ASVAB : GENERAL SCIENCE EXAM QUESTIONS

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ASVAB : GENERAL SCIENCE EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: When a plant undergoes photosynthesis, one of the by-product is

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Oxygen

Question 2: What can be used to describe a bird?

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Vertebrae, warm-blooded

Question 3: Which of the following can hold the most moisture?

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Warm air Question 4: When a prevailing wind reaches a mountain range, what happens to the air?

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It rises & cools, causing condensation Question 5: What is the part of the skeletal system that protects the spinal cord?

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Vertebrae

Question 6: Why are decomposers important to an ecosystem?

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They make nutrients available for plants to use Question 7: The function that moves food from one part of the digestive system to another is called

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Peristalsis Question 8: The process of erosion is linked to the information of which of the following types of rocks?

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Sedimentary Question 9: How long does it take for Earth to make one revolution around the sun?

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• year

Question 10: Why is the nucleus so important to a living cell?

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It controls most of the activities of the cell Question 11: Earth's greenhouse effect is caused by which of the following conditions?

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Heat from the sun that is trapped by atmospheric gases Question 12: Which of the following words are all associated with the nervous system

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Hypothalamus, pons, cortex Question 13: Which of the following best represents what happens to ultraviolet radiation from the sun when it reaches Earth's atmosphere?

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Some of it is absorbed by the ozone layer

Question 14: Which of the following states is likely to have the greatest biodiversity

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Florida Question 15: Breaking waves or breakers that occur near the shoreline are caused by which of the following conditions?

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Friction between the wave trough and the ocean bottom Question 16: Scientists believe that the universe is expanding because of which of the following indicators?

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The red shift in the spectra of stars Question 17: Which of the following properties of a sound wave effects how loud or soft the sound is?

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Amplitude

Question 18: What doesn't have organelles?

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Bacteria

Question 19: The basic unit of life

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The cell

Question 20: A bruise on your skin is a result of

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Broken capillaries

Question 21: Plants bend towards a source of light on account of

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Phototropism

Question 22: Which of the following is the name for the space between two nerve cells where an electric charge transmits information?

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Synapse Question 23: The major force causing sea-floor spreading, continental drift, and the collision of continental plates is

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Convection currents in the mantle Question 24: When two tectonic plates converge and one rises above the other, which of the following are likely to form?

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Volcanoes Question 25: An eclipse of the sun occurs under which of the following conditions?

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The moon is between the sun and Earth