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CSET Science Vocab 2

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A mammal whose young crawl into it's mothers pouch to complete development.






2. Material deposited by a glacier and often marking a glacier's furthest advance.






3. Soil beneath the earth's surface that stays frozen throughout the year.






4. The study of the interactions of organisms with their environment and with each other.






5. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.






6. A dry - north wind in late spring - summer - and early fall in north and central California.






7. An excess or deficiency of electrons in a body.






8. Floating aquatic plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton).






9. A bundle of neurons - or nerve cells.






10. Cell division consisting of prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase - that usually creats in two new nuclei - each with a full set of chromosomes.






11. The tissues aquatic animals use to breath in water.






12. The movement of plates and the interaction across the Earth's surface to form land masses.






13. The level of plant and animal between the species and the family.






14. An organsim that eats meat - which includes animals - fungi - and plants.






15. An instrument that uses air pressure to record height - such as the height of a plane.






16. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.






17. A temperature scale in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.






18. The framework for the attatchment of skeletal muscles in vertebrates that also protect vital organs.






19. Multicellular organisms whose cells contain organelles.






20. Atoms of the same chemical element with a different number of neurons but the same number of protons. Isotopes of an element have the same atomic number but may not have the same mass.






21. Different versions of a gene in a population.






22. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.






23. Strong upper wind currents in a narrow stream that flow west to east in the United States. Weather patterns are related to the position of the jet stream - which changes often.






24. A system comprised of the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates that process and store information.






25. Light refracted through raindrops to form colors of a spectrum from red to blue.






26. The portion of the Earth from beneath the mantle to the Earth's center.






27. A rod - shaped bacteria.






28. A solute the denotes protons.






29. A level of plant and animal classification between class and kingdom.






30. The green substance that absorbs light during photosynthesis.






31. The part of flowering plants that contains seeds.






32. The part of the gut that connects the pharynx and stomach.






33. Study and interpretation of fossils.






34. The loutermost layer of the earth.






35. A relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits and the other does not die - even though the second organism may be harmed.






36. A visible group of water or ice particles in the atmosphere.






37. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.






38. The fundamental unit of all life. The cell consists of an outer plasma membrane - the cytoplasm - and the genetic material (DNA).






39. An organism's unique place in the environment.






40. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.






41. A layer of tree bramches and other vegetation elevated above ground.






42. The larval stage of an aquatic insect.






43. A preliminary proposition that can be tested through scientific study.






44. Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal - distributing nutrients - and usually oxygen.






45. Movement of pollen to a plant egg cell - often b y wind - bees - or other animals.






46. In the United States - the part of the western mountains that seperates water flowing toward opposite sides of the country.






47. When the sun is directly over the equator. This date usually occurs on March 20.






48. A protein that aids biochemical reactions.






49. Compounds that are fats and oils.






50. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.