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CSET Science: Multiple Subjects Vocab

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Consistent physical characteristics - recognized over a large area - contains the same types of fossils






2. The network of glands and tissues that secrete horomones






3. Carry less sediment than turbulent flows






4. Widest variety of rocks to be found






5. Decline in sun's energy reaching the earth - lower global temperatures






6. Subcellular organelles is in the control center of the cell






7. 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






8. Limestone - a rock that forms from the shelly remains of organisms






9. Check air pressure






10. Atomic weight determined by the






11. Stars with highest surface temperature






12. The diploid single cell offspring formed from the union of gametes






13. Asexual reproductive process of many plants - including bulbs and tubers






14. Fluid filled vesicles found both in animal and plant cells - very large in number and size in plant cells






15. Atoms cannot move at all






16. The layer of the atmosphere located above the troposphere in which most of the atmosphere's ozone is found






17. Process that replaces body cells that are worn out






18. Longest wavelength in a rainbow






19. (340 BC) Conjectured that the heavenly bodies were affixed to crystalline spheres concentric about the earth






20. Species produce more offspring than can survive - environment is not capable of supporting all organims born - natural selection - favorable variations accumulate - unfavorable disappear






21. The ________ of Hardness measures a substance's hardness - that is - how resistant that substance is to being scratched. This scale was invented by Austrian mineralogist Friedrich Mohs (1773-1839). Here - one substance is harder than another if it ca


22. Chlorophyll - leaves (no seeds or flowers)






23. A moving electric charge will accelerate or speed up in the presence of a ____________ - causing it to change speed or velocity and its direction of travel.






24. The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas phase






25. Sedimentary rock layers have been deposited mainly by day - to - day processes






26. Living things (producers - consumers - decomposers)






27. Crust - mantel - outer core - inner core






28. The male reproductive organ on a flower is called






29. Greatest daily difference of high and low tides






30. The process whereby weathered material is removed. The picture above is a cross - sectional map of a mountainous region - showing the different types of rock present in the cores of the mountains. To interpret this picture notice the sequence of sedi






31. The weight of the objects has no effect on the falling rate






32. Contain deposits of once living organisms (oil - coal - natural gas)






33. How much brighter is a magnitude 0 star compared to a magnitude 1 star






34. Proposed that equal numbers of molecules are contained in equal volumes of all gases - providing the pressure and temperature are identical. 6 X 10(to the 23rd power) is in 22.4 liters is known as this man's number


35. Which law of energy states that entropy always increases






36. Highest hardness compared to mica - hornblende - calcite






37. Fertilization by the transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma






38. Geocentric view says that this is the center of the universe






39. Whales and barnacles - barnacle attaches itself to whale and gets both trasnportation and protection






40. A female can replicate her genes very rapidly by producing large number of offspring when food is plentiful during the summer






41. Environment changes - threat of predators is reduced or increased - mutation increases variability in the group






42. The relationship between an objects mass m - it's acceleration a - and the applied force F is F=ma. Acceleration and force are vectors; in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.






43. Have approximately same size and mass






44. In respiration - sugar and oxygen react to form






45. The simple diffusion of water from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration






46. Contraction of ventricles is known as






47. Explored Venus






48. Two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen H20






49. Largest planet






50. Nuclear reaction taking place in their thermonuclear cores