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CSET Science Vocab 2

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. One nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 miles per hour.






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






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






4. A rod - shaped bacteria.






5. In plants - a seed includes the embryo.






6. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the Earth's surface.






7. The part of Earth located between the crust and the core.






8. Evidence of past life.






9. A tissue in the uterus through which nutrients pass from the mother to the fetus.






10. The process by which seeds develop into seedlings.






11. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.






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






13. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.






14. The flow of a charge.






15. This primary component of chromosomes carries an organisms genetic code.






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






17. A single DNA molecule - a tightly coiled strand of DNA - condensed into a compact structure.






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






19. That part of the body cavity between the mouth and the anus including in most animals the mouth - the pharynx - esophagus - stomach - intestine - and the anus.






20. A relationship between disimilar organisms that is adventageous to one and doesn't affect the other.






21. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.






22. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.






23. The digestive tract between the stomach and anus where most nutrients are absorbed.






24. In most Amphibians - a process in which larve goes through significant changes - perhaps including a pupa stage - before becoming an adult.






25. When the sun is highest in the sky and directly above the Tropic of Cancer 23 1/2 degrees North Latitude. This date usually falls on June 22.






26. Multicellular organisms whose cells contain organelles.






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






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






29. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.






30. A warm - dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.






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






32. An instrument that measures cloud height.






33. The combined cooling effect of wind and temperature. Higher wind chills indicate that a body will cool more quickly to the air temperature.






34. A disease related to lower levels of insulin.






35. The process by which gas changes directly to the solid phase.






36. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.






37. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.






38. Different versions of a gene in a population.






39. A cell with one set of chromosomes - which is half the regular (diploid) number.






40. The stage of cellular divisions that develops from a zygote.






41. Calender days when the day and night are the same length.






42. A substance that can lead to cancer.






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






44. Long term patterns of temperature - humidity and amount of sunshine.






45. A temperature scale in which 1 degrees Kelvin equals 1 degree Celsius. 0 degree Kelvin is about -273 degree Celsius. Kelvin is called absolute zero because there is no movement of molecules.






46. The Earth's atmosphere is primarily nitrogen and oxygen. The troposphere extends from the surface to about 10 km.; the stratosphere from 10km to 50 km.; the mesosphere from 50 km. to 80 km.; and the thermosphere is the atmosphere beyond 80 km.






47. Rings that show how many years a tree has been growing. The thickness of the rings may reveal other information about climatic conditions.






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






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






50. A solute that accepts protons.