ASVAB General Science Practice Test 436536 Results

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Questions 5 5
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1

An asteroid belt holds many of the asteroids in our solar system. It is located between the orbits of which planets?

59% Answer Correctly

Jupiter and Saturn

Mars and Earth

Mars and Jupiter

Mercury and Venus


Solution

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.


2

When two air masses meet and neither is displaced, what kind of front is present?

75% Answer Correctly

warm 

stationary

occluded

cold


Solution

When two air masses meet and neither is displaced, a stationary front is created. Stationary fronts often cause persistent cloudy wet weather.


3

Secondary consumers that also eat producers are known as:

62% Answer Correctly

scavengers

omnivores

herbivores

carnivores


Solution

Secondary consumers (carnivores) subsist mainly on primary consumers. Omnivores are secondary consumers that also eat producers. Examples are rats, fish, and chickens.


4

Food is mixed with gastric acid and pepsin in the __________ to help break down protein.

77% Answer Correctly

large intestine

mouth

small intestine

stomach


Solution

Food is mixed with gastric acid and pepsin in the stomach to help break down protein.


5

Scalar quantities are fully described by which of the following?

48% Answer Correctly

a direction only

a magnitude and a direction

a magnitude only

a magnitude and a polarity


Solution

Velocity and displacement are vector quantities which means each is fully described by both a magnitude and a direction.  In contrast, scalar quantities are quantities that are fully described by a magnitude only.  A variable indicating a vector quantity will often be shown with an arrow symbol:  \(\vec{v}\)