SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CSET Science Vocab 2
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
cset
,
science
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.
Core
Air Pressure
Equinox
Altimeter
2. Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal - distributing nutrients - and usually oxygen.
Rainbow
Diabetes
Ceilometer
Blood
3. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.
Fruit
Ecosystem
Nucleus
Cell
4. Plants that live through more than one growing season.
Perennials
Wind Chill
Cloud
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
5. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.
Cloud
El Nino
Knot
Phloem
6. An organsim that eats meat - which includes animals - fungi - and plants.
Carnivore
Knot
Atmosphere
Mantle
7. Rings that show how many years a tree has been growing. The thickness of the rings may reveal other information about climatic conditions.
Carcinogen
Mitosis
Tree Rings
Asexual reproduction
8. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the Earth's surface.
Virga
Atmosphere
Nebula
Enzyme
9. Light refracted through raindrops to form colors of a spectrum from red to blue.
Rainbow
Core
Diabetes
Canopy
10. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.
Chinook Wind
Cross - Pollination
Altimeter
Diploid Cell
11. Long term patterns of temperature - humidity and amount of sunshine.
Climate
Charge
Intestine
Heart
12. A visible group of water or ice particles in the atmosphere.
Metamorphosis
Cloud
Plate Tectonics
Angiosperm
13. Biological molecules that have important roles in energy metabolism and storage as well as the structure of cells and organisms.
Chlorophyll
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Nucleus
Metamorphosis
14. The green substance that absorbs light during photosynthesis.
Circulatory System
Deposition
Convection
Chlorophyll
15. The stage of cellular divisions that develops from a zygote.
Neuron
Placenta
Glucose
Embryo
16. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.
Flower
Fruit
Radiocarbon Dating
Mitosis
17. Different versions of a gene in a population.
Alleles
Meiosis
Blood
Circulatory System
18. An organellein a cell that contains chromosomes.
Nucleus
Acceleratrion
Niche
Flower
19. 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.
Gut
Isotope
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Carnivore
20. This primary component of chromosomes carries an organisms genetic code.
Chromosome
Metamorphosis
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Germination
21. Reproductive haploid cells that combine to creat a zygote.
Niche
Meiosis
Gamete
Intestine
22. The digestive tract between the stomach and anus where most nutrients are absorbed.
Asexual reproduction
Hypothesis
Permafrost
Intestine
23. 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.
Acceleratrion
Gut
Jet Stream
Vernal Equinox
24. Multicellular organisms whose cells contain organelles.
Flower
Eukaryotic cells
Virga
Bacillus
25. Strong upper wind currents in a narrow stream that flow west to east in the United States. Weather patterns are related to the position of the jet stream - which changes often.
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Jet Stream
Neuron
Carcinogen
26. An instrument that measures cloud height.
Virga
Diploid Cell
Ceilometer
Dynamcis
27. A temperature scale in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
Charge
Cross - Pollination
Germination
Celsius
28. A layer of tree bramches and other vegetation elevated above ground.
Germination
Annuals
Gill
Canopy
29. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.
Haploid Cell
Nymph
Mirage
Embryo
30. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.
Herbivore
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Carcinoma
Nimbostratus
31. Fertilization of one plant by pollen from a different plant species.
Cross - Pollination
Carcinogen
Magma
Eukaryotic cells
32. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.
Heart
Clone
Reef
Phloem
33. An instrument to measure wind speed.
Anemometer
El Nino
Climate
Nimbostratus
34. Soil beneath the earth's surface that stays frozen throughout the year.
Permafrost
Summer Solstice
Ceilometer
El Nino
35. Warming of Pacific Ocean seawater along the coast of South America that leads to significant weather changes in the United States.
Celsius
Parasitism
El Nino
Chinook Wind
36. Light emission from the upper atmosphere that appear in many shapes and colors.
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Acid
Pupa
Fossil
37. A dry - north wind in late spring - summer - and early fall in north and central California.
Eukaryotic cells
California current
Cross - Pollination
Climate
38. The tissues aquatic animals use to breath in water.
Phylum
Enzyme
Gill
Air Pressure
39. In the mateamorphosis of insects - the larva becomes a pupa before it becomes an adult.
Larva
Core
Perennials
Metamorphosis
40. The process by which gas changes directly to the solid phase.
Fruit
Mirage
Mantle
Deposition
41. Molten rock flormed in the Earth that may appear on the surface.
Magma
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Phloem
Heart
42. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.
Nebula
Interferon
Air Pressure
Plankton
43. A relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits and the other does not die - even though the second organism may be harmed.
Permafrost
Carcinogen
Mirage
Parasitism
44. The movement of plates and the interaction across the Earth's surface to form land masses.
Plate Tectonics
Fruit
Deposition
Base
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
Mirage
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Nebula
46. The place on the surface of the Earth immediately above the 'focus' of an earthquake.
Niche
Auxins
Epicenter
Nimbostratus
47. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.
Plate Tectonics
Nymph
Double Helix
Nucleus
48. The process by which seeds develop into seedlings.
Deposition
Interferon
Moraine
Germination
49. Evidence of past life.
Jet Stream
Radiocarbon Dating
Magma
Fossil
50. `An important class of plant hormones associated with growth patterns.
Auxins
Chromosome
Herbivore
El Nino