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CSET Science Vocab 2

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






3. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.






4. An instrument to measure wind speed.






5. Compounds that are fats and oils.






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






7. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.






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






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






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






11. A system for transporting nutrients and other essential materials throughout the body.






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






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






14. One nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 miles per hour.






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






16. A bundle of neurons - or nerve cells.






17. An identical copy of an organism.






18. Biological molecules that have important roles in energy metabolism and storage as well as the structure of cells and organisms.






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






20. 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.






21. An instrument that measures cloud height.






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






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






24. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.






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






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






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






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






29. Different versions of a gene in a population.






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






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






32. The place on the surface of the Earth immediately above the 'focus' of an earthquake.






33. A substance that can lead to cancer.






34. 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.






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






36. The larval stage of an aquatic insect.






37. Fertilization of one plant by pollen from a different plant species.






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






39. An organism that relies primarily on plants for food.






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






41. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.






42. A rod - shaped bacteria.






43. The study of what causes motion.






44. The process in which a diploid cell divides to form haploid cells.






45. The loutermost layer of the earth.






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






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






48. The rate of change of an objects velocity.






49. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.






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