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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. 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.
Endocrine system
Core
Summer Solstice
Angiosperm
2. In most Amphibians - a process in which larve goes through significant changes - perhaps including a pupa stage - before becoming an adult.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Metamorphosis
Gut
Seed
3. The rate of change of an objects velocity.
Enzyme
Acceleratrion
Air Pressure
Continental Divide
4. A tissue in the uterus through which nutrients pass from the mother to the fetus.
Cross - Pollination
Germination
Mirage
Placenta
5. Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal - distributing nutrients - and usually oxygen.
Mantle
Weathering
Diabetes
Blood
6. The place on the surface of the Earth immediately above the 'focus' of an earthquake.
Heart
Altimeter
Estuary
Epicenter
7. A relationship between disimilar organisms that is adventageous to one and doesn't affect the other.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Vernal Equinox
Commensalism
Chemotherapy
8. Material deposited by a glacier and often marking a glacier's furthest advance.
Hypothesis
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Convection
Moraine
9. An identical copy of an organism.
Permafrost
Clone
Dynamcis
Plate Tectonics
10. A mammal whose young crawl into it's mothers pouch to complete development.
Isotope
Marsupial
Lipids
Anemometer
11. The study of the patterns and mechanisms of the transmission of inherited traits from one generation to another.
Ceilometer
Auxins
Glucose
Classical genetics
12. A relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits and the other does not die - even though the second organism may be harmed.
Fruit
Parasitism
Alleles
Nimbostratus
13. An instrument that measures cloud height.
Auxins
Cell
Ceilometer
Phylum
14. Different versions of a gene in a population.
Esophagus
Alleles
Paleontology
Absorption
15. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.
Nerve
Pollination
Jet Stream
Double Helix
16. The level of plant and animal between the species and the family.
Celsius
Parasitism
Kelvin
Genus
17. The green substance that absorbs light during photosynthesis.
Chlorophyll
Seed
Gut
Circulatory System
18. The part of the gut that connects the pharynx and stomach.
Sonic Boom
Summer Solstice
Binary Fission
Esophagus
19. An instrument to measure wind speed.
Nebula
Reef
Knot
Anemometer
20. The digestive tract between the stomach and anus where most nutrients are absorbed.
Intestine
Sonic Boom
Lenticular Cloud
Acid
21. The part of flowering plants that contains seeds.
Perennials
Fruit
Summer Solstice
Classical genetics
22. An almond shaped cloud usually seen on windy days.
Summer Solstice
Lenticular Cloud
Lipids
Air Pressure
23. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the Earth's surface.
Virga
Chemotherapy
Canopy
El Nino
24. An organsim that eats meat - which includes animals - fungi - and plants.
Fruit
Celsius
Carnivore
Gamete
25. The framework for the attatchment of skeletal muscles in vertebrates that also protect vital organs.
Absorption
Tree Rings
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Endoskeleton
26. A temperature scale in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
Commensalism
Celsius
Angiosperm
Mantle
27. A visible group of water or ice particles in the atmosphere.
Cloud
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Knot
Cross - Pollination
28. Rings that show how many years a tree has been growing. The thickness of the rings may reveal other information about climatic conditions.
Angiosperm
Tree Rings
Ecology
Gamete
29. Floating aquatic plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton).
Carcinoma
Dynamcis
Plankton
Absorption
30. A level of plant and animal classification between class and kingdom.
Phylum
Knot
Herbivore
California current
31. Cell division consisting of prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase - that usually creats in two new nuclei - each with a full set of chromosomes.
Embryo
Atmosphere
Mitosis
Chinook Wind
32. Compounds that are fats and oils.
Clone
Lipids
Carcinoma
Nebula
33. A protein that aids biochemical reactions.
Enzyme
Annuals
Haploid Cell
Nucleus
34. Long term patterns of temperature - humidity and amount of sunshine.
Climate
Deposition
Parasitism
Insulin
35. A malignant tumor - which forms in the skin and outside of internal organs.
Carcinoma
Genus
Continental Divide
Nebula
36. The movement of plates and the interaction across the Earth's surface to form land masses.
Carnivore
Plate Tectonics
Gut
California current
37. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.
Wind Chill
Air Pressure
Phloem
Meiosis
38. Warming of Pacific Ocean seawater along the coast of South America that leads to significant weather changes in the United States.
Chemotherapy
Pollination
El Nino
Sonic Boom
39. The portion of the Earth from beneath the mantle to the Earth's center.
Annuals
Haploid Cell
Core
Ceilometer
40. The movement up in the atmosphere of heated moisture. Thunderstorms are often caused by convection.
Convection
Bacillus
Ecology
Classical genetics
41. The tissues aquatic animals use to breath in water.
Atmosphere
Deposition
Gill
Sonic Boom
42. Evidence of past life.
Fossil
Asexual reproduction
Magma
Reef
43. Plants that live through more than one growing season.
Cloud
Perennials
Nymph
Binary Fission
44. The process by which gas reverts back to liquid phase.
Condensation
Double Helix
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Absorption
45. This primary component of chromosomes carries an organisms genetic code.
Core
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Fruit
Dynamcis
46. When the sun is directly over the equator. This date usually occurs on March 20.
Vernal Equinox
Nimbostratus
Virga
Nymph
47. A layer of tree bramches and other vegetation elevated above ground.
Fruit
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Canopy
Climate
48. 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.
Isotope
Genus
Insulin
Lipids
49. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.
Ceilometer
Hypothesis
Mirage
Chemotherapy
50. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.
Charge
Heart
Atmosphere
Classical genetics