NLN PAX RN Science/ 54 Quizzes & Correct
Answers/ A+ Score Solution.
Alimentary canal definition - Answer: begins at mouth, ends at anus... digestive system
A neuron that transmits impulses from receptors to the spinal cord - Answer: sensory neuron
Kinetic energy is at a maximum when the potential energy is... - Answer: at a minimum, for
example at the bottom of an incline
What organisms are Protists? - Answer: fungi, ferns, mollusks
What is a half life? - Answer: One half life is the amount of time it takes for one half of the mass
of a sample of radioactive substance to decay. Ex) Half life is 20 years for 12g. in 20 years.... 12/2
= 6g... in 40 years..... 6/2=3g
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, Isotopes contain a different number of __________. But they have the same atomic number. -
Answer: Neutrons
What makes up the atomic mass? - Answer: Protons and Neutrons
What makes up the atomic number? - Answer: Protons and Electrons
If you chew a bland cracker slowly, what will it fast like? And why? - Answer: Sweet because the
enzyme amylase breaks down starches to sugars
A compound that acts like either an acid or a base - Answer: amphoteric - water is an example
What delivers oxygen in the blood? - Answer: Red blood cells
What part of the cell regulates intake and outtake from an animal cell? - Answer: Plasma
membrane
If your gallbladder is removed, what substance will you have the most difficulty digesting? -
Answer: Fats... the gallbladder stores bile, made up of bile salts which digest and absorb fats
The code of a gene is delivered to the protein producing region of a cell by ____________. -
Answer: m-RNA
What is the function of a battery? - Answer: Changes mechanical energy into electrical energy
The more rapid the vibration of sound is, the ____________ the __________ is - Answer:
higher, pitch
What is the temperature during a phase change from liquid to gas? - Answer: Temperature is
constant at 100 degrees Celsius per 1 atm
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Answers/ A+ Score Solution.
Alimentary canal definition - Answer: begins at mouth, ends at anus... digestive system
A neuron that transmits impulses from receptors to the spinal cord - Answer: sensory neuron
Kinetic energy is at a maximum when the potential energy is... - Answer: at a minimum, for
example at the bottom of an incline
What organisms are Protists? - Answer: fungi, ferns, mollusks
What is a half life? - Answer: One half life is the amount of time it takes for one half of the mass
of a sample of radioactive substance to decay. Ex) Half life is 20 years for 12g. in 20 years.... 12/2
= 6g... in 40 years..... 6/2=3g
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, Isotopes contain a different number of __________. But they have the same atomic number. -
Answer: Neutrons
What makes up the atomic mass? - Answer: Protons and Neutrons
What makes up the atomic number? - Answer: Protons and Electrons
If you chew a bland cracker slowly, what will it fast like? And why? - Answer: Sweet because the
enzyme amylase breaks down starches to sugars
A compound that acts like either an acid or a base - Answer: amphoteric - water is an example
What delivers oxygen in the blood? - Answer: Red blood cells
What part of the cell regulates intake and outtake from an animal cell? - Answer: Plasma
membrane
If your gallbladder is removed, what substance will you have the most difficulty digesting? -
Answer: Fats... the gallbladder stores bile, made up of bile salts which digest and absorb fats
The code of a gene is delivered to the protein producing region of a cell by ____________. -
Answer: m-RNA
What is the function of a battery? - Answer: Changes mechanical energy into electrical energy
The more rapid the vibration of sound is, the ____________ the __________ is - Answer:
higher, pitch
What is the temperature during a phase change from liquid to gas? - Answer: Temperature is
constant at 100 degrees Celsius per 1 atm
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