Many plants go dormant during the
Options:
- (A) heat or cold
- (B) earth's revolving
- (C) autumnal equinox
- (D) colder and wetter
- (E) It helps them survive
- (F) cloudy and rainy weather
- (G) Plant growth is reduced
- (H) fire conditions
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Let's think first: Many plants respond to the days growing shorter in the fall by going dormant. After the autumnal equinox, days gradually shorten in the Northern Hemisphere. Many plants respond to the autumnal equinox by going dormant.... So the answer is [(C)]
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What do substances in the pituitary control?
Options:
- (A) To keep their body heat.
- (B) sweating
- (C) endocrine glands
- (D) temperature
- (E) preventing heat transfer
- (F) an organism's body
- (G) movement
- (H) Veins and arteries.
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Let's think first: Most pituitary hormones control other endocrine glands. Hormone therapy Hormones are substances that occur naturally in the body. Substances in the pituitary control the endocrine glands.... So the answer is [(C)]
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What are attached permanently?
Options:
- (A) Veins and arteries.
- (B) sensory neurons
- (C) barnacles
- (D) tadpoles
- (E) seahorses
- (F) alligators
- (G) adult sponges
- (H) an organism's body
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Let's think first: Adult sponges are sessile. Sessile Attached permanently, immobile. Adult sponges are attached permanently and cannot move.... So the answer is [(G)]
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Mammals find breath through the action of what thing beneath their lungs?
Options:
- (A) matter
- (B) the skin
- (C) muscle
- (D) organ
- (E) lmestone
- (F) oxygen
- (G) gas
- (H) Epidermis
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Let's think first: Mammals breathe with the help of a diaphragm. Hiccups are caused by involuntary spasms of the diaphragm, the muscle beneath the lungs. Mammals breathe with the help of a muscle below the lungs.... So the answer is [(C)]
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