ASVAB General Science Practice Test 909529 Results

	Your Results	Global Average
Questions	5	5
Correct	0	2.87
Score	0%	57%

Review

Blood is created in:

68% Answer Correctly

	the liver
	red blood cells
	bone marrow
	the heart

Solution

Blood is created in bone marrow and is made up of cells suspended in liquid plasma. Red blood cells carry oxygen, white blood cells fight infection, and platelets are cell fragments that allow blood to clot.

In the food chain, omnivores may be which of the following?

45% Answer Correctly

	primary or tertiary consumers
	primary or secondary consumers
	secondary or tertiary consumers
	secondary consumers or scavengers

Solution

Secondary or tertiary consumers may be omnivores.

Which of the following is not true about simple magnets?

63% Answer Correctly

	opposite poles repel each other
	opposite poles attract each other
	same 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.

Small rocks shed by asteroids and comets that reach the earth are called:

60% Answer Correctly

	meteoroids
	meteors
	meteorites
	shooting stars

Solution

Smaller rocks shed by asteroids and comets are called meteoroids. When these rocks reach Earth's atmosphere, they burn up in the mesosphere and become meteors. If a meteor manages to reach the Earth, it is called a meteorite.

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

50% Answer Correctly

	sediment
	water
	fault lines
	liquid mantle

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.