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ASKING QUESTIONS THAT MEASURE KNOWLEDGE 199<br />

6. What is needed to move cars, heat hamburgers, and light rooms?<br />

Conservation<br />

Efficiency<br />

Energy<br />

Friction<br />

Magnetism<br />

I don’t know.<br />

7. In hot climates, the advantage of buildings with white surfaces is that<br />

white surfaces effectively<br />

absorb light.<br />

diffract light.<br />

reflect light.<br />

refract light.<br />

transmit light.<br />

I don’t know.<br />

8. On the average, in human females the egg is released how many days<br />

after menstruation begins?<br />

2 days<br />

9 days<br />

14 days<br />

20 days<br />

24 days<br />

I don’t know.<br />

9. A fossil of an ocean fish was found in a rock outcrop on a mountain.<br />

That probably means that<br />

fish once lived on the mountain.<br />

the relative humidity was once very high.<br />

the mountain was raised up after the fish died.<br />

fish used to be amphibians like toads and frogs.<br />

the fossil fish was probably carried up to the mountain by a great flood.<br />

I don’t know.<br />

10. An artificial pacemaker is an electronic device used by some patients with<br />

heart disease. What does this device simulate or replace?<br />

<strong>The</strong> auricles<br />

<strong>The</strong> ventricles<br />

<strong>The</strong> node in the right auricle<br />

<strong>The</strong> heart valves between the auricles and ventricles<br />

<strong>The</strong> valves that control the flow of blood into the aorta<br />

I don’t know.<br />

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