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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. An almond shaped cloud usually seen on windy days.
Vernal Equinox
Nucleus
Mitosis
Lenticular Cloud
2. 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.
Permafrost
Air Pressure
Alleles
Atmosphere
3. The part of the gut that connects the pharynx and stomach.
Acid
Core
Carcinogen
Esophagus
4. Reproductive haploid cells that combine to creat a zygote.
Gamete
Pollination
Auxins
Nerve
5. Plants that live through more than one growing season.
Perennials
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Nerve
California current
6. Long term patterns of temperature - humidity and amount of sunshine.
Nucleus
Climate
Gut
Intestine
7. The combined cooling effect of wind and temperature. Higher wind chills indicate that a body will cool more quickly to the air temperature.
Wind Chill
Annuals
Fossil
Intestine
8. Reproduction involving only one parent.
Tree Rings
Asexual reproduction
Ecology
Nebula
9. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.
Estuary
Pupa
Double Helix
Plankton
10. An instrument that measures cloud height.
Mirage
Ceilometer
California current
Air Pressure
11. Compounds that are fats and oils.
Placenta
Carnivore
Summer Solstice
Lipids
12. Plants that die after one growing season.
Isotope
Annuals
Pollination
Carcinoma
13. The green substance that absorbs light during photosynthesis.
Embryo
Gut
Chlorophyll
Knot
14. Cell division consisting of prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase - that usually creats in two new nuclei - each with a full set of chromosomes.
Lenticular Cloud
Mitosis
Ecosystem
Hypothesis
15. The digestive tract between the stomach and anus where most nutrients are absorbed.
Altimeter
Sonic Boom
Intestine
Enzyme
16. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the Earth's surface.
Continental Divide
Altimeter
Herbivore
Virga
17. A process through which organisms make nutrients available to cells.
Endoskeleton
Circulatory System
Absorption
Mirage
18. 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.
Nucleus
Ecology
Endoskeleton
Gut
19. The network of glands and tissues that secrete hormones.
Endocrine system
Ecosystem
Fossil
Moraine
20. A solute that accepts protons.
Base
Pollination
Permafrost
Crust
21. The level of plant and animal between the species and the family.
Fruit
Air Pressure
Genus
Base
22. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Insulin
Central Nervous System
Interferon
23. Different versions of a gene in a population.
Marsupial
Chemotherapy
Annuals
Alleles
24. A way to date organic substances based on the carbon -14 remaining.
Radiocarbon Dating
Nymph
Carnivore
Diploid Cell
25. Movement of pollen to a plant egg cell - often b y wind - bees - or other animals.
Flower
Larva
Seed
Pollination
26. The study of what causes motion.
Dynamcis
Plate Tectonics
Wind Chill
Sonic Boom
27. An organism that relies primarily on plants for food.
Herbivore
Absorption
Nerve
Carcinogen
28. A temperature scale in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
Lenticular Cloud
Celsius
Kelvin
Binary Fission
29. An instrument to measure wind speed.
Virga
Gamete
Anemometer
Mitosis
30. A cancer treatment that includes chemicals toxic to mailgnant cells.
Mitosis
Paleontology
Chemotherapy
Condensation
31. Evidence of past life.
Genus
Nerve
Cell
Fossil
32. A system for transporting nutrients and other essential materials throughout the body.
Circulatory System
Epicenter
Wind Chill
Ecology
33. Light refracted through raindrops to form colors of a spectrum from red to blue.
Rainbow
Wind Chill
Cloud
Mitosis
34. One nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 miles per hour.
Mirage
Kelvin
Knot
Base
35. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.
Jet Stream
Ecosystem
Mirage
Parasitism
36. Soil beneath the earth's surface that stays frozen throughout the year.
Permafrost
Tree Rings
Glucose
Intestine
37. Molten rock flormed in the Earth that may appear on the surface.
Atmosphere
Dynamcis
Magma
Eukaryotic cells
38. Material deposited by a glacier and often marking a glacier's furthest advance.
Estuary
Moraine
Nucleus
Vernal Equinox
39. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.
Carcinogen
Radiocarbon Dating
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
40. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Seed
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Mirage
41. A mammal whose young crawl into it's mothers pouch to complete development.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Marsupial
Reef
Moraine
42. An identical copy of an organism.
Carcinogen
Clone
Gill
Circulatory System
43. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.
Celsius
Diploid Cell
Haploid Cell
Plankton
44. Fertilization of one plant by pollen from a different plant species.
Cross - Pollination
Herbivore
Canopy
Sonic Boom
45. The stage of cellular divisions that develops from a zygote.
Canopy
Chlorophyll
Continental Divide
Embryo
46. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.
Hypothesis
Heart
Niche
Deposition
47. A tissue in the uterus through which nutrients pass from the mother to the fetus.
Placenta
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Rainbow
Marsupial
48. The place on the surface of the Earth immediately above the 'focus' of an earthquake.
Embryo
Dynamcis
Epicenter
Plankton
49. Warming of Pacific Ocean seawater along the coast of South America that leads to significant weather changes in the United States.
Air Pressure
El Nino
Blood
Nerve
50. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.
Convection
Enzyme
Flower
Metamorphosis