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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. One nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 miles per hour.
Knot
Mirage
Celsius
Chemotherapy
2. The tissues aquatic animals use to breath in water.
Gill
Virga
Gut
Genus
3. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.
Tree Rings
Double Helix
Permafrost
Chromosome
4. A rod - shaped bacteria.
Bacillus
Dynamcis
Carnivore
Enzyme
5. In plants - a seed includes the embryo.
Fossil
Double Helix
Gill
Seed
6. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the Earth's surface.
Virga
Clone
Interferon
Commensalism
7. The part of Earth located between the crust and the core.
Lipids
Mantle
Marsupial
Moraine
8. Evidence of past life.
Crust
Haploid Cell
Fossil
Nucleus
9. A tissue in the uterus through which nutrients pass from the mother to the fetus.
Intestine
Placenta
Nymph
Wind Chill
10. The process by which seeds develop into seedlings.
Germination
Haploid Cell
Carcinogen
Niche
11. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.
Vernal Equinox
Heart
Larva
Cloud
12. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.
Moraine
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Gill
Commensalism
13. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.
Ecosystem
Base
Reef
Convection
14. The flow of a charge.
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Sonic Boom
Lipids
Cross - Pollination
15. This primary component of chromosomes carries an organisms genetic code.
Jet Stream
Phloem
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Diabetes
16. A preliminary proposition that can be tested through scientific study.
Hypothesis
Air Pressure
Clone
Phylum
17. A single DNA molecule - a tightly coiled strand of DNA - condensed into a compact structure.
Altimeter
Chromosome
Fruit
Diploid Cell
18. The framework for the attatchment of skeletal muscles in vertebrates that also protect vital organs.
Endoskeleton
Annuals
Ceilometer
Bacillus
19. That part of the body cavity between the mouth and the anus including in most animals the mouth - the pharynx - esophagus - stomach - intestine - and the anus.
Neuron
Heart
Gut
Core
20. A relationship between disimilar organisms that is adventageous to one and doesn't affect the other.
Commensalism
Haploid Cell
Perennials
Acid
21. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.
Commensalism
Insulin
Celsius
Flower
22. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.
Lipids
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Annuals
Diploid Cell
23. The digestive tract between the stomach and anus where most nutrients are absorbed.
Bacillus
Intestine
Commensalism
Weathering
24. In most Amphibians - a process in which larve goes through significant changes - perhaps including a pupa stage - before becoming an adult.
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Metamorphosis
Asexual reproduction
Jet Stream
25. 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.
Knot
Summer Solstice
Convection
Fruit
26. Multicellular organisms whose cells contain organelles.
Intestine
Nerve
Eukaryotic cells
Pupa
27. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.
Epicenter
Gamete
Absorption
Air Pressure
28. A dry - north wind in late spring - summer - and early fall in north and central California.
Alleles
California current
Marsupial
Gill
29. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.
Nimbostratus
Tree Rings
Asexual reproduction
Insulin
30. A warm - dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
Fruit
Virga
Rainbow
Chinook Wind
31. Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal - distributing nutrients - and usually oxygen.
Rainbow
Blood
Ecology
Fossil
32. An instrument that measures cloud height.
Ceilometer
Paleontology
Meiosis
Gut
33. The combined cooling effect of wind and temperature. Higher wind chills indicate that a body will cool more quickly to the air temperature.
Wind Chill
Magma
Gut
Lenticular Cloud
34. A disease related to lower levels of insulin.
Diabetes
Knot
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Nucleus
35. The process by which gas changes directly to the solid phase.
Deposition
Condensation
El Nino
Placenta
36. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.
Chemotherapy
Endoskeleton
Genus
Estuary
37. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.
Phloem
Binary Fission
Parasitism
Knot
38. Different versions of a gene in a population.
Nebula
Insulin
Alleles
Isotope
39. A cell with one set of chromosomes - which is half the regular (diploid) number.
Reef
Clone
Plankton
Haploid Cell
40. The stage of cellular divisions that develops from a zygote.
Marsupial
Altimeter
Perennials
Embryo
41. Calender days when the day and night are the same length.
Equinox
Radiocarbon Dating
Dynamcis
Carnivore
42. A substance that can lead to cancer.
Phylum
Carcinogen
Bacillus
Nerve
43. A layer of tree bramches and other vegetation elevated above ground.
Canopy
Mantle
Carcinogen
Parasitism
44. Long term patterns of temperature - humidity and amount of sunshine.
Circulatory System
Cell
Climate
Nucleus
45. 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.
Kelvin
Circulatory System
Auxins
Endocrine system
46. 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.
Classical genetics
Pupa
Enzyme
Atmosphere
47. Rings that show how many years a tree has been growing. The thickness of the rings may reveal other information about climatic conditions.
Tree Rings
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Radiocarbon Dating
Enzyme
48. A visible group of water or ice particles in the atmosphere.
Binary Fission
Cloud
Nucleus
Alleles
49. Light refracted through raindrops to form colors of a spectrum from red to blue.
Rainbow
Annuals
Mantle
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
50. A solute that accepts protons.
Rainbow
El Nino
Nimbostratus
Base