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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. Plants that die after one growing season.
Central Nervous System
Asexual reproduction
Annuals
Binary Fission
2. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.
Genus
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Ceilometer
Radiocarbon Dating
3. A dry - north wind in late spring - summer - and early fall in north and central California.
Chromosome
California current
Base
Reef
4. The process by which gas reverts back to liquid phase.
Dynamcis
Moraine
Condensation
Carcinogen
5. Calender days when the day and night are the same length.
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Summer Solstice
Meiosis
Equinox
6. A process through which organisms make nutrients available to cells.
Absorption
Angiosperm
Hypothesis
Wind Chill
7. The study of the interactions of organisms with their environment and with each other.
Glucose
Ecology
Herbivore
Carnivore
8. The level of plant and animal between the species and the family.
Heart
Neuron
Chemotherapy
Genus
9. A cancer treatment that includes chemicals toxic to mailgnant cells.
Haploid Cell
Chemotherapy
Radiocarbon Dating
Plankton
10. A level of plant and animal classification between class and kingdom.
Intestine
Magma
Mirage
Phylum
11. An organsim that eats meat - which includes animals - fungi - and plants.
Glucose
Pollination
Carnivore
Cloud
12. An instrument to measure wind speed.
California current
Pupa
Cloud
Anemometer
13. The process in which a diploid cell divides to form haploid cells.
Moraine
Phloem
Meiosis
Virga
14. Light refracted through raindrops to form colors of a spectrum from red to blue.
Knot
Genus
Rainbow
Altimeter
15. In plants - a seed includes the embryo.
Anemometer
Seed
Summer Solstice
Classical genetics
16. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.
Nebula
Continental Divide
Nimbostratus
Ecosystem
17. A disease related to lower levels of insulin.
Diabetes
Phylum
Larva
Hypothesis
18. Light emission from the upper atmosphere that appear in many shapes and colors.
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Cross - Pollination
Meiosis
Fruit
19. A mammal whose young crawl into it's mothers pouch to complete development.
Marsupial
Weathering
Altimeter
Annuals
20. Cell division consisting of prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase - that usually creats in two new nuclei - each with a full set of chromosomes.
Weathering
Nimbostratus
Mitosis
Pupa
21. The movement of plates and the interaction across the Earth's surface to form land masses.
Acid
Plate Tectonics
Epicenter
Mantle
22. An organism's unique place in the environment.
Niche
Flower
Bacillus
Equinox
23. In metamorphosis - the stage between the larva and adult.
Chinook Wind
Pupa
Classical genetics
Diabetes
24. A rod - shaped bacteria.
Bacillus
Marsupial
Chlorophyll
Lenticular Cloud
25. An instrument that uses air pressure to record height - such as the height of a plane.
Summer Solstice
Dynamcis
Altimeter
Knot
26. Floating aquatic plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton).
Summer Solstice
Charge
Plankton
Metamorphosis
27. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.
Enzyme
Binary Fission
Sonic Boom
Carnivore
28. An instrument that measures cloud height.
Ceilometer
Ecology
Heart
Gill
29. 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.
Isotope
Niche
Dynamcis
Kelvin
30. A dark cloud - but not a thundercloud - the frequently produces rain.
Eukaryotic cells
Metamorphosis
Nimbostratus
Central Nervous System
31. Soil beneath the earth's surface that stays frozen throughout the year.
Estuary
Permafrost
Acid
Alleles
32. Molten rock flormed in the Earth that may appear on the surface.
Isotope
Gamete
Perennials
Magma
33. A tissue in the uterus through which nutrients pass from the mother to the fetus.
Kelvin
Knot
Larva
Placenta
34. A substance that can lead to cancer.
Chinook Wind
Carcinogen
Marsupial
Rainbow
35. The loutermost layer of the earth.
Endoskeleton
Esophagus
Crust
Eukaryotic cells
36. 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.
Niche
Carcinogen
Summer Solstice
Alleles
37. A relationship between disimilar organisms that is adventageous to one and doesn't affect the other.
Gill
Commensalism
Cross - Pollination
Niche
38. Small proteins that stimulate viral resistance in cells.
Cross - Pollination
Mantle
Interferon
Isotope
39. Movement of pollen to a plant egg cell - often b y wind - bees - or other animals.
Nerve
Marsupial
Summer Solstice
Pollination
40. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.
Phloem
Blood
Genus
Classical genetics
41. The process by which gas changes directly to the solid phase.
Deposition
Glucose
Interferon
Diabetes
42. A malignant tumor - which forms in the skin and outside of internal organs.
Nerve
Base
Carcinoma
Deposition
43. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.
Mirage
Jet Stream
California current
Moraine
44. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Neuron
Heart
Absorption
45. An organism that relies primarily on plants for food.
Bacillus
Herbivore
Placenta
Virga
46. A warm - dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
Air Pressure
Reef
Chinook Wind
Radiocarbon Dating
47. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.
Epicenter
Metamorphosis
Canopy
Insulin
48. A simple sugar and a product of photosynethesis.
Tree Rings
Paleontology
Asexual reproduction
Glucose
49. The digestive tract between the stomach and anus where most nutrients are absorbed.
Haploid Cell
Intestine
Enzyme
Radiocarbon Dating
50. Multicellular organisms whose cells contain organelles.
Cross - Pollination
Eukaryotic cells
Virga
Seed