ASVAB Study Guide Questions and Answers
Ohms Law: - Answer Opposition to the flow of current.
Pharynx - Answer further filters the air and aids in protections against infection
Phenotype - Answer genes that express themselves in physical characteristics ex: eye color
Genotype - Answer genetic make up, including both dominant and recessive alleles.
Allies - Answer a gene which consists of hereditary factors
The Nervous system - Answer Controls the functions of the body and receives stimuli from the environment
Spinal Cord - Answer major connecting system between the brain and network of nerves. Carries impulse
between all organs and the brains is also the control center for many simple reflexs.
Epiglottis - Answer Closes when swallowing to prevent food from going down the airway into the Trachea
Ecology - Answer Study of the interrelationship between organisms and their psychical surrounding. Ecologist
employ a similar set of terminology
Biosphere - Answer Zone of planet earth where life naturally occure including land, water, and air extending
from the deep crust to the lower atmosphere.
Biome - Answer Major life zone of interrelted species bound together by similar climate, vegetation and animal
life
,Medulla (Brain stem) - Answer connection between the brain and the spinal cord. Controls involuntary actions
(Breathing, swallowing, beating of heart).
Cerebrum - Answer the major part of the brain. Thought to be the center of intelligence, responsible for
hearing, seeing thinking, etc
Ecosystem - Answer a system made up of a community of animals, plants, and other organisms as well as non-
living aspects of its enviornment
Community - Answer the collection of all ecologically connected species in an area
population - Answer a group of organisms of the same species living in the same region
Producers (autotrophs) - Answer make their own food vi photosynthesis
Decomposers (bacteria/fungi) aka saprotrophs - Answer break down organic matter release minerals back into
the soil
Scavengers (vertebrates, vultures, jaklas) - Answer consuming refuse/decaying organic matter ex:
carrion/decaying fish
Consumer AKA heterotrophas - Answer animals that consumer other organisms to survive
Primary Consumer (herbivores) - Answer eat plants
Secondary Consumers (carnivores/ omnivores) - Answer eat primary consumers ex: wplves, lions, sharks
Tetiary Consumers (top carnivores) - Answer capable of eating secondary conumers
, Geology - Answer is the science that deals with the history and composition of the earth and its life, especially
as recorded in rocks
Central nervous system - Answer contains all the other neurons found throughout the brain / spinal cord
Cerbellum - Answer a big cluster of nerves tissue that forms the basis for the brain. Concerned with muscular
coordination and the coordination of impulses sent out from the cerebrum
Gene - Answer unit of inheritance
Pathway of the Heart - Answer 1. Superior Vena Cava 2. Pulmonary Artery 3. Right Atrium 4. Right Ventricle 5.
Pulmonary arteries 6. Pulmonary Veins 7. Left Atrium 8. Left Ventricle 9. Aorta
The autonomic nervous system - Answer regulates involuntary action in the heart, stomach and intestines
heart - Answer 4. Chambered pump with two collection chambers called atria and two pumping chambers
called ventricles
Circulatory system - Answer transport nutrients throughout the body and get rids of waste
Right atrium - Answer recevies deoxygenated blood from the vena cava
Broncnioles/Alvelus - Answer 1.When the bronchi further subdivide into smaller tubes 2. Each Bronchiole ends
in a small sac. The oxygen from the it enters into blood stream of a capillaries.
Diaphragm - Answer system of muscles that allow the lungs to expand/contract drawing ir in and out
Trachea - Answer further cleans air. Tranchea branches into left/right bronchi are two tubes that lead to the
lungs
Ohms Law: - Answer Opposition to the flow of current.
Pharynx - Answer further filters the air and aids in protections against infection
Phenotype - Answer genes that express themselves in physical characteristics ex: eye color
Genotype - Answer genetic make up, including both dominant and recessive alleles.
Allies - Answer a gene which consists of hereditary factors
The Nervous system - Answer Controls the functions of the body and receives stimuli from the environment
Spinal Cord - Answer major connecting system between the brain and network of nerves. Carries impulse
between all organs and the brains is also the control center for many simple reflexs.
Epiglottis - Answer Closes when swallowing to prevent food from going down the airway into the Trachea
Ecology - Answer Study of the interrelationship between organisms and their psychical surrounding. Ecologist
employ a similar set of terminology
Biosphere - Answer Zone of planet earth where life naturally occure including land, water, and air extending
from the deep crust to the lower atmosphere.
Biome - Answer Major life zone of interrelted species bound together by similar climate, vegetation and animal
life
,Medulla (Brain stem) - Answer connection between the brain and the spinal cord. Controls involuntary actions
(Breathing, swallowing, beating of heart).
Cerebrum - Answer the major part of the brain. Thought to be the center of intelligence, responsible for
hearing, seeing thinking, etc
Ecosystem - Answer a system made up of a community of animals, plants, and other organisms as well as non-
living aspects of its enviornment
Community - Answer the collection of all ecologically connected species in an area
population - Answer a group of organisms of the same species living in the same region
Producers (autotrophs) - Answer make their own food vi photosynthesis
Decomposers (bacteria/fungi) aka saprotrophs - Answer break down organic matter release minerals back into
the soil
Scavengers (vertebrates, vultures, jaklas) - Answer consuming refuse/decaying organic matter ex:
carrion/decaying fish
Consumer AKA heterotrophas - Answer animals that consumer other organisms to survive
Primary Consumer (herbivores) - Answer eat plants
Secondary Consumers (carnivores/ omnivores) - Answer eat primary consumers ex: wplves, lions, sharks
Tetiary Consumers (top carnivores) - Answer capable of eating secondary conumers
, Geology - Answer is the science that deals with the history and composition of the earth and its life, especially
as recorded in rocks
Central nervous system - Answer contains all the other neurons found throughout the brain / spinal cord
Cerbellum - Answer a big cluster of nerves tissue that forms the basis for the brain. Concerned with muscular
coordination and the coordination of impulses sent out from the cerebrum
Gene - Answer unit of inheritance
Pathway of the Heart - Answer 1. Superior Vena Cava 2. Pulmonary Artery 3. Right Atrium 4. Right Ventricle 5.
Pulmonary arteries 6. Pulmonary Veins 7. Left Atrium 8. Left Ventricle 9. Aorta
The autonomic nervous system - Answer regulates involuntary action in the heart, stomach and intestines
heart - Answer 4. Chambered pump with two collection chambers called atria and two pumping chambers
called ventricles
Circulatory system - Answer transport nutrients throughout the body and get rids of waste
Right atrium - Answer recevies deoxygenated blood from the vena cava
Broncnioles/Alvelus - Answer 1.When the bronchi further subdivide into smaller tubes 2. Each Bronchiole ends
in a small sac. The oxygen from the it enters into blood stream of a capillaries.
Diaphragm - Answer system of muscles that allow the lungs to expand/contract drawing ir in and out
Trachea - Answer further cleans air. Tranchea branches into left/right bronchi are two tubes that lead to the
lungs
