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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. A mammal whose young crawl into it's mothers pouch to complete development.
Mantle
Gut
Marsupial
Rainbow
2. Material deposited by a glacier and often marking a glacier's furthest advance.
Sonic Boom
Moraine
Plankton
Pupa
3. Soil beneath the earth's surface that stays frozen throughout the year.
Permafrost
Diploid Cell
Moraine
Interferon
4. The study of the interactions of organisms with their environment and with each other.
Niche
Central Nervous System
Ecology
Parasitism
5. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.
Insulin
Heart
Condensation
Mantle
6. A dry - north wind in late spring - summer - and early fall in north and central California.
Angiosperm
Ecology
Phylum
California current
7. An excess or deficiency of electrons in a body.
Chemotherapy
Charge
Paleontology
Summer Solstice
8. Floating aquatic plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton).
Gill
Absorption
Lipids
Plankton
9. A bundle of neurons - or nerve cells.
El Nino
Classical genetics
Radiocarbon Dating
Nerve
10. Cell division consisting of prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase - that usually creats in two new nuclei - each with a full set of chromosomes.
Mitosis
Ceilometer
Convection
Acceleratrion
11. The tissues aquatic animals use to breath in water.
Permafrost
Larva
Wind Chill
Gill
12. The movement of plates and the interaction across the Earth's surface to form land masses.
Sonic Boom
Plate Tectonics
Lipids
Convection
13. The level of plant and animal between the species and the family.
Niche
Chemotherapy
Genus
Lenticular Cloud
14. An organsim that eats meat - which includes animals - fungi - and plants.
Acceleratrion
Carnivore
Rainbow
Magma
15. An instrument that uses air pressure to record height - such as the height of a plane.
Chromosome
Altimeter
Virga
Mirage
16. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.
Intestine
Mirage
Charge
Permafrost
17. A temperature scale in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
Larva
Hypothesis
Nebula
Celsius
18. The framework for the attatchment of skeletal muscles in vertebrates that also protect vital organs.
Endoskeleton
Germination
Climate
Continental Divide
19. Multicellular organisms whose cells contain organelles.
Epicenter
Intestine
Chlorophyll
Eukaryotic cells
20. 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.
Circulatory System
Chemotherapy
Annuals
Isotope
21. Different versions of a gene in a population.
Continental Divide
Lenticular Cloud
Nymph
Alleles
22. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.
Permafrost
Paleontology
Diploid Cell
Virga
23. Strong upper wind currents in a narrow stream that flow west to east in the United States. Weather patterns are related to the position of the jet stream - which changes often.
Jet Stream
Lenticular Cloud
Chlorophyll
Niche
24. A system comprised of the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates that process and store information.
Celsius
Marsupial
Climate
Central Nervous System
25. Light refracted through raindrops to form colors of a spectrum from red to blue.
Tree Rings
Phylum
Rainbow
Base
26. The portion of the Earth from beneath the mantle to the Earth's center.
Embryo
Core
Climate
Altimeter
27. A rod - shaped bacteria.
Carnivore
Bacillus
Altimeter
Diabetes
28. A solute the denotes protons.
Blood
Radiocarbon Dating
Weathering
Acid
29. A level of plant and animal classification between class and kingdom.
Phylum
Carcinoma
Glucose
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
30. The green substance that absorbs light during photosynthesis.
Altimeter
Vernal Equinox
Nerve
Chlorophyll
31. The part of flowering plants that contains seeds.
Vernal Equinox
Nebula
Esophagus
Fruit
32. The part of the gut that connects the pharynx and stomach.
Air Pressure
Pupa
Virga
Esophagus
33. Study and interpretation of fossils.
Niche
Paleontology
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Pollination
34. The loutermost layer of the earth.
Tree Rings
Nebula
Enzyme
Crust
35. A relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits and the other does not die - even though the second organism may be harmed.
Parasitism
Diabetes
Haploid Cell
Chemotherapy
36. A visible group of water or ice particles in the atmosphere.
Genus
Cloud
Kelvin
Commensalism
37. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.
Parasitism
Double Helix
Paleontology
Endoskeleton
38. The fundamental unit of all life. The cell consists of an outer plasma membrane - the cytoplasm - and the genetic material (DNA).
Carnivore
Cell
Plankton
Canopy
39. An organism's unique place in the environment.
Niche
Dynamcis
Diploid Cell
Mitosis
40. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.
Sonic Boom
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Chromosome
Mitosis
41. A layer of tree bramches and other vegetation elevated above ground.
Central Nervous System
Auxins
Canopy
Annuals
42. The larval stage of an aquatic insect.
Mantle
Magma
Enzyme
Nymph
43. A preliminary proposition that can be tested through scientific study.
Ecology
Hypothesis
Canopy
Intestine
44. Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal - distributing nutrients - and usually oxygen.
Tree Rings
Blood
Rainbow
Jet Stream
45. Movement of pollen to a plant egg cell - often b y wind - bees - or other animals.
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Pollination
Diabetes
46. In the United States - the part of the western mountains that seperates water flowing toward opposite sides of the country.
Bacillus
Chinook Wind
Esophagus
Continental Divide
47. When the sun is directly over the equator. This date usually occurs on March 20.
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Vernal Equinox
El Nino
Deposition
48. A protein that aids biochemical reactions.
Enzyme
Altimeter
Nymph
Summer Solstice
49. Compounds that are fats and oils.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Vernal Equinox
Lipids
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
50. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.
Equinox
Air Pressure
Classical genetics
Marsupial