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CSET Science Vocab 2

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






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






3. The study of the patterns and mechanisms of the transmission of inherited traits from one generation to another.






4. Compounds that are fats and oils.






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






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






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






8. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.






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






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






11. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.






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






13. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.






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






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






16. Reproductive haploid cells that combine to creat a zygote.






17. The green substance that absorbs light during photosynthesis.






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






19. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.






20. The flow of a charge.






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






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






23. Soil beneath the earth's surface that stays frozen throughout the year.






24. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.






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






26. In plants - a seed includes the embryo.






27. When the sun is highest in the sky and directly above the Tropic of Cancer 23 1/2 degrees North Latitude. This date usually falls on June 22.






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






29. A disease related to lower levels of insulin.






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






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






32. A group of plants that produce seeds enclosed within an ovary - which mat mature into a fruit.






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






34. Calender days when the day and night are the same length.






35. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.






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.






37. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.






38. The fundamental unit of all life. The cell consists of an outer plasma membrane - the cytoplasm - and the genetic material (DNA).






39. The place on the surface of the Earth immediately above the 'focus' of an earthquake.






40. The study of what causes motion.






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






42. A bundle of neurons - or nerve cells.






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






44. The loutermost layer of the earth.






45. The digestive tract between the stomach and anus where most nutrients are absorbed.






46. An identical copy of an organism.






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






48. The larval stage of an aquatic insect.






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






50. Multicellular organisms whose cells contain organelles.







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