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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the Earth's surface.
Core
Chemotherapy
Virga
Altimeter
2. Plants that die after one growing season.
Annuals
Eukaryotic cells
Rainbow
Asexual reproduction
3. The rate of change of an objects velocity.
Acceleratrion
Larva
Insulin
Pupa
4. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Jet Stream
Interferon
Heart
5. A relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits and the other does not die - even though the second organism may be harmed.
Convection
Chlorophyll
Parasitism
Paleontology
6. Cell division consisting of prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase - that usually creats in two new nuclei - each with a full set of chromosomes.
Mitosis
Nymph
Interferon
Larva
7. A protein that aids biochemical reactions.
Jet Stream
Enzyme
Virga
Haploid Cell
8. Floating aquatic plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton).
Annuals
Germination
Plankton
Altimeter
9. An instrument that measures cloud height.
Epicenter
Ceilometer
Cross - Pollination
Wind Chill
10. Compounds that are fats and oils.
Marsupial
Carnivore
Lipids
Canopy
11. The combined cooling effect of wind and temperature. Higher wind chills indicate that a body will cool more quickly to the air temperature.
Virga
Cross - Pollination
Summer Solstice
Wind Chill
12. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.
Diploid Cell
Atmosphere
Embryo
Insulin
13. The process by which gas changes directly to the solid phase.
Wind Chill
Deposition
Chromosome
Annuals
14. A layer of tree bramches and other vegetation elevated above ground.
Metamorphosis
Canopy
Perennials
Diabetes
15. Movement of pollen to a plant egg cell - often b y wind - bees - or other animals.
Clone
Pollination
Embryo
Deposition
16. An organism's unique place in the environment.
Plankton
Niche
Mitosis
Marsupial
17. A system for transporting nutrients and other essential materials throughout the body.
Circulatory System
Embryo
Ceilometer
Esophagus
18. Molten rock flormed in the Earth that may appear on the surface.
Meiosis
Mantle
Magma
Marsupial
19. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Mirage
Endoskeleton
Cell
20. A loud nise caused by a shock wave when an object exceeds the speed of sound.
Sonic Boom
Chlorophyll
Bacillus
Lipids
21. The flow of a charge.
Phylum
Blood
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Eukaryotic cells
22. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.
Marsupial
Commensalism
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Ceilometer
23. Light refracted through raindrops to form colors of a spectrum from red to blue.
Air Pressure
Atmosphere
Lipids
Rainbow
24. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.
Parasitism
Diploid Cell
Tree Rings
Carnivore
25. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.
Dynamcis
Anemometer
Radiocarbon Dating
Flower
26. A cancer treatment that includes chemicals toxic to mailgnant cells.
Chemotherapy
Nerve
Pupa
Gut
27. The stage of cellular divisions that develops from a zygote.
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Embryo
Seed
Tree Rings
28. An organellein a cell that contains chromosomes.
Carnivore
Permafrost
Nucleus
Diabetes
29. A level of plant and animal classification between class and kingdom.
Phylum
Canopy
Chinook Wind
Celsius
30. A process through which organisms make nutrients available to cells.
Classical genetics
Heart
Clone
Absorption
31. A single DNA molecule - a tightly coiled strand of DNA - condensed into a compact structure.
Ecosystem
Double Helix
Chromosome
Dynamcis
32. In the mateamorphosis of insects - the larva becomes a pupa before it becomes an adult.
Gamete
Annuals
Binary Fission
Larva
33. The portion of the Earth from beneath the mantle to the Earth's center.
Core
Mitosis
Embryo
Genus
34. An instrument to measure wind speed.
Anemometer
Nerve
Rainbow
Fossil
35. A preliminary proposition that can be tested through scientific study.
Classical genetics
Insulin
Wind Chill
Hypothesis
36. A solute the denotes protons.
Acid
Fossil
Permafrost
Insulin
37. A rod - shaped bacteria.
Haploid Cell
Carcinoma
Sonic Boom
Bacillus
38. An organsim that eats meat - which includes animals - fungi - and plants.
Hypothesis
Dynamcis
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Carnivore
39. Warming of Pacific Ocean seawater along the coast of South America that leads to significant weather changes in the United States.
El Nino
Fossil
Marsupial
Pupa
40. 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.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Chlorophyll
Neuron
Core
41. The part of Earth located between the crust and the core.
Altimeter
Classical genetics
Mantle
Fruit
42. The part of flowering plants that contains seeds.
Atmosphere
Vernal Equinox
Fruit
Plate Tectonics
43. In plants - a seed includes the embryo.
Seed
Cloud
Esophagus
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
44. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.
Nebula
Cloud
Permafrost
Absorption
45. Evidence of past life.
Nucleus
Fossil
Ecosystem
California current
46. A system comprised of the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates that process and store information.
Condensation
Marsupial
Central Nervous System
Convection
47. A visible group of water or ice particles in the atmosphere.
Marsupial
Equinox
Cloud
Ceilometer
48. In the United States - the part of the western mountains that seperates water flowing toward opposite sides of the country.
Estuary
Fruit
Continental Divide
Genus
49. The physical - chemical - and biological processes by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces.
Pupa
Altimeter
Fruit
Weathering
50. The tissues aquatic animals use to breath in water.
Commensalism
Blood
Marsupial
Gill