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1) ASTRONOMY Short Answer Name the four Galilean satellites of Jupiter.
ANSWER: IO, EUROPA, GANYMEDE, CALLISTO
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2) ASTRONOMY Multiple Choice If you were standing on the surface of
Mercury at a time near its aphelion, the sun would:
W) seem to move across the sky twice a day
X) seem to move twice as fast
Y) not seem to move at all
Z) seem to move no differently than if Mercury was at perihelion
ANSWER: Y) NOT SEEM TO MOVE AT ALL
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3) ASTRONOMY Multiple Choice The Babcock Model explains
W) the formation of protoplanetary disks
X) the cycle of sunspots
Y) the effects of pressure waves in the Sun
Z) the orbit of comets
ANSWER: X) THE CYCLE OF SUNSPOTS
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4) ASTRONOMY Short Answer Which planet has an orbital distance of 9.5
AU?
ANSWER: SATURN
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5) BIOLOGY Multiple Choice Name the two plants below that are epiphytes:
W) strangler fig
X) veined bromeliad
Y) yellow rattle
Z) broomrape
ANSWER: W) and X) STRANGLER FIG AND VEINED BROMELIAD
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6) BIOLOGY Multiple Choice Triploblastic animals without a cavity
between the gut and body wall are
W) Archenterons
X) Pseudocoleoms
Y) Protostomes
Z) Acoelomates
ANSWER : Z) ACOELOMATES
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7) BIOLOGY Short Answer In the immune system, what does HLA
molecule stand for?
ANSWER: HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN
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8) BIOLOGY Short Answer Before pyruvate from glycolysis enters the
Krebs Cycle, it has to be converted into what compound?
ANSWER: ACETYL CoA
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9) BIOLOGY Short Answer The class Chilopoda refers to what kind of
insect?
ANSWER: CENTIPEDES