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CSET Science Vocab 2

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Plants that die after one growing season.






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






3. A dry - north wind in late spring - summer - and early fall in north and central California.






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






5. Calender days when the day and night are the same length.






6. A process through which organisms make nutrients available to cells.






7. The study of the interactions of organisms with their environment and with each other.






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






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






10. A level of plant and animal classification between class and kingdom.






11. An organsim that eats meat - which includes animals - fungi - and plants.






12. An instrument to measure wind speed.






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






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






15. In plants - a seed includes the embryo.






16. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.






17. A disease related to lower levels of insulin.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. A rod - shaped bacteria.






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






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






27. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.






28. An instrument that measures cloud height.






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.






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






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






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






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






34. A substance that can lead to cancer.






35. The loutermost layer of the earth.






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.






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






38. Small proteins that stimulate viral resistance in cells.






39. Movement of pollen to a plant egg cell - often b y wind - bees - or other animals.






40. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.






41. The process by which gas changes directly to the solid phase.






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






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






44. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.






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






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






47. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.






48. A simple sugar and a product of photosynethesis.






49. The digestive tract between the stomach and anus where most nutrients are absorbed.






50. Multicellular organisms whose cells contain organelles.