ASVAB General Science Practice Test 522987 Results

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Questions 5 5
Correct 0 3.41
Score 0% 68%

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1

As part of digestion, the liver produces bile which breaks down:

64% Answer Correctly

protein

fat

starches

sugars


Solution

The liver produces bile which emulsifies (separates) fat.


2

Earth's breathable air is held in which atmospheric layer?

67% Answer Correctly

thermosphere

mesosphere

stratosphere

troposphere


Solution

The Earth's atmosphere has several layers starting with the troposphere which is closest in proximity to the surface. Containing most of the Earth's breathable air (oxygen and nitrogen), it's a region with warmer temperatures closer to the surface and cooler temperatures farther away which results in the rising and falling air that generates weather.


3

During continental drift, the drifting plates move across which of the following?

50% Answer Correctly

water

fault lines

liquid mantle

sediment


Solution

The crust and the rigid lithosphere (upper mantle) is made up of approximately thirty separate plates. These plates more very slowly on the slightly more liquid mantle (asthenosphere) beneath them. This movement has resulted in continental drift which is the gradual movement of land masses across Earth's surface. Continental drift is a very slow process, occurring over hundreds of millions of years.


4

The respiratory and circulatory systems are similar in that they:

83% Answer Correctly

transport nutrients

transport oxygen

deoxygenate blood

add carbon dioxide


Solution

Like the respiratory system, the circulatory system serves to transport oxygen throughout the body while removing carbon dioxide. In addition, the circulatory system transports nutrients from the digestive system.


5

Gametes have how many pairs of chromosomes?

76% Answer Correctly

4

23

46

2


Solution

Reproductive (haploid) cells known as gametes have half as many (23) pairs of chromosomes as normal (diploid) cells. When the male gamete (sperm) combines with the female gamete (ovum) through meiosis to form a zygote, each gamete supplies half the chromosomes needed to form the normal diploid cells.