Answer the following question given this paragraph: Polychaete worms live on the ocean floor. They may be sedentary filter feeders or active predators or scavengers. Active species crawl along the ocean floor in search of food. Q: Where do polychaete worms live? Choices: - lakes - digestive tract - garden soil - the ocean floor A:
the ocean floor
Answer the following question given this paragraph: Ions are highly reactive, especially as gases. They usually react with ions of opposite charge to form neutral compounds. For example, positive sodium ions and negative chloride ions react to form the neutral compound sodium chloride, commonly known as table salt. This occurs because oppositely charged ions attract each other. Ions with the same charge, on the other hand, repel each other. Ions are also deflected by a magnetic field, as you saw in the opening image of the northern lights. Q: What do ions of the same charge do? Choices: - merge - attract each other - discard each other - repel each other A:
repel each other
Q: Answer the following question given this paragraph: When a series of straight waves strike an impenetrable barrier, the waves stop at the barrier. However, the last particle of the medium at the back corner of the barrier will create circular waves from that point, called the point source. This can be seen in the image below. This phenomenon is called diffraction , and it occurs in liquid, sound, and light waves. While the waves become circular waves at the point source, they continue as straight waves where the barrier does not interfere with the waves. Q: What is the phenomenon in which light and sound waves become circular at the point source of a barrier? Choices: - refraction - sonic wave - reflection - diffraction A:
A: diffraction
Question: Answer the following question given this paragraph: 6.3 The Laws of Thermodynamics In studying energy, scientists use the term "system" to refer to the matter and its environment involved in energy transfers. Everything outside of the system is called the surroundings. Single cells are biological systems. Systems can be thought of as having a certain amount of order. It takes energy to make a system more ordered. The more ordered a system is, the lower its entropy. Entropy is a measure of the disorder of a system. As a system becomes more disordered, the lower its energy and the higher its entropy become. A series of laws, called the laws of thermodynamics, describe the properties and processes of energy transfer. The first law states that the total amount of energy in the universe is constant. This means that energy can't be created or destroyed, only transferred or transformed. The second law of thermodynamics states that every energy transfer involves some loss of energy in an unusable form, such as heat energy, resulting in a more disordered system. In other words, no energy transfer is completely efficient and tends toward disorder. Q: In studying energy, what term do scientists use to refer to the matter and its environment involved in energy transfers? Choices: - molecule - ecosystem - world - system A:
Answer: system
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Answer the following question given this paragraph: In order to absorb oxygen from the water, fish use gills ( Figure below ). Gills take dissolved oxygen from water as the water flows over the surface of the gill. Q: What part of the body do fish use to absorb oxygen? Choices: - dorsal fin - tail fin - under belly - gills A:
**Answer**
gills
Answer the following question given this paragraph: Proteins are an essential part of all organisms. They play many roles in living things. Certain proteins provide a scaffolding that maintains the shape of cells (structural proteins). Proteins also make up the majority of muscle tissues. Many proteins are enzymes that speed up chemical reactions in cells. Enzymes interact with the substrates (reactants) of a biochemical reaction, helping the reaction proceed at a much faster rate. Other proteins are antibodies that protect you from pathogens. Antibodies bond to foreign substances in the body and target them for destruction. Still other proteins help carry messages or materials in and out of cells (transport proteins) or around the body. For example, the blood protein hemoglobin (see Figure below ) bonds with oxygen and carries it from the lungs to cells throughout the body. Q: What type of protein speeds up chemical reactions in cells? Choices: - hemoglobin - lipids - collagen - enzyme A:
enzyme