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REVIEW TEST 10. Which of the following is the blue-print of

1. Cells that build bone: an organism?
A. Osteoclast A. DNA
B. Osteoblast B. RNA
Answer: Answer:
2. The process when cell engulfs water. 11. Which of the following is the deficiency in
A. Pinocytosis Vitamin A?
B. Phagocytosis A. Blindness
C. Cytokinesis B. Scurvy
D. Parthenogenesis Answer:
Answer: 12. Which of the following is the deficiency of
3. The complementary pair of Adenine in RNA proteins in the presence of adequate energy?
strand. A. Kwashiorkor
A. Thymine B. Marasmus
B. Cytosine Answer:
C. Uracil
13. What weather phenomenon causes more
D. Guanine
deaths in the U.S. annually than any other
Answer:
except lightning?
4. The physical traits of an organisms.
ANSWER:
A. Allele
14. What is given to wood whose normal cells
B. Codon
have been replaced with
C. Phenotype
mineral deposits?
D. Karyotype
ANSWER:
Answer:
15. Pollination by birds is called:
5. The largest gland.
w) autogamy
A. Pancreas
x) ornithophily (pron: or-nith-o-philly)
B. Liver
y) entomophily (pron: ent-eh-mof-illy)
C. Skin
z) anemophily (pron: an-eh-mof-illy)
D. Gluteus maximus
ANSWER:
Answer:
16. Unlike rodents, the rabbit has how many
6. The green pigment of plants.
incisor teeth?
A. Chlorophyll
ANSWER:
B. Rhodophyll
17. What percent of fire-related deaths are due
C. Xanthophyll
to smoke inhalation
D. Leucoplast
rather than burns?
Answer:
w) 10%
7. Which of the following vascular tissues
x) 50%
transport water inside the plants?
A. Phloem
y) 80%
B. Xylem z) 99%
C. Annual rings ANSWER:
D. Petiole 18. To what familiar fruit is the plantain similar?
Answer: ANSWER:
8. Longest arm part of the chromosome: 19. What U.S. President was recognized as a
A. P-arm world authority on American
B. Q-arm game animals?
Answer: ANSWER:
9. Which of the following is the highest level of 20. How many men have walked on the moon?
classification? ANSWER:
A. Phylum 21. The fastest-running terrestrial animal is:
B. Kingdom w) cheetah
Answer: x) lion
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y) man w) shell-fish
z) jaguar x) tuna
ANSWER: y) marble
22. In what country do the greatest number of z) meteoroid
tornadoes occur? ANSWER:
ANSWER: 35. The only species of cat that lives and hunts
23. What wonder drug was used for three years in groups is:
by the Army and Navy w) lion
before becoming available to the general public x) leopard
in 1944? y) jaguar
ANSWER: z) cougar
24. Which sea is the saltiest natural lake and is ANSWER:
also at the lowest elevation 36. What is arachnology?
on the face of the earth? ANSWER:
ANSWER: 37. What is another name for the Paleolithic
25. The scarab, worshipped by the Egyptians, is Age?
what type of beetle? ANSWER:
ANSWER: 38. What nocturnal animal group makes up
26. As you go down into a well, your weight: one-fourth of all mammals
w) increases slightly species?
x) decreases slightly ANSWER:
y) remains exactly the same 39. What is the name of the whale that has a
ANSWER long protruding tusk?
27. W cloud at ground level is called what? ANSWER:
ANSWER: 40. How many time zones are there on Earth?
28. What invention in about 1450 A.D. ANSWER:
revolutionized communication and 41. What land mammal holds the record for the
the world? greatest age?
ANSWER: ANSWER:
29. What is the name for the new technology 42. What is the better known name for the
whereby a glass fiber carries deadly poison prussic acid?
as much information as hundreds of copper ANSWER:
wires? 43. What colorless, pungent gas is often
ANSWER: dissolved in water to yield a
30. What mammal lays eggs? solution that is used as a biological
ANSWER: preservative?
31. Linseed oil comes from what plant? ANSWER:
ANSWER: 44. What is the rest mass of a photon?
32. Bees must collect nectar from ANSWER:
approximately how many flowers to 45. What yellow metal is an alloy of copper and
make 1 pound of honeycomb? Is it: zinc?
w) 10 thousand ANSWER:
x) 2 million 46. What is the name given to the process,
y) 20 million discovered by Goodyear, of
z) 50 million adding sulfur to heated rubber?
ANSWER: ANSWER:
33. What is the name of the largest North 47. Used primarily in fertilizers, which element
American terrestrial rodent, is never found free in
distinguished by its spiny covering? nature even though it makes up about 2.5% of
ANSWER: the earth's crust?
34. Albacore is a type of: ANSWER:
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48. What element, whose symbol derived from 57. What famous scientist and inventor
the Latin for "liquid participated in the invention of
silver", has been found in Egyptian tombs from the Aqua-Lung?
1500 B.C.? w) Thomas Edison
ANSWER: x) Isaac Newton
49. What poisonous alkaloid is extracted from y) Leonardo da Vinci
tobacco leaves and widely z) Jacques Cousteau
used as an insecticide? ANSWER:
ANSWER: 58. Superconductivity is a material property
50. What is the name for steel alloyed with associated with:
chromium? w) cooling a substance without a phase change
ANSWER: x) frictionless liquid flow
51. Table sugar, from sugar cane or beet, is y) a loss of thermal resistance
what type of sugar? z) a loss of electrical resistance
ANSWER: ANSWER:
52. Which prefix is often used with scientific 59. A type of plastic that is biodegradable has
terms to indicate that been in the news lately.
something is the same, equal or constant? The ingredient that makes it biodegradable is:
w) iso (pron: eye-so) w) vegetable oil
x) mega x) petroleum
y) meta y) cornstarch
z) quasi z) leather
ANSWER: ANSWER:
53. The study of phenomena at very low 60. Who was the marine biologist and author of
temperatures is called: Silent Spring who was
w) heat transfer one of the first people to warn of the dangers of
x) morphology pesticides like DDT?
y) crystallography w) Jacques Cousteau
z) cryogenics (pron: cry-o-jen-iks) x) Rachel Carson
ANSWER: y) Charles Darwin
54. The branch of medical science which is z) Marlin Perkins
concerned with the study of ANSWER:
disease as it affects a community of people is 61. If a metal can be drawn into wires relatively
called: easily it is called:
w) epidemiology w) malleable
x) oncology x) ductile
y) paleontogy y) extractive
z) pathology z) tactile
ANSWER: ANSWER:
55. The study of how people use tools to 62. What is the name given to the invasion of
perform work and how people warm surface waters off the
physically relate to their working environment is Peruvian coast that has been identified with
called: strange climactic effects in recent years?
w) engineering ANSWER:
x) ergonomics 63. Occasionally, a bad cold will cause a
y) agronomy decrease in a persons hearing
z) physiology ability. What is the name of the tube that
ANSWER: becomes blocked to cause this problem?
56. Name the first woman to travel in space. ANSWER:
ANSWER: 64. Name the general type of mammal that
gives birth to undeveloped
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young that are kept in pouches. w) Edward Teller

ANSWER: x) Robert Oppenheimer
that produces a fundamental note, what would y) Hymen Rickover
the wavelength of the second harmonic be z) Chester Nimitz
relative to the fundamental? ANSWER:
ANSWER: 74. The science of weights and measures is
66. In which country was a method for making called:
rust-resistant iron w) metrology
discovered in the fifth century B.C.? x) meteorology
w) Sumeria y) mineralogy
x) Egypt z) morphology
y) India ANSWER:
z) Babylon 75. The following are the names of man-made
ANSWER: structures in the United
67. Cystitis is the infection of which of the States. Identify the type of structure. Hungry
following? Horse, Yellowtail, Dworshak, Don Pedro,
w) liver Cougar,
x) urinary bladder Glen Canyon, Grand Coulee and Hoover. Name
y) pancreas the type of structure.
z) lung ANSWER:
ANSWER 76. Which of the following is primarily
68. What is the subdivision in the Plant Kingdom composed of calcium carbonate?
comprising over 20,000 w) Fish scales
species of Mosses and Liverworts? x) Shark teeth
ANSWER: y) Oyster Shells
69. Name the medical term given to the z) Whale bones
inflammation of infection of the ANSWER:
mucous membranes of the nose. 77. What compound is a common component
ANSWER: of air pollution, but is
70. Wutomobile catalytic converters cause the essential in the upper atmosphere to protect
carbon monoxide and life on earth?
hydrocarbons which result from incomplete ANSWER:
combustion to be converted into what two 78. Water flows through a horizontal pipe at a
substances? constant volumetric rate.
ANSWER At a location where the cross sectional area
71. At room temperature, most elements are in decreases, the velocity of the fluid:
which phase of matter? w) increases
w) solid x) decreases
x) liquid y) stays the same
y) gas ANSWER:
z) plasma 79. What radioactive element is routinely used
ANSWER: in treating
72. The per capita birth rate of a population is hyperthyroidism, and in reducing thyroid
known as its: activity?
w) mortality w) Iron-59
x) natality (pron: nay-tal-eh-ty) x) Gold-198
y) population density y) Cobalt-60
z) carrying capacity z) Iodine-131
ANSWER: ANSWER:
73. Who is called the Father of the Nuclear 80. What is osteoporosis?
Navy? ANSWER:
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81. Yeast, used in making bread is a: x) indivisible

w) plant y) unseen
x) fungus z) visible
y) bacteria ANSWER
z) seed 90. Name the famous mathematician/physicist
ANSWER: who was born in the year
82. The Statue of Liberty is green because of: Galileo died.
w) green stone ANSWER:
x) oxidized brass 91. In 1991, critical habitat was designated for
y) steel painted green this well-known species
z) oxidized copper in the states of Washington, Oregon and
ANSWER: California.
83. Name the phase of quartz consistently w) brown bear
found in meteorite impact x) northern spotted owl
craters, but rarely found in non-meteorite- y) bald eagle
related geological formations. z) snail darter
ANSWER ANSWER:
84. Wt what point are the Celsius and 92. This large bird of prey is related to the
Fahrenheit scales equal? eagle. The bird is found on all
ANSWER: continents. Three species, the swallow-tailed,
85. Which of the following vacuum pumps white-tailed and the Mississippi are found in
operates by using a very cold North
surface to trap the gases on the cold surface? Is America. Name this GENR-92; Short Answer:
it a: What creatures travel in gaggles?
w) sublimation pump ANSWER:
x) turbo pump 93. Which of the following are NOT native to
y) cryopump North America?
z) diffusion pump. w) Mountain Quail
ANSWER: x) Ringneck Pheasant
86. Using the fewest names of the members of y) Sharptail Grouse
this family, identify the tree z) Masked Bob-White
family which includes among its members the: ANSWER
Fink, myrtle, turkey, jacks, laurel, white, live and 94. Members of the order Apodes, these
pin. Name the tree family. elongated slender fishes are
ANSWER: without pelvic fins and in some species lack
87. Using the fewest names of the members of pectoral or median GENR-92; Short Answer:
this family, identify the tree What
family which includes among its members the: is a shark's skeleton made of?
Pignut, scarit, mockernut, bitternut, black and ANSWER:
shagbark. Name the tree family. 95. Identify the Earth's largest INVERTEBRATE
ANSWER: animal.
88. Using the fewest names of the members of ANSWER:
this family, identify the tree 96. What creature do the Galapagos Islands
family which includes among its members the: take their name from?
Chinese, cut-leaved, manchurian, persian, ANSWER:
english, 97. What is the only venomous British snake?
black and american. Name the tree family. ANSWER:
ANSWER: 98. What is shed when you desquamate?
89. The word atom is from a Greek word ANSWER:
meaning: 99. What are the only places that dogs have
w) small sweat glands?
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ANSWER: w) 10 percent
100. What body function are rats unable to do x) 25 percent
which makes them extra y) 55 percent
vulnerable to poison? z) 90 percent
ANSWER:
ANSWER:
8. The majority of the U.S. electricity generating
NEXT REVIEW plant use what
thermodynamic cycle?
1. A cyclone is an engineering device that is ANSWER:
used to 9. Which continent has the largest KNOWN
w) transport materials deposits of coal?
x) segregate particles ANSWER:
y) control switching devices 10. In a typical power plant used to generate
z) model fractals electricity in the U.S., the
ANSWER: percentage of energy in the fuel that is
2. In the United States, low sulfur coal can be converted to electricity is about:
found primarily in the: w) 99 percent
w) northeast x) 50 percent
x) southeast y) 35 percent
y) midwest z) 10 percent
z) west ANSWER:
ANSWER 11. In electronic circuits, what name is given to
3. Electric power is less expensive at night a frequency discriminating
because: network designed to select or pass certain
w) more hydroelectric generation is brought on bands of frequencies with low attenuation and
line at night. cause very high attenuation to other
x) there is less demand at night. frequencies?
y) pollution control is less stringent at night. ANSWER:
z) power plants are more efficient at night. 12. This bistable electronic device assumes one
ANSWER of two stable output
4. Name THREE TECHNIQUES for removing states, depending upon the state of the most
particulates from flue recently applied input signal. In computer
gas produced from the combustion of coal? systemsthis device is used for storing
ANSWER information. Name this common electronic
5. Name TWO sorbents which are used in device.
conventional wet scrubbing ANSWER:
processes to remove SO2 produced by 13. In a certain electronic circuit the output is
combusting coal. positive if input 1 is
ANSWER: (1) LIME positive and input 2 is zero. If both inputs are
(2) LIMESTONE positive the output is zero. This is:
(3) SODIUM SULFITE OR NaCO3 OR NaOH w) an AND circuit
6. Name THREE gaseous components produced x) a NOR circuit
when coal is y) an OR circuit
combusted. z) a high-pass filter
ANSWER ANSWER
7. Electricity generated by coal-fired power 14. To reverse the direction of rotation of a
plants i the United States three-phase AC induction
in 1990 was approximately what percentage of motor, do one of the following:
the entire electricity produced by all sources of w) reverse any two of the three-phase
power production? connections
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x) change the frequency of the applied AC 22. Name the effect that is caused by scattering
power of light in colloids or suspensions.
y) operate the motor below the stall torque at ANSWER:
very high slip 23. Name the type of camel that has two
z) none of the above humps.
ANSWER ANSWER: 24. Name the California scientist who
15. What are the three elements of a bipolar won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for
transistor? Are they the: elucidating the details of the photosynthetic
w) grid, plate, cathode process.
x) suppressor, deflector, target ANSWER
y) energizer, controller, terminus 25. Glaucoma is treated by which of the
z) emitter, base, collector following:
ANSWER: w) androgenic drug
6. W 10 pound bag of fertilizer carries the label x) androgenic blocking drug
20-6- y) cholinergic drug
ANSWER: z) anticholinergic drug
17. Seawater (i.e. saltwater) freezes at: ANSWER: 26. Atolls are most probably formed
w) the same temperature as fresh water. by:
x) at a slightly higher temperature than fresh w) a rise in the earth's crust
water. x) sand brought in from the mainland
y) at a slightly lower temperature than fresh y) collapse of the center of a volcano
water. z) coral reef upbuilding during subsidence
z) seawater does not freeze. ANSWER
ANSWER: 27. Identify the tree family which includes
18. Nitrous oxide, commonly called laughing among its members the: New
gas, has been a matter of Mexico, Texas honey, thornless honey, water,
concern to environmentalists recently because: black and honey. Name this tree family.
w) it is thought to cause cancer at low ANSWER:
concentrations. 28. Name the order of insects which includes
x) it produces photochemical smog. among its members the:
y) it is a greenhouse gas. Hawk, Death's Head, Brown-Tail, Carpenter,
z) none of the above Clear-Winged, Clothes and Gypsy. Name this
ANSWER: insect order.
19. Ozone in the upper atmosphere is produced ANSWER:
from: 29. With many thousands of species, this is one
w) lightning of the largest families in
x) photochemical reactions the plant kingdom. Identify this plant family
y) electrical appliances on Earth which includes among its members the: Brome,
z) model fractals Love, Foxtail, Sudan, Buffalo, Saint Augustine,
ANSWER Burmuda and Blue.
20. : Pollination by wind is called: ANSWER:
w) autogamy 30. Give the name of the area of science
x) entomophily concerned with the study of the
y) anemophily customs and societies of mankind.
z) ornithophily ANSWER:
ANSWER: 31. Name the English naturalist who, while
21. What is the technique by which lasers are credited with being the
used to photograph objects codeveloper of the theory of evolution by
and reproduce them in three dimensions? natural selection, is much less famous for this
ANSWER: than his
codeveloper.
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w) Erasmus Darwin fields of physics, chemistry, and physiology or

x) Robert Ludlow medicine? Is it:
y) Alfred Russel Wallace w) 2
z) Rudolf Virchow x) 5
ANSWER y) 9
32. The acronym NEPA stands for what? z) 12
ANSWER: ANSWER:
33. The U.S. population receives the largest 40. This woman scientist was the oldest
dose of ionizing radiation daughter of another very
from: well-known woman scientist. She was the
w) natural sources. second woman in history to win a Nobel Prize in
x) fallout from nuclear weapons testing. science, receiving the prize in 1935 for her work
y) nuclear medicine. in synthesizing new radioactive elements. Who
z) nuclear power plants. is this famous woman scientist?
ANSWER:. ANSWER:
34. The radioactive element most commonly 41. Xorn in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1896, this
detected in humans is: woman scientist
w) potassium-40 received her MD from the German University in
x) cobalt-60 Prague. After moving to Washington University
y) iodine-131 in the United States, she and her husband
z) plutonium-238 conducted pioneering work in carbohydrate
ANSWER: metabolism. In 1947, this husband-wife team,
35. The largest breeder reactor built to date is along with Bernardo Houssay, was awarded the
located where? Nobel Prize in medicine, their citation reading
w) USSR "for their discovery of the course of the
x) Japan catalytic conversion."
y) France Name this esteemed woman scientist.
z) United States ANSWER:
ANSWER: 42. Using X-ray crystallography, this woman
36. Radioisotopes which are used in medical scientist determined the
diagnosis are known as structures of large biochemical molecules,
what? including penicillin in 1949 and vitamin B12 in
w) tracers 1956. In 1969 she determined the three
x) silver bullets dimensional structure of insulin. In 1964 she
y) markers was awarded the
z) dyes Nobel Prize in chemistry "for her determination
ANSWER: by X-ray techniques of the structures of
37. Most commercial nuclear power plants important biochemical substances." Name this
worldwide are cooled by: woman scientist.
w) sodium ANSWER
x) mercury 43. In 1977, this American female scientist
y) helium shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for her work
z) water in the development of radioimmunoassays of
ANSWER peptide hormones. In awarding the prize, the
38. What did Ira Remsen discover in 1879, Nobel Committee described her technique as
perhaps proclaiming: "How having "brought about a revolution in biolocial
sweet it is"? and medical research". Who is this eminent
ANSWER woman scientist?
39. As of August 1991, how many DIFFERENT ANSWER:
women have won Nobel Prizes in the scientific 44. This female American geneticist achieved
recognition as one of the
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world's foremost investigators in cytogenetics, monument. Precisely what is this 4,600 year old
the study of heredity by cellular and genetic object?
methods. In 1951 she discovered that gene ANSWER:
fragments in corn could move from 51. The art of growing dwarfed trees in small
chromosome to chromosome, and even from pots, a technique perfected
cell to cell. Thirty-two years after this by the Japanese, is known as what?
extraordinary work, she was awarded the Nobel ANSWER:
Prize in medicine in 1983. Who is this notable 52. If an individual is a dendrochronologist
woman scientist? (pron:
ANSWER: den-drow-kron-OL-o-jist), what would she
45. Ws of 1991, the most recent award of a count?
Nobel Prize in medicine to ANSWER:
a woman scientist went to this esteemed 53. The principle species of this tree family
pharmacologist and biochemist. She shared her include the: Black, Eastern,
prize with George Hitchings for their Mountain, Canadian, Formosan, Western and
development of drugs based on understanding Carolina. Name this tree.
basic cell processes. They came up with drugs ANSWER:
that selectively block nucleic acid synthesis 54. The uranium fuel used worldwide is mainly
without damaging normal cells. Name this in the form of:
woman scientist. w) U3O8
ANSWER: x) UO2
46. Who was the first man to hit a golf ball on y) UF6
the moon? z) U metal
ANSWER: ANSWER:
47. The earliest experiments on chromosome 55. When natural uranium is mined, it contains
theory and inheritance three isotopes. Which
were developed by? TWO are important in the production of nuclear
w) Gregor Mendel power?
x) Jonas Salk ANSWER:
y) Charles Sternak 56. W yellow powder, mostly made of uranium,
z) Robert Oppenheimer that is produced in the
ANSWER: uranium milling process is called what?
48. This black engineer was granted a patent in ANSWER:
1872 for the first 57. In a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor,
automatic oil lubricator. The lubricating cup what gas ma be used for a
regulated the flow of oil onto moving parts of coolant?
machines, revolutionizing the machine industry. ANSWER:
Was this well-known inventor: 58. Spent fuel from a nuclear power plant cools
w) Elijah McCoy down and loses most of
x) Lewis Latimer its radioactivity through decay. In the first year,
y) Leonard McFall spent fuel loses about what percentage of its
z) Branville Woods radioactivity?
ANSWER: w) 10 percent
49. "General Sherman" is my name. In 1972 I x) 50 percent
had a spread of 90 feet and y) 80 percent
a height of 272 feet. What am I and in what z) 100 percent
national park do I live? ANSWER:
ANSWER: 59. The National Council on Radiation
50. Wt Indio, California, stands "The Patriarch," Protection and Measurements
considered the oldest living thing and a national estimates that the average exposure to ionizing
radiation tha individual Americans receive
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annually from ALL sources is about: y) water

w) 60 millirem z) cadmium
x) 100 millirem ANSWER:
y) 360 millirem 66. The U.S. population receives the largest
z) 500 millirem dose of ionizing radiation
ANSWER: from:
60. : An important safety feature required at w) natural sources.
U.S. nuclear power plants x) fallout from nuclear weapons testing.
that was not present at the Chernobyl Power y) nuclear medicine.
Plant in the Soviet Union was the: z) nuclear power plants.
w) reactor ANSWER:
x) cooling water 67. What state in the United States has the
y) control rods most nuclear power plants?
z) containment building w) New York
ANSWER: x) Illinois
61. As of December, 1990, which of the y) Pennsylvania
following countries generated z) South Carolina
the greatest percentage of its electricity by ANSWER
nuclear power? 68. hat country currently has the third largest
w) England number of satellites in
x) Japan orbit?
y) United States ANSWER:
z) France 69. The launch of the first LIQUID fueled rocket
ANSWER: in the world is
62. Most of the nuclear power plants operating attributed to:
in the United States are: w) China
w) pressurized water reactors x) Russia
x) boiling water reactors y) United States
y) high-temperature gas-cooled reactors z) Germany
z) liquid-metal fast breeder reactors ANSWER:
ANSWER: 70. The first American Astronaut to ORBIT the
63. The Oklo reactor in Gabon, Africa, is Earth was:
significant because it: w) Alan Shepard
w) was the first man-made reactor. x) John Glenn
x) was a natural fission reactor. y) Gus Grissom
y) was the first reactor used to generate z) Scott Carpenter
electricity. ANSWER:
z) produced the most electricity in a single year. 71. What is made from chicle?
ANSWER: ANSWER:
64. In the United States, the units of measure 72. What do you produce by adding
for the potential biological Lactobacillus Bulgaricus to milk?
risk associated with exposure to ionizing ANSWER:
radiation are the rem and millirem. What 73. Which of the following materials is used
comparable along with iron ore and
units are used in the metric system? limestone to produce iron in a modern blast
ANSWER: furnace?
65. What substance was used as a moderator w) coke
for the chain reaction in x) cementite
the first nuclear reactor? y) coal
w) graphite z) bauxite
x) boron ANSWER:
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74. What kind of poisoning is known as ANSWER

plumbism (pron: plum - biz - em)? 84. A device used to measure the amount of
ANSWER: moisture in the atmosphere
75. What month is showing on the calendar is called a:
when the Earth is nearest the w) hydrometer (pron: high-dro-me-ter)
sun? x) hygrometer (pron: high-gro-me-ter)
ANSWER: y) anemometer
76. On June 22, how many hours of daylight are z) barometer
there in a day at the ANSWER:
North Pole? 85. What is the principal liquid used in
ANSWER: automotive antifreeze?
77. To within a half minute, how many minutes ANSWER:
does it take for light to 86. What are the names of the cycles in a 4-
travel from the sun to the Earth? stroke gasoline engine?
ANSWER: ANSWER
78. Wmong well-known examples of this 87. What power cycle is used in jet engines?
formation are Grindelwald in w) Stirling
Switzerland, Bossons in France, Dinwoody in the x) Rankine
United States, and Wilson Piedmont in y) Otto
Antarctica. Identify these cool formations. z) Brayton
ANSWER: ANSWER:
79. Name the branch of medical science which 88. The half life of tritium is about:
is concerned with the study w) 3,500 years
of disease as it appears in its natural x) 40 years
surroundings, and as it affects a community of y) 12.3 years
people rather z) 3.7 years
than a single individual. ANSWER:
ANSWER: 89. One of the potential health effects of
80. he study of poisons is called: exposure to high levels of
w) oncology noise is called tinnitus (pron: ti - NI - tes), which
x) toxicology means:
y) phrenology w) a permanent loss of hearing.
z) ergonomics (pron: ur - go - no - mics) x) a persistent ringing or hissing in the ears after
ANSWER: exposure.
81. What vitamin complex includes thiamine, y) a temporary loss of hearing, especially of
niacin, and riboflavin? upper frequencies.
ANSWER: z) abdominal discomfort from low frequency
82. What range of frequencies are usually noise.
referred to as audio ANSWER:
frequencies for humans? 90. If an individual is suffering from
w) 0 to 20 Hertz emphysema, what organ of the body
x) 20 to 20,000 Hertz is primarily affected?
y) 200 to 200,000 Hertz ANSWER:
z) 10,000 to 30,000 Hertz 91. Who was known as "The Wizard of Menlo
ANSWER: Park"?
83. What range of frequencies are usually ANSWER: EDISON
referred to as the UHF Band? 92. Plants get their nitrogen from:
w) 3 to 30 Megahertz w) rain
x) 30 to 300 Megahertz x) the soil
y) 300 to 3,000 Megahertz y) the air
z) 30,000 to 300,000 Megahertz z) the bedrock
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ANSWER: y) that the earth was at the center of the

93 Which vitamin is called ascorbic acid, universe.
meaning "no scurvy"? z) there are no other planets.
ANSWER:
94. Wt what Celsius temperature is water the ANSWER:
densest? 5. What is the mass in grams of one cubic
ANSWER: centimeter of water?
95. What household heating fuel also powers ANSWER:
jet planes? 6. What is the name of the first atomic-powered
ANSWER: submarine?
96. Who discovered the method of destroying ANSWER:
disease-producing bacteria 7. What three elements besides iron make up
in beer and milk by heating the liquid properly? the alloy alnico, used for
ANSWER making magnets?
97. Which of the following elements was ANSWER:
unknown to ancient 8. What exploded on Bikini Island in 1954?
civilizations? ANSWER:
w) tin 9. A barn is a unit of
x) aluminum w) length
y) mercury x) area
z) sulfur y) volume
ANSWER: z) weight
98. In which US state do the most bald eagles ANSWER
live?
ANSWER: 10. A light-year can be converted into
99. What is the name denoting plants that w) astronomical units
seasonally shed all their leaves? x) hours
ANSWER y) foot-candles
100. What material found in bogs is the oldest z) ergs
fossil fuel used by man? ANSWER:
ANSWER: 11. Which is the longest?
w) a kilometer
NEXT REVIEW x) a centimeter
1. What is meant by the statement that an y) a dekameter
animal is oviparous? z) a terameter
ANSWER: ANSWER
2. Name the tropical American tree which 12. You use a hydrometer to check the
produces the least dense wood condition of the electrolyte in
known? your car battery. It is actually measuring what
ANSWER: property of the fluid?
3. What is the distinction shared by Marie Curie w) charge
and Linus Pauling? x) density
ANSWER: y) temperature
4. In the early 17th century, based on his z) surface tension
observations with a ANSWER
telescope, Galileo Galilei attacked a belief 13. What is the major visible constituent of the
espoused by the church. That belief was: exhaust plume from a
w) that the earth was flat. natural gas-fired power plant?
x) the sky was a large dome with holes through w) carbon dioxide
which heaven could be seen. x) carbon monoxide
y) smoke
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z) water z) nickel
ANSWER ANSWER
14. Of the following answers, which is closest to 20. When petroleum is refined it is subject to a
the percentage of number of processes
electricity including cracking. During the cracking process
generated by nuclear power plants in the U.S. in w) lighter hydrocarbons are combined to form
1987? heavier ones
w) 5% x) heavy hydrocarbons are broken up into
x) 10% lighter ones
y) 20% y) lighter hydrocarbons are separated by
z) 40% distillation
ANSWER: z) oxygen is used to burn the heavier
15. High-temperature superconductors have hydrocarbons
been in the news lately. ANSWER:
These materials become superconductive at 21. A psychrometer (pron: si-'kro-me-ter) is
temperatures around used to measure humidity.
w) 200 degrees Fahrenheit It consists of two thermometers, one of which is
x) 100 degrees Fahrenheit wetted. The water is allowed to evaporate.
y) -150 degrees Fahrenheit Which thermometer reads the higher
z) -350 degrees Fahrenheit temperature.
ANSWER w) the wet one
16. If a scuba diver suffers from the "bends", x) the dry one
this means that which gas ANSWER:
is being rapidly released from the blood and 22. One metal dissolved in another is called
tissues? w) an alloy
w) oxygen x) an assay
x) hydrogen y) a mineral
y) nitrogen z) a ceramic
z) CO2 ANSWER:
ANSWER 23. An alloy consisting mainly of tin and lead is
17. The principle behind a breeder reactor is: called:
w) U-235 undergoes fission. w) brass
x) U-238 is converted to Pu-239, which x) bronze
undergoes fission. y) pewter
y) Deuterium undergoes fission. z) chrome
z) Cobalt-60 undergoes fission. ANSWER
24 It is a common observation that naturally
ANSWER: occurring processes have a
18. Steel is composed of a number of elements. particular direction associated with them. For
The two essential instance, heat flows from a hot body to a colder
elements are iron and body. The property of a system that is used to
w) aluminum quantitatively describe this natural direction of
x) carbon events is called
y) nickel w) energy
z) silicon x) entropy
ANSWER y) enthalpy
19. Which of the following is an important z) equilibrium
element of stainless steel. ANSWER:
w) chromium 25. Which of the following is believed to be
x) magnesium responsible for the hole in
y) copper the ozone layer over Antarctic?
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w) carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is called:

x) compounds containing sulfur w) efflorescence
y) radioactivity x) deliquescence
z) compounds containing chlorine y) dehydrogenation
z) desalination
ANSWER ANSWER:
26. Which of the following is not a major 34. A temperature of 295 K is equivalent to
pollutant from automobiles. approximately:
w) carbon monoxide w) 0 degrees Fahrenheit
x) unburned hydrocarbons x) 32 degrees Fahrenheit
y) nitrous oxide y) 72 degrees Fahrenheit
z) sulfur dioxide z) 97 degrees Fahrenheit
ANSWER:
27. The most serious environmental pollution ANSWER:
from a nuclear reactor is: 35. Only one tree is known to live longer than
w) radioactivity the Giant Sequoia. Is this
x) particulate formation tree:
y) thermal pollution w) Bristlecone pine
z) noise pollution x) Grey Oak
y) Japanese Chestnut
ANSWER: z) Ponderosa pine
28. Biomass energy is: ANSWER:
w) formed through photosynthesis 36. The first animal launched into orbit was a:
x) caused by heat due to the large mass of the w) mouse
earth x) monkey
y) has been used for only a few years y) chimpanzee
z) is effective in only certain regions of the z) dog
United States ANSWER:
ANSWER: 37. Name the first man-made space craft to
29. What is the technique of detecting the orbit the Earth?
position of objects by producing ANSWER:
very high frequency sound waves and listening 38. Who was the first test pilot to break the
to the echos? sound barrier and survive?
ANSWER: ANSWER:
30. A thermocouple is used to measure 39. How many time zones are there in the
w) pressure CONTIGUOUS United
x) current States?
y) strain w) 3
z) temperature x) 4
ANSWER y) 5
31. What metal is obtained from the mineral z) 6
malaclite?
ANSWER: ANSWER:
32. The most suitable motor oil for use in a car 40. In the United States, coal is the energy
in cold weather is: source that produces the
w) a high viscosity oil highest percentage of our electricity. Second is:
x) a low viscosity oil w) hydropower
y) a medium viscosity oil x) oil
ANSWER y) nuclear energy
33 The process by which a substance absorbs z) solar energy
moisture upon exposure
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ANSWER: x) reduce the flow of heat.

41. The radioactive element most commonly y) absorb heat.
detected in humans is: z) reverse the heat flow direction.
w) potassium-40 ANSWER:
x) cobalt-60 50. The region of the United States with the
y) iodine-131 lowest pH values found in
z) plutonium-238 rainwater (acid rain) is:
ANSWER: w) Mid West
42. "Fool's gold" is a common name for this x) North West
mineral: y) North East
w) halite z) South East
x) cinnabar ANSWER:
y) magnetite 51. The specific gravity of mercury at Standard
z) pyrite Temperature and
ANSWER: Pressure is:
43. If it is 5:00 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time, w) 0.75
what time is it in x) 4.0
Washington, DC in December? y) 13.6
z) 19.3
ANSWER: ANSWER
44. What science deals with the structure of the 52. Consider efficiencies of hydro-turbines and
universe and its origin? generators. If the
ANSWER: efficiency of a hydro-turbine is 80% and the
45. Which two gases are used to disinfect water efficiency of a generator is 90%, what is the
in sewage treatment overall
facilities? efficiency of the unit?
w) helium and nitrogen w) 85%
x) ozone and chlorine x) 72%
y) oxygen and hydrogen y) 90%
z) nitrogen and chlorine z) 70%
ANSWER: ANSWER
46. What naturally occurring radioactive 53. Name this much publicized group of
substance present in indoor air is compounds, of which there are
suspected as the second leading cause of lung 209 congeners. It was first discovered as an
cancer? environmental pollutant in 1966, and its
ANSWER: widespread
47. If the time between a lightning flash and the use in electrical transformers has spread these
resulting thunder is five compounds into the food chain to such an
seconds, approximately how far away was the extent
lightning? that most adults have small concentrations in
ANSWER: their fatty tissue.
48. Which of the following building materials ANSWER:
has the HIGHEST 54. Recent discoveries of ancient cratering near
thermal conductivity? the Yucatan Peninsula
w) Southern pine wood support the theory that a meteor or cometary
x) common brick impact may have resulted in mass extinctions of
y) aluminum species on Earth about 65 million years ago.
z) gypsum board or drywall During which geologic period is that impact
ANSWER thought
49. Thermal insulation is used to: to have occurred?
w) stop the flow of heat. w) Permian
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x) Triassic osteoporosis. The ingredient in antacids which

y) Jurassic provides this element is:
z) Cretaceous w) calcium carbonate
ANSWER x) aluminum hydroxide
55. In the United States the average number of y) magnesium hydroxide
gallons per person of z) simethicone
fresh water used per day for personal (non- ANSWER:
industrial) use such as bathing, laundering, 61. If you started with 100 grams of each of the
drinking, materials below and
and the like is approximately: they all vaporized inside of an inflatable
w) 10 gallons balloon, which of them would produce the
x) 30 gallons largest volume
y) 60 gallons balloon, assuming they were all at the same
z) 90 gallons temperature?
ANSWER: w) water
56. "Hard" water is related to the presence of x) gasoline
high concentrations of y) ethanol
primarily four metal ions in water supplies. z) butane
Calcium and magnesium ions are the most ANSWER:
common 62. In 1976, Congress enacted the Resource
of the four. Name one of the other two ions. Conservation and Recovery
ANSWER: Act designed to protect public health and the
57. When the fuel economy of a 20 miles per environment from improper management of
gallon car is averaged with hazardous waste. The Resource Conservation
that of a 40 miles per gallon car and both cars and Recovery Act categorizes hazardous wastes
are driven the same number of miles per year, into four groups. Identify three of the four
the groups.
resulting average, in miles per gallon, is: ANSWER:
ANSWER: 63. The estrogen and androgen hormones
58. Taxol is a drug currently being used to treat which regulate sexual
cancer, particularly development and function are structurally
resistant forms of breast cancer. A natural related to:
source of Taxol is: w) beta carotene
w) bark and leaves of the yew tree x) ethanol
x) apricot pits y) adrenaline
y) periwinkle flowers z) cholesterol
z) ginkgo leaves ANSWER: Z -- CHOLESTEROL
ANSWER: 64. The most abundant organic molecule on the
59. About what percent of the electricity used surface of the Earth is:
in the United States is w) cellulose
currently being produced by nuclear power x) chitin
plants? y) DNA
w) 5 percent z) hemoglobin
x) 10 percent ANSWER:
y) 20 percent 65. The heat exhaust of an automobile with an
z) 30 percent internal combustion
ANSWER engine represents approximately what percent
60. Some physicians suggest that women of the energy of the original fuel?
supplement their diets with w) 10 %
antacids to supply additional amounts of a x) 50 %
certain element thought to reduce the risk of y) 35 %
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z) 5 % 72. What form of radiation most closely

ANSWER: resembles X-rays?
66. In a precise diet and nutrition study, you w) alpha
need to determine the x) beta
average weight and average height of a group y) gamma
each to a precision of 1%. The minimum sample z) neutron
size required is ANSWER
w) 10 73. In the Tyndall Effect, the intensity of
x) 100 scattered radiation is inversely
y) 1000 proportional to the fourth power of the
z) 10,000 wavelength. Which one of the following colors
ANSWER: of light
67. Liquid fuels can be used to generate would exhibit the most intense Tyndall
electricity in a variety of ways. scattering?
Which of the following technologies converts w) yellow
liquid fuel directly to electricity without a x) green
combustion step? y) orange
w) turbine z) violet
x) battery ANSWER:
y) fuel cell 74. One trillion is 1 followed by 12 zeros. What
z) Stirling engine is 1 followed by
ANSWER: 18 zeros?
68. A color television set employs a 25,000 volt w) 1 quadrillion
electron accelerator to x) 1 quintillion
produce the picture and potentially harmful y) 1 septillion
radiation which must be shielded against. The z) 1 octillion
main ANSWER:
component of this radiation consists of 75. In daylight the human eye is most sensitive
w) electrons which penetrate the picture tube to which color?
x) soft x-rays w) Green
y) microwaves x) Red
z) ultraviolet radiation y) Blue
ANSWER: z) Orange
69. What is the neurotoxic organometal that ANSWER:
caused even more injuries in 76. Which of the following people is credited as
Iraq in 1971-72 than it did in the 50's and 60's at being the father of mass
Minamata Bay, Japan? production?
ANSWER: w) Thomas Edison
70. What is the approximate weight in pounds x) Otto Graham
of the atmosphere on a y) Henry Ford
1 sq. ft. surface at sea level? z) Eli Whitney
w) 15 lbs. ANSWER
x) 1500 lbs. 77. A homeowner replaces a 65 watt
y) 2100 lbs. incandescent bulb with a 15 watt
z) 20,000 lbs. compact fluorescent lamp. The light is on 2000
ANSWER: hours a year. If electricity cost 10 cents a
71. What common flavoring comes from the kilowatt-hour, how much money is saved on the
long slender fruit of a electric bill in one year?
climbing orchid? w) $50.00
ANSWER: x) $10.00
y) $5.00
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z) $1.00 84. What is the name for the metric unit of

ANSWER pressure defined as 1 Newton
78. A radio station is broadcasting at 3750 khz per meter squared?
(kilohertz). This station ANSWER
would be found in which radio band? 85. In the human body, what tendon attaches
w) 20 meter the gastrocnemius muscle to
x) 40 meter the calcaneus bone?
y) 80 meter ANSWER:
z) 160 meter 86. Which of the following is considered a
ANSWER: renewable resource?
79. Approximately what percentage of the w) Coal fired power plant
electricity produced in the x) Hydroelectric dam
United States is consumed by residential y) Combustion turbine facility
appliances? z) Nuclear fission power plant
w) 20% ANSWER
x) 33% 87. If a quiet whisper is 10 decibels, then what
y) 50% is the average pain threshold
z) 66% in decibels for humans?
ANSWER: ANSWER
80. Compared to terrestrial environments, 88. What range of frequencies are usually
aquatic environments are referred to as the Ultra High
more stable in: Frequency (UHF) Band?
w) temperature range w) 3 to 30 Mega Hertz
x) producer consumer distribution x) 30 to 300 Mega Hertz
y) sunlight absorbed y) 300 to 3,000 Mega Hertz
z) number species z) 30,000 to 300,000 Mega Hertz
ANSWER: ANSWER:
81. TCDD (2,3,6,7-tetrachlorodibenzo(p)dioxin) 89. Who was the first scientist credited with
is a toxic synthetic pointing out that certain
chemical. The most consistent adverse effect gases could cause a greenhouse effect?
observed in exposed humans is: w) John Tyndall
w) liver cancer x) Charles Darwin
x) birth defects y) Roger Tory Peterson
y) disfiguring skin eruption z) Stephen Jay Gould
z) an exaggerated sense of well-being ANSWER:
ANSWER: 90. Deforestation is not a major environmental
82. The U.S. EPA recently concluded that problem in
environmental tobacco smoke w) the Amazon
should be considered (quote) x) Borneo
w) "a possible human teratogen" y) Oregon
x) "a priority air pollutant" z) West Germany
y) "a known human carcinogen" ANSWER:
z) "a possible human carcinogen"
ANSWER
83. What power cycle is used in jet engines?
w) Stirling
x) Rankine
y) Otto
z) Brayton
ANSWER