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CSET Science: Multiple Subjects Vocab
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1. The law of Octaves was given by
John Newland
Contribution of plants to animals in tank
Lowest level of humidity
COMET
2. Formation of feces - absorbtion of water - absorbtion of salts
Water boiled to steam
Function of Large Intestine
GEOLOGY
M.S. Meselson and F.W. Stahl
3. Which state of meiosis does crossing over occur
Phrophase I
Pancreas
CHEMICAL WEATHERING
Chloroplasts
4. Change in potential energy - no change in temperature - change in etropy
THEORY
John Newland
Phase change of a pure substance from solid to liquid
METEOR
5. Elements in the same group have similar
MAGELLAN SPACE PROBE
Chemical Properties
Occupy different niches
One of two liquids evaporates under fire
6. UV Radiation
Renewable source of energy
Stars Independent source of energy
M.S. Meselson and F.W. Stahl
Shortest Wavelength (Red light - violet light - uv raditation - infrared radiation)
7. A kind of light is based on exciting a gas with electrons?
PASTEURIZATION
TRANSPIRATION
HYDROGEN
NEON LIGHT
8. Phase of the water cycle most likely to act as an agent for transportation of sediments
PREDATION
Runoff
Full moon
MUTATION
9. Types of glacial erosional landforms
The star is extremely cool
FERNS
Contribution of plants to animals in tank
CIRQUES - ARETES
10. A female can replicate her genes very rapidly by producing large number of offspring when food is plentiful during the summer
CLASTIC SEDIMENT
Advantage of aphid reproducing asexually during summer
pH 8 - 14
HOTSPOT IN OCEAN
11. Permit certain chemical reactions to proceed at significant speeds
Importance of enzymes in metabolic process
ALLUVIUM
Why are petals of a daffodil yellow but the leaves are green?
ANGIOSPERMS
12. Alignment of sun - earth moon (in that order) - moon and sun on opposite sides of earth
Lunar eclipse
MUTATION
CHARACTERISTICS OF ACIDIC SOLUTION
Right Ventricle
13. Manipulates the state of solid - liquid or gas
TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE
ESOPHAGUS
DOMINANT TRAITS
EVAPORATION (VAPORIZATION)
14. What force keeps you from sinking into the floor when walking
KAMES
ASTON
P SIDE
ELECTROMAGNETISM
15. A group of members of the same species found in a given environment at a given time
72-78
POPULATION
CONVECTION CURRENTS
FOOD WEB
16. Most common rock forming minerals
SILICATES
WATER TABLE
UNIFORNITARIANISM
CHEMICAL REACTION CHANGE
17. When a planet is moving around a star - when is it fastest
Exchange electrons
HUBBLE CONSTANT
CAPACITY
Closest to the star
18. Sunspot activity on the Sun goes through a cycle of maximum and minimum activity every (Cycle first noticed by German astronomer Heinrich Schwabe
Eleven Years
Saturn
U-235
IGNEOUS
19. Power center of an animal cell
TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE
MITCHOCHONDRIA
Barometer
ZYGOTE
20. Nuclear reaction taking place in their thermonuclear cores
Fungus and Orchid SymbiotIc Relationship
Stars Independent source of energy
Metals
MELTING (FUSION)
21. He discovered galaxies exist outside the Milky Way (1924)
Lunar eclipse
HUBBLE
JAPAN
Lowest level of humidity
22. Built by succesive lava flows
VELOCITY
SHIELD VOLCANOS
Red
OCEAN DROPOFF IN JAPAN
23. Earthquakes occur most frequently on or near
STRATA
Best evidence for considering viruses a life form
Edges of plates
TRIGGER MASS WASTING
24. Phase of mitosis that the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle
Renewable energy
Metaphase
LAYERING
E. Goldstein
25. Number indicating concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution. A pH of 7 is neutral - less than 7 is acidic - and greater than 7 is alkaline. pH of Solutions: Strong Acid = 1 Weak Acid = 4 - Neutral = 7 Weak Base = 10 Strong Base = 13
PH
The star is extremely cool
M.S. Meselson and F.W. Stahl
Left Ventricle
26. Relaxation of ventricles within the blood
ORGANS
Diastole
Demonstrates pollination
Respiration
27. Atoms cannot move at all
RODS AND CONES
Ductile Metals
Zero kelvin
GO AROUND IN A CIRCLE IN THE SKY - ANTICLOCKWISE
28. Covergent boundary where oceanic litosphere is being subducted
Lithium
SHIELD VOLCANOS
JAPAN
Noble gases
29. Loose sediment deposited by a stream
Allotrope on carbon
Metals
INFLUENCE OF WATER ON FORMATION OF MAGNA
ALLUVIUM
30. Animals - fungi - bacteria - (NOT minerals)
Rutherford's scattering experiment
Blue
METEOROLOGY
LIVING ORGANISMS
31. Half the moon is lit
1st and 3rd quarters of moon
GLACIAL DEPOSITS
PROPERTY OF ASTHENOSPHERE
BLACK
32. Large mass of intrusive igneous rock beleive to have solidified deep within the earth
NUCLEIC ACID
AUXINS
GAMETE
BANDOLITH
33. The upper limit of ground water - below which all pores in the rocks are filled with water
WATER TABLE
Qwartz
WATER
DENSITY
34. 5 Billion years
Cataract
Atomic number
IRON- MAGNESIUM SILICATE MATERIALS
THE SUNS AGE
35. Reported that amounts of DNA and its nitrogenous bases varies from one species to another - though balance of adenine - thymine - guanine - cytosine is every species
Erwin Chargaff
DYNAMICS
POSITIVE CHARGE
HYDROGEN
36. Number of protons is atomic number - number of protons and neutrons is atomic weight
ATOMS
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
AUXINS
COLDL BLOODED ANIMALS
37. Explored Venus
RNA
Paul Berg
Solar Eclipse
MAGELLAN SPACE PROBE
38. Most of the water in the alimentary track is absorbed through
Erosion
Fusion of Hydrogen Atoms
STREAM EROSION
Large Intestine
39. The name of the compound with formula KCI is
GAMETES
Transform Plates
Friction
Potassium Chloride
40. Principle elements of the sun
Polar air
High salinity in saltwater lakes
CLIMATE
HYDROGEN - HELIUM
41. The process by which a solid changes to a liquid
MELTING (FUSION)
NUCLEUS
Why California is cooler during the summer than New York
Cellular Respiration
42. The develoopment of an embryo to an adult
NERVOUS SYSTEM
SEA WATER IONS
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
MATURATION
43. Deposits of glacial meltwater streams
PRECIPITATION
Richter scale 4-5
OUTWASH
Van der Waal forces
44. The male reproductive organ on a flower is called
GLOBAL WARNING
STAMEN
PROTON - NEUTRON AND ELECTRON
GAMETE
45. Electromagnetic radiation of high frequency - very short wavelength (fission - fusion - radioactive decay)
Gamma radiation
CELL MEMBRANE
FERNS
Parts of an animal cell
46. Wind blown - no gravel deposits
Respiration
Carbons role in biological system
Acidity
AEOLIAN DUNE
47. The vertical rows of the periodic table
STRATOSPHERE
SOLVENT
Commenalism
Groups
48. In respiration - sugar and oxygen react to form
GAMETES
Chloraphyl and mitochondria
Paul Berg
CONDENSATION
49. Due to gravity
Roots grow down and shoots group up
Acidity
NEWTONS FIRST LAW OF MOTION OR LAW OF INERTIA
LOESS
50. Measuring time delay between arrival of P and S waves
According to atomic theory - electrons are usually found
GLACIAL DEPOSITS
NEWTONS FIRST LAW OF MOTION OR LAW OF INERTIA
DISTANCE OF EARTHQUAKE TO EPICENTER