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






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






3. A substance that can lead to cancer.






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. An organellein a cell that contains chromosomes.






11. Study and interpretation of fossils.






12. An identical copy of an organism.






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






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






15. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.






16. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.






17. A rod - shaped bacteria.






18. When the sun is directly over the equator. This date usually occurs on March 20.






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






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






21. A bundle of neurons - or nerve cells.






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






23. A temperature scale in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.






24. Plants that die after one growing season.






25. The part of flowering plants that contains seeds.






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






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






28. An instrument to measure wind speed.






29. An instrument that measures cloud height.






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






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






32. A solute that accepts protons.






33. The process by which seeds develop into seedlings.






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






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






36. A simple sugar and a product of photosynethesis.






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






38. A disease related to lower levels of insulin.






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






40. The flow of a charge.






41. 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.






42. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.






43. Evidence of past life.






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. Rings that show how many years a tree has been growing. The thickness of the rings may reveal other information about climatic conditions.