ASVAB General Science Practice Questions & Answers
10 animal phyla porifera, cnidaria, platyhelminthes, nematoda, rotifera, annelida, mollusca,
arthropoda, echinodermata, chordate
3 muscle types cardiac, skeletal, smooth
Organ that regulates excretion kidney
Site where nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream small intestine
Site where water and minerals are absorbed into the large intestine
body
Urinary systems order kidney (nephron), ureter, bladder, urethra
Throat pharynx
Voicebox larynx
Epiglottis flap covering trachea
Blood leaves the heart to body left ventricle
Blood enters heart from body right atrium
Blood leaves heart to lungs right ventricle
Blood enters heart from lungs left atrium
Exchange oxygen, nutrients, and wastes with the tissues capillaries
of the body
Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart
Veins carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart
Universal blood donor type O
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Universal blood recipient type AB
2 parts of nervous system central & peripheral
2 parts of peripheral nervous system somatic & autonomic
2 pats of autonomic nervous system sympathetic & parasympathetic
Controls all voluntary activities and receives sensory cerebrum
input
Coordinates motor activity cerebellum
Regulates homeostasis and secrets hormones hypothalamus
Controls involuntary actions such as breathing and medulla
swallowing
Deficiency causes night blindness, skin infections, loss vitamin A
of appetite, diarrhea
Deficiency causes loss of appetite, beriberi vitamin B1
Deficiency causes weakness, skin infections vitamin B2
Deficiency causes anemia, nerve degeneration vitamin B12
Deficiency causes scurvy vitamin C
Deficiency causes rickets, tooth decay vitamin D
Deficiency causes anemia vitamin E
Deficiency causes excessive bleeding vitamin K
Sorts and packages proteins Golgi body
Digest old organelles and foreign substances lysosomes
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Produce energy for the cell mitochondria
Part of the nucleus that makes ribosomes nucleolus
Control center of the cell and contains chromosomes nucleus
Form spindle fibers during cellular division centrioles
Site of protein synthesis ribosomes
Makes proteins to be exported out of the cell rough ER
Makes lipids and detoxifies enzymes smooth ER
Stores wastes and other materials vacuole
Phases of mitosis interphases, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
Primitive plants lacking true stems bryophytes
2 types of tracheophytes gymnosperms & angiosperms
2 types of angiosperms monocots & dicots
The area of the earth where all living things exists biosphere
A large region of the earth biome
The interaction of living and nonliving things ecosystem
The area in which a group of populations live community
A group of individuals that belong to the same species population
4 geologic time periods Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
3 marine biome zones intertidal, neritic, oceanic
4 layers of atmosphere from lowest to highest troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere
Large pieces of space rock asteroids
Small pieces of space rock and metal meteoroids
Meteoroids that pass through earth's atmosphere meteors
Meteors that strike the ground meteorites
10 animal phyla porifera, cnidaria, platyhelminthes, nematoda, rotifera, annelida, mollusca,
arthropoda, echinodermata, chordate
3 muscle types cardiac, skeletal, smooth
Organ that regulates excretion kidney
Site where nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream small intestine
Site where water and minerals are absorbed into the large intestine
body
Urinary systems order kidney (nephron), ureter, bladder, urethra
Throat pharynx
Voicebox larynx
Epiglottis flap covering trachea
Blood leaves the heart to body left ventricle
Blood enters heart from body right atrium
Blood leaves heart to lungs right ventricle
Blood enters heart from lungs left atrium
Exchange oxygen, nutrients, and wastes with the tissues capillaries
of the body
Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart
Veins carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart
Universal blood donor type O
, ASVAB General Science Practice Questions & Answers
Universal blood recipient type AB
2 parts of nervous system central & peripheral
2 parts of peripheral nervous system somatic & autonomic
2 pats of autonomic nervous system sympathetic & parasympathetic
Controls all voluntary activities and receives sensory cerebrum
input
Coordinates motor activity cerebellum
Regulates homeostasis and secrets hormones hypothalamus
Controls involuntary actions such as breathing and medulla
swallowing
Deficiency causes night blindness, skin infections, loss vitamin A
of appetite, diarrhea
Deficiency causes loss of appetite, beriberi vitamin B1
Deficiency causes weakness, skin infections vitamin B2
Deficiency causes anemia, nerve degeneration vitamin B12
Deficiency causes scurvy vitamin C
Deficiency causes rickets, tooth decay vitamin D
Deficiency causes anemia vitamin E
Deficiency causes excessive bleeding vitamin K
Sorts and packages proteins Golgi body
Digest old organelles and foreign substances lysosomes
, ASVAB General Science Practice Questions & Answers
Produce energy for the cell mitochondria
Part of the nucleus that makes ribosomes nucleolus
Control center of the cell and contains chromosomes nucleus
Form spindle fibers during cellular division centrioles
Site of protein synthesis ribosomes
Makes proteins to be exported out of the cell rough ER
Makes lipids and detoxifies enzymes smooth ER
Stores wastes and other materials vacuole
Phases of mitosis interphases, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
Primitive plants lacking true stems bryophytes
2 types of tracheophytes gymnosperms & angiosperms
2 types of angiosperms monocots & dicots
The area of the earth where all living things exists biosphere
A large region of the earth biome
The interaction of living and nonliving things ecosystem
The area in which a group of populations live community
A group of individuals that belong to the same species population
4 geologic time periods Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
3 marine biome zones intertidal, neritic, oceanic
4 layers of atmosphere from lowest to highest troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere
Large pieces of space rock asteroids
Small pieces of space rock and metal meteoroids
Meteoroids that pass through earth's atmosphere meteors
Meteors that strike the ground meteorites
