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Which of the following statements about developmental changes in parent-child relationships is true?

A person who is arrested for stealing company documents says, “Yes, I did steal the documents, and I am willing to go to jail for it. These documents prove that the company was engaging in a cover-up of the unsafe properties of its chemical. I think the public has a right to know about it.” Lawrence Kohlberg would classify this person as using _____ reasoning.

Using rehearsal, we can keep information in short-term memory for a much longer period. In this context, rehearsal means

The order of the planets from closest to farthest from the sun is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Which one of the planets shown below would have a negative exponent in the scientific notation that represents the number of Astronomical Units from that planet to the sun?

These questions must be completed before continuing to the second part of the test containing the last two questions. These three questions do not require you to do any hand writing or the use of scratch paper.  Your attention should remain on the screen while answering these questions.  Make sure that these questions are complete before moving on to Part 2.   Question 1 (10 marks) a)  Describe a situation that demonstrates Newton’s second law of motion. b) Describe an action and reaction force involved with pushing a box forward across the ground. c) What is inertia and how is it related to Newton’s first law of motion?   Question 2 (10 marks) a) Describe how you could determine the net force for an object using a free body diagram.  b) For objects that are sliding across the ground (on Earth), how does the force of gravity influence the force of friction that they are experiencing?   Question 3 (10 marks) a) If an object is placed on a ramp and starts to slide down towards the bottom of the ramp, what force(s) determine it’s acceleration? b) Why would increasing the angle of a ramp increase the acceleration that an object that is sliding down the ramp experiences?    

True or false: A vaccine works by priming the immune system so that it is ready to respond with a rapid and more intense response when encountering the virus/pathogen another time.

What percentage of our genome is identical to a chimpanzee?

The scientist(s) that published the double helix model for the structure of DNA in 1953 

Impetigo is a superficial bacterial infection of the skin that most commonly occurs in young children.  What is the most common bacteria implicated in impetigo?

Write the correct conjugation in Spanish, for each verb and subject pronoun listed. You may answer with one word.  Be sure to change the endings of all verbs. The list of -Ar verb endings in Spanish are ‘o, as, a, amos, an’.