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CSET Science Vocab 2

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An almond shaped cloud usually seen on windy days.






2. 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.






3. The part of the gut that connects the pharynx and stomach.






4. Reproductive haploid cells that combine to creat a zygote.






5. Plants that live through more than one growing season.






6. Long term patterns of temperature - humidity and amount of sunshine.






7. The combined cooling effect of wind and temperature. Higher wind chills indicate that a body will cool more quickly to the air temperature.






8. Reproduction involving only one parent.






9. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.






10. An instrument that measures cloud height.






11. Compounds that are fats and oils.






12. Plants that die after one growing season.






13. The green substance that absorbs light during photosynthesis.






14. Cell division consisting of prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telophase - that usually creats in two new nuclei - each with a full set of chromosomes.






15. The digestive tract between the stomach and anus where most nutrients are absorbed.






16. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the Earth's surface.






17. A process through which organisms make nutrients available to cells.






18. 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.






19. The network of glands and tissues that secrete hormones.






20. A solute that accepts protons.






21. The level of plant and animal between the species and the family.






22. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.






23. Different versions of a gene in a population.






24. A way to date organic substances based on the carbon -14 remaining.






25. Movement of pollen to a plant egg cell - often b y wind - bees - or other animals.






26. The study of what causes motion.






27. An organism that relies primarily on plants for food.






28. A temperature scale in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.






29. An instrument to measure wind speed.






30. A cancer treatment that includes chemicals toxic to mailgnant cells.






31. Evidence of past life.






32. A system for transporting nutrients and other essential materials throughout the body.






33. Light refracted through raindrops to form colors of a spectrum from red to blue.






34. One nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 miles per hour.






35. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.






36. Soil beneath the earth's surface that stays frozen throughout the year.






37. Molten rock flormed in the Earth that may appear on the surface.






38. Material deposited by a glacier and often marking a glacier's furthest advance.






39. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.






40. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.






41. A mammal whose young crawl into it's mothers pouch to complete development.






42. An identical copy of an organism.






43. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.






44. Fertilization of one plant by pollen from a different plant species.






45. The stage of cellular divisions that develops from a zygote.






46. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.






47. A tissue in the uterus through which nutrients pass from the mother to the fetus.






48. The place on the surface of the Earth immediately above the 'focus' of an earthquake.






49. Warming of Pacific Ocean seawater along the coast of South America that leads to significant weather changes in the United States.






50. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.