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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. An organsim that eats meat - which includes animals - fungi - and plants.
Carnivore
Neuron
Core
Permafrost
2. A relationship between disimilar organisms that is adventageous to one and doesn't affect the other.
Commensalism
Phloem
Climate
Charge
3. A cell with one set of chromosomes - which is half the regular (diploid) number.
Magma
Air Pressure
Haploid Cell
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
4. 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.
Enzyme
Equinox
Nucleus
Jet Stream
5. A simple sugar and a product of photosynethesis.
Crust
Glucose
Ceilometer
Neuron
6. The flow of a charge.
Perennials
Gill
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Central Nervous System
7. An instrument that measures cloud height.
Atmosphere
Ceilometer
Air Pressure
Binary Fission
8. A dark cloud - but not a thundercloud - the frequently produces rain.
Lenticular Cloud
Larva
Gill
Nimbostratus
9. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.
Diploid Cell
Reef
Crust
Ecosystem
10. Warming of Pacific Ocean seawater along the coast of South America that leads to significant weather changes in the United States.
Knot
Ecology
El Nino
Herbivore
11. A relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits and the other does not die - even though the second organism may be harmed.
Crust
Parasitism
Kelvin
Nymph
12. An organellein a cell that contains chromosomes.
Herbivore
Plankton
Rainbow
Nucleus
13. The part of the gut that connects the pharynx and stomach.
Esophagus
Summer Solstice
Seed
Pupa
14. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.
Parasitism
Magma
Fossil
Air Pressure
15. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.
Carnivore
Bacillus
Nebula
Plate Tectonics
16. Fertilization of one plant by pollen from a different plant species.
Cross - Pollination
Paleontology
Radiocarbon Dating
Ecosystem
17. 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.
Atmosphere
Ceilometer
Vernal Equinox
Alleles
18. A way to date organic substances based on the carbon -14 remaining.
Pollination
Radiocarbon Dating
Fruit
Summer Solstice
19. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.
Intestine
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Meiosis
El Nino
20. Soil beneath the earth's surface that stays frozen throughout the year.
Metamorphosis
Permafrost
Neuron
Meiosis
21. A loud nise caused by a shock wave when an object exceeds the speed of sound.
Pupa
Moraine
Sonic Boom
Crust
22. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.
Asexual reproduction
Phloem
Continental Divide
Deposition
23. Light emission from the upper atmosphere that appear in many shapes and colors.
Blood
Metamorphosis
Canopy
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
24. Reproduction involving only one parent.
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Chlorophyll
Vernal Equinox
Asexual reproduction
25. An instrument that uses air pressure to record height - such as the height of a plane.
Altimeter
Fossil
Metamorphosis
Marsupial
26. Study and interpretation of fossils.
Haploid Cell
Gut
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Paleontology
27. The stage of cellular divisions that develops from a zygote.
Summer Solstice
Embryo
Annuals
Canopy
28. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the Earth's surface.
Virga
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Kelvin
Climate
29. Biological molecules that have important roles in energy metabolism and storage as well as the structure of cells and organisms.
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Phylum
Genus
Core
30. A cancer treatment that includes chemicals toxic to mailgnant cells.
Phloem
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Niche
Chemotherapy
31. The process by which gas reverts back to liquid phase.
Carnivore
Moraine
Knot
Condensation
32. The physical - chemical - and biological processes by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces.
Estuary
Chromosome
Weathering
Parasitism
33. In the United States - the part of the western mountains that seperates water flowing toward opposite sides of the country.
Canopy
Condensation
Continental Divide
Insulin
34. A visible group of water or ice particles in the atmosphere.
Paleontology
Cloud
Classical genetics
Meiosis
35. The movement up in the atmosphere of heated moisture. Thunderstorms are often caused by convection.
Flower
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Convection
Magma
36. 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.
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Clone
Herbivore
Neuron
37. Evidence of past life.
Fossil
Anemometer
Absorption
Gamete
38. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.
Commensalism
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Insulin
Canopy
39. A substance that can lead to cancer.
Canopy
Mantle
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Carcinogen
40. Molten rock flormed in the Earth that may appear on the surface.
Flower
Magma
Enzyme
Annuals
41. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.
Embryo
Fossil
Germination
Double Helix
42. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.
Heart
Alleles
Dynamcis
Carcinogen
43. The place on the surface of the Earth immediately above the 'focus' of an earthquake.
Wind Chill
Epicenter
Chinook Wind
Marsupial
44. A process through which organisms make nutrients available to cells.
Absorption
Interferon
Binary Fission
Central Nervous System
45. Rings that show how many years a tree has been growing. The thickness of the rings may reveal other information about climatic conditions.
Equinox
Tree Rings
Placenta
Reef
46. The larval stage of an aquatic insect.
Pollination
Vernal Equinox
Nymph
Asexual reproduction
47. A solute that accepts protons.
Rainbow
Charge
Base
Celsius
48. The study of the patterns and mechanisms of the transmission of inherited traits from one generation to another.
Germination
Phloem
Celsius
Classical genetics
49. An organism that relies primarily on plants for food.
Mitosis
Carcinogen
Chemotherapy
Herbivore
50. The network of glands and tissues that secrete hormones.
Chinook Wind
Pupa
Mitosis
Endocrine system