ASVAB General Science Practice Test 583402 Results

	Your Results	Global Average
Questions	5	5
Correct	0	3.29
Score	0%	66%

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In the foood chain, producers serve as a food source for other organisms. Typical producers are plants that can make their own food through photosynthesis and certain bacteria that are capable of converting inorganic substances into food through:

47% Answer Correctly

	chemosynthesis
	photosynthesis
	decomposition
	autotrophs

Solution

Producers (autotrophs) serve as a food source for other organisms. Typical producers are plants that can make their own food through photosynthesis and certain bacteria that are capable of converting inorganic substances into food through chemosynthesis

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

59% Answer Correctly

	Mercury and Venus
	Mars and Earth
	Jupiter and Saturn
	Mars and Jupiter

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.

Which of the following is not true about simple magnets?

63% Answer Correctly

	opposite poles attract each other
	same poles repel each other
	opposite poles repel each other
	all of these are untrue

Solution

Simple magnets have two poles, north and south, and opposite poles attract each other (N attracts S, S attracts N). Likewise, the same pole of two magnets repel (N repels N, S repels S). The Earth has a magnetic field and North and South Poles which enables the use of a magnetic compass to determine direction.

A human heart consists of how many chambers?

84% Answer Correctly

	2
	8
	1
	4

Solution

The heart is the organ that drives the circulatory system. In humans, it consists of four chambers with two that collect blood called atria and two that pump blood called ventricles. The heart's valves prevent blood pumped out of the ventricles from flowing back into the heart.

A large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat is:

76% Answer Correctly

	a community
	a biome
	a population
	a food chain

Solution

A biome is a large naturally occurring community of flora (plants) and fauna (animals) occupying a major habitat (home or environment).