ASVAB General Science Practice Test 764911 Results

Your Results Global Average
Questions 5 5
Correct 0 3.02
Score 0% 60%

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1

Which of the following is true about species groups?

46% Answer Correctly

a community is made up of a group of populations

a population is made up of a group of communities

a biome is a made up of a group of biospheres

an ecosystem is a biological population


Solution

population is a group of organisms of the same species who live in the same area at the same time. A community is a group of populations living and interacting with each other in an area.


2

Convert 5C° to F°.

53% Answer Correctly

37

-23

41

27


Solution

To convert from C° to F° use:

\(F° = {9 \over 5}C° + 32\)

\(F° = {9 \over 5}(5) + 32\)

\(F° = {45 \over 5} + 32\)

\(F° = 9 + 32 = 41\)


3

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

59% Answer Correctly

Mars and Jupiter

Jupiter and Saturn

Mars and Earth

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.


4

Which of the following is not true of light waves?

62% Answer Correctly

are mechanical waves

are electromagnetic waves

can travel through a vacuum

travel faster than sound waves


Solution

Unlike mechanical sound waves that require a physical medium for propagation, light waves are electromagnetic and can travel through empty space. Light waves are also much faster, travelling at 186,000 m/s vs. 343 m/s for sound waves.


5

The rate of vibration of sound is called:

83% Answer Correctly

amplitude

volume

period

frequency


Solution

The rate of vibration of sound is called frequency and is measured in hertz (Hz). One hertz is one repetition per second and sounds with high frequency have a higher pitch than sounds with lower frequency. Humans can hear sounds in the range of 20 Hz to 20 kHz.