ABCTE MSE Exam 1 COMPLETE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS (2025)
|ALREADY PASSED!!
Save
Terms in this set (194)
A form of transformation that changes the object's
What is Reflection orientation; top, bottom, left, right. This creates a
mirror image
Best method for showing color-coded bar graph
the high and low temp for
a city over a 12 month
period?
What is a Venn diagram Map logical relationships
useful for?
What is a pie chart most Comparing percentages.
commonly used for?
What does the right-facing The numbers or values are a proper subset of the
horseshoe shape overarching set.
indicate?
What instrument would A Protractor
help you precisely
measure an angle?
The number or numbers that occur most often in the
What is the mode?
data set.
What is the mean? The average of the number set.
https://quizlet.com/1052349126/abcte-mse-exam-1-complete-exam-questions-and-accurate-answers-2025-already-passed-flash-cards/?new 1/19
,6/8/25, 11:36 AM ABCTE MSE Exam 1 COMPLETE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS (2025) |ALREADY PASSED!! Flashcards | Qu…
The middle number or the average of the 2 middle
What is the Median?
numbers.
What is the range of a Subtract the smallest from the largest number in the
number set? set.
How many more faces 2
does a cube have than a
triangular pyramid?
Deductive reasoning strategies composed of major
What are syllogisms?
premise, minor premise, and a conclusion.
What is inductive Bases conclusions on specific examples and can
reasoning sometimes not be logically valid.
In the hydrologic cycle, Evaporation - a physical change; it turns water into a
which process transforms gaseous state
liquid to gas?
In the hydrologic cycle, Condensation.
which process turns gas to
liquid?
In the hydrologic cycle, Sublimation (like when dry ice "smokes")
which process turns solid
to gas?
In the hydrologic cycle, precipitation
which process turns gas to
liquid?
The overall weather pattern over time in a certain
What is climate?
region.
the living elements in a biome - plants, mammals,
What does "biotic" mean?
insects
What does abiotic mean? non-living element in a biome - pond, rain, sunlight.
What is the purpose of the To use observation to test hypotheses and make
scientific method? predictions.
https://quizlet.com/1052349126/abcte-mse-exam-1-complete-exam-questions-and-accurate-answers-2025-already-passed-flash-cards/?new 2/19
, 6/8/25, 11:36 AM ABCTE MSE Exam 1 COMPLETE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS (2025) |ALREADY PASSED!! Flashcards | Qu…
observation and the replication of results; hypotheses
What is the scientific
are formed and tested, with the hope that a theory
method based on?
can be created from the cycle of tested hypotheses.
According to Darwin's Populations pass down traits that help them adapt to
idea of natural selection... their environment.
19th century scientist The emergence of one trait will not affect the
George Mendel believed emergence of another.
that...
How many planets in our 4 - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
solar system are known to
have rings?
Give an example of the A town on the leeward side of the mountain receives
rain shadow effect: little annual rainfall.
Leeward side Side of the mountain protected from the wind.
Mountains push moist air to higher altitudes where it
What is the rain shadow
cools, and water vapor condenses to form rain or
effect?
snow that only falls on the windward side.
Can the gemstone No, because it is a variety of corundum, which ranks a
sapphire be scratched by very high 9 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
quartz? Why? Quartz is a 7 on the scale.
Where is lignite on the It is a very soft form of coal, so it is low.
Mohs scale of hardness?
Where is talc on the Mohs It is a 1; it can be scratched with your fingernail.
scale of hardness?
The liver is an organ in the Digestive. The liver provides bile and other enzymes
____________ system? for the digestion of dietary fats.
What are the rectus Muscles of the torso.
abdominus?
Where is the pituitary It is located in the brain and it secretes a variety of
gland located, and what hormones.
does it do?
https://quizlet.com/1052349126/abcte-mse-exam-1-complete-exam-questions-and-accurate-answers-2025-already-passed-flash-cards/?new 3/19