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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. The combined cooling effect of wind and temperature. Higher wind chills indicate that a body will cool more quickly to the air temperature.
Auxins
Embryo
Wind Chill
Hypothesis
2. The fundamental unit of all life. The cell consists of an outer plasma membrane - the cytoplasm - and the genetic material (DNA).
Nucleus
Absorption
Base
Cell
3. Reproductive haploid cells that combine to creat a zygote.
Auxins
Pollination
Gamete
Acceleratrion
4. A simple sugar and a product of photosynethesis.
Glucose
Estuary
Phloem
Carnivore
5. A disease related to lower levels of insulin.
Diabetes
Anemometer
Tree Rings
Auxins
6. Study and interpretation of fossils.
Auxins
Endoskeleton
Chinook Wind
Paleontology
7. The study of what causes motion.
Celsius
Annuals
Dynamcis
Canopy
8. The stage of cellular divisions that develops from a zygote.
Absorption
Embryo
Air Pressure
Interferon
9. A malignant tumor - which forms in the skin and outside of internal organs.
Binary Fission
Wind Chill
Carcinoma
Kelvin
10. A ridge built in water by organisms such as coral.
Reef
Carnivore
Metamorphosis
Nucleus
11. The part of flowering plants that contains seeds.
Eukaryotic cells
Fruit
Bacillus
Nebula
12. The process by which gas reverts back to liquid phase.
Lipids
Condensation
Enzyme
Perennials
13. An instrument to measure wind speed.
Base
Weathering
Epicenter
Anemometer
14. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.
Esophagus
Epicenter
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Lenticular Cloud
15. One nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 miles per hour.
Marsupial
Knot
Mirage
Binary Fission
16. A bundle of neurons - or nerve cells.
Nerve
Plate Tectonics
Base
Virga
17. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.
Metamorphosis
Crust
Lipids
Ecosystem
18. A solute that accepts protons.
Base
Seed
Phloem
Carcinoma
19. A cancer treatment that includes chemicals toxic to mailgnant cells.
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Dynamcis
Cell
Chemotherapy
20. The study of the patterns and mechanisms of the transmission of inherited traits from one generation to another.
Blood
Classical genetics
Carcinogen
Air Pressure
21. 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.
Herbivore
Placenta
Reef
Atmosphere
22. Plants that die after one growing season.
Annuals
Larva
Diabetes
Lenticular Cloud
23. An organism that relies primarily on plants for food.
Herbivore
Placenta
Crust
Esophagus
24. A mammal whose young crawl into it's mothers pouch to complete development.
Nerve
Reef
Marsupial
Altimeter
25. A loud nise caused by a shock wave when an object exceeds the speed of sound.
Gut
Auxins
Sonic Boom
Summer Solstice
26. The movement up in the atmosphere of heated moisture. Thunderstorms are often caused by convection.
Convection
Core
Moraine
California current
27. A relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits and the other does not die - even though the second organism may be harmed.
Air Pressure
Flower
Parasitism
Acid
28. The physical - chemical - and biological processes by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces.
Carnivore
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Weathering
Parasitism
29. Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal - distributing nutrients - and usually oxygen.
Embryo
Sonic Boom
Binary Fission
Blood
30. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.
Haploid Cell
Circulatory System
Weathering
Estuary
31. A temperature scale in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
Atmosphere
Celsius
Lenticular Cloud
Perennials
32. 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.
Radiocarbon Dating
Neuron
Convection
Haploid Cell
33. Soil beneath the earth's surface that stays frozen throughout the year.
Permafrost
Radiocarbon Dating
Gut
Chromosome
34. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.
Core
Epicenter
Endocrine system
Double Helix
35. 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.
Cloud
Haploid Cell
Kelvin
Esophagus
36. A relationship between disimilar organisms that is adventageous to one and doesn't affect the other.
Herbivore
Circulatory System
Commensalism
Atmosphere
37. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.
Convection
Binary Fission
Chinook Wind
Absorption
38. Fertilization of one plant by pollen from a different plant species.
Virga
Phloem
Cross - Pollination
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
39. The green substance that absorbs light during photosynthesis.
Gill
Larva
Chlorophyll
Intestine
40. A group of plants that produce seeds enclosed within an ovary - which mat mature into a fruit.
Hypothesis
Knot
Angiosperm
Carcinoma
41. A layer of tree bramches and other vegetation elevated above ground.
Angiosperm
Gill
Herbivore
Canopy
42. Movement of pollen to a plant egg cell - often b y wind - bees - or other animals.
Paleontology
Meiosis
Pollination
Neuron
43. An identical copy of an organism.
Clone
Classical genetics
Core
Intestine
44. In metamorphosis - the stage between the larva and adult.
Tree Rings
Core
Wind Chill
Pupa
45. Material deposited by a glacier and often marking a glacier's furthest advance.
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Marsupial
Glucose
Moraine
46. An organsim that eats meat - which includes animals - fungi - and plants.
Gut
Marsupial
Central Nervous System
Carnivore
47. When the sun is directly over the equator. This date usually occurs on March 20.
Esophagus
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Binary Fission
Vernal Equinox
48. Calender days when the day and night are the same length.
Chemotherapy
Nucleus
Equinox
Binary Fission
49. A system for transporting nutrients and other essential materials throughout the body.
Cell
Hypothesis
Neuron
Circulatory System
50. In the United States - the part of the western mountains that seperates water flowing toward opposite sides of the country.
Glucose
Weathering
Genus
Continental Divide