BCTE MSE EVALUATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
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✔✔Which instrument would be useful in measuring blood pressure? -
✔✔Sphygmomanometer
✔✔Which instrument would be useful in measuring the heat of chemical reactions or
physical changes? - ✔✔Calorimeter
✔✔Which instrument would be useful in measuring electric current running through its
coil? - ✔✔Galvanometer
✔✔Metaphase occurs during what? - ✔✔Mitosis - the process of cell division, usually
divided into 4 phases.
✔✔What is Metaphase? - ✔✔The second part of mitosis in which the spindle fibers line
up the chromosomes in the middle of the cell.
✔✔What is photosynthesis? - ✔✔The process by which plants use light energy to
convert water and carbon dioxide into stored energy or food.
✔✔Why is photosynthesis perhaps the most important function on earth? - ✔✔Because
it is responsible for the creation of an environment suitable for humans and other
species to survive.
✔✔What is Mitosis? - ✔✔Cell division
✔✔What is meiosis? - ✔✔Cell reproduction.
, ✔✔In cells, what is respiration? - ✔✔The process whereby cells created energy from
food.
✔✔What is an example of exothermic process through chemical reaction? - ✔✔A
candle flame burning.
✔✔What is the exothermic process? - ✔✔Releases heat and causes the temperature of
the immediate surrounding to rise.
✔✔Explain the endothermic process. - ✔✔The process absorbs heat and cools the
surroundings.
✔✔What is a key to classifying if a process is exothermic or endothermic? - ✔✔Note
how the temperature of the surroundings changes.
✔✔What are some nonrenewable energy sources? - ✔✔Coal, natural gas, and oil.
✔✔What classifies something as a nonrenewable energy source? - ✔✔They are not
replenished as fast as they are used.
✔✔What are some renewable energy sources? - ✔✔Wind, solar and biomass.
✔✔What is biomass energy? - ✔✔It comes from burning waste products that come in
the form of wood, crops, algae and other materials.
✔✔When white light passes through a prism, what is the results? - ✔✔Light is broken
apart into the colors of the visible light spectrum.
✔✔What is it called when light is broken apart into the colors of the light spectrum? -
✔✔Refraction. (it is bent) Red light is bent LESS than the other colors of light which is
why it is above the other colors of the rainbow which are bent more and more as they
move towards violet light.
✔✔What is the formula for distance? - ✔✔d = rt
✔✔which of the 4 states of matter cannot change volume? - ✔✔Solids. A solid keeps its
shape unless it is broken. If it DOES change its SHAPE... if it's broken, the VOLUME
doesn't change. It is the only state of matter that cannot be compressed.
✔✔What best describes a black hole? - ✔✔A region of space-time where gravity is so
strong that not even light can escape.
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔
✔✔Which instrument would be useful in measuring blood pressure? -
✔✔Sphygmomanometer
✔✔Which instrument would be useful in measuring the heat of chemical reactions or
physical changes? - ✔✔Calorimeter
✔✔Which instrument would be useful in measuring electric current running through its
coil? - ✔✔Galvanometer
✔✔Metaphase occurs during what? - ✔✔Mitosis - the process of cell division, usually
divided into 4 phases.
✔✔What is Metaphase? - ✔✔The second part of mitosis in which the spindle fibers line
up the chromosomes in the middle of the cell.
✔✔What is photosynthesis? - ✔✔The process by which plants use light energy to
convert water and carbon dioxide into stored energy or food.
✔✔Why is photosynthesis perhaps the most important function on earth? - ✔✔Because
it is responsible for the creation of an environment suitable for humans and other
species to survive.
✔✔What is Mitosis? - ✔✔Cell division
✔✔What is meiosis? - ✔✔Cell reproduction.
, ✔✔In cells, what is respiration? - ✔✔The process whereby cells created energy from
food.
✔✔What is an example of exothermic process through chemical reaction? - ✔✔A
candle flame burning.
✔✔What is the exothermic process? - ✔✔Releases heat and causes the temperature of
the immediate surrounding to rise.
✔✔Explain the endothermic process. - ✔✔The process absorbs heat and cools the
surroundings.
✔✔What is a key to classifying if a process is exothermic or endothermic? - ✔✔Note
how the temperature of the surroundings changes.
✔✔What are some nonrenewable energy sources? - ✔✔Coal, natural gas, and oil.
✔✔What classifies something as a nonrenewable energy source? - ✔✔They are not
replenished as fast as they are used.
✔✔What are some renewable energy sources? - ✔✔Wind, solar and biomass.
✔✔What is biomass energy? - ✔✔It comes from burning waste products that come in
the form of wood, crops, algae and other materials.
✔✔When white light passes through a prism, what is the results? - ✔✔Light is broken
apart into the colors of the visible light spectrum.
✔✔What is it called when light is broken apart into the colors of the light spectrum? -
✔✔Refraction. (it is bent) Red light is bent LESS than the other colors of light which is
why it is above the other colors of the rainbow which are bent more and more as they
move towards violet light.
✔✔What is the formula for distance? - ✔✔d = rt
✔✔which of the 4 states of matter cannot change volume? - ✔✔Solids. A solid keeps its
shape unless it is broken. If it DOES change its SHAPE... if it's broken, the VOLUME
doesn't change. It is the only state of matter that cannot be compressed.
✔✔What best describes a black hole? - ✔✔A region of space-time where gravity is so
strong that not even light can escape.
