURGE)

The name of a rapid rise of coastal water that accompanies the arrival of a cyclone is called: A. hurricane B. storm surge C. tidal wave D. cyclonistat

A (IGNEOUS)

The solidified lava of a volcano belongs to which rock family? Is it: A. igneous B. metamorphic C. sedimentary D. fossilized

ANSWER: B - CAVENDISH

The value of G, the universal gravitational constant, was measured experimentally by: A. Newton B. Cavendish C. Copernicus D. Kepler

Answer: 9

What is the cube root of 729?

ANSWER: x = p/2, 3p/2, 5p/2 ... or ODD INTEGERS OF p/2

Where does the graph of cotangent of x cross the x-axis?

A

Which of the following is the most accurate reason why a light bulb dropped on a rug does not break, but when dropped on a tile floor it does break: A. the time it takes to stop moving is less for the tile B. the change in momentum is greater for the tile C. the light bulb weighs more when it hits the tile D. the change in momentum is greater for the rug

Answer: 50%

π radians encompass what percent of a circle?

22. What kingdom of organisms does a professional Mycologist study?

Answer: Fungi

21. What does the first word designate in the binomial nomenclature system?

Answer: Genus

ANSWER: 2000 JOULES or 1960 JOULES

A 40 kilogram girl climbs a vertical distance of 5 meters in twenty seconds at a constant velocity. How much work has the girl done?

ANSWER: 15.85 (accept any answer between 15 and 16)

A 5th magnitude star is how many times brighter than an 8th magnitude star?

C (meander)

A low-gradient stream would most likely form a: A. V-shaped valley B. waterfall C. meander D. straight channel

ANSWER: 4 WATTS

A machine performs 8 Joules of work in 2 seconds. How much power is delivered by this machine?

COSMIC RAYS

A major component of the interstellar media consists of charged particles which havespeeds close to that of light. What are these charged particles called?

Answer: meteorite

A meteor that reaches the surface of the Earth is more accurately called a:

ANSWER: - 1/14

A number minus its reciprocal is 14 larger than the original number. What was the number?

B

A parsec is equal to which of the following: A. 100 Astronomical Units B. 3.26 light years C. 100 light years D. 140 million kilometers

73. Parkinson's disease is caused by a lack of this neurotransmitter in the brain:

Answer: Dopamine

24. Which germ layer in mammals is predominantly responsible for forming the nervous system?

Answer: Ectoderm

71. What is the name of the inner surface of the myocardium that is lined with a layer of endothelial cells?

Answer: Endocardium

B (CRETACEOUS)

During which period, in the earth's history, did MOST dinosaurs become extinct? A. Carboniferous B. Cretaceous C. Quaternary D. Triassic

E. <5

E

E. All choices are correct

E

E. All of the above

E

E. Lead-206

E

E. Petroleum

E

ANSWER: D - TRAPEZOID

If two sides of a quadrilateral are parallel and the other two sides are equal but NOT parallel, the quadrilateral is known as a: A. parallelogram B. triangle C. square D. trapezoid

ANSWER: 12t2 (read: 12t squared)

If x = t4 (read: t raised to the fourth), what is the second derivative of x with respect to t equal to?

Answer: 32,768

If you start with 1 bacterium and double the number every 15 minutes, how many bacteria will you have at the end of 3 hours and 45 minutes?

ANSWER: A -- IS STRONGLY REDSHIFTED

If you were watching a star collapsing to form a black hole, the light would disappear because it: A. is strongly redshifted B. is strongly blueshifted C. its color suddenly becomes black D. none of the above

C (INTRUSIVE ROCKS)

Igneous rocks that form from magma are known as: A. minerals B. granite C. intrusive rocks D. gneiss (pron: nice)

Answer: Gottfried Liebniz

In 1700 AD, this person showed that a series of 0's and 1's could be used to denote a number:

Seafloor Spreading

In 1962, Harry Hess at Princeton University hypothesized that the topography of the seafloor could be explained if the seafloor were moving sideways away from the oceanic ridge. This came to be called the Hess hypothesis of:

ANSWER: COULOMB FORCE or THE FORCE OF ATTRACTION BETWEEN THE PROTON (NUCLEUS) AND THE ELECTRON

In Bohr's theory of the atom, what force was responsible for holding the electrons in their orbit?

ANSWER: TIME

In Einstein's universe, what is the fourth dimension?

ANSWER: RED

In a flame test both lithium and strontium produce various shades of this color. What is this color?

ANSWER: D -- BLUE-GREEN

In a flame test, the presence of copper in a solution is evident by what color flame? Is the flame A. red B. orange C. indigo D. blue-green

Answer: B

In a normal distribution, approximately what percentage of the cases, to the nearest whole number, falls within 4 standard deviations of the mean: A. 68% B. 100% C. 99% D. 75%

Answer: Pluto

In a search for "Planet X", this celestial body was found after astronomers had searched for an orbital disturbance of the planet Uranus:

Answer: C

In a simple random sample: A. response bias will be small B. non-response bias will be small C. any two samples of the same size will have the same cha nce of being drawn D. each subject is asked every question and random responses are allowed

D

In beta minus emission, the number of nucleons in the atom: A. increases by one B. decreases by one C. increases by four D. remains the same

ANSWER: -cos(U) + CONSTANT

In calculus, what is the indefinite integral of the sin(U)dU equal to?

D (time interval between P-wave and S-wave arrival)

In determining the distance of an earthquake to its epicenter, which of the following is the most useful tool: A. intensity of P-wave B. intensity of S-wave C. difference in intensity between P and S-waves D. time interval between P-wave and S-wave arrival

B (LACCOLITH)

In geological studies, a dome shaped intrusion is called a: A. volcanic neck B. laccolith C. nuee ardente D. caldera

B (STRIKE-SLIP FAULT)

In geological studies, a fault in the earth's surface along which primarily horizontal movement has taken place is termed: A. overthrust fault B. strike-slip fault C. reverse fault D. none of the above

B (REVERSE FAULT)

In geological studies, a fault in the earth's surface in which the hanging wall has moved UP relative to the footwall is termed: A. overthrust fault B. reverse fault C. tear fault D. none of these

D (ARE SLOWER THAN S WAVES)

In geological studies, all of the following are TRUE of P waves except that they: A. are body waves B. travel like sound waves C. can pass through liquids D. are slower than S waves

A (ORTHOCLASE)

In geological studies, arkose contains which of the following minerals which gives it a reddish color? A. orthoclase B. calcite C. aragonite (pron: a-rag-o-nite) D. quartz

Answer: Standard Temperature And Pressure

In order to compare two different gas samples, scientists use what is called the STP. What does STP stand for?

(read as: N - H - 4 - plus) C. SO4 2- (read as: S - O - 4 - 2 minus) D. NO2 ANSWER: D -- NO2

In which of the following is the "octet rule" violated? A. CO2 B. NH4+

B (5 x 10-2 FARADS)

A 10 volt battery connected to a capacitor delivers a charge of 0.5 coulombs. The capacitance of the capacitor is: A. 2 x 10-2 farads B. 5 x 10-2 farads C. 2 farads D. 5 farads

D (WISCONSIN)

In which of these states can large numbers of drumlins be found? A. Oregon B. California C. Texas D. Wisconsin

D. 60

A

D. 7%

A

D. All of the above

A

D. Auguste Compte

A

D. Biomass and solar

A

D. Biomass relies upon all forms of energy

A

D. Brazil and Finland

A

D. Can only be used in areas that are very cold

A

D. Dish collectors

A

D. Earth's electromagnetic field

A

D. Egypt

A

D. Germany

A

D. Hamburg

A

D. Heat spaces

A

D. Major coal fires below the Earth's surface

A

D. None of the above

A

D. Nuclear, coal, petroleum

A

D. Petroleum and coal power systems

A

D. Petroleum, ethanol, nuclear

A

D. Plant matter and steam

A

D. Shorelines and mountain gaps that produce wind funneling

A

D. Solar flares

A

D. South Africa

A

D. Submarine

A

D. The Arctic Ocean

A

D. The sun's energy heats the Earth's surface

A

D. The time needed to construct a nuclear reactor

A

D. There is no advantage to burning garbage

A

D. Tides

A

D. Toronto, Canada

A

D. West Virginia

A

ANSWER: 4 METERS PER SECOND

A 10 kilogram body initially moving with a velocity of 10 meters per second makes a head-on collision with a 15 kilogram body initially at rest. The two objects stick together. What is the velocity of the combined system just after the collision?

ANSWER: B -- 0.5 METERS PER SECOND

A 10 kilogram mass rests on a horizontal frictionless surface. A horizontal force of 5 Newtons is applied to the mass. After the force has been applied for 1 second, the velocity of the mass is: A. 0 meters per second B. 0.5 meters per second C. 5 meters per second D. 50 meters per second

ANSWER: 4000 JOULES

A certain machine exerts a force of 200 newtons on a box whose mass is 30 kilograms. The machine moves the box a distance of 20 meters along a horizontal floor. What amount of work does the machine do on the box?

ANSWER: 6 METERS

A certain spring is known to obey Hooke's Law. If a force of 10 newtons stretches the spring 2 meters, how far will a 30 newton force stretch the spring?

ANSWER: STRAIGHT LINE

A charged particle is moving in a UNIFORM magnetic field. If the direction of motion of the charged particle is parallel to the magnetic field, describe the shape of the charged particle's path.

ANSWER: 0,1 or x = 0, y = 1

A circle with a radius of 2 is defined by the equation x2 + y2 - 2y = 3. What are the coordinates in the cartesian coordinate system of the center of this circle?

ANSWER: THE CURRENT IS ZERO

A circuit which employs a DIRECT CURRENT source has a branch which contains a capacitor. After the circuit has reached a steady state, what is the magnitude of the current in the circuit branch which contains the capacitor?

B (POTHOLE)

A circular cavity ground out of bedrock by running water is called a: A. cave B. pothole C. sinkhole D. kettle hole

solenoid

A coil of wire that produces a magnetic field is typically called a:

secondary color

A color made from the addition of two primary colors is called:

ANSWER: D -- AWAY FROM THE SUN

A comet's tail points in which direction? A. toward the sun B. toward the earth C. behind the comet in its orbit D. away from the sun

40. Order the following from the part of the digestive tract nearest to the beginning to the part nearest to the end: jejunum, ileum, esophagus, duodenum

Answer: Esophagus, Duodenum, Jejunum, Ileum

ANSWER: A - CONSTANT

A constant potential difference is applied across the plates of a parallel-plate capacitor. Neglecting any edge effects, the electric field inside the capacitor is: A. constant B. varying as one over r squared C. decreasing as one moves from the positive to the negative plate D.. zero

ANSWER: -13.5 CENTIMETERS or 13.5 CENTIMETERS ON THE OBJECT SIDE OF THE LENS

A converging thin lens has a focal length of 27 centimeters. An object is placed 9 centimeters from the lens. Where is the image of this object formed?

ANSWER: D -- CIRCLES THE AXIS OF THE ROD

A copper rod which is 1 centimeter in diameter carries a current of 5 amps. The current is distributed uniformly throughout the rod. The magnetic field half way between the axis of the rod and its outside edge is: A. zero. B. pointing radially outward C. pointing radially inward D. circles the axis of the rod

Answer: Two Children - One Boy And One Girl

A country adopted a policy requiring all couples to continue having children until they had a girl, after which they must stop having children. How many children will the average family have and what will the sex distribution be?

A

A figure skater who, while spinning in place, pulls her arms in to increase her rotational speed, is most closely exhibiting which of the following: A. conservation of angular momentum B. centrifugal force C. satellite motion D. centripetal acceleration

ANSWER: B -- GEOMETRIC SHAPE

A fractal is a type of: A. fraction B. geometric shape C. geologic fault D. differential equation

B (end moraine)

A glacier that has neither advanced nor retreated for many years deposits which of the following: A. terminal moraine B. end moraine C. ground moraine D. medial moraine

ANSWER: 6 METERS/SECOND UP

A helicopter is ascending vertically with a constant speed of 6 meters per second relative to the ground. At the instant the helicopter is 60 meters above the ground it releases a package. What is the magnitude and direction of the velocity of the package, relative to the ground, the instant the package is released by the helicopter?

C (cool and dry)

A high pressure center is associated with what kind of weather: A. warm and dry B. warm and wet C. cool and dry D. cool and wet

C (LENTIC COMMUNITY)

A lake or pond community is also known as a: A. pelagic community (pron: pe-laj-ick) B. benthic community (pron: ben-thick) C. lentic community (pron: len-tick) D. lotic community (pron: lot-ick)

Sinkhole

A limestone cave that is open to the sky or whose roof has collapsed is now called a:

ANSWER: 1

An 8 meter length of rope is placed along the circumference of a circle whose diameter is 16 meters. At the circle's center, how many radians are subtended by the 8 meter length of rope?

C (QUARTZ)

An agate is a form of what mineral? A. magnetite B. feldspar C. quartz D. copper

Answer: 40

An atom has 18 protons and 22 neutrons. What is its mass number:

B (SCHIST)

An example of a rock whose minerals have been crushed into thin sheets or bands is: A. shale B. schist C. conglomerate D. granite

ANSWER: B -- 2 METERS PER SECOND

An impulse of 10 kilogram-meter per second acting on an object whose mass is 5 kilogram will cause a change in the objects velocity of: A. 0.5 meters per second B. 2 meters per second C. 10 meters per second D. 50 meters per second

ANSWER: C -- CIRCLES THE WIRE

An infinitely long wire carries a current of three amps. The magnetic field outside the wire: A. points radially away from the wire B. points radially inward C. circles the wire D. is zero.

A (PELAGIC COMMUNITY)

An open-ocean community is also called a: A. pelagic community (pron: pe-laj-ick) B. benthic community (pron: ben-thik) C. lentic community (pron: len-tick) D. lotic community (pron: lot-ick)

ANSWER: B -- 4 METERS

An organ pipe which is open at both ends resonates at its fundamental frequency. Neglecting any end effects, what wavelength is formed by this pipe in this mode of vibration if the pipe is 2 meters long? A. 2 meters B. 4 meters C. 6 meters D. 8 meters.

A (DRIFTS)

Deposits that form when the ice in a glacier melts are called: A. drifts B. dunes C. veins D. cirques (pron: serks)

ANSWER: NEPTUNE

During the period between 1979 and 1998, what is the farthest planet from the sun?

Autumnal And Vernal Equinoxes

During which equinoxes are day and night of equal length around the world:

ANSWER: GALAXIES

Elliptical, Spiral and Irregular are classifications of what type of astronomical systems?

Answer: 5 and 3 for the number 8; and 7 and 5 for the number 12

Every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes. Give the respective two pairs of prime numbers that when added give 8 and 12:

ANSWER: 1

Exactly how many of the prime numbers are even?

ANSWER: IODINE

Excluding Astatine, which halogen does NOT replace the other halogens from their compounds?

ANSWER: 18

Express the binary number 10010 as a decimal number.

ANSWER: 1B

Express the decimal number 27 in Base 16 (Hexadecimal).

ANSWER: -2 + 24i (read: minus 2 plus 24 i)

Express the product of the following complex numbers in the form a + bi (read: a plus bi) where a and b are real: 4 + 2i and 2 + 5i (read: 4 plus 2 i and 2 plus 5 i)

Answer: 13 + 33

If perfect numbers, except 6, can be expressed by the sum of the cubes of an unbroken sequence of consecutive odd integers, what are the consecutive odd integers which, when cubed, give the perfect number 28?

ANSWER: C -- ABOUT 1/200th THAT OF THE EARTH'S

How is the atmospheric pressure of Mars as compared to the atmospheric pressure of the earth? Is it: A. about the same as the earth's B. about 100 times as great as the earth's C. about 1/200th that of the earth's D. half as much as that of the earth's

A

How is the index of refraction computed: A. the speed of light in a vacuum is divided by the speed of light in the material B. the speed of light in the material is divided by the speed of light in a vacuum C. the speed of light in water is divided by the speed of light in a vacuum D. the speed of light in a vacuum is divided by the speed of light in water

ANSWER: B - TWO

How many electrons can occupy an s orbital? A. one B. two C. three D. four

one million

How many femtometers are in a nanometer?

Answer: 2

How many half- moons are there in a lunar cycle?

ANSWER: 2

How many hydrogen atoms are there in the organic compound 1,1,2,2-tetrabromoethane (read: tetra - bromo - ethane)?

ANSWER: 200 MILLIGRAMS

How many milligrams are in one metric carat?

Answer: 250 Milliliters

How many milliliters of water would you add to 100 milliliters of a 0.350 molar solution to make a 0.100 molar solution?

one proton and one neutron

How many neutrons and how many protons are present in a single deuterium nucleus?

Answer: 2

How many significant figures are there in the number 0.0036:

ANSWER: FOUR

How many vertices does a tetrahedron have?

ANSWER: 1

If q = 30°, what is csc2 q - cot2 q equal to? (read: If theta equals 30 degrees, what is cosecant squared theta minus cotangent squared theta equal to?)

Answer: 3 times

If the length of the cycloid is 4 times the diameter of a rotating circle, then the area under the arch traced out by that cycloid is how many times the area of the rotating circle?

ANSWER: D - CONSTANT

If the resultant force acting on a body of constant mass is zero, the body's momentum is: A. increasing B. decreasing C. always zero D. constant

Answer: 81

If the temperature of a star increases from 10,000K to 30,000K, by what factor will the rate of energy radiated per second increase?

ANSWER: B - RADIO

In which spectral region is it possible for astronomers to observe through clouds? A. visual B. radio C. ultraviolet D. x-ray

ANSWER: RED GIANT

I am a type of star with a relatively low effective temperature (3,000 to 4,000 Kelvins), and have a large radius-about 100 times that of the Sun. What am I?

A (IT WAS FORMED ABOVE A MID-OCEAN RIFT.)

Iceland has a great deal of volcanic activity. The reason for this is: A. it was formed above a mid-ocean rift. B. it is part of the "Ring of Fire". C. two tectonic plates are rubbing against each other under Iceland. D. the American plate is diving under the European plate in this region.

ANSWER: 3/2

If (sin(3x) + cos(3x))2 = 2 (read: the quantity sine x plus cosine 3 x squared equals 2) then what does 3sin(3x) cos(3x) (read 3 sine 3 x cosine 3 x) equal?

ANSWER: 2 VOLTS

If 10 joules of energy are required to move 5 coulombs of charge between two points, the potential difference between the two points is equal to how many volts?

Answer: B

If CO2 is bubbled through distilled water at room temperature, which of the following will most likely occur: A. the pH of the water increases B. the pH of the water decreases C. the pH of the water is unchanged D. carbon will precipitate out of solution

Coulomb's Law

If F equals electric force, and q and q' (read as: q-prime) are the charges on two particles, the expression F is proportional to q times q prime divided by distance squared is what law?

Answer: A

If a human being were to be exposed suddenly to the surface of Mars, which of the following would most likely occur to the person's blood: A. it would boil in a matter of seconds B. it would freeze in a matter of seconds C. it would coagulate in a matter of seconds D. there would be no immediate change

ANSWER: 10 MILLION or 10 to the seventh power

If an electronic circuit operates in 100 nanoseconds, how many operations can it perform in one second?

Cyan

If blue light is combined with green light, what color of light is produced?

ANSWER: x[dy/dt] + y[dx/dt] or y[dx/dt] + x[dy/dt]

If both x and y are functions of time, what is the derivative of the PRODUCT of x and y with respect to time equal to?

Answer: prime numbers

If in a sequence of natural numbers, starting with 2, you begin eliminating every second number after 2, then every third number after 3, then every fourth number after 4, and so on, what type of numbers will be left?

ANSWER: D -- 91/3 (read: the cube root of 9)

If logx81 = 6 (read: the log base x of 81 equals 6), then x is equal to: A. 3 B. 9 C. 1/3 D. 91/3 (read: the cube root of 9)

ANSWER: B -- ANGULAR VELOCITY

In physics, a radian per second is a unit of: A. angular displacement B. angular velocity C. angular acceleration D. angular momentum.

amplitude modulation

In radio transmission, what does the acronym AM stand for?

Answer: standard deviation

In statistics, what is the common term for the square root of the variance?

A (THRUST FAULT)

In studies of the surface of the earth, a reverse fault having a dip between 10 and 45 degrees is known as a: A. thrust fault B. normal fault C. strike-slip fault D. neither of these

James Clerk Maxwell

In the 19th century, this Scottish scientist showed that all magnetic and all electric phenomena could be described by four equations that often bear his name. What is his name?

Answer: C

In the Australian winter night sky, which of the following is true regarding the constellation Orion: A. it is seen in the western sky B. it is seen in the southern sky C. it is seen in the northern sky D. it can never be seen

Answer: Blue-Shift

In the Doppler effect, what is the correct term for the change in the color of light when an object that is emitting light is moving toward the observer?

Answer: B

In the chemistry lab, for safety reasons, when a concentrated acid is mixed with water: A. the water is always added to the acid B. the acid is always added to the water C. these can only be mixed at cold temperatures D. these can never be mixed

ANSWER: C -- OXIDIZED AT THE ANODE

In the common dry cell, the zinc atoms are: A. reduced at the cathode B. oxidized at the cathode C. oxidized at the anode D. reduced at the anode

ANSWER: -2 - 2i and -2 + 2i

In the complex plane, what are the roots of the equation x2 + 4x + 8 = 0? (read: x squared plus 4 x plus 8 equals 0)

ANSWER: 10

In the equation y = 3x2 + 4x + 2 (read: y equals 3 x squared plus 4 x plus 2). What is the value of the derivative of y at x = 1?

ANSWER: 5

In the equation y = 4x + 3. What is the value of the integral of y from x = 0 to x = 1? (read: y equals 4 x plus 3)

Answer: A

In the hexadecimal counting system, the letter c stands for what base-10 number: A. 12 B. 3 C. 16 D. 11

ANSWER: A - PERIOD

In the periodic table, which of the following identifies a horizontal row? A. period B. group C. family D. series

ANSWER: D - FUSION

In the sun, helium is produced from hydrogen by: A. radioactive decay B. disintegration C. fission D. fusion

Troposphere

In what layer of the Earth's atmosphere does most of our weather occur?

ANSWER: BASE 3

In what number base does 1 + 2 = 10?

ANSWER: 1969

In what year did Neil Armstrong make his historic walk on the Moon?

ANSWER: B -- F2

In which of the following compounds is the bonding most covalent? A. NaCl B. F2 C. MgS D. Fe3C

C (GREENLAND)

In which of the following is a continental glacier found? A. Switzerland B. the Rockies C. Greenland D. the Andes Mountains

am radio; fm radio; uhf tv; microwaves

Order the following categories of electromagnetic radiation from the LOWEST frequency to the HIGHEST: FM radio, UHF TV, AM radio, microwaves

Corundum; Topaz; Quartz; Fluorite

Order the following minerals from the hardest to the softest: Topaz; Corundum; Quartz; Fluorite

Answer: DINITROGEN TRIOXIDE

Out of the following choices, which is the correct name for N2O3: A. dinitrogen oxide B. dinitrogen dioxide C. dinitrogen trioxide D. dinitrogen tetroxide

ANSWER: BACKGROUND RADIATION RESULTING FROM THE BIG BANG or PRIMORDIAL FIREBALL RADIATION or 3 K RADIATION

Penzias and Wilson made what famous discovery which supported the idea that the universe was created by a "big Bang".

C

Physicists most commonly call a mass moving in a straight line path as having: A. angular or rotational momentum B. straight momentum C. translational momentum D. second order momentum

ANSWER: 10 AND -2

The relation between y and x is given by the equation " y = ABS(4 -x) " (read: y equals the absolute value of the quantity 4 minus x). If y equals 6, give all possible values for X.

ANSWER: B - LENSES

Refracting telescopes always contain which one of the following? A. mirrors B. lenses C. television systems D. film

ANSWER: -4 AND -3

The relationship between y and x is given by the equation, y = x2 + 7x + 14 (read: y equals x squared plus 7 x plus 14). For what values of x will y equal +2?

ANSWER: 1

The relationship between y and x is given by the equation: y = x2 - 2x + 8. For what value of x is y a minimum?

fundamental

The lowest frequency that determines the pitch of a musical note is most commonly called the:

B (SODIUM CHLORIDE)

The mineral halite is: A. potassium chloride B. sodium chloride C. calcium chloride D. calcium bromide

Fluorite

The name of this mineral is derived from the Latin word which means "to flow". One of its major uses is as a flux to help melt iron ore. What is its name?

ANSWER: B -- ONLY WEAK VAN DER WAALS FORCES HOLD THE ATOMS TOGETHER

The noble gases have low boiling points because: A. their ionization potentials are very low B. only weak Van der Waals forces hold the atoms together C. they are produced by the fractional distillation of liquid air D. they have eight electrons in the outer shell

STRATOSPHERE

The ozone layer is located in which region of the atmosphere?

D (luster)

The physical property used in mineral identification for the way a mineral's surface reflects light is called: A. streak B. polish C. refractivity D. luster

ANSWER: D -- GREATER THAN THE COMBINED MASSES OF ALL OF THE PLANETS

The planet Jupiter has a mass that is: A. equal to the combined masses of the earth and Mars B. equal to the combined masses of Saturn and Pluto C. equal to the combined masses of Saturn, Neptune and Uranus D. greater than the combined masses of all of the planets

ANSWER: 0,3 or x = 0, y = 3

The polar coordinates of a point are (3, p/2) (read: 3 comma p over 2). What are the cartesian coordinates of this point?

ANSWER: D - LIMACON

The polar equation, r = 3 - 2cos(t), (read: r equal 3 minus 2 times the cosine of the angle t) represents which of the following graphs? Is it the graph of a: A. cardioid B. three-leaved rose C. Archimedian-spiral D. limacon (pron: lee-ma-son)

ANSWER: B -- THREE-LEAVED ROSE

The polar equation, r = 3sin(3t), (read: r equals 3 times the sine of angle 3t) represents which of the following graphs? Is it the graph of a: A. cardioid B. three-leaved rose C. Archimedian-spiral D. limacon

ANSWER: 12,100

The population of a near-by town was 10,000 in January, 1990. It is estimated that the population will increase by 10% each year. What will be population of the town in January, 1992.

ANSWER: 1000 JOULES

The potential difference across a 4 ohm resistor is 20 volts. Assuming that all of the energy dissipated by this resistor is in the form of heat, how many joules of heat are radiated in 10 seconds?

ANSWER: A -- NO CURRENT IS DRAWN FROM THE BATTERY

The potential drop between the terminals of a battery is equal to the battery's EMF when: A. no current is drawn from the battery B. a very large current is drawn from the battery C. the internal resistance of the battery is very large D. the resistance in the external circuit is small

Answer: 6

The product of 6 factorial is how many times larger than the product of 5 factorial?

Answer: B

The property of water which permits an insect to "walk" on water is: A. viscosity B. surface tension C. tensile strength D. turgor pressure

ANSWER: SOLAR WIND

The rapidly moving stream of charged particles that is being driven away from the sun is known as what?

ANSWER: 18,48

The ratio of 2 positive numbers is 3 to 8 and their product is 864. What are the two numbers?

Answer: Esterification

The reaction of an acid with an alcohol to form an ester and water is called:

Answer: D

The reaction of hydrocarbons with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water and heat is called: A. fission B. fusion C. endothermic D. combustion

ANSWER: {2,4,5}

The universal set U contains the elements {1,2,3,4,5}. Set A contains the elements {1,3}. What elements does the set A' (read: A prime) contain?

ANSWER: C -- THE HUBBLE CONSTANT

The universe is estimated to be between ten and twenty billion years old. This estimate is based on the value of which constant? A. The mass of the Earth B. The speed of light C. The Hubble Constant D. The mass of the electron

Answer: ELECTROLYSIS

The use of electricity to decompose molten sodium chloride into its component elements is an example of: A. electrolysis B. galvanization C. a voltaic cell D. electroplating

ANSWER: D - DIFFRACTION

The wave nature of light is demonstrated by which of the following? A. the photoelectric effect B. color C. the speed of light D. diffraction

Answer: C

The wavelength of yellow light is 600 nanometers. What is the wavelength in centimeters: A. 6.0 x 10-9 B. 6.0 x 10-7 C. 6.0 x 10-5 D. 6.0 x 10-2

ANSWER: B -- ALWAYS NEGATIVE

The work done by a friction force is: A. always positive B. always negative C. always zero D. either positive or negative depending upon the situation.

Answer: Henrietta Leavitt

The work of this Harvard College Observatory scientist made possible the first accurate determination of extragalactic distances by what is often called Henrietta's Law:

EXFOLIATION

There is a specific term used by geologists to describe rock weathering in which shells or plates are broken away from a rock leaving it rounded in appearance. What is this term?

A (Lenticular)

These clouds are named for their smooth, round, lens-like shape and commonly form over mountains: A. lenticular B. contrails C. stratocumulus D. mackerel

Answer: VAN ALLEN BELTS

These doughnut shaped zones of atomic particles consists of electrons and protons captured by the Earth's magnetic field from the solar winds and are called: