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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. A visible group of water or ice particles in the atmosphere.
Carcinoma
Marsupial
Cloud
Parasitism
2. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.
Pupa
Flower
Heart
Blood
3. A dark cloud - but not a thundercloud - the frequently produces rain.
Nimbostratus
Climate
Plankton
Canopy
4. The part of Earth located between the crust and the core.
Mantle
Fossil
Vernal Equinox
Pollination
5. A warm - dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
Chemotherapy
Altimeter
Chinook Wind
Ceilometer
6. An organsim that eats meat - which includes animals - fungi - and plants.
Parasitism
Cloud
Carnivore
Carcinoma
7. Fertilization of one plant by pollen from a different plant species.
Chlorophyll
Radiocarbon Dating
Cross - Pollination
Equinox
8. Material deposited by a glacier and often marking a glacier's furthest advance.
Neuron
Absorption
Moraine
Genus
9. A disease related to lower levels of insulin.
Angiosperm
Carcinogen
Diabetes
Vernal Equinox
10. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.
Permafrost
Summer Solstice
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Carcinoma
11. Calender days when the day and night are the same length.
Equinox
Central Nervous System
Crust
Mantle
12. A system comprised of the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates that process and store information.
Atmosphere
Central Nervous System
Metamorphosis
Acceleratrion
13. The process in which a diploid cell divides to form haploid cells.
Endoskeleton
Anemometer
Meiosis
Endocrine system
14. Biological molecules that have important roles in energy metabolism and storage as well as the structure of cells and organisms.
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Bacillus
Atmosphere
Anemometer
15. When the sun is directly over the equator. This date usually occurs on March 20.
Germination
Esophagus
Plankton
Vernal Equinox
16. The movement of plates and the interaction across the Earth's surface to form land masses.
Esophagus
Plate Tectonics
Diploid Cell
Virga
17. An instrument that measures cloud height.
Eukaryotic cells
Flower
Virga
Ceilometer
18. An almond shaped cloud usually seen on windy days.
Phylum
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Lenticular Cloud
California current
19. The study of what causes motion.
Sonic Boom
Mirage
Dynamcis
Anemometer
20. 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
Seed
Estuary
Virga
21. An identical copy of an organism.
Ceilometer
Diabetes
Herbivore
Clone
22. A preliminary proposition that can be tested through scientific study.
Hypothesis
Bacillus
Continental Divide
Larva
23. In the mateamorphosis of insects - the larva becomes a pupa before it becomes an adult.
Larva
Mantle
Hypothesis
Circulatory System
24. 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.
Mirage
Jet Stream
Lipids
Marsupial
25. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.
Larva
Binary Fission
Ceilometer
Lipids
26. A substance that can lead to cancer.
Tree Rings
Estuary
Nerve
Carcinogen
27. An instrument to measure wind speed.
Anemometer
Angiosperm
Carcinogen
Parasitism
28. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the Earth's surface.
Continental Divide
Placenta
Virga
Fossil
29. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.
Neuron
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Radiocarbon Dating
Diploid Cell
30. A mammal whose young crawl into it's mothers pouch to complete development.
Phylum
Commensalism
Marsupial
Annuals
31. An excess or deficiency of electrons in a body.
Knot
Mirage
Ceilometer
Charge
32. The process by which seeds develop into seedlings.
Haploid Cell
Convection
Germination
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
33. A dry - north wind in late spring - summer - and early fall in north and central California.
California current
Dynamcis
Germination
Endocrine system
34. An organellein a cell that contains chromosomes.
Moraine
Nucleus
Plate Tectonics
Radiocarbon Dating
35. The tissues aquatic animals use to breath in water.
Herbivore
Gill
Parasitism
Magma
36. The place on the surface of the Earth immediately above the 'focus' of an earthquake.
Epicenter
Eukaryotic cells
Paleontology
Larva
37. 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.
Gut
Phylum
Nymph
Pollination
38. The larval stage of an aquatic insect.
Nymph
Charge
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Acceleratrion
39. Compounds that are fats and oils.
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Lipids
Carcinogen
Ecosystem
40. The part of flowering plants that contains seeds.
Lenticular Cloud
Fruit
Ecosystem
Plate Tectonics
41. The framework for the attatchment of skeletal muscles in vertebrates that also protect vital organs.
Cross - Pollination
Glucose
Endoskeleton
Mantle
42. `An important class of plant hormones associated with growth patterns.
Flower
Esophagus
Asexual reproduction
Auxins
43. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.
Canopy
Air Pressure
Diploid Cell
Annuals
44. The green substance that absorbs light during photosynthesis.
Chemotherapy
Nerve
Chlorophyll
Crust
45. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.
Anemometer
Endocrine system
Ecosystem
Intestine
46. The movement up in the atmosphere of heated moisture. Thunderstorms are often caused by convection.
Charge
Convection
Parasitism
Chinook Wind
47. A relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits and the other does not die - even though the second organism may be harmed.
Esophagus
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Parasitism
Carcinoma
48. Plants that die after one growing season.
Radiocarbon Dating
Vernal Equinox
Chemotherapy
Annuals
49. 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.
Blood
Neuron
Canopy
Ecology
50. The rate of change of an objects velocity.
Nucleus
Ecosystem
Nebula
Acceleratrion