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CSET Science: Multiple Subjects Vocab
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1. Scientific theory used to explain the homologous structural changes that have occurred in organisms in the past 10000 years
THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS
Theory of evolution
Potential Energy
NEWTONS FIRST LAW OF MOTION OR LAW OF INERTIA
2. Not an acid
Esophagus
NaOH
Pluto
GREGOR MANDEL
3. Chambers in a heart
OSMOSIS
MY VERY EDUCATED MOTHER JUST SERVED US NINE PIES.
NATURAL SELECTION
FOUR
4. Mars and Jupiter
ASTEROID BELT BETWEEN
RNA
2 MILLION
SYMBIOSIS
5. Plasma membrane - protection - cell interactions - permability - endocytosis - and exocytosis
FOUR
Fossil Fuels
CELL MEMBRANE
BASE
6. Built by succesive lava flows
IMMUNE SYSTEM
SHIELD VOLCANOS
CORALS LIVE
STRATA
7. Chlorophyll - leaves (no seeds or flowers)
LAW OF COMPETATIVE EXCLUSION
Main Sequence Star
Ferns
pH 8 - 14
8. A 30 fold increase in the energy release
2.5119x brighter
FERNS
LAMINAR FLOWS
UP ONE UNIT ON RICHTER SCALE
9. A female can replicate her genes very rapidly by producing large number of offspring when food is plentiful during the summer
ALGAE - FERMS - GYMNOSPERMS - ANGIOSPERMS
TRIGGER MASS WASTING
Advantage of aphid reproducing asexually during summer
FOUR STATES OF MATTER
10. Move away from each other
Divergant plates
PROKARYOTIC CELLS
MINERALS
NEWTONS FIRST LAW OF MOTION OR LAW OF INERTIA
11. Receives deoxygenated blood from the superior - inferior vena cava - and coronary sinus pumps it into the right ventricle
FITNESS
CROSS BEDDING
FOUR STATES OF MATTER
Right Atrium
12. Long term patterns of temperature - humidity and amount of sunshine
METEORITE
CLIMATE
ICE - ROCKS AND DUST
Mantle
13. Four groups of plants
ALGAE - FERMS - GYMNOSPERMS - ANGIOSPERMS
Origin of soil
Potassium Chloride
CAPACITY
14. Power of hydrogen
Pluto
pH STANDS FOR
COMPETENCE
MARBLE
15. Saturating a slope with water decreases the strength of the slope materials
CROSBEDDING OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
Noble gases
Nine
WATER INFLUECING MASS WASTING
16. The horizontal rows of the periodic table
Periods
pH STANDS FOR
OXYGEN
TROPOSPHERE
17. Lead - Iron - Sodium
NaOH
Outermost electron is filled with 8 electrons
Two similar items dropped off a building
Metals
18. Cell organelle found in plant but not animal cells
GYMNOSPERMS
Chloroplasts
Helps in digestion
NEWTON
19. The foundation of all ecosystems wherein plants generate their own energy from the energy of the sun
Tuesday at 5 PM
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
PROTONS AND NEUTRONS
Metals
20. One organism benefits and it does not effect the other
P WAVES
RESPIRATION
Commenalism
Niche
21. Directions of currents - type of flow - energy of the currents (no organisms)
Canines
KEYSTONE SPECIES
FERTIZLIZATION
CROSBEDDING OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
22. Decline in sun's energy reaching the earth - lower global temperatures
Global consequence of cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
FERTILIZATION
Rutherford's scattering experiment
MARBLE
23. Need gravity - water - carbon dioxide - soil - light and pollination to survive (they do not need oxygen).
THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS
Expanding
Metaphase
PLANTS NEED TO SURVIVE.
24. Fission
Nuclear reactor
Pulmonary Veins
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
POLLINATION
25. Biological molecules that have important roles in energy metabolism and storage as well as the structure of cells and organisms
CARBOHYDRATES (SACCHARIDES)
PLANETS WITH RING SYSTEMS
pH STANDS FOR
Factors of keeping planets in orbit
26. Most of the elements on the periodic table
OVUM
Metals
GYMNOSPERMS
DECOMPOSERS
27. Lowest plant life
Lowest level of humidity
GYMNOSPERMS
Importance of enzymes in metabolic process
OVA
28. Whales and barnacles - barnacle attaches itself to whale and gets both trasnportation and protection
IGNEOUS
NEWTONS THIRD LAW OF MOTION
SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE
Symbiosis Example
29. The nucleus of the atom consists of
Mutualism
PROTONS AND NEUTRONS
PREDATION
KAMES
30. Tearing food (4)
Amount of genetic material is halved
Canines
NaOH
Moseley
31. Length used in measuring astromocial distances within the solar system equal to the mean distance from earth to the sun - approximately 150 million kilometers (93 million miles)
Nearest to the Earth (Sun - Betelgeuse - Mars - Alpha Centauri)
ASTRONOMICAL UNIT (AU)
Systole
THERMOREGULATION
32. Heat obtained from hot water or steam within the earth
FITNESS
IONS
POROSITY
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
33. The consumption of one organism by another
Factors of keeping planets in orbit
PREDATION
Potential Energy
MATTER
34. Different versions of a gene in a population
Polar air
P waves are longitudinal waves that travel faster than s waves
Oxidation
ALLELES
35. Saliva - bile - pancreatic juice
NEUTRONS
Helps in digestion
Sulphur
Vibrations
36. An explanation for one or more observations about the natural world
Respiration
HYPOTHESIS
GYMNOSPERMS
Groups
37. Elements in the periodic table are arranged on the basis of their
Atomic number
Quantum Mechanics
Diastole
HYPOTHESIS
38. Science that describes and interprets the earth ex. geomorphology (land forms) - petrology (rocks) - stratigraphy (layered rocks) - and paleontology (fossils).
ANGIOSPERMS
AVOGARDO
GEOLOGY
HUBBLE
39. Mantle behave like...
SUBLIMATION
Law of Conservation
CROSS STRATIFICATION
A VICIOUS FLUID
40. Nuclear reaction taking place in their thermonuclear cores
Stars Independent source of energy
LAW OF COMPETATIVE EXCLUSION
JUPITER
GLOBAL WARNING
41. The deepest portion of the Pacific Ocean - the Challenger Deep - is located in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific off of Japan.The Challenger Deep in the southernmost Mariana Trench (western Pacific Ocean) is the deepest point on the Earth's s
ASTRONOMICAL UNIT (AU)
GALILEO TELESCOPE
OCEAN DROPOFF IN JAPAN
TOOLS TO MEASURE MASS - DENSITY AND VOLUME
42. Conduction occurs mainly along
ATOMS
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
MID- OCEANIC RIDGES
43. Is never in the sky the same time as the sun
Full moon
According to atomic theory - electrons are usually found
MAGELLAN SPACE PROBE
Lake bottom mud
44. The number of neutrons euals the number of protons function appears to do this to the nucleus
White dwarf star
STABALIZE
Full moon
Karyotypes
45. A species or group of species whose impact on its community or ecosystem is much larger and more influential than would be expected from mere abundance
CORALS LIVE
KEYSTONE SPECIES
LAMINAR FLOWS
TECTONIC PLATES
46. The maintenance of a particular temperature of the living body
Cumulonimbus
MELTING (FUSION)
THERMOREGULATION
One of two liquids evaporates under fire
47. Abiotic feature of the environment
Quantum Mechanics
CHEMICAL WEATHERING
DOMINANT TRAITS
Soil
48. Layers of sedimentary rock; singular is stratum
MEIOSIS
LITHIFICATION
STRATA
EXTRUSIVE/INTRUSIVE
49. Waves are the rings of contraction in the inestinal wall - propelling the food down
NEWTON TELESCOPE
Peristalsis
Cirrus clouds
STRATOSPHERE
50. Warm air from the land rises - and cooler air from the water rushes to take its place
PRECIPITATION
Example of a chemical reaction
CHEMICAL SEDIMENTARY ROCK
Sea Breeze