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CSET Science Vocab 2

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Calender days when the day and night are the same length.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.






9. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.






10. Different versions of a gene in a population.






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






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






13. 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.






14. Compounds that are fats and oils.






15. Long term patterns of temperature - humidity and amount of sunshine.






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






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






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






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






20. The Earth's atmosphere is primarily nitrogen and oxygen. The troposphere extends from the surface to about 10 km.; the stratosphere from 10km to 50 km.; the mesosphere from 50 km. to 80 km.; and the thermosphere is the atmosphere beyond 80 km.






21. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.






22. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.






23. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.






24. Multicellular organisms whose cells contain organelles.






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






26. Study and interpretation of fossils.






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






28. 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.






29. Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal - distributing nutrients - and usually oxygen.






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






31. In most Amphibians - a process in which larve goes through significant changes - perhaps including a pupa stage - before becoming an adult.






32. The network of glands and tissues that secrete hormones.






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






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






35. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.






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






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






38. A temperature scale in which 1 degrees Kelvin equals 1 degree Celsius. 0 degree Kelvin is about -273 degree Celsius. Kelvin is called absolute zero because there is no movement of molecules.






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






40. A cell with one set of chromosomes - which is half the regular (diploid) number.






41. The part of flowering plants that contains seeds.






42. The loutermost layer of the earth.






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






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






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






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






47. An instrument that measures cloud height.






48. The larval stage of an aquatic insect.






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






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