ABCTE MSE Exam 1 | 200 Questions | 100% Correct Answers
What is Reflection Correct Answer: A form of transformation that changes the object's
orientation; top, bottom, left, right. This creates a mirror image
Best method for showing the high and low temp for a city over a 12 month period? Correct
Answer: color-coded bar graph
What is a Venn diagram useful for? Correct Answer: Map logical relationships
What is a pie chart most commonly used for? Correct Answer: Comparing percentages.
What does the right-facing horseshoe shape indicate? Correct Answer: The numbers or values
are a proper subset of the overarching set.
What instrument would help you precisely measure an angle? Correct Answer: A Protractor
What is the mode? Correct Answer: The number or numbers that occur most often in the data
set.
What is the mean? Correct Answer: The average of the number set.
What is the Median? Correct Answer: The middle number or the average of the 2 middle
numbers.
What is the range of a number set? Correct Answer: Subtract the smallest from the largest
number in the set.
How many more faces does a cube have than a triangular pyramid? Correct Answer: 2
What are syllogisms? Correct Answer: Deductive reasoning strategies composed of major
premise, minor premise, and a conclusion.
What is inductive reasoning Correct Answer: Bases conclusions on specific examples and can
sometimes not be logically valid.
In the hydrologic cycle, which process transforms liquid to gas? Correct Answer: Evaporation -
a physical change; it turns water into a gaseous state
In the hydrologic cycle, which process turns gas to liquid? Correct Answer: Condensation.
In the hydrologic cycle, which process turns solid to gas? Correct Answer: Sublimation (like
when dry ice "smokes")
In the hydrologic cycle, which process turns gas to liquid? Correct Answer: precipitation
, What is climate? Correct Answer: The overall weather pattern over time in a certain region.
What does "biotic" mean? Correct Answer: the living elements in a biome - plants, mammals,
insects
What does abiotic mean? Correct Answer: non-living element in a biome - pond, rain, sunlight.
What is the purpose of the scientific method? Correct Answer: To use observation to test
hypotheses and make predictions.
What is the scientific method based on? Correct Answer: observation and the replication of
results; hypotheses are formed and tested, with the hope that a theory can be created from the
cycle of tested hypotheses.
According to Darwin's idea of natural selection... Correct Answer: Populations pass down traits
that help them adapt to their environment.
19th century scientist George Mendel believed that... Correct Answer: The emergence of one
trait will not affect the emergence of another.
How many planets in our solar system are known to have rings? Correct Answer: 4 - Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
Give an example of the rain shadow effect: Correct Answer: A town on the leeward side of the
mountain receives little annual rainfall.
Leeward side Correct Answer: Side of the mountain protected from the wind.
What is the rain shadow effect? Correct Answer: Mountains push moist air to higher altitudes
where it cools, and water vapor condenses to form rain or snow that only falls on the windward
side.
Can the gemstone sapphire be scratched by quartz? Why? Correct Answer: No, because it is a
variety of corundum, which ranks a very high 9 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Quartz is
a 7 on the scale.
Where is lignite on the Mohs scale of hardness? Correct Answer: It is a very soft form of coal,
so it is low.
Where is talc on the Mohs scale of hardness? Correct Answer: It is a 1; it can be scratched with
your fingernail.
The liver is an organ in the ____________ system? Correct Answer: Digestive. The liver
provides bile and other enzymes for the digestion of dietary fats.
What are the rectus abdominus? Correct Answer: Muscles of the torso.
What is Reflection Correct Answer: A form of transformation that changes the object's
orientation; top, bottom, left, right. This creates a mirror image
Best method for showing the high and low temp for a city over a 12 month period? Correct
Answer: color-coded bar graph
What is a Venn diagram useful for? Correct Answer: Map logical relationships
What is a pie chart most commonly used for? Correct Answer: Comparing percentages.
What does the right-facing horseshoe shape indicate? Correct Answer: The numbers or values
are a proper subset of the overarching set.
What instrument would help you precisely measure an angle? Correct Answer: A Protractor
What is the mode? Correct Answer: The number or numbers that occur most often in the data
set.
What is the mean? Correct Answer: The average of the number set.
What is the Median? Correct Answer: The middle number or the average of the 2 middle
numbers.
What is the range of a number set? Correct Answer: Subtract the smallest from the largest
number in the set.
How many more faces does a cube have than a triangular pyramid? Correct Answer: 2
What are syllogisms? Correct Answer: Deductive reasoning strategies composed of major
premise, minor premise, and a conclusion.
What is inductive reasoning Correct Answer: Bases conclusions on specific examples and can
sometimes not be logically valid.
In the hydrologic cycle, which process transforms liquid to gas? Correct Answer: Evaporation -
a physical change; it turns water into a gaseous state
In the hydrologic cycle, which process turns gas to liquid? Correct Answer: Condensation.
In the hydrologic cycle, which process turns solid to gas? Correct Answer: Sublimation (like
when dry ice "smokes")
In the hydrologic cycle, which process turns gas to liquid? Correct Answer: precipitation
, What is climate? Correct Answer: The overall weather pattern over time in a certain region.
What does "biotic" mean? Correct Answer: the living elements in a biome - plants, mammals,
insects
What does abiotic mean? Correct Answer: non-living element in a biome - pond, rain, sunlight.
What is the purpose of the scientific method? Correct Answer: To use observation to test
hypotheses and make predictions.
What is the scientific method based on? Correct Answer: observation and the replication of
results; hypotheses are formed and tested, with the hope that a theory can be created from the
cycle of tested hypotheses.
According to Darwin's idea of natural selection... Correct Answer: Populations pass down traits
that help them adapt to their environment.
19th century scientist George Mendel believed that... Correct Answer: The emergence of one
trait will not affect the emergence of another.
How many planets in our solar system are known to have rings? Correct Answer: 4 - Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
Give an example of the rain shadow effect: Correct Answer: A town on the leeward side of the
mountain receives little annual rainfall.
Leeward side Correct Answer: Side of the mountain protected from the wind.
What is the rain shadow effect? Correct Answer: Mountains push moist air to higher altitudes
where it cools, and water vapor condenses to form rain or snow that only falls on the windward
side.
Can the gemstone sapphire be scratched by quartz? Why? Correct Answer: No, because it is a
variety of corundum, which ranks a very high 9 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Quartz is
a 7 on the scale.
Where is lignite on the Mohs scale of hardness? Correct Answer: It is a very soft form of coal,
so it is low.
Where is talc on the Mohs scale of hardness? Correct Answer: It is a 1; it can be scratched with
your fingernail.
The liver is an organ in the ____________ system? Correct Answer: Digestive. The liver
provides bile and other enzymes for the digestion of dietary fats.
What are the rectus abdominus? Correct Answer: Muscles of the torso.
