TMSCA #3

Question 1

Which of the following correctly shows coastline shapes but distorts areas far from the equator

Accepted Answer

Mercator projection

Question 2

Which is an organic activity in soil formation?

Accepted Answer

Root-pry

Question 3

The part of your brain the receives sensory impulses from skeletal muscles and joints is what?

Accepted Answer

Cerebellum

Question 4

Levers are divided into classes according to the location of what?

Accepted Answer

Fulcrum, the load, and the input force.

Question 5

When the South Pole is tilted toward the Sun, what season is it?

Accepted Answer

Winter in the Northern Hemisphere

Question 6

The vascular tissue of a leaf contains what?

Accepted Answer

Xylem and phloem

Question 7

The prefix hydro- as in hydrosphere means what?

Accepted Answer

Water

Question 8

A region with low average temperatures and little precipitation is called what?

Accepted Answer

Taiga.

Question 9

Which group of plants are only represented with about 15 species?

Accepted Answer

Horsetails

Question 10

Which are the deepest parts of the oceans?

Accepted Answer

Mid-ocean ridges

Question 11

What is the area where fresh water meets land?

Accepted Answer

Littoral zone

Question 12

What is blood?

Accepted Answer

A suspension

Question 13

Most meteoroids burn up where, producing meteor trails.

Accepted Answer

Mesosphere

Question 14

Which would most likely be considered a stable community?

Accepted Answer

Hardwood forest

Question 15

Which of the following is a nonmetal?

Accepted Answer

Neon

Question 16

Your spinal cord is protected by what?

Accepted Answer

Your vertebrae

Question 17

What will happen to a new species of fish that eats bass minnows when it's introduced in Austin

Accepted Answer

Increase

Question 18

A steel block is pushed left with 500N and is pushed right with 100N. What will the block do?

Accepted Answer

Accelerate to the left.

Question 19

What are igneous rocks consisting of tiny crystals too small to see with the unaided eye?

Accepted Answer

Fine-grained.

Question 20

What phase of the moon occurs just after the waxing-crescent but before the waxing-gibbous?

Accepted Answer

Full moon

Question 21

Plants and animals both have WHAT tissue?

Accepted Answer

Protective

Question 22

Crossing wild mustard plants having large clusters of flowers to produce broccoli is what?

Accepted Answer

Selective breeding

Question 23

How will your pulse react when going from standing to running?

Accepted Answer

Increase

Question 24

Which would not increase the rate at which a solid dissolves?

Accepted Answer

Decreasing the temperature

Question 25

The inner core of the Earth is probably responsible for what?

Accepted Answer

Magnetic field

Question 26

Which is a country that is located on a major earthquake and volcano zone.

Accepted Answer

Iceland

Question 27

What forms when a glacier flows into and erodes a valley, changing it from its original V-shape

Accepted Answer

U-shaped valleys

Question 28

Which of these is not matter?

Accepted Answer

Sunshine

Question 29

Bacteia in what shape is most resistant to drying out?

Accepted Answer

Cocci

Question 30

What is the inherited combination of alleles in an offspring?

Accepted Answer

Genotype

Question 31

Water escapes from leaves through what?

Accepted Answer

Somata.

Question 32

Where are extrusive rocks formed?

Accepted Answer

At the Earth's surface.

Question 33

Salmon returning to freshwater streams to reproduce is an example of what behavior?

Accepted Answer

Migration

TMSCA #3

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TMSCA #3

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