1. Boyle’s law states that “If the temperature moves through a vertical rise of 0.

760 m on the way

remains constant, the volume of a gas varies back to the ball rack. If you neglect frictional losses
inversely as the pressure.” The volume of the gas is and assume that the mass of the ball is distributed
204 mL at 840 mm pressure. Calculate the volume of uniformly, then what is the translational speed of the
the same gas at 765 mm if the temperature is held ball at the top of the rise?
constant.
A. 1.27 m/s
A. 112 Ml​ B. 1.52 m/s
B. 224 mL​ C. 1.52 m/s
C. 288 mL​ D. 4.78 m/s
D. 336 mL
6. Water is essential in the process of photosynthesis.
2. A student holds a hand mirror to observe In plants, water is first absorbed in the roots and is
the back of her head while standing in front of and conducted all the way to the leaves where
looking into a wall mirror. If she is standing 4 feet in photosynthesis primarily occurs. This conduction
front of the wall-mirror and she holds the hand-mirror process occurs through the xylem vessels of plants.
1 foot behind her head, she will see the back of her There are two forces that participate in this water
head how far behind the wall-mirror? conduction: adhesion and cohesion. Adhesion refers to
the attractive forces between the water molecules and
A. 6 feet the walls of the xylem vessels, while cohesion refers
B. 5 feet to the attractive forces among water molecules.
C. 4 feet Suppose an air bubble is present in a xylem vessel, the
D. 3 feet conduction of water will be unable to proceed. What
is the reason behind this phenomenon?
3. The Law of Superposition states that in
undisturbed strata of sedimentary rock, the oldest rock A. The air bubble interrupts the cohesive forces
layer is at the bottom, the youngest at the top. If among the water molecules. It cuts the continuous
geologists can determine which way was originally stream of water, making it unable to continually flow.
“up” in a stack of layers, they can put those strata in B. The air bubble interrupts the adhesive forces
the correct historical order. Rarely, after a sequence of between the walls of the xylem vessels and the water
layers has been deposited and compressed to form molecules.
rock, it may be literally overturned by the thrusting of C. The air bubble is less dense than water, therefore
the Earth’s crust as continental plates collide. In rare impeding the continuous flow of water.
cases like this, how can the original sequence of the D. The air bubble creates a pocket of space that
rocks be determined? eventually kills the xylem cells, thus preventing it
from resuming water conduction.
A. Collect samples in near-by undisrupted areas.
B. They cannot be determined. 7. Which one of these is not true?
C. Carbon-date the fossils that are formed within the
sedimentary rock layers A. All planets revolve in the same direction.
D. They are totally in the reverse order of oldest to B. All planets rotate in the same direction.
youngest C. The orbits of the planets are all ellipses.
D. The orbits of the planets are nearly in the same
4. The magnetic needle of a compass always points to plane.
the north because
A. the needle touches the north pole. 8. A new vaccine was discovered as a treatment for a
B. the earth has a magnetic north pole. certain viral chicken disease. What should a scientist
C. compasses are used for finding direction. do in order to test for the effectivity of the vaccine?
D. the earth’s magnetic field is strongest at the south
pole. A. Administer the vaccine to 50 chickens and expose
all of them to the disease.
5. The translational speed of the center of mass of a B. Administer the vaccine to 25 of 50 chickens and
bowling ball that rolls without slipping along the expose all 50 chickens to the disease.
horizontal section of the ball return is 3.50 m/s. It then
C. Expose 25 of 50 chickens to the disease then A. The type of bacteria used
vaccinate all 50 chickens. B. The nutrient agar.
D. Expose all 50 chickens to the disease then C. The nutrient agar with oil.
vaccinate 25 of them. D. The number of days the bacteria grew.

9. As the drops of water that leak from a dripping 12. What is the dependent variable in the experiment
faucet fall, they above?
A. The number of days the bacteria grew.
A. get closer together. B. The nutrient agar.
B. get farther apart. C. The nutrient agar with the oil.
C. the pattern of their motion can’t be determined. D. The amount of growth of the bacteria
D. remain at a relatively fixed distance from one
another. 13. Which bacterial culture had the greatest rate of
growth throughout the 8 day period?
10. An astronaut orbits the earth in a space capsule
whose height above the earth is equal to the earth’s A. Only the culture grown on nutrient agar had
radius. How does the weight of the astronaut in the significant growth.
capsule compare to her weight on the earth? B. The nutrient agar plate and the 5% oil plate had
growth.
A. Her weight is equal to her weight on earth. C. The nutrient agar plate and the 20% oil plate had
B. Her weight is equal to one-fourth her weight on growth.
earth. D. The 5% oil and 20% oil plates had growth.
C. Her weight is equal to one-half of her weight on
earth. 14. What is the best explanation for why
D. Her weight is equal to one-third of her weight on the E.coli grew on the 5% oil plate but not the 20% oil
earth. plate?

Read the passage below to answer question A. The bacteria are used to an environment with 5%
numbers 11 to 16. oil and not 20% oil.
A group of scientists were studying the growth of B. The bacteria were able to mutate to tolerate a
bacteria. It is their hope that they will be able to slightly oily environment of 5% oil, providing it had
induce the bacteria to grow and metabolize oil as a other nutrients available and the 20% had far too
food source. They have taken three samples of much oil.
Escherichia coli and are growing them on nutrient C. The 5% plate had conditions that are similar to the
agar plates. The scientists used three conditions to test natural environment they are accustomed to.
the E. coli bacteria. The first group was grown at 37°C D. The 5% plate allowed more oxygen to interface
on plain nutrient agar plates. The second group was with the bacteria because less oil was present.
grown at 37°C on plain nutrient agar plates with a 5%
oil solution. The third group was grown at 37°C on 15. Why did the nutrient agar bacteria plateau and
plain nutrient agar plates with a 20% oil solution. The then drop in numbers as they approached Day 8?
results of the experiment are listed in the graph below.
A. The bacteria died because they had reached their
mature age.
B. The bacteria ran out of nutrients and had reached
the carrying capacity of the plate.
C. The bacteria always die after Day 6 in culture.
D. There is no definitive reason why the bacteria died
off after Day 6.
16. An excellent way to demonstrate that the
scientists have induced E.coli to survive and
metabolize oil would be to:
11. What is the independent variable in the experiment
above? A. Repeat the experiment several times with 5% oil on
a nutrient agar plate.
B. Induce the bacteria on the 5% oil plate to grow on
nutrient agar. ANSWER KEY:
C. Take the bacteria from the 5% oil plate and test
them on a new 20% oil plate.
D. new bacteria with the same experiment to see if
1.​ B
that is the only bacteria that can accomplish this. 2.​ A
3.​ A
17. Why does semen have alkaline bases as part of its 4.​ B
composition? 5.​ A
6.​ A
A. To maintain a neutral environment for the sperm to 7.​ B
“swim” in. 8.​ B
B. To protect the sperm from the acidic environment 9.​ B
in the vagina. 10.​B
C. To speed up the transport of the sperm to the
11.​C
fallopian tube.
12.​D
D. To destroy any rival sperm cells inside the vagina.
13.​A
18. A forensic anthropologist would most likely use 14.​B
which bone to determine the height of a corpse? 15.​B
16.​A
A. phalanges 17.​B
B. femur 18.​B
C. occipital 19.​A
D. patella 20.​A
19. Professor Geller wanted to demonstrate the role of
osmosis in plant cells. He placed the cells in a solution
that is hypertonic to the cells. The solution contains
red microscopic dye particles. Which of the following
could be a possible result of Professor Geller’s
demonstration?

A. Plant cells decrease in size (flaccid), and

the solution will have a lighter color.
B. Plant cells increase in size (turgid), and the solution
will remain the same color.
C. Plant cells maintain their size, and the solution will
become darker.
D. Plant cells will burst, causing the solution to reduce
its color

20. Air cools at the dry adiabatic rate of 10°C for

each kilometer it rises. If a parcel of dry air initially at
0°C expands adiabatically while flowing upward
alongside a mountain, what is its temperature when it
has risen 8 km?
A. – 80°C
B. – 40°C
C. 40°C
D. 80°C