allenai/quartz huggingface dataset:
Background: Anything that is moving has kinetic energy, and the faster it is moving, the more kinetic energy it has.

Question: If a moving object slows down, it will have _____ kinetic energy.
Choices:
more
less
Answer: B
Background: The closer your finger is to your eyes, the greater the position changes because of parallax.

Question: If Milo moves his finger farther from his eyes, what happens to the perceived position change of his finger?
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: B
Background: The deeper you go, the darker the water gets.

Question: Don was swimming in the ocean, and decided to dive deeper. Don noticed that the deeper he swam the water got
Choices:
darker
lighter
Answer: A
Background: Friction is greater when objects have rougher surfaces or are heavier so they press together with greater force.

Question: Willy was skateboarding with his rough new board. Heather was riding his old skateboard, which was smoother from use. Who had less friction when riding?
Choices:
Willy
Heather
Answer: B
Background: The sooner cancer is detected the easier it is to treat.

Question: John was a doctor in a cancer ward and knew that early detection was key. The cancer being detected quickly makes the cancer treatment
Choices:
Easier
Harder
Answer: A
Background: Leaves can have the following adaptations to reduce transpiration rate: Small or narrow leaves to reduce the surface area over which water vapour is lost

Question: Ron bought a tree with narrow leaves. These areas have a smaller surface area so _____ water vapour is lost.
Choices:
more
less
Answer: B
Background: Heavier objects also have more friction because they press together with greater force.

Question: A 100 pound box would be easier or harder to shove than a 10 pound box?
Choices:
harder
easier
Answer: A
Background: Amplified sound waves have more energy, which increases the intensity and loudness of the sounds, so they are easier to hear.

Question: If Mona is speaking to Milo in a soft tone and then decreases the amplification of the sound waves leaving her mouth, what will happen to the loudness level of her voice?
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: B
Background: If the current passing through the circuit breaker increases, the electromagnet becomes stronger.

Question: John was observing a circuit breaker in operation to see if it would pop. He noticed that as the current increases, the electromagnet becomes
Choices:
Stronger
Weaker
Answer: A
Background: This causes the delivery of less oxygen to the cells, and this stimulates the heart rate via adrenalin, so that pulse rate increases in an effort to deliver enough oxygen to cells.

Question: Will ran in a race. His pulse rate increases, providing _____ oxygen to his cells.
Choices:
less
more
Answer: B
Background: In a Mercator projection, because Greenland is closer to the pole, the continents shape and size are greatly increased.

Question: Sarah is traveling, and notices that continents get smaller when they are where in relation to the pole
Choices:
closer
further
Answer: B
Background: With better food and less chance of disease, the death rate fell.

Question: Mike noticed that more people in his group were dying sooner, because the food they had was
Choices:
better
worse
Answer: B
Background: What this means is that at higher magnification, we are able to see objects of smaller and smaller size within our field of view.

Question: If we use just our eyes, rather than a telescope, to look into space, we are able to see
Choices:
less
more
Answer: A
Background: The higher the frequency of an electromagnetic wave, the greater its energy.

Question: If Milo notices that the frequency of his electromagnetic wave seems to be decreasing, what does that say about the energy of the wave?
Choices:
it's increasing
it's decreasing
Answer: B
Background: When a gas is squeezed into a smaller volume, the particles have less space to move.

Question: If Mona is filling balloons with helium and she continues to add helium, what happens to the space the molecules have to move in?
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: B
Background: With exponential growth, the population starts out growing slowly. As population size increases, the growth rate also increases.

Question: If Milo's country begins increasing the size of its population, what happens to its growth rate?
Choices:
it decreases
it increases
Answer: B
Background: The carbon taxes encourage people to use less fossil fuel, which reduces carbon dioxide emissions.

Question: Jan wants to help the Earth, so she stops driving to work and instead bikes. Because Jan is using less fossil fuels, she is contributing carbon dioxide emissions in amounts that are
Choices:
greater
smaller
Answer: B
Background: The closer your finger is to your eyes, the greater the position changes because of parallax.

Question: The parallax levels in a rifle scope wind up changing as we get farther from the target, in general they
Choices:
decrease
increase
Answer: A
Background: The higher the crests are, the greater the amplitude of the wave.

Question: If Mona turns her radio down and decreases the size of the crests of the soundwave it is producing, what happens to the amplitude of that wave?
Choices:
decreases
increases
Answer: A
Background: A stronger base produces more hydroxide ions than a weaker base.

Question: Micah wants a base that is weaker rather than stronger. The number of hydroxide ions that will be produced are therefore
Choices:
more
less
Answer: A
Background: Increasing the number of resistors connected in parallel decreases the overall resistance of the circuit.

Question: When you put resistors in parallel then the resistance
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: B
Background: The more curved the convex lens is in a magnifying glass, the greater its ability to magnify objects.

Question: Derek needs to be able to read really small print, so he reaches for a curved lens magnifying glass, which can magnify
Choices:
more
less
Answer: A
Background: Further away from the heart, the aorta branches into smaller arteries, which eventually branch into capillaries.

Question: If Mona is examining her arteries and she looks at ones that are closer to her heart, what happens to the size of the arteries?
Choices:
smaller
larger
Answer: B
Background: In exponential growth as the population size increases, the growth rate also increases.

Question: When we look at animals when their population gets bigger what happens to each animal?
Choices:
grow bigger
shrink
Answer: A
Background: The carbon taxes encourage people to use less fossil fuel, which reduces carbon dioxide emissions.

Question: When people were taxed not heavily for smoking cigarettes the smoking level
Choices:
increased
decreased
Answer: A
Background: This is because the gravitational force of attraction between the Earth and Sun is stronger when the Earth is closer to the Sun.

Question: If the Earth's orbit moves closer to the Sun, what happens to the gravitational force between the two planets?
Choices:
it increases
it decreases
Answer: A
Background: A gentle slope favours slower flow of surface water, reduces erosion, and increases availability of water to plants.

Question: Evan is a farmer and needs to plant on a slope. For a slower flow of water, he should choose a slope that is
Choices:
steeper
gentler
Answer: B
Background: Heavier objects also have more friction because they press together with greater force.

Question: Tina gained more weight over the year. Her amount of friction with the ground
Choices:
decreases
increases
Answer: B
Background: This is because the lower blood volume in the vessels exerts less pressure on the vessel walls.

Question: john was taking the patients blood pressure and other vital signs. He saw that the lower the blood volume, the pressure was
Choices:
Greater
Less
Answer: B
Background: Many diseases become more common as people grow older.

Question: When people are younger they are generally
Choices:
healthier
sicker
Answer: A
Background: Therefore, an object with more mass has greater thermal energy than an object with less mass, even if their individual atoms are moving at the same speed.

Question: Something that is smaller and moving will have _____ energy than something small.
Choices:
less
more
Answer: A
Background: The availability of water is projected to get worse as demand increases.

Question: William sees that a country is shrinking rapidly. Will there be more or less availability of water in the future?
Choices:
more
less
Answer: A
Background: Alkanes with more carbon atoms generally have higher boiling and melting points.

Question: If Mona removes carbon atoms to her alkane, what happens to the boiling point of that alkane?
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: B
Background: Using less nonrenewable resources means that they will last longer.

Question: If we all used single use plastic the waste would
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: A
Background: The greater the net force acting on the object, the greater its acceleration will be, but the mass of the object also affects its acceleration.

Question: Milton approaches a red soccer ball and kicks it as hard as he can, then he approaches a blue soccer ball and it kicks it very softly. Which soccer ball will experience less acceleration?
Choices:
blue soccer ball
red soccer ball
Answer: A
Background: The smaller the distance between the objects, the greater the force of magnetic attraction.

Question: Dean held two magnets at arms length, and did not feel them pull at each other. The magnets did start pulling at each other when they were
Choices:
further
closer
Answer: B
Background: Further away from the heart, the aorta branches into smaller arteries, which eventually branch into capillaries.

Question: As we get closer to the heart what happens to the artery size
Choices:
grow
shrink
Answer: A
Background: Electrons at higher energy levels, which are farther from the nucleus, have more energy.

Question: If Milo is measuring the energy levels of electrons and he finds that a certain electron emits more energy than another, what does that say about that electron's distance from the nucleus?
Choices:
farther
closer
Answer: A
Background: As photosynthesis increases, the amount of stored glucose in the guard cells increases.

Question: If Jim is performing experiments on plants and he manages to increase the rate of photosynthesis in those plants, what happens to the amount of stored glucose inside the plants?
Choices:
it increases
it decreases
Answer: A
Background: An increase in glaciers lowers sea level and a decrease in glaciers raises sea level.

Question: Jimbo was sailing in the ocean when he noticed large glaciers around his ship. The next year he sailed back to that same spot and noticed that there weren't as many glaciers around the ship. If there are less glaciers, what does that mean about the sea level?
Choices:
it's lower
it's higher
Answer: B
Background: The will travel faster and farther if the batter hits it with more force.

Question: If Jimbo is throwing a basketball and he applies more force, what happens to the distance that the ball will travel?
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: A
Background: As more protons are added to the nucleus, the electromagnetic force of repulsion between them gets stronger, while the strong nuclear force of attraction between them gets weaker.

Question: If Jim is observing a nucleus and he notices the electromagnetic force is increasing, that means the nuclear force is
Choices:
increasing
decreasing
Answer: B
Background: What this means is that at higher magnification, we are able to see objects of smaller and smaller size within our field of view.

Question: If we use a telescope, rather than just our eyes, to look into space, we are able to see
Choices:
less
more
Answer: B
Background: Many diseases become more common as people grow older.

Question: If Mona is currently 35 years old and she lives her life until the age of 65, what happens to her chance of contracting a disease as she grows older?
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: B
Background: Electrons at higher energy levels, which are farther from the nucleus, have more energy.

Question: Jimbo was observing electrons with his microscope. He noticed some were close to the nucleus and some were far from the nucleus. Which electrons had more energy?
Choices:
close to the nucleus
far from the nucleus
Answer: B
Background: The advantage to biofuels is that they burn more cleanly than fossil fuels. As a result, they create less pollution and less carbon dioxide.

Question: If Mona owns a car and she decides to switch to a dirtier burning fuel, will she create more or less pollution?
Choices:
more pollution
less pollution
Answer: A
Background: The greater the force that is applied to an object of a given mass, the more the object will accelerate.

Question: John was observing the objects in the physics lab. He found that the less force is applied to an object, the acceleration will be
Choices:
More
Less
Answer: B
Background: In the troposphere, temperatures decrease as altitude increases.

Question: As the plane dropped altitude, the passengers felt _____.
Choices:
cooler
warmer
Answer: B
Background: Convection on early Earth was faster and so plate tectonics was faster.

Question: Ian has a model of early Earth in the oven. He decreases the convection of the oven, making the plate tectonics
Choices:
faster
slower
Answer: B
Background: More people need more resources.

Question: Reid lives in a city with 5000 people. Eric lives in a city with 50000 people that is roughly the same size geographically. Whose city needs more resources?
Choices:
Eric
Reid
Answer: A
Background: When the concentration of reactants is higher, the reaction rate is faster.

Question: If John decreases the concentration of reactants in his solution, what will happen to the rate of reaction?
Choices:
it will become faster
it will become slower
Answer: B
Background: Anything that is moving has kinetic energy, and the faster it is moving, the more kinetic energy it has.

Question: A person that is running very fast has what level of kinetic energy?
Choices:
Low
High
Answer: B
Background: Using less nonrenewable resources means that they will last longer.

Question: If Mona begins using more nonrenewable resources what will happen to the length of time those resources will last?
Choices:
decrease
increase
Answer: A
Background: In a Mercator projection, because Greenland is closer to the pole, the continents shape and size are greatly increased.

Question: Milo is making a map for school. If he places a country far to the North Pole, what will happen to the size and shape of that country on the map?
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: B
Background: The higher the frequency is, the more energy a photon has.

Question: A photon has less energy when the frequency is
Choices:
higher or
lower
Answer: B
Background: Surface Area of Reactants When a solid substance is involved in a chemical reaction, only the matter at the surface of the solid is exposed to other reactants. If a solid has more surface area, more of it is exposed and able to react.

Question: If something has a small surface area and is being mixed with something else it will react
Choices:
slower
faster
Answer: A
Background: This means the rate of diffusion is much slower in liquids than in gases, because the particles of a gas are further apart and collide much less.

Question: When particles are closer together what happens to diffusion?
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: A
Background: As blood volume in the body increases, blood pressure increases.

Question: When Katie was in the hospital with high blood pressure, she understood that the volume of her blood was
Choices:
high
low
Answer: A
Background: The more curved the convex lens is in a magnifying glass, the greater its ability to magnify objects.

Question: When using a magnifying glass the less curved one will be
Choices:
weaker
stronger
Answer: A
Background: As the total resistance increases, the current strength decreases.

Question: If there is a lot of resistance in a wire the current at the end of the wire will be
Choices:
higher
lower
Answer: B
Background: Therefore, an object with more mass has greater thermal energy than an object with less mass, even if their individual atoms are moving at the same speed.

Question: John was watching the particle accelerator and notating the reactions of the atoms. He observed that an object with more mass has a thermal energy that is
Choices:
More
Less
Answer: A
Background: Leaves can have the following adaptations to reduce transpiration rate: Small or narrow leaves to reduce the surface area over which water vapour is lost

Question: Rich has a leaf with a large surface area. This adaptation likely causes _____ water vapor to evaporate.
Choices:
more
less
Answer: A
Background: The greater the net force acting on the object, the greater its acceleration will be, but the mass of the object also affects its acceleration.

Question: If Mary is pushing her wagon and she increases the force that she is applying to push it, what will happen to the wagon's acceleration?
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: A
Background: The will travel faster and farther if the batter hits it with more force.

Question: Jim hits baseball number one with a small amount of force and baseball number two with a large amount of force. Which object will travel a greater distance?
Choices:
baseball one
baseball two
Answer: B
Background: The higher the crests are, the greater the amplitude of the wave.

Question: Jeff increases the waves' crests' height in the simulation. The amplitude is now
Choices:
higher
lower
Answer: A
Background: The higher the frequency of an electromagnetic wave, the greater its energy.

Question: If an electromagnetic wave has a higher frequency than another wave, it will have _____ energy.
Choices:
more
less
Answer: A
Background: A stronger base produces more hydroxide ions than a weaker base.

Question: If Milo is mixing chemicals together into a solution and he decreases the strength of the base, what happens to the amount of hydroxide ions?
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: B
Background: This is because the lower blood volume in the vessels exerts less pressure on the vessel walls.

Question: Dan has relatively low blood volume, which means that within his blood vessels, there is pressure that is relatively
Choices:
lesser
greater
Answer: A
Background: Amplified sound waves have more energy, which increases the intensity and loudness of the sounds, so they are easier to hear.

Question: Amplifiers are used to _____ energy which makes music louder.
Choices:
decrease
increase
Answer: B
Background: In the troposphere, temperatures decrease as altitude increases.

Question: When we get very high into the troposphere the temperature
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: B
Background: What this means is that at higher magnification, we are able to see objects of smaller and smaller size within our field of view.

Question: Eric decreases magnification of his telescope. He is able to see _____ stars.
Choices:
less
more
Answer: A
Background: Leaves can have the following adaptations to reduce transpiration rate: Small or narrow leaves to reduce the surface area over which water vapour is lost

Question: Rich has a leaf with a small surface area. This adaptation likely causes _____ water vapor to evaporate.
Choices:
more
less
Answer: B
Background: The Southern Hemisphere has less trash buildup in the oceans because less of the region is continent.

Question: If North America is smaller then Asia, which continent experiences less trash buildup?
Choices:
North America
Asia
Answer: A
Background: This causes the delivery of less oxygen to the cells, and this stimulates the heart rate via adrenalin, so that pulse rate increases in an effort to deliver enough oxygen to cells.

Question: Will ran in a race. His pulse rate decreases, providing _____ oxygen to his cells.
Choices:
less
more
Answer: A
Background: The higher the temperature of the liquid, the faster it will evaporate.

Question: A puddle in the Sahara desert where the thermometer read 40 F was the same size as a puddle in Montana where the thermometer read 90 F. The puddle in Montana will evaporate _____ than the puddle in the Sahara desert.
Choices:
more slowly
more quickly
Answer: B
Background: Surface Area of Reactants When a solid substance is involved in a chemical reaction, only the matter at the surface of the solid is exposed to other reactants. If a solid has more surface area, more of it is exposed and able to react.

Question: If Jim is performing chemical reactions in his lab and he wanted to decrease the strength of his reaction, what would he do to the surface area?
Choices:
increase it
decrease it
Answer: B
Background: Anything that is moving has kinetic energy, and the faster it is moving, the more kinetic energy it has.

Question: If a moving object speeds up, it will have _____ kinetic energy.
Choices:
more
less
Answer: A
Background: The more curved the convex lens is in a magnifying glass, the greater its ability to magnify objects.

Question: Micah wants to be able to read very large text, and needs to use a tool to do so. He looks at two magnifying glasses, and chooses the one with the lens that is
Choices:
more curved
less curved
Answer: B
Background: Therefore, an object with more mass has greater thermal energy than an object with less mass, even if their individual atoms are moving at the same speed.

Question: Something that is larger and moving will have _____ energy than something small.
Choices:
less
more
Answer: B
Background: An increase in glaciers lowers sea level and a decrease in glaciers raises sea level.

Question: Would a sudden warm spell that halved the size of glaciers
Choices:
increase sea level
decrease sea level?
Answer: A
Background: But, in stars, the bluer the star, the hotter it is, and the redder it is, the older and colder it is.

Question: Rich sees a blue star with his telescope. Tina sees a red star with his telescope. _____ sees the cooler star.
Choices:
Rich
Tina
Answer: B
Background: The sooner cancer is detected the easier it is to treat.

Question: John went to the doctor one day and was told they caught his cancer really late. What does this mean about the ease with which the cancer is treated?
Choices:
harder to treat
easier to treat
Answer: A
Background: The smoother the surface, the less friction against an object, so the faster it will move.

Question: John kicks the ball on a smooth surface. Compared to traveling on a rough surface, the ball travels
Choices:
slower.
faster
Answer: B
Background: Amplified sound waves have more energy, which increases the intensity and loudness of the sounds, so they are easier to hear.

Question: If Mona is speaking to Milo in a soft tone and then increases the amplification of the sound waves leaving her mouth, what will happen to the loudness level of her voice?
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: A
Background: Pressure: Pressure increases with depth, but increased pressure raises the melting temperature, so melting of rock is less likely to occur at higher pressures.

Question: Joan is trying to get rocks to melt by using depth to get higher pressure. The more pressure that Joan applies to the rock, the melting temperature will be
Choices:
higher
lower
Answer: A
Background: The closer your finger is to your eyes, the greater the position changes because of parallax.

Question: Harry is 6 feet away from you and Sara is 15 feet away. Who will appear to move further away if they both take one step?
Choices:
Harry
Sara
Answer: A
Background: With better food and less chance of disease, the death rate fell.

Question: Mona lives in a city with decent access to food. If a city that has more money starts stealing food originally intended for her city, what will happen to the death rate in Mona's city?
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: A
Background: The greater the net force acting on the object, the greater its acceleration will be, but the mass of the object also affects its acceleration.

Question: John was watching the objects and noticing their reactions in the physics simulator. He observed that the smaller net force moving the object, that the acceleration would be
Choices:
Greater
Lesser
Answer: B
Background: If the current passing through the circuit breaker increases, the electromagnet becomes stronger.

Question: A weakening electromagnet indicates _____ current passing through the circuit breaker.
Choices:
more
less
Answer: B
Background: Leaves can have the following adaptations to reduce transpiration rate: Small or narrow leaves to reduce the surface area over which water vapour is lost

Question: A smaller leaf will have _____ lost water vapour than a big one.
Choices:
less
more
Answer: A
Background: Surface Area of Reactants When a solid substance is involved in a chemical reaction, only the matter at the surface of the solid is exposed to other reactants. If a solid has more surface area, more of it is exposed and able to react.

Question: An object with a small surface area is _____ likely to experience surface reaction than a larger object.
Choices:
more
less
Answer: B
Background: Heavier objects press together with greater force, and this causes greater friction between them.

Question: Dan falls from a single stair one day, then the next day falls down three stairs at once. After falling down one stair, compared to three, Dan will experience
Choices:
greater friction
less friction
Answer: B
Background: In a parallel circuit, the resistance decreases as more resistors are added in parallel.

Question: The resistance will increase in a circuit when resistors are added in
Choices:
parallel
series
Answer: B
Background: In a parallel circuit, the resistance decreases as more resistors are added in parallel.

Question: When Alec removes a resistor from the parallel circuit, there is
Choices:
more resistance
less resistance.
Answer: A
Background: The larger a telescope's mirror or lens, the better it is at seeing narrowly separated objects as individual objects and the sharper the images look.

Question: Dean looked at the sky with his eyes, then looked at the sky with his telescope. Dean saw more through the telescope, because the lens there was
Choices:
bigger
smaller
Answer: A
Background: As the magnification increases, the field of view decreases.

Question: Xavier is using a 2x microscope while Yania is using her eyes. Who has the largest field of view?
Choices:
Xavier
Yania
Answer: B
Background: As more protons are added to the nucleus, the electromagnetic force of repulsion between them gets stronger, while the strong nuclear force of attraction between them gets weaker.

Question: John was looking at atoms in an electron microscope. What he noticed is that as the repulsion of the atoms was weaker, the force of attraction between them got
Choices:
Stronger
Weaker
Answer: A
Background: The availability of water is projected to get worse as demand increases.

Question: Marie likes to take very short, hot showers every day. The availability of the water she uses daily will _____ as demand increases.
Choices:
become less available
become more available
Answer: B
Background: The larger a telescope's mirror or lens, the better it is at seeing narrowly separated objects as individual objects and the sharper the images look.

Question: Yolanda looks through a miniature telescope and then compares the view to a normal sized telescope. The telescope that less likely differentiates between celestial objects the best is
Choices:
larger
smaller
Answer: B
Background: As the magnification increases, the field of view decreases.

Question: As you zoom out from something the total things you see are
Choices:
less
more
Answer: B
Background: Electrons at higher energy levels, which are farther from the nucleus, have more energy.

Question: Jimbo was observing electrons with his microscope. He noticed some were close to the nucleus and some were far from the nucleus. Which electrons had less energy?
Choices:
close to the nucleus
far from the nucleus
Answer: A
Background: More people need more resources.

Question: Jan and Brad were able to feed themselves only spending ten dollars a day total. After they had their child, they had to spend fifteen dollars a day total, because their familial population had
Choices:
shrank
grown
Answer: B
Background: In a parallel circuit, the resistance decreases as more resistors are added in parallel.

Question: Sean is working on a parallel circuit, and he wants the resistance to be high. In order to achieve this, Sean will, with the resistors
Choices:
increase them
decrease them
Answer: B
Background: As the magnification increases, the field of view decreases.

Question: Johnny is playing with his father's binoculars. What would happen to the field of view if he increased the magnification of the binoculars?
Choices:
it would increase
it would decrease
Answer: B
Background: Adding more heat energy to Earths atmosphere also causes more extreme weather and changes in precipitation patterns.

Question: As the Earth's atmosphere cools down due to global warming, what will happen to the precipitation patterns?
Choices:
they will become less variable
they will become more variable
Answer: A
Background: The stratosphere gets most of its heat from the Sun. Therefore, its warmer closer to the Sun.

Question: Jean noticed that during the summer months, that the earth was closer to the Sun, so she knew that there would be heat that was
Choices:
more
less
Answer: A
Background: As the magnification increases, the field of view decreases.

Question: If Mona is looking through some binoculars and she adjusts the magnification to make it lesser, what happens to the field of view?
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: A
Background: The closer your finger is to your eyes, the greater the position changes because of parallax.

Question: If Mona moves her index finger closer to her eyes, what happens to the amount of position change her eye experiences?
Choices:
decrease
increase
Answer: B
Background: This means the rate of diffusion is much slower in liquids than in gases, because the particles of a gas are further apart and collide much less.

Question: If Milo traps gases in a large chamber after having them in a small chamber, what will happen to the rate of collisions between gas particles?
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: B
Background: Heavier objects press together with greater force, and this causes greater friction between them.

Question: James slid an anvil across the floor, then slid a pillow across the floor. Which object slid the greater distance before stopping?
Choices:
anvil
pillow
Answer: B
Background: Using less nonrenewable resources means that they will last longer.

Question: Rita used more nonrenewable resources. These resources will now last
Choices:
longer
not as long
Answer: B
Background: Pressure: Pressure increases with depth, but increased pressure raises the melting temperature, so melting of rock is less likely to occur at higher pressures.

Question: As you dive deeper into the trenches in the ocean what happens to the pressure?
Choices:
decreases
increases
Answer: B
Background: As the magnification increases, the field of view decreases.

Question: If Mona is looking through some binoculars and she adjusts the magnification to make it greater, what happens to the field of view?
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: B
Background: As the total resistance increases, the current strength decreases.

Question: The more that Jane pulls on the rope, the strength of the rope
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: B
Background: The closer your finger is to your eyes, the greater the position changes because of parallax.

Question: The parallax levels in a rifle scope wind up changing as we get closer to the target, in general they
Choices:
decrease
increase
Answer: B
Background: This is because the gravitational force of attraction between the Earth and Sun is stronger when the Earth is closer to the Sun.

Question: When you get farther to a star the gravity gets
Choices:
Weaker
Stronger
Answer: A
Background: The greater the wasted output energy, the less efficient the system.

Question: If Jim reduces the amount of energy that his HVAC system wastes, what happens to the efficiency of the system?
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: A
Background: The advantage to biofuels is that they burn more cleanly than fossil fuels. As a result, they create less pollution and less carbon dioxide.

Question: Dean switched away from using biofuel for his business even though the regular fuel burning creates _____ pollution and carbon dioxide.
Choices:
more
less
Answer: A
Background: The greater the net force acting on the object, the greater its acceleration will be, but the mass of the object also affects its acceleration.

Question: Will hit the ball with the bat. If he hit the ball with greater force, the ball will experience _____ acceleration.
Choices:
less
more
Answer: B
Background: This is because the gravitational force of attraction between the Earth and Sun is stronger when the Earth is closer to the Sun.

Question: When you get closer to a star the gravity gets
Choices:
Weaker
Stronger
Answer: B
Background: An increase in glaciers lowers sea level and a decrease in glaciers raises sea level.

Question: Would a sudden cold spell that doubled the size of glaciers
Choices:
increase sea level
decrease sea level?
Answer: B
Background: When the concentration of reactants is higher, the reaction rate is faster.

Question: If Mona is creating a chemical reaction in her lab and she increases the concentration of reactants, what will happen to the reaction rate?
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: A
Background: The more focused the Suns rays are, the more energy an area receives and the warmer it is.

Question: If you defocus the sun's rays with a lens they are
Choices:
weaker
stronger
Answer: A
Background: The greater the force that is applied to an object of a given mass, the more the object will accelerate.

Question: Kyle kicked a ball across the field. If he kicked it softer it will accelerate
Choices:
more
less
Answer: B
Background: What this means is that at higher magnification, we are able to see objects of smaller and smaller size within our field of view.

Question: If we double the magnification of our microscope, we will see _____ tiny creatures.
Choices:
more
less
Answer: A
Background: As decibel levels get higher, sound waves have greater intensity and sounds are louder.

Question: Will turns up the decibels on his laptop. The sounds become
Choices:
quieter
louder
Answer: B
Background: Lower pH numbers are more acidic and higher numbers are less acidic (also called more alkaline).

Question: If Mona is adding chemicals to her swimming pool before the start of the summer and she lowers the pH number of the water, what happens to the acidity of the swimming pool?
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: A
Background: The higher the temperature of the liquid, the faster it will evaporate.

Question: If Mona takes a pot of water off of the stove and it begins to cool down, what happens to the rate of evaporation of that water?
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: B
Background: Convection on early Earth was faster and so plate tectonics was faster.

Question: Ian has a model of early Earth in the oven. He increases the convection of the oven, making the plate tectonics
Choices:
faster
slower
Answer: A
Background: Less energy is also needed to remove electrons from larger atoms in the same group of the periodic table.

Question: If Mona is trying to remove electrons from atoms will she have to use more energy on a large or a small atom?
Choices:
large atom
small atom
Answer: B
Background: But, in stars, the bluer the star, the hotter it is, and the redder it is, the older and colder it is.

Question: Chris was looking at some stars through a very large telescope. He noticed two stars. The first was a dull blue. The second was a darker blue. Compared to the bluer star, the star that is duller would be
Choices:
colder
hotter?
Answer: A
Background: The higher the frequency of an electromagnetic wave, the greater its energy.

Question: If Mary is performing an experiment and she increases the frequency of her electromagnetic wave, what happens to the energy it produces?
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: A
Background: A stronger base produces more hydroxide ions than a weaker base.

Question: If Jim decreases the size of his base, what will happen to the rate of hydroxide ion production?
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: B
Background: Leaves can have the following adaptations to reduce transpiration rate: Small or narrow leaves to reduce the surface area over which water vapour is lost

Question: Ron bought a tree with wide leaves. These areas have a larger surface area so _____ water vapour is lost.
Choices:
more
less
Answer: A
Background: Certain respiratory conditions can be made worse in people who live closer to or in large cites.

Question: If a person moved toward a large city, their respiratory condition would likely become
Choices:
worse
better
Answer: A
Background: The more curved the convex lens is in a magnifying glass, the greater its ability to magnify objects.

Question: Jane was looking at different objects through her microscope. If she decided to make the convex lens in the microscope more curved, what would happen to the microscope's ability to magnify objects?
Choices:
it would decrease
it would increase
Answer: B
Background: For example, on a cold day, an endotherm may produce more body heat by increasing its rate of metabolism.

Question: If Milo gets cold from being outside and his metabolism rate goes down, what happens to his body heat levels?
Choices:
decrease
increase
Answer: A
Background: Amplified sound waves have more energy, which increases the intensity and loudness of the sounds, so they are easier to hear.

Question: More energy going out of an amplifier to speakers makes the speakers
Choices:
quieter
louder
Answer: B
Background: Lower pH numbers are more acidic and higher numbers are less acidic (also called more alkaline).

Question: When we test something with a litmus test and the number is high it is
Choices:
acidic
basic
Answer: B
Background: The higher the frequency is, the more energy a photon has.

Question: A photon with less energy than another will also have a _____ frequency.
Choices:
higher
lower
Answer: B
Background: Increasing the number of resistors connected in parallel decreases the overall resistance of the circuit.

Question: If Milo is creating a circuit and he increases the amount of parallel resistors he uses to make it, would the overall resistance of the circuit
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: B
Background: Even though the Sun is much larger than the Moon, the pull of the Suns gravity is much less because the Sun is much farther away.

Question: If the Sun were closer to the Earth than the Moon, which body's gravity would have less influence on Earth?
Choices:
Moon
Sun
Answer: A
Background: The lower the pH value is, the greater is the concentration of hydrogen ions and the stronger the acid.

Question: If something has a pH value of 10 it would be
Choices:
acidic
basic
Answer: B
Background: Electrons at higher energy levels, which are farther from the nucleus, have more energy.

Question: Joan is examining an electron 100nm from the nucleus and an electron 50nm from the nucleus. Which has more energy?
Choices:
the 50nm electron
the 100nm electron
Answer: B
Background: The greater the net force acting on the object, the greater its acceleration will be, but the mass of the object also affects its acceleration.

Question: John was watching the objects and noticing their reactions in the physics simulator. He observed that the larger net force moving the object, that the acceleration would be
Choices:
Greater
Lesser
Answer: A
Background: Older layers are deeper in the Earth, younger layers are closer to the surface.

Question: Rich has a rock from 1000 feet below the crust of the Earth, and he compares it to a rock on his driveway. Which rock is likely younger?
Choices:
the 1000 foot rock
the driveway rock
Answer: B
Background: The farther the material is stretched or compressed, the greater the elastic force becomes.

Question: What happens to the amount of elastic force contained in Jim's rubber band if he compresses it?
Choices:
decreases
increases
Answer: B
Background: Hard shells fossilize more readily than soft bodied organisms, as they are better at resisting decay, take significantly longer to break down, and have a greater chance of surviving burial under layers of sediment.

Question: Dan is looking at shells that will be bad candidates for fossilization. He chooses the shells that are
Choices:
softer
harder
Answer: A
Background: Waves with greater amplitudes or shorter wavelengths have more energy.

Question: john was testing the meter and noticed that waves with greater amplitudes or shorter wavelengths have an energy level that is
Choices:
More
Less
Answer: A
Background: Alkanes with more carbon atoms generally have higher boiling and melting points.

Question: _____ boiling and melting points are a result of alkanes with more carbon atoms.
Choices:
Higher
lower
Answer: A
Background: The mass of the particles: lighter particles will diffuse faster, because on average they move faster.

Question: In diffusion, the heavier particles move
Choices:
faster
slower
Answer: B
Background: But, in stars, the bluer the star, the hotter it is, and the redder it is, the older and colder it is.

Question: A star that is red in color is usually
Choices:
cold
hot
Answer: A
Background: Using less nonrenewable resources means that they will last longer.

Question: If no one used single use plastic the waste would
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: B
Background: Surface Area of Reactants When a solid substance is involved in a chemical reaction, only the matter at the surface of the solid is exposed to other reactants. If a solid has more surface area, more of it is exposed and able to react.

Question: If John was applying cleaning chemicals to his car would the chemicals react _____ if he were to cover a greater section of the car's exterior?
Choices:
more
less
Answer: B
Background: In the troposphere, temperatures decrease as altitude increases.

Question: Jimbo decided to take a hot air balloon ride. As the balloon rose higher into the air, what would happen to the temperature?
Choices:
it would increase
it would decrease
Answer: B
Background: As the total resistance increases, the current strength decreases.

Question: Larry needs to increase the current strength of the electricity running through his plant. He should _____ the total resistance of the electromagnetism.
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: B
Background: Heavier objects press together with greater force, and this causes greater friction between them.

Question: When an item is heavier and is gliding across something it will have
Choices:
less friction
more friction
Answer: B
Background: The carbon taxes encourage people to use less fossil fuel, which reduces carbon dioxide emissions.

Question: When people were taxed heavily for smoking cigarettes the smoking level
Choices:
increased
decreased
Answer: B
Background: Many diseases become more common as people grow older.

Question: When people get older they get
Choices:
healthier
sicker
Answer: B
Background: Heavier objects also have more friction because they press together with greater force.

Question: If Kevin slid a frying pan across the table and then slid an orange across the table, which object would slide the greater distance?
Choices:
frying pan
orange
Answer: B
Background: As more protons are added to the nucleus, the electromagnetic force of repulsion between them gets stronger, while the strong nuclear force of attraction between them gets weaker.

Question: When you keep adding positive items to an atom what happens to the electromagnetic force?
Choices:
Increases
decreases
Answer: A
Background: With exponential growth, the population starts out growing slowly. As population size increases, the growth rate also increases.

Question: Exponential growth of a population of animals means it
Choices:
increases
diminishes
Answer: B
Background: Many diseases become more common as people grow older.

Question: Wendy is 30 years old while Jefferson is 60 years old. Who is more susceptible to disease?
Choices:
Wendy
Jefferson
Answer: B
Background: With exponential growth, the population starts out growing slowly. As population size increases, the growth rate also increases.

Question: Will has a simulation with exponential growth. As the population in his model increases, the growth rate also
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: A
Background: Hard shells fossilize more readily than soft bodied organisms, as they are better at resisting decay, take significantly longer to break down, and have a greater chance of surviving burial under layers of sediment.

Question: Compared to a clam with its hard shell, would a jellyfish which is mostly water be
Choices:
more likely to become a fossil
less likely to become a fossil?
Answer: B
Background: The more focused the Suns rays are, the more energy an area receives and the warmer it is.

Question: If Mona is standing in sunlight and she moves into the shade, what happens to the amount of sunlight her body receives?
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: B
Background: Using less nonrenewable resources means that they will last longer.

Question: John was viewing the statistics of the power plants energy usage. He noted that the more resources it used, that the resources would last
Choices:
Longer
Shorter
Answer: B
Background: The farther the material is stretched or compressed, the greater the elastic force becomes.

Question: Tina is putting on a sweater. As she stops stretching out the material, its elastic force
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: B
Background: Amplified sound waves have more energy, which increases the intensity and loudness of the sounds, so they are easier to hear.

Question: Timmy turned up his speakers to high volume, meaning the sound waves had _____ energy.
Choices:
lower
higher
Answer: B
Background: Lower pH numbers are more acidic and higher numbers are less acidic (also called more alkaline).

Question: Dane is checking the pH of his project and sees that it is quite low, which means that the acid in his project is
Choices:
higher
lower
Answer: A
Background: What this means is that at higher magnification, we are able to see objects of smaller and smaller size within our field of view.

Question: Eric increases magnification of his telescope. He is able to see _____ stars.
Choices:
less
more
Answer: B
Background: The deeper you go, the darker the water gets.

Question: After diving, when you reach the top of the ocean it is nearly _____ because of the light levels
Choices:
black
white
Answer: B
Background: As the magnification increases, the field of view decreases.

Question: Xavier is using a 2x microscope while Yania is using her eyes. Who has the smallest field of view?
Choices:
Xavier
Yania
Answer: A
Background: When the concentration of reactants is higher, the reaction rate is faster.

Question: When we put less fire on a piece of food it will cook
Choices:
slower
faster
Answer: A
Background: When the concentration of reactants is higher, the reaction rate is faster.

Question: If Mona is creating a chemical reaction in her lab and she decreases the concentration of reactants, what will happen to the reaction rate?
Choices:
increase
decrease
Answer: B
Background: Drier climates generally have less water for people to use.

Question: Allie lives in Phoenix and Tony lives in Seattle. Who likely would suffer a drought in their city?
Choices:
Tony
Allie
Answer: B
Background: The advantage to biofuels is that they burn more cleanly than fossil fuels. As a result, they create less pollution and less carbon dioxide.

Question: Ollie drives a car that doesn't use biofuels. It creates more pollution and therefore,
Choices:
more carbon dioxide.
less carbon dioxide
Answer: A
Background: The smoother the surface, the less friction against an object, so the faster it will move.

Question: If an object starts slowing down, it is encountering _____ friction against it.
Choices:
more
less
Answer: A
Background: As the total resistance increases, the current strength decreases.

Question: The less that Jane pulls on the rope, the strength of the rope
Choices:
increases
decreases
Answer: A