College Entrance Exam Science (Practice Test 1)

Time Allotment: 25 minutes

1. Which animal cellular structure is responsible for producing usable energy for the
cell?
a. Nucleus
b. Ribosome
c. Mitochondria
d. Cell membrane
2. Which of the following describes the relationship between a termite and the
protozoans within its digestive tract?
a. Antibiosis
b. Mutualism
c. Parasitism
d. Saprophytism
e. Commensalism
3. What particular behavior does a dog exhibit when it salivates upon hearing a bell
ring?
a. Habit
b. Tropism
c. Instinct
d. Simple reflex
e. Conditioned reflex
4. Cellular respiration is the process by which cells convert the energy available in
food to which energy-rich compund?
a. ADP
b. ATP
c. Water
d. Oxygen
e. Glucose
5. Which of the following process does not occur in the mitochondria?
a. Glycolysis
b. Photosynthesis
c. Citric acid cycle
d. Electron-transport chain
e. Oxidative phosphorylation
6. How many nucleotides specify an amino acid?
 a. 1
b. 3
c. 6
d. 9
e. 12
7. A car accelerarates steadily so that it goes from a speed of 20 m/s to a speed of
40 m/s in 4 seconds. What is the acceleration?
a. 4 m/s2
b. 5 m/s2
c. 10 m/s2
d. 80 m/s2
e. e. 0.2 m/s2
8. A 50 kg crate rests on the floor. If the coefficient of static friction is 0.5, what is
the force parallel to the floor that is needed to move the crate?
a. 25 N
b. 50 N
c. 125 N
d. 250 N
e. 500 N
9. What happens to the power dissipated in the resistor when the resistance is
quadrupled and the voltage remains constant?
a. It is halved
b. It is doubled
c. It is quartered
d. It is quadrupled
e. It remains the same
10. An ideal gas is heated in a closed container at constant volume. Which of the
following properties of gas increases as the gas is heated?
a. The density of the gas
b. The number of molecules
c. The average space between the molecules
d. The atomic mass of the atoms in the molecules
e. The pressure exerted by the molecules on the walls of container
11. What can you say about the object if its velocity-versus-time graph is a
horizontal line?
a. At rest
b. Moving with infinite speed
c. Moving with constant nonzero speed
d. Moving with constant nonzero acceleration
 e. None of the above
12. Which of Newtons laws best explains why motorists should buckle up?
a. Law of inertia
b. Law of interaction
c. Law of gravitation
d. Law of acceleration
e. None of the above
13. What force is needed to make an object move in a circle?
a. Weight
b. Static friction
c. Kinetic friction
d. Tensional force
e. Centripetal force
14. Which of the following is the correct unit of work expressed in SI unit?
a. kg m/s2
b. kg m2/s
c. kg m2/s2
d. kg2 m/s2
e. kg2 m2/s2
15. What can you say about the linear momentum of the two objects when they
collide and bounce off each other?
a. it is definitely conserved
b. it is definitely not conserved
c. it is conserved only if the collision is elastic
d. it is conserved only if the environment is frictionless
e. none of the above
16. Which of the following is not a unit of pressure?
a. pascal
b. atmosphere
c. newton per meter
d. millimeter of mercury
e. none of the above
17. How much work is equivalent to 14. 5 kcal of heat?
a. 3.46 J
b. 60. 7 J
c. 3460 J
d. 60 668 J
e. none of the above
18. A glass rod is rubbed on a piece of silk. During the process, the glass rod
acquires a positive charge. What happens to the piece of silk?
a. it remains neutral
b. it acquires a negative charge
c. it also acquires a positive charge
d. it could either be positively or negatively charged, depending on how hard
the rod was rubbed.
e. none of the above
19. A plane mirror will form what kind of image?
a. real
b. virtual
c. inverted
d. multiple
e. enlarged
20. What eye condition does a person have if his/her eyeball is longer than normal
and the light rays are focused in front of the retina?
a. astigmatism
b. farsightedness
c. nearsightedness
d. spherical aberration
e. none of the above