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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. An organism that relies primarily on plants for food.
Ecology
Reef
El Nino
Herbivore
2. The study of what causes motion.
Plankton
Air Pressure
Dynamcis
Germination
3. Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal - distributing nutrients - and usually oxygen.
Annuals
Mitosis
Blood
Moraine
4. `An important class of plant hormones associated with growth patterns.
Insulin
Mitosis
Knot
Auxins
5. Soil beneath the earth's surface that stays frozen throughout the year.
Circulatory System
Embryo
Permafrost
Lenticular Cloud
6. The loutermost layer of the earth.
Parasitism
Binary Fission
Neuron
Crust
7. The physical - chemical - and biological processes by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces.
Chinook Wind
Ecology
Weathering
Radiocarbon Dating
8. In the United States - the part of the western mountains that seperates water flowing toward opposite sides of the country.
Radiocarbon Dating
Continental Divide
Diabetes
Ceilometer
9. An organellein a cell that contains chromosomes.
Weathering
Nucleus
Cloud
Continental Divide
10. 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.
Bacillus
Kelvin
Esophagus
Ceilometer
11. A relationship between disimilar organisms that is adventageous to one and doesn't affect the other.
Chemotherapy
Haploid Cell
Phloem
Commensalism
12. The digestive tract between the stomach and anus where most nutrients are absorbed.
Niche
Intestine
Germination
Central Nervous System
13. An instrument to measure wind speed.
Commensalism
Blood
Alleles
Anemometer
14. Plants that live through more than one growing season.
Esophagus
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Gut
Perennials
15. An almond shaped cloud usually seen on windy days.
Endoskeleton
Mitosis
Lenticular Cloud
Ecosystem
16. 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.
Deposition
Gut
Kelvin
Central Nervous System
17. A warm - dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
Chinook Wind
Commensalism
Canopy
Plate Tectonics
18. A rod - shaped bacteria.
Acid
Bacillus
Meiosis
Classical genetics
19. Rings that show how many years a tree has been growing. The thickness of the rings may reveal other information about climatic conditions.
Perennials
Enzyme
Ceilometer
Tree Rings
20. A process through which organisms make nutrients available to cells.
Kelvin
Pollination
Cell
Absorption
21. 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.
Summer Solstice
Ecology
Plate Tectonics
Condensation
22. Plants that die after one growing season.
Annuals
Nebula
Equinox
Ecology
23. Reproductive haploid cells that combine to creat a zygote.
Nucleus
Moraine
Phylum
Gamete
24. When the sun is directly over the equator. This date usually occurs on March 20.
Vernal Equinox
Carcinoma
Alleles
Metamorphosis
25. Long term patterns of temperature - humidity and amount of sunshine.
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Diploid Cell
Parasitism
Climate
26. Light emission from the upper atmosphere that appear in many shapes and colors.
Jet Stream
Placenta
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Equinox
27. A protein that aids biochemical reactions.
Enzyme
Nerve
Weathering
Auxins
28. A tissue in the uterus through which nutrients pass from the mother to the fetus.
Reef
Seed
Condensation
Placenta
29. The level of plant and animal between the species and the family.
Genus
Kelvin
Isotope
Summer Solstice
30. A loud nise caused by a shock wave when an object exceeds the speed of sound.
Carcinogen
Canopy
Pollination
Sonic Boom
31. Molten rock flormed in the Earth that may appear on the surface.
Mirage
Epicenter
Magma
Reef
32. An organism's unique place in the environment.
Haploid Cell
Auxins
Ecosystem
Niche
33. The tissues aquatic animals use to breath in water.
Gill
Annuals
Kelvin
Interferon
34. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.
California current
Perennials
Nymph
Air Pressure
35. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.
Heart
Larva
Charge
Flower
36. An excess or deficiency of electrons in a body.
Rainbow
Seed
Charge
Neuron
37. A temperature scale in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
Celsius
Virga
Blood
Classical genetics
38. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.
Mirage
Dynamcis
Cell
Niche
39. 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.
Radiocarbon Dating
Blood
Atmosphere
Acceleratrion
40. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.
Ecosystem
Chinook Wind
Flower
Carcinoma
41. Floating aquatic plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton).
Plankton
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Bacillus
Mantle
42. Calender days when the day and night are the same length.
California current
Auxins
Clone
Equinox
43. The larval stage of an aquatic insect.
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Kelvin
Carcinogen
Nymph
44. Small proteins that stimulate viral resistance in cells.
Interferon
Acid
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Isotope
45. 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.
Chinook Wind
Jet Stream
Eukaryotic cells
Nymph
46. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.
Neuron
Flower
Double Helix
Nebula
47. The study of the patterns and mechanisms of the transmission of inherited traits from one generation to another.
Plate Tectonics
Classical genetics
Alleles
Nimbostratus
48. Biological molecules that have important roles in energy metabolism and storage as well as the structure of cells and organisms.
Ecology
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Enzyme
Endoskeleton
49. Multicellular organisms whose cells contain organelles.
Nimbostratus
Eukaryotic cells
Paleontology
Embryo
50. A layer of tree bramches and other vegetation elevated above ground.
Sonic Boom
Fossil
Canopy
Seed
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