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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal - distributing nutrients - and usually oxygen.
Seed
Equinox
Blood
Carcinogen
2. An instrument that measures cloud height.
Phylum
Metamorphosis
Ceilometer
Core
3. The process by which gas reverts back to liquid phase.
Condensation
Celsius
Blood
Ceilometer
4. Material deposited by a glacier and often marking a glacier's furthest advance.
Nymph
Moraine
Commensalism
Acid
5. An identical copy of an organism.
Magma
Ceilometer
Clone
Cloud
6. A solute that accepts protons.
Genus
Eukaryotic cells
Binary Fission
Base
7. Biological molecules that have important roles in energy metabolism and storage as well as the structure of cells and organisms.
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Endocrine system
Pupa
Sonic Boom
8. A loud nise caused by a shock wave when an object exceeds the speed of sound.
Sonic Boom
Celsius
Acid
Summer Solstice
9. Light refracted through raindrops to form colors of a spectrum from red to blue.
Rainbow
Double Helix
Niche
Moraine
10. The tissues aquatic animals use to breath in water.
Gill
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Cell
Placenta
11. The study of the patterns and mechanisms of the transmission of inherited traits from one generation to another.
Classical genetics
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Absorption
Phloem
12. The network of glands and tissues that secrete hormones.
Perennials
Endocrine system
Alleles
Equinox
13. A single DNA molecule - a tightly coiled strand of DNA - condensed into a compact structure.
Chromosome
Air Pressure
Lenticular Cloud
Anemometer
14. A process through which organisms make nutrients available to cells.
Meiosis
Vernal Equinox
Absorption
Phylum
15. A mammal whose young crawl into it's mothers pouch to complete development.
Tree Rings
Lenticular Cloud
Perennials
Marsupial
16. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.
Kelvin
Heart
Commensalism
Epicenter
17. A cell with one set of chromosomes - which is half the regular (diploid) number.
Air Pressure
Nebula
Intestine
Haploid Cell
18. The combined cooling effect of wind and temperature. Higher wind chills indicate that a body will cool more quickly to the air temperature.
Haploid Cell
Wind Chill
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Alleles
19. The rate of change of an objects velocity.
Alleles
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Acceleratrion
Interferon
20. A simple sugar and a product of photosynethesis.
Intestine
Glucose
Atmosphere
Ecosystem
21. An almond shaped cloud usually seen on windy days.
Seed
Celsius
Lenticular Cloud
Gill
22. The flow of a charge.
Crust
Weathering
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Equinox
23. Plants that live through more than one growing season.
Gut
Core
Perennials
Equinox
24. A substance that can lead to cancer.
Cell
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Flower
Carcinogen
25. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.
Meiosis
Binary Fission
Nucleus
Nerve
26. A tissue in the uterus through which nutrients pass from the mother to the fetus.
Estuary
Germination
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Placenta
27. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.
Equinox
Double Helix
Diabetes
Mirage
28. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Cross - Pollination
Placenta
Air Pressure
29. An organism that relies primarily on plants for food.
Perennials
Central Nervous System
Herbivore
Chemotherapy
30. Small proteins that stimulate viral resistance in cells.
Pollination
Interferon
Enzyme
Atmosphere
31. `An important class of plant hormones associated with growth patterns.
Auxins
Climate
Anemometer
Weathering
32. A layer of tree bramches and other vegetation elevated above ground.
Pupa
Canopy
Mirage
Paleontology
33. Movement of pollen to a plant egg cell - often b y wind - bees - or other animals.
Chemotherapy
Kelvin
Glucose
Pollination
34. Calender days when the day and night are the same length.
Auxins
Core
Equinox
Ceilometer
35. 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
Cloud
Central Nervous System
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
36. The process by which gas changes directly to the solid phase.
Endoskeleton
Mirage
Cross - Pollination
Deposition
37. Plants that die after one growing season.
Sonic Boom
Circulatory System
Annuals
Base
38. A temperature scale in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
Condensation
Celsius
Diabetes
Convection
39. The movement of plates and the interaction across the Earth's surface to form land masses.
Condensation
Auxins
Plate Tectonics
Chromosome
40. In the United States - the part of the western mountains that seperates water flowing toward opposite sides of the country.
Climate
Continental Divide
Base
Double Helix
41. A warm - dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Nucleus
Phylum
Chinook Wind
42. In the mateamorphosis of insects - the larva becomes a pupa before it becomes an adult.
Celsius
Condensation
Bacillus
Larva
43. An instrument to measure wind speed.
Anemometer
Perennials
Nerve
Enzyme
44. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.
Nebula
Canopy
Lenticular Cloud
Gamete
45. A ridge built in water by organisms such as coral.
Acid
Ecosystem
Rainbow
Reef
46. Molten rock flormed in the Earth that may appear on the surface.
Tree Rings
Magma
Cross - Pollination
Double Helix
47. An organism's unique place in the environment.
Pollination
Condensation
Phloem
Niche
48. A malignant tumor - which forms in the skin and outside of internal organs.
Carcinoma
Lipids
Deposition
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
49. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.
Canopy
Diploid Cell
Permafrost
Interferon
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.
Classical genetics
Neuron
Atmosphere
Canopy