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CSET Science Vocab 2

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A dark cloud - but not a thundercloud - the frequently produces rain.






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






3. Evidence of past life.






4. The study of what causes motion.






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






6. Study and interpretation of fossils.






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. Small proteins that stimulate viral resistance in cells.






12. A protein that aids biochemical reactions.






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






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






15. An instrument to measure wind speed.






16. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.






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






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






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






20. The process by which seeds develop into seedlings.






21. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.






22. The portion of the Earth from beneath the mantle to the Earth's center.






23. Multicellular organisms whose cells contain organelles.






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






25. A substance that can lead to cancer.






26. A simple sugar and a product of photosynethesis.






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






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






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






30. An almond shaped cloud usually seen on windy days.






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






32. 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.






33. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.






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






35. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.






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






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






38. The fundamental unit of all life. The cell consists of an outer plasma membrane - the cytoplasm - and the genetic material (DNA).






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






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






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






42. A rod - shaped bacteria.






43. The flow of a charge.






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






45. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.






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






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






48. The part of the gut that connects the pharynx and stomach.






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






50. Compounds that are fats and oils.