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CSET Science Vocab 2

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the Earth's surface.






2. Plants that die after one growing season.






3. The rate of change of an objects velocity.






4. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.






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






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






7. A protein that aids biochemical reactions.






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






9. An instrument that measures cloud height.






10. Compounds that are fats and oils.






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






12. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. A loud nise caused by a shock wave when an object exceeds the speed of sound.






21. The flow of a charge.






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






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






24. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.






25. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.






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






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






28. An organellein a cell that contains chromosomes.






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






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






31. A single DNA molecule - a tightly coiled strand of DNA - condensed into a compact structure.






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






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






34. An instrument to measure wind speed.






35. A preliminary proposition that can be tested through scientific study.






36. A solute the denotes protons.






37. A rod - shaped bacteria.






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. The part of flowering plants that contains seeds.






43. In plants - a seed includes the embryo.






44. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.






45. Evidence of past life.






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






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






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






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






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