britllm/arc_scots · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Mercury_SC_410891	A student is investigatin a licht bulb that saves enairgy an can lest up tae 10 times langer than ither bulbs. Ither than savin enairgy, whit is anither benefite o uisin thir licht bulbs?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Drinkin watter bides clean.", "Less trash is pitten in landfills.", "Mair nutrients are eikit tae the soil.", "Fewer chemicals get intae the fuid supply." ] }	B
Mercury_7212730	Whilk o the follaein hes the greatest effeck on the speed at whilk soon traivels through a gas?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "the ability o electrons tae traivel through a medium", "the frequency o the wave", "the amplitude o the wave", "the proximately o the molecules o the medium" ] }	D
Mercury_177660	Geologists aften uise mass spectrometers in determin the relative age o rocks. A spectrometer can differentiate atween the ratios o isotopes in rock samples an calculates the radioactive decay involvin whit twa isotopes?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Uranium - Lead", "Rubidium - Strontium", "Pottasium - Argon", "Uranium - Strontium" ] }	A
TIMSS_2003_8_pg27	The burnin o fossil fuels has increased the carbon dioxide content o the atmosphere. Whit is a possible effect that the increased amount o carbon dioxide is likely tae hae on oor planet?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "A warmer climate", "A cooler climate", "Lower relative humidity", "Mair ozone in the atmosphere" ] }	A
Mercury_SC_408742	Fairmers plant fruit trees in an area that wis once a grassy meadow. Whit will maist likely happen tae the rabbits living in the meadow?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "They will learn tae eat fruit.", "They will learn tae clim trees.", "The nummer o their young will increase.", "The size o their population will decrease." ] }	D
Mercury_7029645	Metal atoms will maist likely form ions by the	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "loss o electrons.", "loss o protons.", "gain o electrons.", "gain o protons." ] }	A
Mercury_7216598	Whit phrase disna describe asexual reproduction in organisms?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "requires twa parents", "little variation in offspring", "only ane type o cell involved", "duplicates its genetic material" ] }	A
MDSA_2008_5_40	A student is inveestigatin chynges in the states o matter. The student fills a graduated cylinder wi 50 milliliters o packit snaw. The graduated cylinder haes a mass o 50 grams when empty an 95 grams when filled wi the snaw. The packit snaw chynges tae liquid watter when the snaw is pit in a warm room. Whit statement best descrives this process?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Coolin causes the snaw tae melt.", "Coolin causes the snaw tae freeze.", "Heatin causes the snaw tae freeze.", "Heatin causes the snaw tae melt." ] }	D
Mercury_7188073	Plans hae cells, tissues, organs, an systems that alloo thaim tae function as complete organisms. Whit pairts o a plan function as an organ?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "leafs", "spores", "routhairs", "chlorophyll molecules" ] }	A
MCAS_2009_5_6510	A tuna is an ocean fish that is weel adaptit tae catchin smaw, fast-movin prey. Whilk o the follaein adaptations maist helps a tuna soum fast tae catch its prey?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "muckle fins", "sharp teeth", "smaw gills", "tough scales" ] }	A
Mercury_7038203	When a finger is cut and bleeds, platelets and plasma proteins move to the cut to stop the bleeding. As these move to the cut, this stimulates more platelets and proteins to move to the cut to stop the bleeding. What type of mechanism is being illustrated?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "negative feedback", "positive feedback", "regulatory feedback", "stimulation feedback" ] }	B
Mercury_7216843	Watter enters a cell an wast material leaves a cell through the cell membrane. Based on this information, the cell membrane is	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "semi-permeable.", "transparent.", "rigid.", "impermeable." ] }	A
Mercury_7041598	Whit is the best explanation why the remains o a sma reptyle livin millions o years ago hae been foond only in Brazil an Sooth Africa?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "subdaction", "puid tectonics", "mass extinction", "convergin boondaries" ] }	B
Mercury_7159670	Whit chairacteristic wad be maist important fer a plant tae hae tae become a pioneer plant oan a recoverin beach?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "ability tae grow awfy muckle", "lang ruits tae find watter", "resistant tae disturbances", "muckle leafs tae catch sunlicht" ] }	C
Mercury_SC_401369	Members o a plannin team big a model o a nearby burn an then block the burn tae show hou it can form a loch. Whit is a limitation o the model?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "shawn hou a nearby toun will avoid floodin", "explainin hou the loch will be uised for recreation", "explainin hou some o the watter can be uised for agriculture", "shawn hou the dam will affect the plants an animals in the airt" ] }	D
Mercury_SC_415349	How dis a tiger get stripes?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "frae its environment", "frae its food", "frae its offspring", "frae its parents" ] }	D
Mercury_SC_416518	A mountain wi a meltin glacier haes a burn wi a watterfa. The watterfa fills a loch at the fit o the mountain. Whaur is the watter cauldest?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "glacier", "burn", "watterfa", "loch" ] }	A
MCAS_2006_9_35-v1	Whit is the frequency o ocean waves that hae a speed o 18 m/s and a wavelength o 50 m?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "0.18 Hz", "0.36 Hz", "2.8 Hz", "9.0 Hz" ] }	B
Mercury_415261	Whit o the follaein will cut doon a hame lectric bill?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "usin cloot napkins raither than paper towels", "dryin claes on a claesline on sunny days", "keepin appliances pluggit in whan no in uise", "usin incandescent licht bulbs in the lamps" ] }	B
Mercury_7213395	A student steered some san intae a container o watter an left the mixture alane for several hoors until the san settled on the bottom o the container. Whit statement best explains why the san separated fae the watter?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "San particles are denser than watter.", "Watter is a liquid an san is a solid.", "The san wis insufficiently steered.", "There wis mair san than watter." ] }	A
MCAS_2006_9_42-v1	In whilk o' the follaein weys are photosy'nthesis an' cellular respiration alike?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Baith processes produce glucoase.", "Baith processes consume carbon dioxide.", "Baith processes tak place in chloroplasts.", "Baith processes involve energy transformations." ] }	D
Mercury_SC_400113	A teacher mixes a wee bit o saum in a gless o wairm watter an asks the students tae observe fit changes that occur as the saum dissoolves. Whit fit change will they maist likely observe?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "The solution will become clear.", "The saum will form bubbles.", "The solution will increase in température.", "The watter will evaporate." ] }	A
Mercury_7165953	A geologist conducts an investigation tae determine the absolute age o a fossil. She then repeats the procedure three times. Whit best explains why she repeated the procedure several times?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "It helps her develop better procedures.", "It improves the accuracy o the results.", "She wants aw the results tae be different.", "She has mair than ane hypothesis tae prove." ] }	B
ACTAAP_2008_7_3	Whit question can maist likely be determined through a scientific investigation?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Wha will be the winner o the next lottery?", "Whit fitba team will win the next gemme?", "Whit is the amount o licht needed tae grow tomatoes?", "Whit fower types o bird feathers hae the bonniest colours?" ] }	C
NCEOGA_2013_8_8	Whit maist determenes the health o a loch uised as a souirce o freshwatter?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "its deepness an' width", "its temperature an' pH", "its location an' deepness", "its temperature an' deepness" ] }	B
Mercury_7033810	Hoo hae burnin fossil fuels maist caused a decline tae the quality o air that fowk breathe?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "by eikin particle pollution", "by creatin a hole in the ozone layer", "by causin acid precipitation tae fa", "by increasin the levels o carbon dioxide" ] }	A
MCAS_2016_8_10	A crap o coarn plants is genetically modifeed sae that the plants produce a natural pesticide. Fowk are concerned that thae coarn plants micht transfer modified genetic material tae ither plants. Whilk o the follaein is the best wey tae further modify the plants tae prevent thaim frae transferin thair genetic materials tae ither plants?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "chyngein the plants sae they dinnae mak pollen", "chyngein the plants sae they dinnae hairm insects", "chyngein the plants sae they cannae produce nutrients", "chyngein the plants sae they cannae be easily identified" ] }	A
Mercury_412782	Whit ane o the watter samples descrived ablow haes the greatest average kinetic energy per molecule?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "1 liter o ice at a temperatur o -50°C", "10 liters o ice at a temperatur o -75°C", "1 liter o watter at a temperatur o 75°C", "10 liters o watter at a temperatur o 50°C" ] }	C
TIMSS_2003_8_pg52	Whit is formed when a neutral atom gains an electron?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "A mixtur", "An iron", "A molecule", "A metal" ] }	B
ACTAAP_2008_5_6	A student is asked tae mak soil uisin the follaein substances: watter, ore, humus, crystal, weathered rock, an metamorphic rock. Whit combination o thir substances should the student chuse?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "humus, crystal, an ore", "watter, weathered rock, an humus", "watter, metamorphic rock, an crystal", "metamorphic rock, ore, an weathered rock" ] }	B
Mercury_7239418	Whit activity is directly regulated by neurons?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "production o sex cells", "the beatin o the heart", "the rate an the shape o bane growth", "levels o sugar in the bluid" ] }	B
Mercury_7222355	The visible colors leetit frae shortest tae langest wavelength are violet, blue, green, yellae, orange, an' reid. Whit o' the follaein accurate compares the frequency o' these colors usin' this information?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Blue haes a heicher frequency than violet.", "Blue haes a heicher frequency than green.", "Orange haes a lawer frequency than reid.", "Violet haes a lawer frequency than yellae." ] }	B
Mercury_7215198	Las Vegas haes access tae renewable resources for generation o electrical pooer, which includes hydroelectric pooer. Whit o thae energy resources is renewable an available tae generate electricity in Las Vegas withoot degradin the environment?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "petroleum", "geothermal", "nuclear", "solar" ] }	D
Mercury_7179778	Whit is evidence o a chemical reaction?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "the licht produced by magnesium whan burnt", "the evaporation o watter fae a solution", "the fizzin o a saft drink", "the heat fae a licht bulb" ] }	A
Mercury_7093310	Constructive forces big a new mountain range. Hou will weathering and erosion chynge the features o the mountain range ower time?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "layering the rocks", "crystallizing the rocks", "folding the layers o the rocks", "rounding the shapes o the rocks" ] }	D
Mercury_7099365	Scientists ken that Earth is constantly chyngin. They are familiar wi the processes that are repeated daily, monthly, an yearly. Which o these is a natural event that can be predictit tae occur monthly?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "volcanic eruptions", "yirdquak activity", "phases o the muin", "precipitation amounts" ] }	C
VASoL_2007_3_35	When a tadpole grows, its gills change into lungs. What does it now need to survive?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Air", "Watter", "Soil", "Fins" ] }	A
Mercury_7016818	In a recyclin program, whit materials can be reused mony times?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "steel cans", "gless bottles", "paper containers", "plastic containers" ] }	B
Mercury_187618	Whaur does the energy frae an earthquake come fae?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "frae a sudden increase in solar radiation strikin the Yirth", "frae the Muin's gravitational pull during a close orbit", "frae rocks under stress shuftin deep inside the Yirth", "frae the wecht o sediments pushin doon on bedrock" ] }	C
MCAS_2007_8_5179	An escalator at a shoppin mall is 10 m lang an muvves at a constant speed o 0.5 m/s. If Jose steps onto the escalator at the bottom while it is movin, hou lang will it tak him tae travel the 10 m?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "5 sec", "10 sec", "15 sec", "20 sec" ] }	D
LEAP_2011_4_10298	Joann is testin soils tae see whit kin is best fer growin marigolds. Whit o the followin should she dae?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Plant the marigolds in the same soil, but water some plants mair than ithers.", "Plant the marigolds in ae kin of soil, radishes in anither, an daisies in a third kin.", "Plant the marigolds in three kinds of soil, an gie them differin amounts o sun.", "Plant the marigolds in three kinds of soil, an gie them the same amounts o water an sun." ] }	D
Mercury_7185395	The wecht o an object can chynge e'en when the mass bides the same. Whit statement correctly identifies a relationship atween mass an' wecht?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "The wecht o an object depends on its mass an' its volume.", "Gravity affecks the wecht o an object but no its mass.", "The mass o an object depends on its wecht an' size.", "Magnetic fields can affeck mass but no wecht." ] }	B
Mercury_7205153	Ane similarity atween a smaw, solid sample o aluminum an a lairge, liquid sample o aluminum is that baith samples hae	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "a definite shape.", "a definite volume.", "the same number o atoms.", "the same amount o energy." ] }	B
Mercury_7037240	Whit pairt o an atom orbits aroond the centre o the atom?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "proton", "nucleus", "neutron", "lectron" ] }	D
Mercury_7268188	Whit yin o thae is foond in aw organisms?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "a cell", "a tissue", "an organ", "an organ seestem" ] }	A
Mercury_SC_401812	Plant an animal life cycles are alike because they baith	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "begin as eggs.", "require the same amount o time.", "have beginnin, growin, an mature stages.", "resemble their parents frae the beginnin stages." ] }	C
NCEOGA_2013_5_3	A lassie walked for 30 minutes. She noticed that she travelled mair in the first 15 minutes o her walk than the second 15 minutes. Whit can she conclude aboot her walk?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "She walked ower mony hills.", "Her average speed wis faster durin the first hauf o her walk.", "She walked in twa different directions.", "She wis walkin at a constant speed." ] }	B
AKDE&ED_2008_8_32	Repeatin experiments improves the likelihood o accurate results because the overall results are	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "less likely tae prove the hypothesis correct.", "mair likely tae prove the hypothesis correct.", "less likely tae be correct due tae fewer errors bein made.", "mair likely tae be correct due tae fewer errors bein made." ] }	D
MDSA_2007_8_47	A doorbell conteens a simple electromagnet. Whit change wad maist likely increase the strength o an electromagnet?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "lang'er wires", "fewer wire coils", "an aluminium core", "a lairger pouer soorce" ] }	D
MEA_2014_5_14	Ten gram o sugar is dissolvit in 100 gram (g) o watter. Hoo mony gram is the sugar-an-watter solution?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "90 g", "100 g", "110 g", "1000 g" ] }	C
Mercury_7107415	A gene mutates in a type o bacteria. Whan thir bacteria reproduce asexually, this mutation can anly be inherited by	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "different types o bacteria.", "cells in the bacteria that are no-reproductive.", "bacteria cells that are missin the gene.", "direct descendants o the bacteria." ] }	D
MSA_2015_8_38	Heat transfer is pairt o everyday life. Whit o thir examples involvin heat transfer occurs mainly by conduction?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "The sun wairms the grund.", "A het oven wairms a cauld kitchen.", "A campfire wairms a body's haunds.", "Het soup wairms a metal spune handle." ] }	D
Mercury_7071838	Whit term is uised tae descrieve a pheesical property o a mineral?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "organick", "solid", "gaseous", "fossiliferous" ] }	B
Mercury_403967	If 100 grams o vineagar an 5 grams o bakin soda are poored in a cointainer, a sma amount o gas will be produced. Whit will the feenal mass o the products be if the gas is trappit in the cointainer?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "100 grams", "104 grams", "105 grams", "110 grams" ] }	C
Mercury_400639	Talls plants are dominant tae short plants. Whit is the ootcome if twae short plants are crossed?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "aw tall plants", "aw short plants", "half tall plants, half short plants", "1/4 tall plants, 1/3 short plants" ] }	B
Mercury_7214463	Compared tae the Sun, a reid starn maist likely haes a greater	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "volume.", "rate o rotation.", "surface temperature.", "number o orbitin planets." ] }	A
Mercury_SC_400338	The body o a fish is covered by scales for	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "decoration.", "protection.", "colour.", "reproduction." ] }	B
Mercury_7120803	Whit is maist likely needit whan describin the chyngin in poseetion o an object?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "initial speed", "direction chyng", "reference pynt", "constant rate" ] }	C
Mercury_7142713	Elisa wis classifyin types o energy as either potential or kinetic. Which is a type o potential energy?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "soond energy", "radiant energy", "thermal energy", "chemical energy" ] }	D
Mercury_SC_400013	Which featur o some young burds helps them avoid becomin prey afore they lairn tae flee?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "chirpin loudly in imitation o their parents", "hatched frae an egg laid by the parents", "speckled broon colorin that looks like leaves", "smaa beaks for eatin seeds" ] }	C
Mercury_7083545	In an investigation, whilk o thir procedures is maist important in reachin a conclusion?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "classifyin an sequencin methods", "evaluatin an interpretin data", "developin multiple hypotheses", "predictin the maist likely ootcome" ] }	B
Mercury_7201688	Sooj learned that whales uise vocalization tae navigate an tae communicate wi ither whales. Some scientists think that noise pollution in whale habitats mey harm whale populations. Whit wad be the maist likely effect o noise pollution on whales?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "alteration o whale genetic material", "reversed flow o energy through whale habitats", "reduced populations o food organisms in whale habitats", "separation o whale faimly groups" ] }	D
Mercury_7101535	Whit o these determins whether a fertilized egg develops intae a taid, a snake, or a lizard?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "the sex o the egg", "the age o the egg", "the size o the egg", "the genes o the egg" ] }	D
AKDE&ED_2008_4_36	A body catches an measures a muckle fish cried a halibut. She thinks that this halibut is abuin average in size. Tae help support her thinkin, it would be maist helpful tae measure	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "mony types o fish.", "mony fish o the same type.", "fish frae the same location.", "fish durin a different season." ] }	B
Mercury_7024220	In a series o chemical reactions, X→Y→Z→A, X converts tae Y, Y converts tae Z, an Z converts tae A. Whit term describes the process if the production o A interferes wi the conversion o X tae Y?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "a complimentary response", "a control system", "negative feedback", "positive feedback" ] }	C
Mercury_SC_407431	Auminium containers can be meltit an made intae new producks. Hou will recycling auminium maist likely benefit communities?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Fowk will uise less energy.", "Fowk will drink mair soda.", "Fowk will add less tae landfills.", "Fowk will buy mair things in cans." ] }	C
Mercury_7010028	The Big Bang theory states that the universe	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "is contractin.", "haes nae beginnin.", "stairtit as a single mass.", "is constantly formin hydrogen." ] }	C
Mercury_7248010	Eyeglesses hae twa arms cried temples addit tae the ee lenses by verra sma hinges. Which o these functions like the hinges on eyeglesses?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "knee", "fingers", "neck vertebrae", "base o the thoom" ] }	A
Mercury_7064628	Whit is the primary soorce o energy that causes evaporation o watter fae the surface o bodies o watter?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "solar radiation", "transpiration by plants", "heat fae neardby land masses", "convection currents in the watter" ] }	A
MSA_2012_5_24	Maist electric wires are covered wi plastic or rubber. The wires are covered wi plastic or rubber because thae materials	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "are conductors o electricity", "mak complete electric circuits", "are no conductors o electricity", "mak the electricity move quickly" ] }	C
Mercury_SC_401836	Whit o thir events occurs aboot ilka three months?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "heigh tide", "new muin", "new saison", "solar eclipse" ] }	C
MCAS_2009_8_11	Comparin the skeletins o which o the followin fish wid best shaw the evolution o a fish species?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "a male fish an a female fish that cud produce affspring", "the same fish juist afore it got a cut an efter it healed", "a fish that bid recently an a fish that bid a lang time ago", "the same fish juist efter it hatched an whan it wis full-growed" ] }	C
Mercury_7187530	A student is organisin a room. She muives a box fae the flair tae a shelf. She wants tae estimate the amoont o potential energy the box haes on the shelf. Whit information does the student need?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "the volume an mass o the box", "the mass o the shelf an the mass o the box", "the mass o the box an the heicht o the shelf", "the volume o the box an the heicht o the shelf" ] }	C
Mercury_7221743	Which o the follaein elements is the least electrically conductive?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "sodium", "tungsten", "zinc", "argon" ] }	D
Mercury_7143045	Whit o thae best descrives hou the surface o a beach is formed?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "mechanical weatherin", "chemical weatherin", "mas movement", "volcanic eruption" ] }	A
Mercury_SC_LBS10039	In addeetion tae oxygen, whit dae plants produce durin photaesynthesis?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "chlorophyll", "sugar", "carbon dioxide", "licht energy" ] }	B
NCEOGA_2013_5_1	Fower solid baa's, ilk wi a different mass, are movin at the same speed. Whit baa wad need the maist force tae stap its motion?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "baa wi a mass o 5 kg", "baa wi a mass o 10 kg", "baa wi a mass o 15 kg", "baa wi a mass o 20 kg" ] }	D
Mercury_7263148	Inside cells, special molecules carry messages from the membrane to the nucleus. Which body system uses a similar process?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "endocrine system", "lymphatic system", "excretory system", "integumentary system" ] }	A
MCAS_2002_8_15	Whit o the follaein is least involved in the decomposition an decay o deid plants an animals?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "wurms", "fungi", "plant ruits", "microorganisms" ] }	C
TIMSS_2007_4_pg18	Which o thir animals haes teeth that are maist like the teeth o humans?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "deer", "lion", "monkey", "dug" ] }	C
Mercury_7206535	In multicellular organisms, different structures hae different functions. Whit function is carried oot in the leaves of a plant?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "absorbin' food", "producing flowers", "absorbin' licht", "makin' seeds" ] }	C
TAKS_2009_8_45	When fowk exercise, they aften feel thirsty an begin tae sweit. It is important for fowk tae feel thirsty when exercisin because it maks them realise that they shuid	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "tak a break", "dae liquids", "gae their breithin slower", "stop tae eat something" ] }	B
Mercury_SC_415424	A goat gets energy frae the grass it eats. Whar does the grass get its energy?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "sile", "sunlicht", "watter", "air" ] }	B
Mercury_7196263	Starns generate muckle amoonts o energy whan nuclei wi sma mass owergang fusion tae form nuclei wi lairger mass. Whit yin o the fower basic forces o the universe is responsible for the energy released durin fusion?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "waik force", "strang force", "gravitational force", "electromagnetic force" ] }	B
Mercury_SC_405459	Corn can be uised tae mak ethanol, whilk is a fuel for some caurs. Whit problem coud be caused by the increased uise o ethanol?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "increase in fossil fuel production", "decrease in corn production", "increase in severe weather", "decrease in nutrients in soil" ] }	D
Mercury_SC_400174	A student compared the speeds at which a large and a small marble rolled down an inclined plane. In order to make the findings more reliable, the student should	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "let the marbles gang fae different heichts.", "repeat the experiment several times.", "tilt the plane at different angles.", "use twa marbles that are the same size." ] }	B
Mercury_SC_407783	Mrs. Gordon's cless studies maple trees. Whit property can the students measure wi a meter stick?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "the mass o a leaf", "the volume o its sap", "the length o a branch", "the temperature o its bark" ] }	C
Mercury_7006808	Whit pairt o an atom taks up the majority o the volume?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "nucleus", "protons", "neutrons", "electrons" ] }	D
Mercury_7213850	A line graph is best uised tae	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "compare mony variables.", "display data as pairts o a hale.", "track the relationship atween twa variables ower time.", "organise data uisin pictures o objects." ] }	C
Mercury_177328	Which o the followin wid mak the best insulator against the flow o electricity?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "copper wire", "steel tubin", "plastic tape", "aluminium foil" ] }	C
Mercury_186218	Whit is the composition o Saturn's rings?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "hydrogen and helium", "ammonia and methane", "cluds o space shairds", "bit lumps o ice an rock" ] }	D
Mercury_SC_405764	John wis usin his mp3 player when it suddenly stoppit workin. Whit is the first thing John shoud dae tae try correctin the problem?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "rechairge the battery", "tak the player apairt", "replace the player wi a new ane", "chynge tae a different sang" ] }	A
Mercury_7014193	Tae produce licht, the atoms inside a licht bulb transform electrical energy intae	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "kinetic energy.", "electromagnetic radiation.", "chemical energy.", "heat energy." ] }	B
Mercury_187075	Monie motors are equipped wi a catalytic converter, a device that helps remuive hydrocarbons an oxides fae motor exhaust. As a result, this device helps tae	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "increase the production o ozone.", "decrease the production o smog.", "increase the emission o nitrogen.", "decrease the emission o carbon dioxide." ] }	B
Mercury_7013003	Whit twa systems are involved when waste an watter are removed frae bluid as it flows through the kidneys?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "respiratory an circulatory", "digestive an respiratory", "digestive an urinary", "urinary an circulatory" ] }	D
Mercury_411013	A male fruit flee is homozygous dominant for gray-body colour (G) an is crossed wi a female fruit flee that is homozygous recessive for ebony-body colour (g). Whit are the probable phenotypes o the offspring?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "25% gray, 75% ebony", "50% gray, 50% ebony", "100% ebony", "100% gray" ] }	D
Mercury_7207498	The Muin disna hae weather an climate cheenges like thae on Earth. Whit causes the lack o weather on the Muin?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "the lack o watter", "the presence o igenous rock", "the verra thin atmosphere", "the lack o magnetic poles" ] }	C
Mercury_SC_415079	How can ye mak liquid watter turn solid?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Pit the watter in a richt cauld place.", "Heat the watter on the stove.", "Shake the watter container verra fast.", "Add a lot o saut tae the watter." ] }	A
Mercury_7168070	Several horses grazed in a fenced area across from a home. On rainy days, soil would wash down a slope and run toward the home. After the horses were moved a few years later, the soil no longer washed down when it rained. What could account for this change?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "The grass grew and kept the soil intact.", "The fence kept the soil contained.", "The soil was completely gone.", "The amount of rain decreased." ] }	A
Mercury_7011358	Whit unit is uised tae record distances atween starns?	{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "miles", "kilometers", "licht years", "astronomical units" ] }	C

Mercury_SC_410891

A student is investigatin a licht bulb that saves enairgy an can lest up tae 10 times langer than ither bulbs. Ither than savin enairgy, whit is anither benefite o uisin thir licht bulbs?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Drinkin watter bides clean.", "Less trash is pitten in landfills.", "Mair nutrients are eikit tae the soil.", "Fewer chemicals get intae the fuid supply." ] }

B

Mercury_7212730

Whilk o the follaein hes the greatest effeck on the speed at whilk soon traivels through a gas?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "the ability o electrons tae traivel through a medium", "the frequency o the wave", "the amplitude o the wave", "the proximately o the molecules o the medium" ] }

D

Mercury_177660

Geologists aften uise mass spectrometers in determin the relative age o rocks. A spectrometer can differentiate atween the ratios o isotopes in rock samples an calculates the radioactive decay involvin whit twa isotopes?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Uranium - Lead", "Rubidium - Strontium", "Pottasium - Argon", "Uranium - Strontium" ] }

A

TIMSS_2003_8_pg27

The burnin o fossil fuels has increased the carbon dioxide content o the atmosphere. Whit is a possible effect that the increased amount o carbon dioxide is likely tae hae on oor planet?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "A warmer climate", "A cooler climate", "Lower relative humidity", "Mair ozone in the atmosphere" ] }

A

Mercury_SC_408742

Fairmers plant fruit trees in an area that wis once a grassy meadow. Whit will maist likely happen tae the rabbits living in the meadow?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "They will learn tae eat fruit.", "They will learn tae clim trees.", "The nummer o their young will increase.", "The size o their population will decrease." ] }

D

Mercury_7029645

Metal atoms will maist likely form ions by the

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "loss o electrons.", "loss o protons.", "gain o electrons.", "gain o protons." ] }

A

Mercury_7216598

Whit phrase disna describe asexual reproduction in organisms?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "requires twa parents", "little variation in offspring", "only ane type o cell involved", "duplicates its genetic material" ] }

A

MDSA_2008_5_40

A student is inveestigatin chynges in the states o matter. The student fills a graduated cylinder wi 50 milliliters o packit snaw. The graduated cylinder haes a mass o 50 grams when empty an 95 grams when filled wi the snaw. The packit snaw chynges tae liquid watter when the snaw is pit in a warm room. Whit statement best descrives this process?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Coolin causes the snaw tae melt.", "Coolin causes the snaw tae freeze.", "Heatin causes the snaw tae freeze.", "Heatin causes the snaw tae melt." ] }

D

Mercury_7188073

Plans hae cells, tissues, organs, an systems that alloo thaim tae function as complete organisms. Whit pairts o a plan function as an organ?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "leafs", "spores", "routhairs", "chlorophyll molecules" ] }

A

MCAS_2009_5_6510

A tuna is an ocean fish that is weel adaptit tae catchin smaw, fast-movin prey. Whilk o the follaein adaptations maist helps a tuna soum fast tae catch its prey?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "muckle fins", "sharp teeth", "smaw gills", "tough scales" ] }

A

Mercury_7038203

When a finger is cut and bleeds, platelets and plasma proteins move to the cut to stop the bleeding. As these move to the cut, this stimulates more platelets and proteins to move to the cut to stop the bleeding. What type of mechanism is being illustrated?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "negative feedback", "positive feedback", "regulatory feedback", "stimulation feedback" ] }

B

Mercury_7216843

Watter enters a cell an wast material leaves a cell through the cell membrane. Based on this information, the cell membrane is

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "semi-permeable.", "transparent.", "rigid.", "impermeable." ] }

A

Mercury_7041598

Whit is the best explanation why the remains o a sma reptyle livin millions o years ago hae been foond only in Brazil an Sooth Africa?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "subdaction", "puid tectonics", "mass extinction", "convergin boondaries" ] }

B

Mercury_7159670

Whit chairacteristic wad be maist important fer a plant tae hae tae become a pioneer plant oan a recoverin beach?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "ability tae grow awfy muckle", "lang ruits tae find watter", "resistant tae disturbances", "muckle leafs tae catch sunlicht" ] }

C

Mercury_SC_401369

Members o a plannin team big a model o a nearby burn an then block the burn tae show hou it can form a loch. Whit is a limitation o the model?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "shawn hou a nearby toun will avoid floodin", "explainin hou the loch will be uised for recreation", "explainin hou some o the watter can be uised for agriculture", "shawn hou the dam will affect the plants an animals in the airt" ] }

D

Mercury_SC_415349

How dis a tiger get stripes?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "frae its environment", "frae its food", "frae its offspring", "frae its parents" ] }

D

Mercury_SC_416518

A mountain wi a meltin glacier haes a burn wi a watterfa. The watterfa fills a loch at the fit o the mountain. Whaur is the watter cauldest?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "glacier", "burn", "watterfa", "loch" ] }

A

MCAS_2006_9_35-v1

Whit is the frequency o ocean waves that hae a speed o 18 m/s and a wavelength o 50 m?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "0.18 Hz", "0.36 Hz", "2.8 Hz", "9.0 Hz" ] }

B

Mercury_415261

Whit o the follaein will cut doon a hame lectric bill?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "usin cloot napkins raither than paper towels", "dryin claes on a claesline on sunny days", "keepin appliances pluggit in whan no in uise", "usin incandescent licht bulbs in the lamps" ] }

B

Mercury_7213395

A student steered some san intae a container o watter an left the mixture alane for several hoors until the san settled on the bottom o the container. Whit statement best explains why the san separated fae the watter?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "San particles are denser than watter.", "Watter is a liquid an san is a solid.", "The san wis insufficiently steered.", "There wis mair san than watter." ] }

A

MCAS_2006_9_42-v1

In whilk o' the follaein weys are photosy'nthesis an' cellular respiration alike?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Baith processes produce glucoase.", "Baith processes consume carbon dioxide.", "Baith processes tak place in chloroplasts.", "Baith processes involve energy transformations." ] }

D

Mercury_SC_400113

A teacher mixes a wee bit o saum in a gless o wairm watter an asks the students tae observe fit changes that occur as the saum dissoolves. Whit fit change will they maist likely observe?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "The solution will become clear.", "The saum will form bubbles.", "The solution will increase in température.", "The watter will evaporate." ] }

A

Mercury_7165953

A geologist conducts an investigation tae determine the absolute age o a fossil. She then repeats the procedure three times. Whit best explains why she repeated the procedure several times?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "It helps her develop better procedures.", "It improves the accuracy o the results.", "She wants aw the results tae be different.", "She has mair than ane hypothesis tae prove." ] }

B

ACTAAP_2008_7_3

Whit question can maist likely be determined through a scientific investigation?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Wha will be the winner o the next lottery?", "Whit fitba team will win the next gemme?", "Whit is the amount o licht needed tae grow tomatoes?", "Whit fower types o bird feathers hae the bonniest colours?" ] }

C

NCEOGA_2013_8_8

Whit maist determenes the health o a loch uised as a souirce o freshwatter?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "its deepness an' width", "its temperature an' pH", "its location an' deepness", "its temperature an' deepness" ] }

B

Mercury_7033810

Hoo hae burnin fossil fuels maist caused a decline tae the quality o air that fowk breathe?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "by eikin particle pollution", "by creatin a hole in the ozone layer", "by causin acid precipitation tae fa", "by increasin the levels o carbon dioxide" ] }

A

MCAS_2016_8_10

A crap o coarn plants is genetically modifeed sae that the plants produce a natural pesticide. Fowk are concerned that thae coarn plants micht transfer modified genetic material tae ither plants. Whilk o the follaein is the best wey tae further modify the plants tae prevent thaim frae transferin thair genetic materials tae ither plants?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "chyngein the plants sae they dinnae mak pollen", "chyngein the plants sae they dinnae hairm insects", "chyngein the plants sae they cannae produce nutrients", "chyngein the plants sae they cannae be easily identified" ] }

A

Mercury_412782

Whit ane o the watter samples descrived ablow haes the greatest average kinetic energy per molecule?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "1 liter o ice at a temperatur o -50°C", "10 liters o ice at a temperatur o -75°C", "1 liter o watter at a temperatur o 75°C", "10 liters o watter at a temperatur o 50°C" ] }

C

TIMSS_2003_8_pg52

Whit is formed when a neutral atom gains an electron?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "A mixtur", "An iron", "A molecule", "A metal" ] }

B

ACTAAP_2008_5_6

A student is asked tae mak soil uisin the follaein substances: watter, ore, humus, crystal, weathered rock, an metamorphic rock. Whit combination o thir substances should the student chuse?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "humus, crystal, an ore", "watter, weathered rock, an humus", "watter, metamorphic rock, an crystal", "metamorphic rock, ore, an weathered rock" ] }

B

Mercury_7239418

Whit activity is directly regulated by neurons?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "production o sex cells", "the beatin o the heart", "the rate an the shape o bane growth", "levels o sugar in the bluid" ] }

B

Mercury_7222355

The visible colors leetit frae shortest tae langest wavelength are violet, blue, green, yellae, orange, an' reid. Whit o' the follaein accurate compares the frequency o' these colors usin' this information?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Blue haes a heicher frequency than violet.", "Blue haes a heicher frequency than green.", "Orange haes a lawer frequency than reid.", "Violet haes a lawer frequency than yellae." ] }

B

Mercury_7215198

Las Vegas haes access tae renewable resources for generation o electrical pooer, which includes hydroelectric pooer. Whit o thae energy resources is renewable an available tae generate electricity in Las Vegas withoot degradin the environment?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "petroleum", "geothermal", "nuclear", "solar" ] }

D

Mercury_7179778

Whit is evidence o a chemical reaction?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "the licht produced by magnesium whan burnt", "the evaporation o watter fae a solution", "the fizzin o a saft drink", "the heat fae a licht bulb" ] }

A

Mercury_7093310

Constructive forces big a new mountain range. Hou will weathering and erosion chynge the features o the mountain range ower time?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "layering the rocks", "crystallizing the rocks", "folding the layers o the rocks", "rounding the shapes o the rocks" ] }

D

Mercury_7099365

Scientists ken that Earth is constantly chyngin. They are familiar wi the processes that are repeated daily, monthly, an yearly. Which o these is a natural event that can be predictit tae occur monthly?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "volcanic eruptions", "yirdquak activity", "phases o the muin", "precipitation amounts" ] }

C

VASoL_2007_3_35

When a tadpole grows, its gills change into lungs. What does it now need to survive?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Air", "Watter", "Soil", "Fins" ] }

A

Mercury_7016818

In a recyclin program, whit materials can be reused mony times?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "steel cans", "gless bottles", "paper containers", "plastic containers" ] }

B

Mercury_187618

Whaur does the energy frae an earthquake come fae?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "frae a sudden increase in solar radiation strikin the Yirth", "frae the Muin's gravitational pull during a close orbit", "frae rocks under stress shuftin deep inside the Yirth", "frae the wecht o sediments pushin doon on bedrock" ] }

C

MCAS_2007_8_5179

An escalator at a shoppin mall is 10 m lang an muvves at a constant speed o 0.5 m/s. If Jose steps onto the escalator at the bottom while it is movin, hou lang will it tak him tae travel the 10 m?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "5 sec", "10 sec", "15 sec", "20 sec" ] }

D

LEAP_2011_4_10298

Joann is testin soils tae see whit kin is best fer growin marigolds. Whit o the followin should she dae?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Plant the marigolds in the same soil, but water some plants mair than ithers.", "Plant the marigolds in ae kin of soil, radishes in anither, an daisies in a third kin.", "Plant the marigolds in three kinds of soil, an gie them differin amounts o sun.", "Plant the marigolds in three kinds of soil, an gie them the same amounts o water an sun." ] }

D

Mercury_7185395

The wecht o an object can chynge e'en when the mass bides the same. Whit statement correctly identifies a relationship atween mass an' wecht?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "The wecht o an object depends on its mass an' its volume.", "Gravity affecks the wecht o an object but no its mass.", "The mass o an object depends on its wecht an' size.", "Magnetic fields can affeck mass but no wecht." ] }

B

Mercury_7205153

Ane similarity atween a smaw, solid sample o aluminum an a lairge, liquid sample o aluminum is that baith samples hae

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "a definite shape.", "a definite volume.", "the same number o atoms.", "the same amount o energy." ] }

B

Mercury_7037240

Whit pairt o an atom orbits aroond the centre o the atom?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "proton", "nucleus", "neutron", "lectron" ] }

D

Mercury_7268188

Whit yin o thae is foond in aw organisms?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "a cell", "a tissue", "an organ", "an organ seestem" ] }

A

Mercury_SC_401812

Plant an animal life cycles are alike because they baith

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "begin as eggs.", "require the same amount o time.", "have beginnin, growin, an mature stages.", "resemble their parents frae the beginnin stages." ] }

C

NCEOGA_2013_5_3

A lassie walked for 30 minutes. She noticed that she travelled mair in the first 15 minutes o her walk than the second 15 minutes. Whit can she conclude aboot her walk?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "She walked ower mony hills.", "Her average speed wis faster durin the first hauf o her walk.", "She walked in twa different directions.", "She wis walkin at a constant speed." ] }

B

AKDE&ED_2008_8_32

Repeatin experiments improves the likelihood o accurate results because the overall results are

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "less likely tae prove the hypothesis correct.", "mair likely tae prove the hypothesis correct.", "less likely tae be correct due tae fewer errors bein made.", "mair likely tae be correct due tae fewer errors bein made." ] }

D

MDSA_2007_8_47

A doorbell conteens a simple electromagnet. Whit change wad maist likely increase the strength o an electromagnet?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "lang'er wires", "fewer wire coils", "an aluminium core", "a lairger pouer soorce" ] }

D

MEA_2014_5_14

Ten gram o sugar is dissolvit in 100 gram (g) o watter. Hoo mony gram is the sugar-an-watter solution?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "90 g", "100 g", "110 g", "1000 g" ] }

C

Mercury_7107415

A gene mutates in a type o bacteria. Whan thir bacteria reproduce asexually, this mutation can anly be inherited by

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "different types o bacteria.", "cells in the bacteria that are no-reproductive.", "bacteria cells that are missin the gene.", "direct descendants o the bacteria." ] }

D

MSA_2015_8_38

Heat transfer is pairt o everyday life. Whit o thir examples involvin heat transfer occurs mainly by conduction?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "The sun wairms the grund.", "A het oven wairms a cauld kitchen.", "A campfire wairms a body's haunds.", "Het soup wairms a metal spune handle." ] }

D

Mercury_7071838

Whit term is uised tae descrieve a pheesical property o a mineral?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "organick", "solid", "gaseous", "fossiliferous" ] }

B

Mercury_403967

If 100 grams o vineagar an 5 grams o bakin soda are poored in a cointainer, a sma amount o gas will be produced. Whit will the feenal mass o the products be if the gas is trappit in the cointainer?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "100 grams", "104 grams", "105 grams", "110 grams" ] }

C

Mercury_400639

Talls plants are dominant tae short plants. Whit is the ootcome if twae short plants are crossed?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "aw tall plants", "aw short plants", "half tall plants, half short plants", "1/4 tall plants, 1/3 short plants" ] }

B

Mercury_7214463

Compared tae the Sun, a reid starn maist likely haes a greater

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "volume.", "rate o rotation.", "surface temperature.", "number o orbitin planets." ] }

A

Mercury_SC_400338

The body o a fish is covered by scales for

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "decoration.", "protection.", "colour.", "reproduction." ] }

B

Mercury_7120803

Whit is maist likely needit whan describin the chyngin in poseetion o an object?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "initial speed", "direction chyng", "reference pynt", "constant rate" ] }

C

Mercury_7142713

Elisa wis classifyin types o energy as either potential or kinetic. Which is a type o potential energy?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "soond energy", "radiant energy", "thermal energy", "chemical energy" ] }

D

Mercury_SC_400013

Which featur o some young burds helps them avoid becomin prey afore they lairn tae flee?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "chirpin loudly in imitation o their parents", "hatched frae an egg laid by the parents", "speckled broon colorin that looks like leaves", "smaa beaks for eatin seeds" ] }

C

Mercury_7083545

In an investigation, whilk o thir procedures is maist important in reachin a conclusion?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "classifyin an sequencin methods", "evaluatin an interpretin data", "developin multiple hypotheses", "predictin the maist likely ootcome" ] }

B

Mercury_7201688

Sooj learned that whales uise vocalization tae navigate an tae communicate wi ither whales. Some scientists think that noise pollution in whale habitats mey harm whale populations. Whit wad be the maist likely effect o noise pollution on whales?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "alteration o whale genetic material", "reversed flow o energy through whale habitats", "reduced populations o food organisms in whale habitats", "separation o whale faimly groups" ] }

D

Mercury_7101535

Whit o these determins whether a fertilized egg develops intae a taid, a snake, or a lizard?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "the sex o the egg", "the age o the egg", "the size o the egg", "the genes o the egg" ] }

D

AKDE&ED_2008_4_36

A body catches an measures a muckle fish cried a halibut. She thinks that this halibut is abuin average in size. Tae help support her thinkin, it would be maist helpful tae measure

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "mony types o fish.", "mony fish o the same type.", "fish frae the same location.", "fish durin a different season." ] }

B

Mercury_7024220

In a series o chemical reactions, X→Y→Z→A, X converts tae Y, Y converts tae Z, an Z converts tae A. Whit term describes the process if the production o A interferes wi the conversion o X tae Y?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "a complimentary response", "a control system", "negative feedback", "positive feedback" ] }

C

Mercury_SC_407431

Auminium containers can be meltit an made intae new producks. Hou will recycling auminium maist likely benefit communities?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Fowk will uise less energy.", "Fowk will drink mair soda.", "Fowk will add less tae landfills.", "Fowk will buy mair things in cans." ] }

C

Mercury_7010028

The Big Bang theory states that the universe

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "is contractin.", "haes nae beginnin.", "stairtit as a single mass.", "is constantly formin hydrogen." ] }

C

Mercury_7248010

Eyeglesses hae twa arms cried temples addit tae the ee lenses by verra sma hinges. Which o these functions like the hinges on eyeglesses?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "knee", "fingers", "neck vertebrae", "base o the thoom" ] }

A

Mercury_7064628

Whit is the primary soorce o energy that causes evaporation o watter fae the surface o bodies o watter?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "solar radiation", "transpiration by plants", "heat fae neardby land masses", "convection currents in the watter" ] }

A

MSA_2012_5_24

Maist electric wires are covered wi plastic or rubber. The wires are covered wi plastic or rubber because thae materials

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "are conductors o electricity", "mak complete electric circuits", "are no conductors o electricity", "mak the electricity move quickly" ] }

C

Mercury_SC_401836

Whit o thir events occurs aboot ilka three months?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "heigh tide", "new muin", "new saison", "solar eclipse" ] }

C

MCAS_2009_8_11

Comparin the skeletins o which o the followin fish wid best shaw the evolution o a fish species?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "a male fish an a female fish that cud produce affspring", "the same fish juist afore it got a cut an efter it healed", "a fish that bid recently an a fish that bid a lang time ago", "the same fish juist efter it hatched an whan it wis full-growed" ] }

C

Mercury_7187530

A student is organisin a room. She muives a box fae the flair tae a shelf. She wants tae estimate the amoont o potential energy the box haes on the shelf. Whit information does the student need?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "the volume an mass o the box", "the mass o the shelf an the mass o the box", "the mass o the box an the heicht o the shelf", "the volume o the box an the heicht o the shelf" ] }

C

Mercury_7221743

Which o the follaein elements is the least electrically conductive?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "sodium", "tungsten", "zinc", "argon" ] }

D

Mercury_7143045

Whit o thae best descrives hou the surface o a beach is formed?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "mechanical weatherin", "chemical weatherin", "mas movement", "volcanic eruption" ] }

A

Mercury_SC_LBS10039

In addeetion tae oxygen, whit dae plants produce durin photaesynthesis?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "chlorophyll", "sugar", "carbon dioxide", "licht energy" ] }

B

NCEOGA_2013_5_1

Fower solid baa's, ilk wi a different mass, are movin at the same speed. Whit baa wad need the maist force tae stap its motion?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "baa wi a mass o 5 kg", "baa wi a mass o 10 kg", "baa wi a mass o 15 kg", "baa wi a mass o 20 kg" ] }

D

Mercury_7263148

Inside cells, special molecules carry messages from the membrane to the nucleus. Which body system uses a similar process?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "endocrine system", "lymphatic system", "excretory system", "integumentary system" ] }

A

MCAS_2002_8_15

Whit o the follaein is least involved in the decomposition an decay o deid plants an animals?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "wurms", "fungi", "plant ruits", "microorganisms" ] }

C

TIMSS_2007_4_pg18

Which o thir animals haes teeth that are maist like the teeth o humans?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "deer", "lion", "monkey", "dug" ] }

C

Mercury_7206535

In multicellular organisms, different structures hae different functions. Whit function is carried oot in the leaves of a plant?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "absorbin' food", "producing flowers", "absorbin' licht", "makin' seeds" ] }

C

TAKS_2009_8_45

When fowk exercise, they aften feel thirsty an begin tae sweit. It is important for fowk tae feel thirsty when exercisin because it maks them realise that they shuid

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "tak a break", "dae liquids", "gae their breithin slower", "stop tae eat something" ] }

B

Mercury_SC_415424

A goat gets energy frae the grass it eats. Whar does the grass get its energy?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "sile", "sunlicht", "watter", "air" ] }

B

Mercury_7196263

Starns generate muckle amoonts o energy whan nuclei wi sma mass owergang fusion tae form nuclei wi lairger mass. Whit yin o the fower basic forces o the universe is responsible for the energy released durin fusion?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "waik force", "strang force", "gravitational force", "electromagnetic force" ] }

B

Mercury_SC_405459

Corn can be uised tae mak ethanol, whilk is a fuel for some caurs. Whit problem coud be caused by the increased uise o ethanol?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "increase in fossil fuel production", "decrease in corn production", "increase in severe weather", "decrease in nutrients in soil" ] }

D

Mercury_SC_400174

A student compared the speeds at which a large and a small marble rolled down an inclined plane. In order to make the findings more reliable, the student should

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "let the marbles gang fae different heichts.", "repeat the experiment several times.", "tilt the plane at different angles.", "use twa marbles that are the same size." ] }

B

Mercury_SC_407783

Mrs. Gordon's cless studies maple trees. Whit property can the students measure wi a meter stick?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "the mass o a leaf", "the volume o its sap", "the length o a branch", "the temperature o its bark" ] }

C

Mercury_7006808

Whit pairt o an atom taks up the majority o the volume?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "nucleus", "protons", "neutrons", "electrons" ] }

D

Mercury_7213850

A line graph is best uised tae

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "compare mony variables.", "display data as pairts o a hale.", "track the relationship atween twa variables ower time.", "organise data uisin pictures o objects." ] }

C

Mercury_177328

Which o the followin wid mak the best insulator against the flow o electricity?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "copper wire", "steel tubin", "plastic tape", "aluminium foil" ] }

C

Mercury_186218

Whit is the composition o Saturn's rings?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "hydrogen and helium", "ammonia and methane", "cluds o space shairds", "bit lumps o ice an rock" ] }

D

Mercury_SC_405764

John wis usin his mp3 player when it suddenly stoppit workin. Whit is the first thing John shoud dae tae try correctin the problem?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "rechairge the battery", "tak the player apairt", "replace the player wi a new ane", "chynge tae a different sang" ] }

A

Mercury_7014193

Tae produce licht, the atoms inside a licht bulb transform electrical energy intae

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "kinetic energy.", "electromagnetic radiation.", "chemical energy.", "heat energy." ] }

B

Mercury_187075

Monie motors are equipped wi a catalytic converter, a device that helps remuive hydrocarbons an oxides fae motor exhaust. As a result, this device helps tae

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "increase the production o ozone.", "decrease the production o smog.", "increase the emission o nitrogen.", "decrease the emission o carbon dioxide." ] }

B

Mercury_7013003

Whit twa systems are involved when waste an watter are removed frae bluid as it flows through the kidneys?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "respiratory an circulatory", "digestive an respiratory", "digestive an urinary", "urinary an circulatory" ] }

D

Mercury_411013

A male fruit flee is homozygous dominant for gray-body colour (G) an is crossed wi a female fruit flee that is homozygous recessive for ebony-body colour (g). Whit are the probable phenotypes o the offspring?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "25% gray, 75% ebony", "50% gray, 50% ebony", "100% ebony", "100% gray" ] }

D

Mercury_7207498

The Muin disna hae weather an climate cheenges like thae on Earth. Whit causes the lack o weather on the Muin?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "the lack o watter", "the presence o igenous rock", "the verra thin atmosphere", "the lack o magnetic poles" ] }

C

Mercury_SC_415079

How can ye mak liquid watter turn solid?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "Pit the watter in a richt cauld place.", "Heat the watter on the stove.", "Shake the watter container verra fast.", "Add a lot o saut tae the watter." ] }

A

Mercury_7168070

Several horses grazed in a fenced area across from a home. On rainy days, soil would wash down a slope and run toward the home. After the horses were moved a few years later, the soil no longer washed down when it rained. What could account for this change?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "The grass grew and kept the soil intact.", "The fence kept the soil contained.", "The soil was completely gone.", "The amount of rain decreased." ] }

A

Mercury_7011358

Whit unit is uised tae record distances atween starns?

{ "label": [ "A", "B", "C", "D" ], "text": [ "miles", "kilometers", "licht years", "astronomical units" ] }

C