Module 16 & Year End Review Quiz

Question 1

What is the function of the cochlea?

Accepted Answer

Converts rocking motion of the ossicles to electric signals

Question 2

Which test tests to see whether or not the document is internally consistent?

Accepted Answer

Internal Test

Question 3

Robert Boyle said, "Remember to give glory to the One who....."

Accepted Answer

authored nature.

Question 4

What is the function of the corpus callosum?

Accepted Answer

Allows the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate.

Question 5

What is the brain's white matter composed of?

Accepted Answer

Axons with myelin sheaths.

Question 6

Which type of simple machine is pictured here?

Accepted Answer

First-class lever

Question 7

What do we call an organism that produces its own food?

Accepted Answer

Producer

Question 8

What do dendrites do?

Accepted Answer

Carry signals towards a neuron's cell body.

Question 9

What is the function of the eye's pupil?

Accepted Answer

Regulates how much light gets into the eye.

Question 10

What is the system of nerves that carries instructions from the CNS to the skeletal muscles?

Accepted Answer

Somatic motor nervous system

Question 11

In which organelle is most of the DNA stored?

Accepted Answer

Nucleus

Question 12

What do we call an educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question?

Accepted Answer

a hypothesis

Question 13

Which system's main function is to regulate the balance of chemicals and water in your blood?

Accepted Answer

Urinary

Question 14

A blind experiment is an experiment in which...

Accepted Answer

Participants don't know if they're part of the control group

Question 15

Which system's main function is to produce hormones?

Accepted Answer

Endocrine

Question 16

Which type of simple machine is pictured here?

Accepted Answer

Pulley

Question 17

Which is NOT one of the three macronutrients?

Accepted Answer

Glucose

Question 18

What are the two main types of cells in the human nervous system?

Accepted Answer

Neurons and Neuroglia

Question 19

What is the function of neuroglia?

Accepted Answer

To support the neurons by performing various tasks.

Question 20

What is the main part of a mushroom?

Accepted Answer

Mycelium

Question 21

Who's your favorite science teacher? ;)

Accepted Answer

The one who is teaching today, Mrs. Cooper, The one who created this Kahoot!, The one emailed us to bring our electronic device.

Question 22

What is the brain's gray matter composed of?

Accepted Answer

Neuron cell bodies.

Question 23

Which type of simple machine is pictured here?

Accepted Answer

Second-class lever

Question 24

What is the peripheral nervous system composed of?

Accepted Answer

All the nerves running off of the spinal cord.

Question 25

The view that most of earth's geological features are the result of large-scale catastrophes.

Accepted Answer

Catastrophism

Question 26

What does the sympathetic divistion of the autonomic nervous system do?

Accepted Answer

Speeds up the heart rate.

Question 27

When a plant or animal dies, what is the most likely thing that will happen to its remains?

Accepted Answer

It will decay

Question 28

Which system's main purpose is to fight infection?

Accepted Answer

Lymphatic

Question 29

What do we call fossils that are assumed to represent a certain period in earth's past?

Accepted Answer

Index fossils

Question 30

Where does digestion begin?

Accepted Answer

Mouth

Question 31

The obvious layers of rocks in the walls of the Grand Canyon are called...

Accepted Answer

Strata

Question 32

Which of the following is NOT one of the three main types of blood cells?

Accepted Answer

Fibrin

Question 33

Which test asks if the document contradicts other known historical facts?

Accepted Answer

External Test

Question 34

In which organ are most of the nutrients absorbed from your food?

Accepted Answer

Small Intestine

Question 35

What type of rock are fossils usually found in?

Accepted Answer

Sedimentary

Question 36

What two main structures make up the CNS?

Accepted Answer

The brain and the spinal cord

Question 37

The veiw that most of earth's geological features are the result of slow, gradual processes.

Accepted Answer

Uniformitarianism

Question 38

Which of the following is NOT part of the human superstructure?

Accepted Answer

Organs

Question 39

What are the two substances that make up bone?

Accepted Answer

Collagen and Minerals

Question 40

What are neurotransmitters?

Accepted Answer

Chemicals that travel across a synapse to transmit a signal

Question 41

The variable or part of the experiment to which all others will be compared is the...

Accepted Answer

Control

Question 42

What does the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do?

Accepted Answer

Slows the heart rate.

Question 43

What are the 5 kingdoms?

Accepted Answer

Mondera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia

Question 44

What is a synapse?

Accepted Answer

A gap between the axon of the neuron and the receiving cell

Question 45

What do the taste buds do?

Accepted Answer

Sense salty, bitter, sweet, salty and umami.

Question 46

Which scientist laid down three laws of motion that still guide the science of physics today?

Accepted Answer

Newton

Question 47

What is the system of nerves that carries information from the body's receptors to the CNS?

Accepted Answer

Sensory nervous system

Question 48

What part of the brain deals mostly with higher-level thinking skills?

Accepted Answer

Cerebrum

Question 49

Which scientist denounced the heliocentric view because he was a devout Roman Catholic?

Accepted Answer

Galileo Galilei

Question 50

A cell has a cell wall and a central vacuole. What type of cell is it?

Accepted Answer

Plant Cell

Question 51

What does the cerebellum primarily control?

Accepted Answer

Controls the movement of voluntary muscles.

Question 52

Which of the following is NOT one of the criteria for life?

Accepted Answer

Life forms can move

Question 53

What is the function of the eye's ciliary muscle?

Accepted Answer

Deforms the lense in the eye to adjust focus.

Question 54

Where in the world can you find all of the layers of the geological column in one formation?

Accepted Answer

No where

Question 55

This test asks how much time has passed since the original work and how many copies there are.

Accepted Answer

Bibliographic Test

Question 56

Neurons...

Accepted Answer

Are composed of cell bodies, dendrites, and axons

Question 57

Do humans have an endoskeleton or an exoskeleton?

Accepted Answer

Endoskeleton

Question 58

What does it take to destroy a scientific law?

Accepted Answer

One counter example.

Question 59

Do fossils require millions of years to form?

Accepted Answer

No

Question 60

What is the system of nerves that carries instructions from the CNS to the body's muscles?

Accepted Answer

Autonomic Nervous System

Question 61

What famous scientist championed the idea of spontaneous generation?

Accepted Answer

Aristotle

Question 62

For most organisms, metabolism requires food and what else?

Accepted Answer

Oxygen

Question 63

An aspect of an experiment that changes during the course of the experment is a(n)...

Accepted Answer

Experimental variable

Question 64

Which type of blood vessel carries blood back to the heart?

Accepted Answer

Veins

Module 16 & Year End Review Quiz

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Module 16 & Year End Review Quiz

Questions 70