Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. The fact that a quarterback can throw a football at approximately 50 miles per hour means that the muscles powering this throw must also be shortening at 50 miles per hour.
2. Walking or running are more energetically expensive forms of locomotion than either swimming or flying.
3. Flying animals tend to be smaller than non-flying animals.
4. The only chyme molecule that is absorbed in significant amounts by the stomach is water.
5. Frugivores are a type of herbivore.


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE

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