1. A polysaccharide made from seaweed used to culture bacteria and fungi.
a) agamete
b) agar
c) agglutin
d) agent
The correct answer is b) agar
2. A marsh at the inlet or outlet of a lake or a river.
a) batholith
b) basin
c) bead
d) bayou
The correct answer is d) bayou
3. A waxy membrane near the nostrils on the beak of some birds.
a) centriole
b) cephalin
c) cere
d) cercaria
The correct answer is c) cere
4. A generator. It normally creates direct current electricity.
a) durain
b) dyad
c) duramen
d) dynamo
The correct answer is d) dynamo
5. Illness found primarily among certain group of people or plants and found primarily in one region.
a) endarch
b) endemic
c) enantiomorph
d) encrinite
The correct answer is b) endemic
6. A unit of frequency equal to 1 trillion Hertz.
a) frill
b) fresnel
c) frond
d) frenum
The correct answer is b) fresnel
7. Small granular pellets of snow due to riming (adding a thin layer of ice due to condensation then freezing of water vapor.)
a) gravid
b) graticule
c) graupel
d) gravel
The correct answer is c) graupel
8. The unit of inductance when a current varies at 1 ampere/second and creates an EMF of 1 volt
a) henry
b) herb
c) heparin
d) heptad
The correct answer is a) henry
9. A number smaller than any positive magnitude yet larger than zero.
a) infradian
b) inferior
c) infinitesimal
d) infinity
The correct answer is c) infinitesimal
10. An exceedingly hot wind from the Sahara Desert that blows into Egypt (usually) in the spring.
a) kieselguhr
b) ketone
c) khamsin
d) kettle
The correct answer is c) khamsin
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