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CSET Science Vocab 2

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






2. The part of the gut that connects the pharynx and stomach.






3. Study and interpretation of fossils.






4. In most Amphibians - a process in which larve goes through significant changes - perhaps including a pupa stage - before becoming an adult.






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






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






7. The loutermost layer of the earth.






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






9. A rod - shaped bacteria.






10. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.






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






12. The process by which gas changes directly to the solid phase.






13. A cell with one set of chromosomes - which is half the regular (diploid) number.






14. A single DNA molecule - a tightly coiled strand of DNA - condensed into a compact structure.






15. The movement of plates and the interaction across the Earth's surface to form land masses.






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






17. The framework for the attatchment of skeletal muscles in vertebrates that also protect vital organs.






18. An organism's unique place in the environment.






19. Evidence of past life.






20. An identical copy of an organism.






21. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.






22. An instrument that uses air pressure to record height - such as the height of a plane.






23. An excess or deficiency of electrons in a body.






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






25. Movement of pollen to a plant egg cell - often b y wind - bees - or other animals.






26. The study of what causes motion.






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






28. Reproduction involving only one parent.






29. Biological molecules that have important roles in energy metabolism and storage as well as the structure of cells and organisms.






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






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






32. A solute that accepts protons.






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






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






35. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.






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






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






38. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.






39. 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.






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






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






42. Atoms of the same chemical element with a different number of neurons but the same number of protons. Isotopes of an element have the same atomic number but may not have the same mass.






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






44. Cell division consisting of prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase - that usually creats in two new nuclei - each with a full set of chromosomes.






45. 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.






46. Fertilization of one plant by pollen from a different plant species.






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






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






49. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.






50. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.