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CSET Science Vocab 2

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






2. The process by which seeds develop into seedlings.






3. In the mateamorphosis of insects - the larva becomes a pupa before it becomes an adult.






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






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






6. An instrument that measures cloud height.






7. 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.






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






9. Plants that live through more than one growing season.






10. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.






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






12. Light emission from the upper atmosphere that appear in many shapes and colors.






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






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






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






16. `An important class of plant hormones associated with growth patterns.






17. In metamorphosis - the stage between the larva and adult.






18. A group of plants that produce seeds enclosed within an ovary - which mat mature into a fruit.






19. A mammal whose young crawl into it's mothers pouch to complete development.






20. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.






21. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.






22. In plants - a seed includes the embryo.






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






24. Compounds that are fats and oils.






25. The study of the patterns and mechanisms of the transmission of inherited traits from one generation to another.






26. A dark cloud - but not a thundercloud - the frequently produces rain.






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






28. 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.






29. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.






30. A solute the denotes protons.






31. Warming of Pacific Ocean seawater along the coast of South America that leads to significant weather changes in the United States.






32. The study of what causes motion.






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






34. Molten rock flormed in the Earth that may appear on the surface.






35. A cell that reacts to stimuli and transmits impulses consisting of a body with a nucleus and dendrites to receive and axons to transmit impulses.






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






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






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






39. The physical - chemical - and biological processes by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces.






40. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.






41. Different versions of a gene in a population.






42. The process by which gas reverts back to liquid phase.






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






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






45. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.






46. A cancer treatment that includes chemicals toxic to mailgnant cells.






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






48. A ridge built in water by organisms such as coral.






49. 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.






50. Reproductive haploid cells that combine to creat a zygote.