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An asteroid belt holds many of the asteroids in our solar system. It is located between the orbits of which planets?
Jupiter and Saturn |
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Mars and Earth |
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Mars and Jupiter |
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Mercury and Venus |
The solar system also contains over a million rocky fragments of at least 1km in diameter called asteroids as well as millions more with smaller diameters. Many of these asteroids are an asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Which of these foods should a person with high cholesterol avoid?
olive oil |
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avocados |
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eggs |
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vegetable oils |
Fats come in three types, saturated (meats, shellfish, eggs, milk), monounsaturated (olives, almonds, avocados), and polyunsaturated (vegetable oils). Saturated fats can raise LDL ("bad") cholesterol while unsaturated fats can decrease it.
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." This describes which of Newton's laws of motion?
first |
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second |
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third |
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fourth |
Newton's third law of motion states that For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. When an object exerts a force on another object, the second object exerts a force of equal magnitude in the opposite direction on the first object.
In which type of compound does one atom borrow an electron from another atom?
chemical |
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ionic |
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acidic |
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covalent |
A compound is a substance containing two or more different chemical elements bound together by a chemical bond. In covalent compounds, electrons are shared between atoms. In ionic compounds, one atom borrows an electron from another atom resulting in two ions (electrically charged atoms) of opposite polarities that then become bonded electrostatically.
Antigens in the blood determine:
blood type |
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negative or positive status |
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Rh factor |
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blood oxygen capacity |
Blood is categorized into four different types (A, B, AB, and O) based on the type of antigens found on the outside of the red blood cells. Additionally, each type can be negative or positive based on whether or not the cells have an antigen called the Rh factor.