allenai/ropes huggingface dataset:
Background: An enzyme is a protein that acts as a biological catalyst. Recall that a catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being consumed in the reaction. Cellular processes consist of many chemical reactions that must occur quickly in order for the cell to function properly. Enzymes catalyze most of the chemical reactions that occur in a cell. A substrate is the molecule or molecules on which the enzyme acts. In the urease catalyzed reaction above, urea is the substrate. The Figure below diagrams a typical enzymatic reaction.

Situation: Robert is a scientist that is analyzing the skin cells he obtained from a new species of spider. He is comparing two cells side by side. He notices that the cell on the left, cell A, does not have any enzymes present. The cell on the right, cell B, however contains a large number of enzymes.

Question: Which cell will have faster chemical reactions?
Answer: cell B

Situation: Robert is a scientist that is analyzing the skin cells he obtained from a new species of spider. He is comparing two cells side by side. He notices that the cell on the left, cell A, does not have any enzymes present. The cell on the right, cell B, however contains a large number of enzymes.

Question: Which cell will have slower chemical reactions?
Answer: cell A
Background: As a liquid is heated, the average kinetic energy of its particles increases. The rate of evaporation increases as more and more molecules are able to escape the liquid’s surface into the vapor phase. Eventually a point is reached when the molecules all throughout the liquid have enough kinetic energy to vaporize . At this point the liquid begins to boil. The boiling point is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid is equal to the external pressure. The Figure below illustrates the boiling of liquid.

Situation: Alexander is heating up water in his kitchen because he is preparing to make pasta. He has split the water into two containers, container A and container B. Container A has been heating up for a long amount time, while container B has only been heating up for a short amount of time.

Question: Which container has particles with higher average kinetic energy?
Answer: container A

Situation: Alexander is heating up water in his kitchen because he is preparing to make pasta. He has split the water into two containers, container A and container B. Container A has been heating up for a long amount time, while container B has only been heating up for a short amount of time.

Question: Which container has particles with lower average kinetic energy?
Answer: container B

Situation: Alexander is heating up water in his kitchen because he is preparing to make pasta. He has split the water into two containers, container A and container B. Container A has been heating up for a long amount time, while container B has only been heating up for a short amount of time.

Question: Which container has a higher rate of evaporation?
Answer: container A

Situation: Alexander is heating up water in his kitchen because he is preparing to make pasta. He has split the water into two containers, container A and container B. Container A has been heating up for a long amount time, while container B has only been heating up for a short amount of time.

Question: Which container has a lower rate of evaporation?
Answer: container B

Situation: Alexander is heating up water in his kitchen because he is preparing to make pasta. He has split the water into two containers, container A and container B. Container A has been heating up for a long amount time, while container B has only been heating up for a short amount of time.

Question: Liquid from which container will boil sooner?
Answer: container A

Situation: Alexander is heating up water in his kitchen because he is preparing to make pasta. He has split the water into two containers, container A and container B. Container A has been heating up for a long amount time, while container B has only been heating up for a short amount of time.

Question: Liquid from which container will boil later?
Answer: container B
Background: Another obvious change that occurs during puberty is rapid growth. This is called the adolescent growth spurt . In boys, it is controlled by testosterone. The rate of growth usually starts to increase relatively early in puberty. At its peak rate, growth in height is about 10 centimeters (almost 4 inches) per year in the average male. Growth generally remains rapid for several years. Growth and development of muscles occur toward the end of the growth spurt in height. Muscles may continue to develop and gain strength after growth in height is finished.

Situation: Adrian and Justin are brothers who are currently undergoing puberty. Adrian is nearing the end of puberty and his rate of height growth is low. Justin has just started puberty, though, and his rate of height growth is currently quite high.

Question: Who will experience growth of their muscles sooner?
Answer: Adrian

Situation: Adrian and Justin are brothers who are currently undergoing puberty. Adrian is nearing the end of puberty and his rate of height growth is low. Justin has just started puberty, though, and his rate of height growth is currently quite high.

Question: Who will experience growth of their muscles later?
Answer: Justin

Situation: Adrian and Justin are brothers who are currently undergoing puberty. Adrian is nearing the end of puberty and his rate of height growth is low. Justin has just started puberty, though, and his rate of height growth is currently quite high.

Question: Who will experience development of their muscles sooner?
Answer: Adrian

Situation: Adrian and Justin are brothers who are currently undergoing puberty. Adrian is nearing the end of puberty and his rate of height growth is low. Justin has just started puberty, though, and his rate of height growth is currently quite high.

Question: Who will experience development of their muscles later?
Answer: Justin
Background: Because of human activities, there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than in the past hundreds of thousands of years. Burning fossil fuels and has released great quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Cutting forests and clearing land has also increased carbon dioxide into the atmosphere because these activities reduce the number of autotrophic organisms that use up carbon dioxide in photosynthesis. In addition, clearing often involves burning, which releases carbon dioxide that was previously stored in autotrophs.

Situation: Thanks to environmental initiatives, Quebec has grown a large number of forests recently that are densely populated with tall trees. At the same time, Ottawa has been cutting down large numbers of trees in their forests and clearing the land to make room for housing developments and new construction sites.

Question: Which city, Quebec or Ottawa, has decreased their number of autotrophic organisms?
Answer: Ottawa

Situation: Thanks to environmental initiatives, Quebec has grown a large number of forests recently that are densely populated with tall trees. At the same time, Ottawa has been cutting down large numbers of trees in their forests and clearing the land to make room for housing developments and new construction sites.

Question: Which city, Quebec or Ottawa, has increased their number of autotrophic organisms?
Answer: Quebec

Situation: Thanks to environmental initiatives, Quebec has grown a large number of forests recently that are densely populated with tall trees. At the same time, Ottawa has been cutting down large numbers of trees in their forests and clearing the land to make room for housing developments and new construction sites.

Question: Which city, Quebec or Ottawa, has a greater capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from the environment?
Answer: Quebec

Situation: Thanks to environmental initiatives, Quebec has grown a large number of forests recently that are densely populated with tall trees. At the same time, Ottawa has been cutting down large numbers of trees in their forests and clearing the land to make room for housing developments and new construction sites.

Question: Which city, Quebec or Ottawa, has a lower capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from the environment?
Answer: Ottawa

Situation: Thanks to environmental initiatives, Quebec has grown a large number of forests recently that are densely populated with tall trees. At the same time, Ottawa has been cutting down large numbers of trees in their forests and clearing the land to make room for housing developments and new construction sites.

Question: Which city, Quebec or Ottawa, has released more carbon dioxide through their actions?
Answer: Ottawa

Situation: Thanks to environmental initiatives, Quebec has grown a large number of forests recently that are densely populated with tall trees. At the same time, Ottawa has been cutting down large numbers of trees in their forests and clearing the land to make room for housing developments and new construction sites.

Question: Which city, Quebec or Ottawa, has released less carbon dioxide through their actions?
Answer: Quebec
Background: Electronic ear protectors work differently. They identify high-amplitude sound waves and send sound waves through them in the opposite direction. This causes destructive interference with the waves, which reduces their amplitude to zero or nearly zero. This changes even the loudest sounds to just a soft hiss. Sounds that people need to hear, such as the voices of co-workers, are not interfered with in this way and may be amplified instead so they can be heard more clearly. This type of hearing protector is recommended for higher noise levels and situations where it’s important to be able to hear lower-decibel sounds.

Situation: Carson is a construction worker that operates a jack hammer on the construction site for a new building. The jack hammer is often incredibly loud and generates a high amount of noise. Carson wants to protect himself from this noise, but he also needs to be able to hear the orders given to him by his boss on the site.

Question: Would electronic ear protectors be appropriate for Carson, yes or no?
Answer: yes

Situation: Carson is a construction worker that operates a jack hammer on the construction site for a new building. The jack hammer is often incredibly loud and generates a high amount of noise. Carson wants to protect himself from this noise, but he also needs to be able to hear the orders given to him by his boss on the site.

Question: Would Carson still be able to hear his boss if he used electronic ear protectors, yes or no?
Answer: yes

Situation: Carson is a construction worker that operates a jack hammer on the construction site for a new building. The jack hammer is often incredibly loud and generates a high amount of noise. Carson wants to protect himself from this noise, but he also needs to be able to hear the orders given to him by his boss on the site.

Question: Would electronic ear protectors cause the jackhammer to sound loud, or sound like a soft hiss?
Answer: like a soft hiss

Situation: Carson is a construction worker that operates a jack hammer on the construction site for a new building. The jack hammer is often incredibly loud and generates a high amount of noise. Carson wants to protect himself from this noise, but he also needs to be able to hear the orders given to him by his boss on the site.

Question: Would electronic ear protectors reduce or increase the amplitude of the jackhammer?
Answer: reduce
Background: One reason radiation is dangerous is that it can’t be detected with the senses. You normally can’t see it, smell it, hear it, or feel it. Fortunately, there are devices such as Geiger counters that can detect radiation. A Geiger counter, like the one in Figure below , has a tube that contains atoms of a gas. If radiation enters the tube, it turns gas atoms to ions that carry electric current. The current causes the Geiger counter to click. The faster the clicks occur, the higher the level of radiation. You can see a video about the Geiger counter and how it was invented at the URL below.

Situation: Robert and Thomas are visiting an abandoned amusement park in Russia that is rumored to emit radiation due to the materials used in the rides.  Robert visits the Ferris wheel and his Geiger counter clicks slowly. Thomas visits the merry go round and his Geiger counter begins to click rapidly.

Question: Which person is in an area with higher levels of radiation?
Answer: Thomas

Situation: Robert and Thomas are visiting an abandoned amusement park in Russia that is rumored to emit radiation due to the materials used in the rides.  Robert visits the Ferris wheel and his Geiger counter clicks slowly. Thomas visits the merry go round and his Geiger counter begins to click rapidly.

Question: Which person is in an area with lower levels of radiation?
Answer: Robert

Situation: Robert and Thomas are visiting an abandoned amusement park in Russia that is rumored to emit radiation due to the materials used in the rides.  Robert visits the Ferris wheel and his Geiger counter clicks slowly. Thomas visits the merry go round and his Geiger counter begins to click rapidly.

Question: Which person's Geiger count has more current running through it?
Answer: Thomas

Situation: Robert and Thomas are visiting an abandoned amusement park in Russia that is rumored to emit radiation due to the materials used in the rides.  Robert visits the Ferris wheel and his Geiger counter clicks slowly. Thomas visits the merry go round and his Geiger counter begins to click rapidly.

Question: Which person's Geiger count has less current running through it?
Answer: Robert
Background: When humans dig up and use fossil fuels, we have an impact on the carbon cycle ( Figure below ). This carbon is not recycled until it is used by humans. The burning of fossil fuels releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than is used by photosynthesis. So, there is more carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere than is coming out of it. Carbon dioxide is known as a greenhouse gas , since it lets in light energy but does not let heat escape, much like the panes of a greenhouse. The increase of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is contributing to a global rise in Earth’s temperature, known as global warming or global climate change.

Situation: Xuejiang, a town in China, recently increased their levels of steel and construction materials production. The factories that produce these materials have been burning high levels of fossil fuels to support this production.  Ontario, meanwhile, has been burning low levels of fossil fuels thanks to investment in alternative energies, and a general decrease in the manufacturing industries there.

Question: Which area will release more carbon dioxide, Xuejiang or Ontario?
Answer: Xuejiang

Situation: Xuejiang, a town in China, recently increased their levels of steel and construction materials production. The factories that produce these materials have been burning high levels of fossil fuels to support this production.  Ontario, meanwhile, has been burning low levels of fossil fuels thanks to investment in alternative energies, and a general decrease in the manufacturing industries there.

Question: Which area will release less carbon dioxide, Xuejiang or Ontario?
Answer: Ontario

Situation: Xuejiang, a town in China, recently increased their levels of steel and construction materials production. The factories that produce these materials have been burning high levels of fossil fuels to support this production.  Ontario, meanwhile, has been burning low levels of fossil fuels thanks to investment in alternative energies, and a general decrease in the manufacturing industries there.

Question: Which area will contribute more to global warming, Xuejiang or Ontario?
Answer: Xuejiang

Situation: Xuejiang, a town in China, recently increased their levels of steel and construction materials production. The factories that produce these materials have been burning high levels of fossil fuels to support this production.  Ontario, meanwhile, has been burning low levels of fossil fuels thanks to investment in alternative energies, and a general decrease in the manufacturing industries there.

Question: Which area will contribute less to global warming, Xuejiang or Ontario?
Answer: Ontario
Background: Pollutants also affect the atmosphere through their contribution to global warming. Global warming is an increase in the Earth’s temperature. It is thought to be caused mostly by the increase of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. Greenhouse gases can be released by factories that burn fossil fuels. Over the past 20 years, burning fossil fuels has produced about three-quarters of the carbon dioxide from human activity. The rest of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is there because of deforestation, or cutting down trees ( Figure below ). Trees absorb carbon dioxide during cellular respiration, so when trees are cut down, they cannot remove carbon dioxide from the air.

Situation: Quebec recently removed a large area consisting primarily of forests in order to make room for a new housing development. On the other hand, Montreal recently finished planting a large amount of new trees as part of an environmental initiative project.

Question: Which area will remove higher levels of carbon dioxide from the air, Montreal or Quebec?
Answer: Montreal

Situation: Quebec recently removed a large area consisting primarily of forests in order to make room for a new housing development. On the other hand, Montreal recently finished planting a large amount of new trees as part of an environmental initiative project.

Question: Which area will remove lower levels of carbon dioxide from the air, Montreal or Quebec?
Answer: Quebec

Situation: Tokyo recently had a large explosion in one of their largest steel manufacturing plants. The combination of heat, steel, and manufacturing materials released an extraordinary amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, Osaka has dramatically decreased the amount of carbon dioxide it releases through the installation of many public transportation projects and tree planting initiatives.

Question: Which city, Tokyo or Osaka, will contribute more to global warming?
Answer: Tokyo

Situation: Tokyo recently had a large explosion in one of their largest steel manufacturing plants. The combination of heat, steel, and manufacturing materials released an extraordinary amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, Osaka has dramatically decreased the amount of carbon dioxide it releases through the installation of many public transportation projects and tree planting initiatives.

Question: Which city, Tokyo or Osaka, will contribute less to global warming?
Answer: Osaka
Background: The mechanical advantage of a machine is the factor by which it changes the force applied to the machine. Many machines increase the force applied to them, and this is how they make work easier. Compound machines tend to have a greater mechanical advantage than simple machines. That’s because the mechanical advantage of a compound machine equals the product of the mechanical advantages of all its component simple machines. The greater the number of simple machines it contains, the greater its mechanical advantage tends to be.

Situation: Jeremiah and Alexander are students in a work shop class at their local community college. For their final project, they have to construct a compound machine to carry bricks across a room. Jeremiah's compound machine consists of many simple machines. Alexander's compound machine only consists of a few simple machines.

Question: Which person's compound machine will have a larger mechanical advantage?
Answer: Jeremiah's

Situation: Jeremiah and Alexander are students in a work shop class at their local community college. For their final project, they have to construct a compound machine to carry bricks across a room. Jeremiah's compound machine consists of many simple machines. Alexander's compound machine only consists of a few simple machines.

Question: Which person's compound machine will have a smaller mechanical advantage?
Answer: Alexander's
Background: Collision theory tells us that molecules need to collide in order for a reaction to take place. All else being equal, anything that increases the frequency of collisions would also increase the rate of reaction. One way to do this is to increase the concentrations of one or more of the reactants. Using a real world example, a busy freeway will experience much more frequent car collisions than a fairly empty neighborhood street. Similarly, forcing more randomly moving molecules into the same amount of space will cause an increased number of collisions over a given length of time, providing the reactants with more opportunities to transform into products.

Situation: Jordan and Elizabeth are performing a chemistry experiment for the science fair. Jordan uses a high concentration of the reactants when starting his reactions. Elizabeth uses a low concentration of the reactants when she starts her reactions.

Question: Who will have reactions that occur at a higher rate?
Answer: Jordan

Situation: Jordan and Elizabeth are performing a chemistry experiment for the science fair. Jordan uses a high concentration of the reactants when starting his reactions. Elizabeth uses a low concentration of the reactants when she starts her reactions.

Question: Who will have reactions that occur at a lower rate?
Answer: Elizabeth

Situation: Jordan and Elizabeth are performing a chemistry experiment for the science fair. Jordan uses a high concentration of the reactants when starting his reactions. Elizabeth uses a low concentration of the reactants when she starts her reactions.

Question: Who will have reactions with more frequent collisions between the reactant molecules?
Answer: Jordan

Situation: Jordan and Elizabeth are performing a chemistry experiment for the science fair. Jordan uses a high concentration of the reactants when starting his reactions. Elizabeth uses a low concentration of the reactants when she starts her reactions.

Question: Who will have reactions with less frequent collisions between the reactant molecules?
Answer: Elizabeth