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CSET Science: Multiple Subjects Vocab
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1. (1805) proposed that substances consist of small particles of matter - which he called atoms from the Greek word for indivisible.
JOHN DALTON
Premolars
Raise the pressure
Fission
2. Seed plant - require fertilization - Male pollens carried by wind and insects and female ovule. Cone bearing plants - with seeds exposed on cone scales.
Why are petals of a daffodil yellow but the leaves are green?
SPECIATION
CROSS STRATIFICATION
GYMNOSPERMS
3. 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.
CHEMICAL WEATHERING
pH 7
MAGNETIC FIELD
SYMBIOSIS
4. Which law of energy states that entropy always increases
SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAICS
One of two liquids evaporates under fire
PARSEC
Lowest level of humidity
5. Proved the atom is largely empty
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6. Chemicals that contain carbon; inorganic compounds do not contain carbon
SUBLIMATION
GYMNOSPERMS
FERNS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
7. Deposited from glacail meltwater
CONDENSATION
OUTWASH - KAMES - ESKERS
Humidity
LIMESTONE
8. He won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1922 for development of the mass spectograph - a device that serpates atoms or molecular framgments of different mass and measures those masses with remarkable accuracy.
Renewable energy
Left Atrium
ASTON
IRON- MAGNESIUM SILICATE MATERIALS
9. An attractive force felt by all forms of matter
CLIMATE
Quantum Mechanics
Life cycle
GRAVITY
10. Phase of the water cycle most likely to act as an agent for transportation of sediments
Runoff
DYNAMICS
Potassium Chloride
EXTRUSIVE/INTRUSIVE
11. Liquid fuel from the transformation of plant and animal remains
NEWTON
FAULT
Red blood cells
PETROLEUM
12. The color of a mineral substance when it is has been ground into a fine powder
Amount of genetic material is halved
TECTONIC PLATES
GLOBAL WARNING
STREAK
13. The network of glands and tissues that secrete horomones
ENDOSKELETON
Erwin Chargaff
Soil moisture
POSITIVE CHARGE
14. Filament of a light bulb provides more of this than copper wires in which electricity flows
OUTWASH
Lunar eclipse
Stars Independent source of energy
Resistance
15. Lowest 6 miles of the atmosphere - characterized by temperature decreasing with height
IGNEOUS ROCK
TROPOSPHERE
TURBULENT FLOWS
Hydrogen bonds
16. Reduction of this has created the greatest improvement in US air quality since 1940
Larynx
Example of change from thermal energy to chemical energy when solar energy reaches the earth
Edward Chargaff
PARTICULATES
17. Percentage of open spaces in a rock
Commenalism
POROSITY
WATER INFLUECING MASS WASTING
TROPISM
18. The thick slabs of rock that comprise the outer portion of the earth
TECTONIC PLATES
ARISTOTLE
CIRQUES - ARETES
THE EXISTENCE OF CHARGE AND FROM THE INTERACTIONS OF CHARGES
19. Kingdom - phylum - class - order - family - genus - species.
ELECTRONS AND NEUTRONS
SUSPENDED LOAD
GO AROUND IN A CIRCLE IN THE SKY - ANTICLOCKWISE
Level to classify organisms
20. Rock from interplanetary space found on earth's surface
Winter solstice
Metals
METEORITE
TOOLS TO MEASURE MASS - DENSITY AND VOLUME
21. Inherited characteristic
TRAIT
ORGAN
Five to twenty five
1970
22. Warm air from the land rises - and cooler air from the water rushes to take its place
Sea Breeze
IGNEOUS ROCK
PRECIPITATION
Right Ventricle
23. Naturally inorganic compound
STRONGLY ACIDIC
PASTEURIZATION
MINERAL
Support of theory of continental drift
24. Smallest particle of chemical elements
UP ONE UNIT ON RICHTER SCALE
IGNEOUS
Red
ATOMS
25. Caused by glacial widening
STRATOSPHERE
CROSBEDDING OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
U- SHAPED VALLEY
pH STANDS FOR
26. 'Reflectors' use a primary and secondary mirror
CLASTIC SEDIMENT
KAMES
FOOD CHAIN
NEWTON TELESCOPE
27. Part of a cell is the 'soup' within which all the other cell organelles reside and where most of the cellular metabolism occurs
Incisors
M.S. Meselson and F.W. Stahl
Neutron Star
CYTOSOL
28. A streak of light produced by passage of an interplanetary particle through earth's atmosphere.
METEOR
Maritime air
DECOMPOSERS
MOLECULE
29. Turns a windmill
Ice floats in water because
Support of theory of continental drift
Mechanical energy
MATTER
30. Inside the atom - there's neutrons - protons - and electrons. The neutrons and protons are all stuck together in the middle of the atom - making up the nucleus. The electrons are much smaller than the protons or neutrons - and they move around the nu
METEOR SHOWERS
AEOLIAN DUNE
BONDING
Peristalsis
31. Waves are the rings of contraction in the inestinal wall - propelling the food down
Peristalsis
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
Soluable in water
Cirrus clouds
32. Rocks that are formed from molten material are called
pH 7
MITCHOCHONDRIA
Fission
IGNEOUS
33. Number of protons is atomic number - number of protons and neutrons is atomic weight
Small intestine
ATOMS
Natural selection
Richter scale 4-5
34. Produced when sedimentary or igneous rocks are transformed by high temperature or pressure. (Quartz - Marble)
ZYGOTE
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
Vacuoles
NEURON
35. Extreme left side of the periodic table
Metals
HORMONE
NaOH
Function of Large Intestine
36. Known as voice box
Larynx
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
FERNS
Advantage of aphid reproducing asexually during summer
37. Species produce more offspring than can survive - environment is not capable of supporting all organims born - natural selection - favorable variations accumulate - unfavorable disappear
COAL
Gamma radiation
POSITIVE CHARGE
Darwins Theory of Evolution
38. Chemical energy is converted to electrical energy
NEWTON
Battery lights lightbulb
Divergant plates
EVAPORATION
39. Fission
Sulphur
Nuclear reactor
Pulmonary Veins
Renewable source of energy
40. General term for the living matter of the cell
FUSION
CONVECTION
PROTOPLASM
MELTING (FUSION)
41. Store genetic messages - instruct cell how to make many proteins needed for life
Law of Conservation
PYROCLASTIC FLOWS
NUCLEIC ACID
PHENOTYPE
42. The process by which liquid changes into the gas phase
PRODUCTS
BINARY FISSION
Digestion begins
EVAPORATION (VAPORIZATION)
43. (1543) earth was not center of universe - but that it evolved around the sun and rotated on its axis
Phrophase I
COPERNICUS(1543)
NATURAL SELECTION
Systole
44. Manipulates the state of solid - liquid or gas
Valves
Solar eclipse
TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE
TRANSPIRATION
45. Receives deoxygenated blood from the superior - inferior vena cava - and coronary sinus pumps it into the right ventricle
BED LOAD
Right Atrium
Centriole
EPIDIDYMIS
46. The body's system of protection against invatsion by unwanted organisms
Stratus clouds
Parts of an animal cell
IMMUNE SYSTEM
GYMNOSPERMS
47. Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranis - Neptune - Pluto
DIZYGOTIC TWINS
Van der Waal forces
MY VERY EDUCATED MOTHER JUST SERVED US NINE PIES.
LIVING ORGANISMS
48. The rate of change of an object's velocity
ACCELERATION
Lens is a bioconvex structure
ASTON
Edges of plates
49. Element is determined by the number of
MINERAL
FOOD WEBS
PROTONS
Two similar items dropped off a building
50. Includes only the transport of water - most colosely related to process of dialysis - permits small molecules through - but larger molecules are retained filerting out toxic material in the blood
ADDS CARBON DIOXIDE TO THE ATMOSPHERE
TOOLS TO MEASURE MASS - DENSITY AND VOLUME
Osmosis
Commenalism