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1. Where would the egg meet the sperm and be fertilized?

a. Ovary d. Cervix
b. Fallopian tube e. Vagina
c. Uterus

2. Acne breaks out at the surface of your face due to overproduction of which
gland in the skin?
a. Follicle d. Nerve
b. Sebaceous e. Pore
c. Sweat

3. A group of different species interacting with each other is called?

a. Habitat d. Community
b. Organism e. Ecosystem
c. Population

4. Puberty is the period of transition of a child’s body to an adult. Which one would
not be a characteristic of puberty in boys?
a. Acne breakouts
b. Growth spurt
c. Appearance of pubic hair
d. Development of breast
e. Formation of Adam’s apple

5. Which is not a characteristic of a smooth muscle?

a. They cannot be controlled voluntarily.
b. They cover most of the organs in the body.
c. They are elastic.
d. They appear tapered under the microscope.
e. They are striated.

6. Johnson grows a lily plant in his garden. Which of the following he would not
observe in his lily plant?
a. The seedling would have one cotyledon
b. The roots would be fibrous.
c. The leaves would have parallel veins.
d. The petal number would be in four or five.
e. The vascular bundles in the stem would be scattered.
7. Which of the following is a property of ceramics like pots?
a. High thermal d. High electrical
conductivity conductivity
b. Malleability e. Ductility
c. Brittleness

8. It is important to understand the rusting of iron as it is used in many building

materials but the produced rust is not as sturdy as the former. Iron rusts by
reacting with oxygen to produce iron oxides. A 14 g bar of iron was found to
react with 102 g of oxygen gas. How much rust was formed?
a. 14 g e. Cannot be
b. 102 g determined from the
c. 116 g given data
d. 120 g

9. To prevent the spread of bacteria and viruses, one is advised to use isopropyl
alcohol on their hands several times a day. Medical professionals recommend
using at least 70 % by volume alcohol. Which of the following solutions satisfy
this requirement? (All % are given by volume)
a. 200 mL alcohol diluted with 50 mL water
b. 150 mL alcohol diluted with 100 mL water
c. 300 mL alcohol diluted with 250 mL water
d. 400 mL alcohol diluted with 200 mL water
e. 500 mL alcohol diluted with 300 mL water

10. Which of the following physical changes releases heat to its environment?
a. Sublimation of mothballs to release gaseous naphthalene
b. Freezing ice cream
c. Boiling soup
d. Expansion of a gas in a balloon
e. None of the above

11. Which of the following properties of metals is the main reason metals are not
used for mugs that hold hot beverages?
a. High thermal conductivity
b. Good electrical conductivity
c. Brilliance
d. Malleability
e. High melting point
12. Which of the following is NOT true about phases of matter?
a. In solids, particles are packed-together in a well-defined ordered
structure.
b. In liquids, particles of matter slide and glide with each other.
c. In gasses, particles have very weak interactions with each other.
d. Converting liquids to gasses necessitates breaking interactions.
e. Freezing liquids to the solid state decreases their energy

13. You are an electrical engineer designing a new circuit board. You cut out the
following board and measured the length of one side as follows:

How should you report the measurement?

a. 18.5 mm
b. 19 mm
c. 19.0 mm
d. 18 mm
e. 18.0 mm

14. Dumplings are cooked by steaming them in water. Vapor from boiling water
rises and transfers heat to the dumplings, cooking them. What kind of heat
transfer is in process?
a. Conduction
b. Convection
c. Radiation
d. Induction
e. None of the above
15. Gold nanoparticles promise many new applications for 21st century technologies
in medicine, nanotechnology, and devices. These are very small particles of
metallic gold. Due to its small size, they show a bright red color in solution and
not the yellowish metallic luster commonly associated with gold bars:

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Which of the following is NOT true about the color of this solution?
a. The solution absorbs the red color
b. The solution absorbs the blue color
c. The solution absorbs the yellow color
d. The solution absorbs the green color
e. The solution absorbs the purple color

16. Which of the following is NOT true?

a. An apple falls to the ground due to the earth’s gravity
b. The weight of an apple is different on the equator and on the
North Pole
c. While an apple falling feels the gravitational attraction of the earth,
the earth also feels an attraction to the apple
d. The mass of an astronaut is different on the moon as is on earth
e. The moon and the earth are attracted to each other by gravity

17. In her desperation to finally meet Taki, Mitsuha took the Shinkansen, or bullet
train, from Itomori to Tokyo (distance 200 km). The Shinkansen is an engineering
accomplishment for its speed, efficiency and safety. Give the speed of the
shinkansen if Mitsuha reached her destination in 45 minutes?
a. 4 km/hr
b. 270 km/hr
c. 270 km/min
d. 5 km/s
e. 200 km/hr
18. Which of the following reasons best explain why metals are not used for mugs
which hold hot beverages?
a. They are heavy
b. Their malleability renders them sensitive to deformation due to
heat
c. Their high thermal conductivity will make the beverage cold
d. Their bright luster makes them brilliant
e. Their shine makes them difficult to wash

19. This is located at approximately 23.5 degrees north of the equator and is directly
below the sun during the northern summer solstice.
a. Latitude
b. Arctic Circle
c. Antarctic Circle
d. Tropic of Capricorn
e. Tropic of Cancer

20. This is the hard layer of rock beneath the soil.

a. Crust d. Subsoil
b. Lithosphere e. Bedrock
c. Topsoil

21. It is a medium-sized flat-topped mountain or hill that is said to resemble a table.

a. Marsh d. Plateau
b. Butte e. Summit
c. Mesa

22. What is the collective term that refers to the gases that trap heat in the earth’s
atmosphere?
a. Greenhouse gases d. Nitrous Oxide
b. Ozone layer e. Methane
c. Chlorofluorocarbons

23. The shape of the earth is not perfectly round. What specific term refers to its
shape?
a. Sphere d. Prolate Ellipsoid
b. Oblate Spheroid e. Oblate Ellipsoid
c. Prolate Spheroid
24. Meteoroids that make it to the earth’s atmosphere are eventually called meteors.
While some are able to reach the earth’s ground, in which atmospheric layer do
most of them burn up?
a. Ionosphere
b. Mesosphere
c. Stratosphere
d. Troposphere
e. Exosphere

25. Which planet in the Solar System has the greatest number of moons?
a. Mars
b. Jupiter
c. Saturn
d. Uranus
e. Neptune

26. What time of the day was it when you were facing east and when you had your
back to the sun?
a. Morning
b. Midday
c. Afternoon
d. Evening
e. Midnight

27. Why do we see phases of the moon during a month?

a. Parts of the moon are always in shadow
b. There are nightly eclipses
c. The moon gets smaller as it moves away from us.
d. We see only the lit part of the moon as it moves around Earth.
e. none of the above

28. When does a lunar eclipse occur?

a. When the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth’s
shadow
b. When a portion of the Earth is engulfed in a shadow cast by the
Moon
c. When the Moon's umbra or antumbra, the shadow's center
portion, is cast into space just above the polar regions
d. when the Earth moves between the Sun and Moon but the three
celestial bodies do not form a straight line in space
e. none of the above
29. Solar flares emit
a. Light
b. Plasma
c. Radio waves
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

30. Comets are believed to be made of?

a. Dust, rock, ice
b. Dust and rock particles
c. Hydrogen gas
d. Dust and ice
e. Dust and hydrogen gas

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