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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. Plants that die after one growing season.
Nymph
Cross - Pollination
Condensation
Annuals
2. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.
Binary Fission
Carcinoma
Diploid Cell
Clone
3. Biological molecules that have important roles in energy metabolism and storage as well as the structure of cells and organisms.
Ecosystem
Crust
Permafrost
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
4. Compounds that are fats and oils.
Lipids
Carcinoma
Plankton
Larva
5. The flow of a charge.
Binary Fission
Heart
Interferon
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
6. Small proteins that stimulate viral resistance in cells.
Nebula
Celsius
Interferon
Fossil
7. This primary component of chromosomes carries an organisms genetic code.
Carcinogen
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Crust
Canopy
8. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.
Meiosis
Chlorophyll
Germination
Phloem
9. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Parasitism
Carnivore
Esophagus
10. A relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits and the other does not die - even though the second organism may be harmed.
Kelvin
Parasitism
Weathering
Chlorophyll
11. A cell with one set of chromosomes - which is half the regular (diploid) number.
Seed
Haploid Cell
Dynamcis
Hypothesis
12. A protein that aids biochemical reactions.
Alleles
Enzyme
Endoskeleton
Haploid Cell
13. In the mateamorphosis of insects - the larva becomes a pupa before it becomes an adult.
Larva
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Plate Tectonics
Altimeter
14. 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.
Condensation
Angiosperm
Kelvin
Anemometer
15. The combined cooling effect of wind and temperature. Higher wind chills indicate that a body will cool more quickly to the air temperature.
Wind Chill
Blood
Eukaryotic cells
Nucleus
16. The movement up in the atmosphere of heated moisture. Thunderstorms are often caused by convection.
Central Nervous System
Absorption
Convection
Perennials
17. Different versions of a gene in a population.
Climate
Alleles
Knot
Charge
18. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.
Cross - Pollination
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Ecosystem
Bacillus
19. The portion of the Earth from beneath the mantle to the Earth's center.
Celsius
California current
Core
Larva
20. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.
Anemometer
California current
Nebula
Alleles
21. A loud nise caused by a shock wave when an object exceeds the speed of sound.
Sonic Boom
Carcinogen
Marsupial
Interferon
22. The movement of plates and the interaction across the Earth's surface to form land masses.
Plate Tectonics
Chinook Wind
Magma
Flower
23. The level of plant and animal between the species and the family.
Estuary
Altimeter
Genus
Larva
24. Plants that live through more than one growing season.
Interferon
Endocrine system
Rainbow
Perennials
25. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.
Marsupial
Heart
Weathering
Haploid Cell
26. 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
Alleles
Enzyme
Herbivore
27. A tissue in the uterus through which nutrients pass from the mother to the fetus.
Angiosperm
Placenta
Neuron
Niche
28. The process by which seeds develop into seedlings.
Commensalism
Germination
Larva
El Nino
29. A solute that accepts protons.
Neuron
Base
Lenticular Cloud
Annuals
30. An instrument to measure wind speed.
Charge
Deposition
Anemometer
Classical genetics
31. Reproductive haploid cells that combine to creat a zygote.
Seed
Lipids
Haploid Cell
Gamete
32. An organsim that eats meat - which includes animals - fungi - and plants.
Permafrost
California current
Blood
Carnivore
33. When the sun is directly over the equator. This date usually occurs on March 20.
California current
Chlorophyll
Pupa
Vernal Equinox
34. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.
Lenticular Cloud
Vernal Equinox
Estuary
Placenta
35. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.
Plate Tectonics
Neuron
Diabetes
Double Helix
36. The loutermost layer of the earth.
Carcinoma
Deposition
Vernal Equinox
Crust
37. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.
Mirage
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Central Nervous System
Chromosome
38. A process through which organisms make nutrients available to cells.
Niche
Meiosis
Estuary
Absorption
39. A system for transporting nutrients and other essential materials throughout the body.
Weathering
Acid
Circulatory System
Seed
40. Light refracted through raindrops to form colors of a spectrum from red to blue.
Permafrost
Convection
Mitosis
Rainbow
41. The process by which gas changes directly to the solid phase.
Canopy
Deposition
Angiosperm
Atmosphere
42. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.
Mitosis
Fruit
Ecology
Air Pressure
43. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.
Charge
Double Helix
Phylum
Flower
44. Cell division consisting of prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase - that usually creats in two new nuclei - each with a full set of chromosomes.
Auxins
Mitosis
Chinook Wind
Fossil
45. The rate of change of an objects velocity.
Acceleratrion
Moraine
Canopy
Commensalism
46. The part of flowering plants that contains seeds.
Moraine
Epicenter
Fruit
Plate Tectonics
47. The physical - chemical - and biological processes by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces.
Meiosis
Lenticular Cloud
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Weathering
48. The study of the interactions of organisms with their environment and with each other.
Absorption
Ecology
Crust
Summer Solstice
49. Fertilization of one plant by pollen from a different plant species.
Virga
Cross - Pollination
Esophagus
Condensation
50. A relationship between disimilar organisms that is adventageous to one and doesn't affect the other.
Condensation
Parasitism
Plate Tectonics
Commensalism
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