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A way to conserve something is to | [
"use it up",
"use it sparsely",
"use it quickly",
"finish it off"
] | Key fact:
An example of conservation is not using fossil fuel | B | 1 | openbookqa |
An industry that create a lot of waste is: | [
"Solar Power Companies",
"Recycling companies",
"water production companies",
"Cleaning Companies"
] | Key fact:
processes sometimes produce waste products | D | 3 | openbookqa |
A person can find a sparrow's home by | [
"looking at its face",
"looking at a detailed map",
"seeing where it was born",
"noting where it frequently consumes"
] | Key fact:
animals live and feed near their habitats | D | 3 | openbookqa |
A cloud that begins to precipitate onto the ground is | [
"fluttering",
"laughing",
"crowing",
"leaking"
] | Key fact:
precipitation is when water falls from the sky | D | 3 | openbookqa |
A boy is lost in a heavily forested area, and the only help he has is a small compass. He knows that his house is to the south of him, but in the direction he is facing, the arrow on the compass is showing that he is currently walking due north. Therefore, the boy | [
"turns right",
"turns left",
"turns around",
"keeps straight"
] | Key fact:
when the needle of a compass lines up with Earth 's magnetic poles , the needle points north | C | 2 | openbookqa |
The reason that flies can always find food is that they can smell | [
"organism decay",
"bad smells",
"dying animals",
"rotting trees"
] | Key fact:
the smell of rotting meat attracts flies | A | 0 | openbookqa |
Seeing the stars will be harder when what happens? | [
"light in an area becomes greater",
"there is a lot of rain",
"light in an area becomes lessened",
"there is a lot of snow"
] | Key fact:
as light pollution increases , seeing the stars will be harder | A | 0 | openbookqa |
A shock running through a wire will | [
"send sand through the wire",
"send water through the wire",
"send smoke through a town",
"send reactions through the wire"
] | Key fact:
sending electricity through a conductor causes electric current to flow through that conductor | D | 3 | openbookqa |
What is lava found above? | [
"natures floor",
"grounded lightning",
"sky",
"ground images"
] | Key fact:
lava is found above the ground | A | 0 | openbookqa |
which of these days would lead to a suspension of regular activities? | [
"a very sunny day",
"a very beautiful day",
"a very bright day",
"a day with a blizzard"
] | Key fact:
snowy means a large amount of snow | D | 3 | openbookqa |
A person buys a cheap hammer and it breaks a month later. The person invests in an expensive hammer and | [
"it endures",
"died",
"baked it",
"ate it"
] | Key fact:
as the time a tool lasts increases , the number of tools discarded will decrease | A | 0 | openbookqa |
The lungs give O2 to the | [
"bloodstream",
"neighbor",
"ozone",
"poor"
] | Key fact:
the respiratory system transfers oxygen to the circulatory system | A | 0 | openbookqa |
What requires soil to grow? | [
"lakes",
"car engine",
"daffodils",
"cows"
] | Key fact:
a plant requires soil for to grow | C | 2 | openbookqa |
A person puts liquid matter in a glass and it | [
"is hardened",
"evaporates immediately",
"is shaped similarly",
"melts the glass"
] | Key fact:
Matter in the liquid phase has variable shape | C | 2 | openbookqa |
studying a soil sample means studying the microorganisms in the | [
"dirt",
"air",
"lava",
"water"
] | Key fact:
studying a soil sample means studying the microorganisms in that soil | A | 0 | openbookqa |
Salamanders might be found under | [
"garden statues",
"spaceships",
"business suits",
"love"
] | Key fact:
a salamander eats insects | A | 0 | openbookqa |
which one of these activities can lead to animal gathering seeds | [
"Bees making nectar",
"bees making honey.",
"bees stinging human",
"Bees collecting nectar"
] | Key fact:
An example of seed dispersal is is an animal gathering seeds | D | 3 | openbookqa |
Cars are big polluters because they release toxins from the gas into the air making it | [
"healthier to breathe",
"unhealthy to breathe",
"candy",
"space"
] | Key fact:
polluting means something poisonous is added to an environment causing harm to the environment | B | 1 | openbookqa |
Taking shorter showers is a great way to conserve | [
"H2O",
"gasoline",
"sunshine",
"electricity"
] | Key fact:
An example of conservation is avoiding waste | A | 0 | openbookqa |
a learned characteristic is a | [
"a baby having the same color eyes as parent",
"toddler banging with a stick while parent hammers",
"a child covered with freckles",
"infant diagnosed with sickle cell anemia"
] | Key fact:
using tools is a learned characteristic | B | 1 | openbookqa |
A wolf would eat | [
"an ibex",
"a mountain",
"a tree",
"a cloud"
] | Key fact:
predators eat prey | A | 0 | openbookqa |
Your clothes likely will be soaked if the skies are | [
"sunny without clouds",
"light blue",
"black",
"clear"
] | Key fact:
if weather is stormy then there is a greater chance of rain | C | 2 | openbookqa |
Which would likely occur as a result of logging? | [
"an eagle and mouse compete for resources",
"an eagle and hawk compete for resources",
"an eagle and horse compete for resources",
"an eagle and tree compete for resources"
] | Key fact:
as the population of prey decreases , competition between predators will increase | B | 1 | openbookqa |
Many species have small amounts of magnetite to guide during their | [
"hibernation",
"migration",
"metamorphosis",
"spawning"
] | Key fact:
Earth 's magnetic patterns are used for finding locations by animals that migrate | B | 1 | openbookqa |
If a large glacier is moving passed a beach, it can deposit this because it is made of ice | [
"fluid",
"corn",
"meat",
"trees"
] | Key fact:
a glacier is made of ice | A | 0 | openbookqa |
What gives birth to live young? | [
"tarantulas",
"wildcats",
"vultures",
"anacondas"
] | Key fact:
mammals give birth to live young | B | 1 | openbookqa |
Books can be made out of | [
"card stock",
"cement",
"glass",
"copper."
] | Key fact:
paper is recyclable | A | 0 | openbookqa |
If the world is shaking it will likely last for | [
"under five full seconds",
"an hour and a half",
"more than a day",
"less than a minute"
] | Key fact:
an earthquake usually occurs over a period of 10 to 30 seconds | D | 3 | openbookqa |
Your children's children will probably never see a live | [
"common house fly",
"Amur leopard",
"fish",
"cockroach"
] | Key fact:
endangered means low in population | B | 1 | openbookqa |
A person wants to buy some reusable equipment for the kitchen, so they get | [
"paper plates",
"ceramic plates",
"solo cups",
"plastic forks"
] | Key fact:
something reusable can be used more than once | B | 1 | openbookqa |
Which of the following items can perform photosynthesis? | [
"a flying wasp",
"a speedy cheetah",
"wet dirt",
"a yellow tulip"
] | Key fact:
plant cells can perform photosynthesis | D | 3 | openbookqa |
Which likely provides a neutral effect to local organisms? | [
"asteroid impact",
"habitat destruction",
"9.0 earthquake",
"stormy weather"
] | Key fact:
An example of stormy weather is rain | D | 3 | openbookqa |
Birds build nests out of things such as | [
"fragments from plants",
"small glass shards",
"entire tree trunks",
"several flower buds"
] | Key fact:
a nest is made of branches | A | 0 | openbookqa |
Every twenty-four hours and fifty minutes, the moon can have an effect on bodies of water causing them to | [
"swell",
"float",
"die",
"burn"
] | Key fact:
high tide is a stage in the tide cycle process | A | 0 | openbookqa |
A heavy glacier moving across a continent affects what's underneath it by | [
"compaction",
"salt tectonics",
"arctic foxes",
"exfoliation"
] | Key fact:
sedimentary rocks are formed from sediment compacting together | A | 0 | openbookqa |
A woman is digging under a tree on a tall mountain. She is looking for interesting rocks, and a foot down into the soil, discovers a fossilized fish skeleton. From this discovery, the woman is able to determine that | [
"the mountain used to be underwater",
"some bears in mountains eat fish",
"some fish can climb mountains",
"sometimes rain can move fish to high spaces"
] | Key fact:
if fossils of a water animal or plant are found in a place then that place used to be covered by water in the past | A | 0 | openbookqa |
A thing with cells is going to expand, but first requires | [
"revolving",
"mackerel",
"sweets",
"nourishment"
] | Key fact:
a living thing requires nutrients to grow | D | 3 | openbookqa |
Which of these animal traits is generally determined by environmental factors rather than heredity? | [
"eye color",
"height",
"hair length",
"number of chromosomes"
] | Key fact:
genes are a vehicle for passing inherited characteristics from parent to offspring | C | 2 | openbookqa |
Where would rocks be the smoothest? | [
"where thunder was heard",
"where water has flowed for years",
"where wind has blown for days",
"where the human population is the highest"
] | Key fact:
contact between rocks over long periods of time causes rocks to smooth | B | 1 | openbookqa |
Which changes the environment? | [
"backyard vegetable garden",
"television signals",
"vacuuming carpet",
"taking a nap"
] | Key fact:
farming changes the environment | A | 0 | openbookqa |
Earthquakes can shake | [
"fish",
"flying birds",
"clouds",
"smoke"
] | Key fact:
an earthquake causes the ground to shake | A | 0 | openbookqa |
Air is blowing a ball equally from east and west, the ball will do what? | [
"Move east",
"Move west",
"Move north",
"Move nowhere"
] | Key fact:
if two equal forces in opposite directions act on an object then that object will stay in the same place | D | 3 | openbookqa |
What is a radio used for? | [
"radiation",
"human contact",
"energy",
"water"
] | Key fact:
a radio is used for communication | B | 1 | openbookqa |
Because people require water to survive, it's good to live near | [
"a pond",
"a national park",
"a gravel pit",
"a desert"
] | Key fact:
a body of water is a source of water | A | 0 | openbookqa |
The slight angle of the axis of the human planet is responsible for the energy allotment that is received by what? | [
"polar areas",
"mars continents",
"free countries",
"all countries"
] | Key fact:
the Earth being tilted on its axis causes ones side of the Earth to receive less energy from the Sun than the other side | D | 3 | openbookqa |
Friction might be | [
"Breathing",
"rubbing knees",
"Running",
"Rainbows"
] | Key fact:
friction occurs when two object 's surfaces move against each other | B | 1 | openbookqa |
Which of the following would push water out of its body to evade an orca? | [
"a squid",
"a shark",
"a flounder",
"a lobster"
] | Key fact:
a squid produces thrust by pushing water out of its body | A | 0 | openbookqa |
Which has renewable resources? | [
"natural gas formations",
"oil well",
"plastic bag",
"Pacific Ocean"
] | Key fact:
water is a renewable resource | D | 3 | openbookqa |
Boulders are most likely to be reduced into fragments due to heat in a | [
"cereal bowl",
"ocean",
"desert",
"tundra"
] | Key fact:
being exposed to heat can cause erosion of rocks | C | 2 | openbookqa |
Seasonal water fall in Columbia causes whole towns to | [
"gain tourism",
"have tea",
"become clean",
"slide away"
] | Key fact:
a landslide is when gravity rapidly moves rocks or soil downhill especially after a rain storm | D | 3 | openbookqa |
the decrease of something required by an organism has a negative impact on that organism 's what? | [
"soil",
"being",
"survival knife",
"wood"
] | Key fact:
the decrease of something required by an organism has a negative impact on that organism 's survival | B | 1 | openbookqa |
A simple machine like a screw will need | [
"a glass of cool water",
"a person adjusting it",
"a truck to move it",
"a wind turbine to function"
] | Key fact:
a simple machine requires mechanical energy to function | B | 1 | openbookqa |
if a great water traveler took inventory of their tools, which of these would be in it? | [
"a big cooking spoon",
"a north facing item",
"a big chopping board",
"a big iron bender"
] | Key fact:
a compass is used to navigate oceans | B | 1 | openbookqa |
Which of the following would be an example of tool use in the animal kingdom? | [
"a wolf using its sense of smell to track down prey",
"a crow displacing water with rocks to get good",
"a giant whale filtering plankton from water",
"An anteater using its long tongue to catch ants"
] | Key fact:
An example of using tools is a chimpanzee digging for insects with a stick | B | 1 | openbookqa |
One way to remember the method of Scientific Classification is | [
"run",
"dive",
"swim",
"make a sentence"
] | Key fact:
classifying means grouping materials by their properties | D | 3 | openbookqa |
A boy is standing in the bathroom brushing his teeth, but the lights are off in the bathroom. However, his room is next to the bathroom and his bedroom light is on. The bathroom is still bright, because the mirror reflects | [
"light from a car",
"light from the sun",
"light from the bathroom",
"light from the bedroom"
] | Key fact:
a mirror reflects light | D | 3 | openbookqa |
If a person wants to move heat quickly, they could use the sun's warmth. The best thing for absorbing it would be | [
"a brass sheet",
"a wool cap",
"a rubber duck",
"a plastic ball"
] | Key fact:
metal is a thermal conductor | A | 0 | openbookqa |
Grow lamps provide artificial sun to | [
"bricks",
"dogs",
"succulents",
"fish"
] | Key fact:
a plant light is used for help plants by mimicking sunlight | C | 2 | openbookqa |
What requires energy for growth? | [
"wood",
"paper",
"rubber",
"anteater"
] | Key fact:
an organism requires energy for growth | D | 3 | openbookqa |
A person wants to mine something that will attract metals. The person decides to search out some | [
"ceramic stones",
"iron pebbles",
"glass beads",
"plastic beads"
] | Key fact:
iron is always magnetic | B | 1 | openbookqa |
To replenish the shade in a city that had been provided by trees that were felled by a storm, you must | [
"grow gills and live on a raft",
"use a large lawn mower",
"introduce replacement timber producers",
"get out your weed whacker"
] | Key fact:
a tree can be replaced by planting a new tree | C | 2 | openbookqa |
as the resistance to something increases , how easily that something can be done will do what? | [
"rise",
"fly",
"plummet",
"soar"
] | Key fact:
as the resistance to something increases , how easilty that something can be done will decrease | C | 2 | openbookqa |
The level of atom activity where it reaches a moment where the solid state becomes more loose overall is referred to? | [
"smoothness",
"water fluid",
"liquidity",
"fluid transport"
] | Key fact:
heat can change the state of matter | C | 2 | openbookqa |
A son inherits a feature from his father through DNA, so the son is likely to have his dad's | [
"sense of humor",
"temper",
"aversion to garlic",
"nose"
] | Key fact:
inheriting is when a inherited characteristic is passed from parent to offspring by DNA | D | 3 | openbookqa |
A sea creature can defend itself easily by using | [
"hostile smiles",
"malicious kisses",
"toxic pricks",
"noxious caresses"
] | Key fact:
poisonous darts are used for defense by sea anemones | C | 2 | openbookqa |
If a person is searching for others in a forest at night, they can signal quietly to each other by | [
"falling down",
"making memories",
"flicking a lighter",
"sleeping quietly"
] | Key fact:
fire gives off light | C | 2 | openbookqa |
What rotates on its axis? | [
"oceans",
"winds",
"blue world",
"people"
] | Key fact:
the Earth rotates on its axis on its axis | C | 2 | openbookqa |
What is an example of wiring requiring an electrical conductor? | [
"a light switch turning on lights because of steel inside the wiring",
"a toasting failing because it used aluminium",
"a lightbulb burning out because of a faulty connection",
"a power outage because of an electrical storm"
] | Key fact:
wiring requires an electrical conductor | A | 0 | openbookqa |
A person may use water from a treatment plant so that it is | [
"free from wetness",
"free of chunks",
"free from governments",
"free from ice"
] | Key fact:
treating water is used to remove harmful substances before drinking | B | 1 | openbookqa |
Liquids | [
"can take on numerous formations",
"is always completely opaque",
"lacks any sort of malleability",
"is easily confused with the gas phase"
] | Key fact:
Matter in the liquid phase has variable shape | A | 0 | openbookqa |
The earth makes its way around the sun. Because of the constant rotation, the appearance of these is unlikely to be regular. | [
"the moon",
"the oceans",
"celestial bodies",
"the sun"
] | Key fact:
the Earth revolving around the sun causes stars to appear in different areas in the sky at different times of year | C | 2 | openbookqa |
A desert environment is | [
"frigid",
"parched",
"rainy",
"tropical"
] | Key fact:
a desert environment is dry | B | 1 | openbookqa |
Sarah has one piece of wood that is smooth and polished and another that is rough and unfinished. Which of the following is true? | [
"both pieces of wood will create the same amount of friction",
"the unfinished wood will generate more heat than the other while rubbed over the floor",
"the rough wood will more easily move when rubbed over the tile than the finished wood.",
"the finished wood will generate more heat when it is rubbed back and forth over a tile floor."
] | Key fact:
as the roughness of something increases , the friction of that something will increase when its surface moves against another surface | B | 1 | openbookqa |
A deer, shark, human and rose share which common activity? | [
"eating cheese",
"marrying",
"defecating",
"building ships"
] | Key fact:
all living things eliminate waste | C | 2 | openbookqa |
An inexhaustible resource could be | [
"sand clay",
"fossil fuels",
"cars",
"metals"
] | Key fact:
wind is an inexhaustible resource | A | 0 | openbookqa |
If a liquid disappears then what probably happened to it? | [
"gas transformation",
"solidifying",
"melting",
"cooling"
] | Key fact:
if a liquid disappears then that liquid probably evaporated | A | 0 | openbookqa |
By picking up polypropylene we can make our ecosystem | [
"ugly",
"worse",
"dead",
"better"
] | Key fact:
An example of protecting the environment is reducing the amount of waste | D | 3 | openbookqa |
A person takes buckets of water from the house and begins to add it to a pond in the yard. After a certain point, the pond | [
"bloats",
"breaks",
"sinks",
"drowns"
] | Key fact:
when a body of water receives more water than it can hold , a flood occurs | A | 0 | openbookqa |
A solid has a fixed shape. When liquid is boiled and turns into gas, its shape is | [
"impermanent",
"talk",
"play games",
"smile"
] | Key fact:
Matter in the gas phase has variable shape | A | 0 | openbookqa |
If the stars in the sky above your home vary from month to month, | [
"that is a new phenomenon",
"that is expected due to the axis",
"that is very scary",
"that is rare and unusual"
] | Key fact:
the Earth revolving around the sun causes stars to appear in different areas in the sky at different times of year | B | 1 | openbookqa |
Jerry noticed that his dog was leaving a lot more fur on his couch than he did a month earlier. That might be because | [
"the seasons are changing from fall to winter",
"the dog is a hairless breed",
"the seasons are changing from winter to spring",
"the moon is full"
] | Key fact:
some animals shed fur in warm weather | C | 2 | openbookqa |
The wheels of a skateboard spin around a | [
"shaft",
"street",
"person",
"board"
] | Key fact:
a revolution is when something revolves around something else | A | 0 | openbookqa |
Some animals escape predators by moving how? | [
"slowly",
"happily",
"briskly",
"steadily"
] | Key fact:
some animals move quickly to escape predators | C | 2 | openbookqa |
If a high percentage of water is visible in the air? | [
"this is called heat and it is unsafe to drive in",
"this is called fog and it is safe to drive in",
"this is called heat and is safe to drive in",
"this is called fog and is unsafe to drive in"
] | Key fact:
fog is formed by water vapor condensing in the air | D | 3 | openbookqa |
Within an ecosystem, producers are likely to be | [
"liquid",
"bloody",
"diamond",
"budding"
] | Key fact:
producer is a kind of role in an ecosystem | D | 3 | openbookqa |
A flashlight can be used to | [
"create warmness",
"become a firefly",
"travel to space",
"harvest magic"
] | Key fact:
a flashlight emits light | A | 0 | openbookqa |
The molten rock under the surface is called magma and once is appears on what area is it called lava? | [
"geyser",
"volcano",
"below ground",
"above ground"
] | Key fact:
lava is found above the ground | D | 3 | openbookqa |
A beak is used for catching prey by some birds, like how they are used by | [
"chickadees",
"glass flamingos",
"chicks",
"plastic parrots"
] | Key fact:
a beak is used for catching prey by some birds | A | 0 | openbookqa |
Something that shows that the earth changes is | [
"a city where a tree was",
"a lake where a tree was",
"a tree where a bird was",
"a plant where a rock was"
] | Key fact:
An example of a change in the Earth is an ocean becoming a wooded area | B | 1 | openbookqa |
A creek flows slowly, and the water runs very gently, yet if a leaf tumbles into it | [
"it will relocate",
"it will melt",
"it will cry",
"it will hold"
] | Key fact:
flowing liquid can push objects | A | 0 | openbookqa |
Desert lizards may sometimes appear as | [
"buildings",
"rock particles",
"trees",
"cement"
] | Key fact:
some lizards live in desert habitats | B | 1 | openbookqa |
If I wanted to create noise I could | [
"tap a chopstick on a pillow",
"stand completely and utterly still",
"hold in a fart",
"remain completely and utterly silent"
] | Key fact:
matter vibrating can cause sound | A | 0 | openbookqa |
Which is the most accurate statement? | [
"octopuses avoid sharks by blinding them with a dark substance",
"octopuses avoid scorpions using ink",
"octopuses avoid sharks using powerful claws",
"octopuses avoid scorpions by eating them"
] | Key fact:
ink is used for hiding from predators by octopuses | A | 0 | openbookqa |
As a source of light moves directly overhead of an object , what happens to it's shadow | [
"the object will get brighter",
"the shadow will start to spin",
"the size will decrease",
"the light will lean to one side"
] | Key fact:
as a source of light moves directly overhead of an object , the size of the shadow of that object will decrease | C | 2 | openbookqa |
John, who lives in Minnesota, noticed that the time between sunrise and sunset was the shortest it had been for an entire year. The month was most likely to be | [
"July",
"January",
"September",
"April"
] | Key fact:
the amount of daylight is least in the winter | B | 1 | openbookqa |
The lunar face appears to change 52 times | [
"a millennium",
"a month",
"a day",
"annually"
] | Key fact:
a different moon phase occurs once per week | D | 3 | openbookqa |
what is an electrical energy conductor? | [
"plastic",
"stone",
"plants",
"swords"
] | Key fact:
metal is an electrical energy conductor | D | 3 | openbookqa |
Where would you hear sound reflecting off surfaces? | [
"canyon",
"outer space",
"in the ocean",
"in a vacuum"
] | Key fact:
echo is when sound reflects off of a surface | A | 0 | openbookqa |
A ferromagnetic metal, such as in paper clips, can stick to other paper clips without hooking together | [
"when outside",
"when iron touches",
"when floating",
"when burned"
] | Key fact:
a paper clip is often made of ferromagnetic metals | B | 1 | openbookqa |
A highly polished surface will | [
"absorb light energy",
"redirect light energy",
"attract shadows",
"shatter"
] | Key fact:
shiny things reflect light | B | 1 | openbookqa |
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