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CSET Science Vocab 2

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process in which a diploid cell divides to form haploid cells.






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






3. A substance that can lead to cancer.






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






5. An organism's unique place in the environment.






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






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






8. The loutermost layer of the earth.






9. The movement up in the atmosphere of heated moisture. Thunderstorms are often caused by convection.






10. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.






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






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






13. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.






14. 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.






15. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.






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






17. Plants that die after one growing season.






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






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






26. An identical copy of an organism.






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






28. 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.






29. A disease related to lower levels of insulin.






30. An instrument that measures cloud height.






31. Evidence of past life.






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.






39. A way to date organic substances based on the carbon -14 remaining.






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






41. 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.






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






43. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.






44. A system comprised of the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates that process and store information.






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






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






47. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.






48. A malignant tumor - which forms in the skin and outside of internal organs.






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






50. Cell division consisting of prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase - that usually creats in two new nuclei - each with a full set of chromosomes.