ASVAB GENERAL SCIENCE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Regulates homeostasis and secrets hormones - ANS ✓hypothalamus
Controls involuntary actions such as breathing and swallowing - ANS
✓medulla
Deficiency causes night blindness, skin infections, loss of appetite, diarrhea
- ANS ✓vitamin A
Deficiency causes loss of appetite, beriberi - ANS ✓vitamin B1
Deficiency causes weakness, skin infections - ANS ✓vitamin B2
Deficiency causes anemia, nerve degeneration - ANS ✓vitamin B12
Deficiency causes scurvy - ANS ✓vitamin C
Deficiency causes rickets, tooth decay - ANS ✓vitamin D
Deficiency causes anemia - ANS ✓vitamin E
Deficiency causes excessive bleeding - ANS ✓vitamin K
Sorts and packages proteins - ANS ✓Golgi body
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Digest old organelles and foreign substances - ANS ✓lysosomes
Produce energy for the cell - ANS ✓mitochondria
Part of the nucleus that makes ribosomes - ANS ✓nucleolus
Control center of the cell and contains chromosomes - ANS ✓nucleus
Form spindle fibers during cellular division - ANS ✓centrioles
Site of protein synthesis - ANS ✓ribosomes
Makes proteins to be exported out of the cell - ANS ✓rough ER
Makes lipids and detoxifies enzymes - ANS ✓smooth ER
Stores wastes and other materials - ANS ✓vacuole
Phases of mitosis - ANS ✓interphases, prophase, metaphase, anaphase,
telophase
Primitive plants lacking true stems - ANS ✓bryophytes
2 types of tracheophytes - ANS ✓gymnosperms & angiosperms
2 types of angiosperms - ANS ✓monocots & dicots
The area of the earth where all living things exists - ANS ✓biosphere
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A large region of the earth - ANS ✓biome
The interaction of living and nonliving things - ANS ✓ecosystem
The area in which a group of populations live - ANS ✓community
A group of individuals that belong to the same species - ANS ✓population
4 geologic time periods - ANS ✓Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
3 marine biome zones - ANS ✓intertidal, neritic, oceanic
4 layers of atmosphere from lowest to highest - ANS ✓troposphere,
stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere
Large pieces of space rock - ANS ✓asteroids
Small pieces of space rock and metal - ANS ✓meteoroids
Meteoroids that pass through earth's atmosphere - ANS ✓meteors
Meteors that strike the ground - ANS ✓meteorites
Make up of rock, dusts, methane, and ice - ANS ✓comets
When the moon moves between the sun and earth - ANS ✓solar eclipse
When the earth moves between the sun and moon - ANS ✓lunar eclipse
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Freezing point of water (C,F,K) - ANS ✓0, 32, 273.15
Boiling point of water (C,F,K) - ANS ✓100, 212, 373.15
Formula to convert F to C - ANS ✓F=9/5C+32
Formula to convert C to F - ANS ✓C=5/9(F-32)
Formula for momentum - ANS ✓mass x speed
Formula for power - ANS ✓work / time
Formula for speed - ANS ✓distance / time
Electromagnetic spectrum from highest frequency - ANS ✓G, X, UV, visible,
IR, microwaves, radiowaves
Atomic number equals - ANS ✓number of protons
Atom that has positive or negative charge - ANS ✓ion
Mass number equals - ANS ✓number of protons and neutrons
Ph higher than 7 - ANS ✓base
Ph lower than 7 - ANS ✓acid
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