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CSET Science Vocab 2

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal - distributing nutrients - and usually oxygen.






2. An instrument that measures cloud height.






3. The process by which gas reverts back to liquid phase.






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






5. An identical copy of an organism.






6. A solute that accepts protons.






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






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






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






10. The tissues aquatic animals use to breath in water.






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






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






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






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






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






16. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.






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






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






19. The rate of change of an objects velocity.






20. A simple sugar and a product of photosynethesis.






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






22. The flow of a charge.






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






24. A substance that can lead to cancer.






25. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.






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






27. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.






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






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






30. Small proteins that stimulate viral resistance in cells.






31. `An important class of plant hormones associated with growth patterns.






32. A layer of tree bramches and other vegetation elevated above ground.






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






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






35. Rings that show how many years a tree has been growing. The thickness of the rings may reveal other information about climatic conditions.






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






37. Plants that die after one growing season.






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






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






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






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






42. In the mateamorphosis of insects - the larva becomes a pupa before it becomes an adult.






43. An instrument to measure wind speed.






44. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.






45. A ridge built in water by organisms such as coral.






46. Molten rock flormed in the Earth that may appear on the surface.






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






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






49. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.






50. 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.