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CSET Science Vocab 2

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Movement of pollen to a plant egg cell - often b y wind - bees - or other animals.






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






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






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






5. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. An instrument that measures cloud height.






14. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.






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






16. 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.






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






18. The loutermost layer of the earth.






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






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






21. The rate of change of an objects velocity.






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






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






24. An identical copy of an organism.






25. The larval stage of an aquatic insect.






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






27. A loud nise caused by a shock wave when an object exceeds the speed of sound.






28. An instrument to measure wind speed.






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






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






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






32. An organellein a cell that contains chromosomes.






33. Reproduction involving only one parent.






34. 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.






35. Study and interpretation of fossils.






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






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






38. Compounds that are fats and oils.






39. A disease related to lower levels of insulin.






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






41. The movement up in the atmosphere of heated moisture. Thunderstorms are often caused by convection.






42. Different versions of a gene in a population.






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






44. A visible group of water or ice particles in the atmosphere.






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






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






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






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






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






50. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the Earth's surface.