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CSET Science Vocab 2

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






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






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






4. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.






5. In the United States - the part of the western mountains that seperates water flowing toward opposite sides of the country.






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






7. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.






8. Compounds that are fats and oils.






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






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






11. The green substance that absorbs light during photosynthesis.






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






13. 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.






14. The stage of cellular divisions that develops from a zygote.






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






16. Small proteins that stimulate viral resistance in cells.






17. A solute that accepts protons.






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






19. The flow of a charge.






20. Reproduction involving only one parent.






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






22. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.






23. A disease related to lower levels of insulin.






24. A simple sugar and a product of photosynethesis.






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. A rod - shaped bacteria.






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






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






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






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






36. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.






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






38. The study of what causes motion.






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






40. A bundle of neurons - or nerve cells.






41. Evidence of past life.






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






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






44. An identical copy of an organism.






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






46. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.






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






48. Study and interpretation of fossils.






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






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







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