Cumulative Exam Answers

Which tools are currently used to collect images during space exploration?

Consider how to complete this timeline to show the order in which different evolutionary ideas were developed.

To study for a test, Ally created this table summarizing the characteristics of the six kingdoms:What should Ally put in X and Y?

Observable matter makes up about what percentage of the universe?

What was discovered in 1965 and is believed to be leftover thermal energy from the big bang?

Which describes radioactive decay of a substance?

Which characteristic of potassium makes it useful for dating rocks?

Which best describes fusion nuclear reactors?

Which example best demonstrates the importance of having knowledge of evolutionary relationships?

Solar winds have an influence all the way to about 160 AU from the Sun. About how many kilometers is that?

Consider the recent phylogenetic tree of five different organisms. Old classification systems based on physical characteristics would most likely disagree with the relationship between which two animals in the tree?

Which formula can be used to find the centripetal acceleration of an orbiting object?

Lori attended a lecture about the Sun, and the presenter had placed this image on the wall. Which layer of the Sun could this image be referring to?

What is the study of the spectra produced from the emission and absorption of electromagnetic radiation?

What is most likely to happen to a population of mice that becomes isolated on an island?

What will happen to the frequency of the recessive allele for the HbS gene when there is an outbreak of malaria?

During natural selection, which organisms are most likely to survive as the environment changes?

Which is an example of the strong force in action?

Several butterflies within a large population have wings with large dots on them. This wing pattern warns predators not to eat the butterflies.

Which domain contains the most kingdoms?

The gravitational force between two asteroids is 6.2 × 108 N. Asteroid Y has three times the mass of asteroid Z.

Fossils provide scientists with evidence that allows them to hypothesize how living organisms have evolved over time. Tiktaalik roseae was a unique organism that has been nicknamed the “fishapod” because it is believed to be a species had traits of both fish and tetrapods, the first four-legged animals.Which evidence would scientist use to make the connection between ancestry of fish and tetrapods using Tiktaalik roseae?

What is the Milky Way?

Whose data did Kepler use to construct the laws of planetary motion?

The orbital period of a satellite is 2 × 106 s and its total radius is 2.5 × 1012 m. The tangential speed of the satellite is m/s. (Round to the nearest whole number, do not add any punctuation.)