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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. Calender days when the day and night are the same length.
Equinox
Knot
Glucose
Anemometer
2. A colorless - odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Frozen CO2 is dry ice.
Binary Fission
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Chromosome
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
3. This primary component of chromosomes carries an organisms genetic code.
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
El Nino
Pupa
Insulin
4. Floating aquatic plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton).
California current
Eukaryotic cells
Auxins
Plankton
5. In the United States - the part of the western mountains that seperates water flowing toward opposite sides of the country.
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Charge
Continental Divide
Parasitism
6. The process by which gas changes directly to the solid phase.
Perennials
Nymph
Cell
Deposition
7. A way to date organic substances based on the carbon -14 remaining.
Radiocarbon Dating
Neuron
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Asexual reproduction
8. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.
Hypothesis
Knot
Wind Chill
Flower
9. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.
Anemometer
Nebula
Genus
Germination
10. Different versions of a gene in a population.
Esophagus
Alleles
Carcinogen
Gut
11. A warm - dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
Asexual reproduction
Chinook Wind
Neuron
Double Helix
12. In the mateamorphosis of insects - the larva becomes a pupa before it becomes an adult.
Phylum
Gill
Absorption
Larva
13. 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.
Pollination
Nimbostratus
Seed
Gut
14. Compounds that are fats and oils.
Virga
Lipids
Magma
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
15. Long term patterns of temperature - humidity and amount of sunshine.
Climate
Interferon
Perennials
Intestine
16. A process through which organisms make nutrients available to cells.
Magma
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
Absorption
Vernal Equinox
17. `An important class of plant hormones associated with growth patterns.
Embryo
Continental Divide
Cloud
Auxins
18. The part of Earth located between the crust and the core.
Hypothesis
Enzyme
Kelvin
Mantle
19. The process by which gas reverts back to liquid phase.
Condensation
Binary Fission
Charge
Eukaryotic cells
20. 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.
Isotope
Bacillus
Atmosphere
Radiocarbon Dating
21. A muscle that pumps to circulate the blood.
Kelvin
Heart
Chromosome
Condensation
22. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.
Plankton
Estuary
Ecology
Perennials
23. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.
Tree Rings
Phloem
Jet Stream
Parasitism
24. Multicellular organisms whose cells contain organelles.
Eukaryotic cells
Ecosystem
Chromosome
Rainbow
25. The tissues aquatic animals use to breath in water.
Hypothesis
Gill
Phloem
Annuals
26. Study and interpretation of fossils.
Canopy
Paleontology
Blood
Gamete
27. The stage of cellular divisions that develops from a zygote.
Mitosis
Embryo
Asexual reproduction
Phloem
28. 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.
Hypothesis
Neuron
Circulatory System
Endoskeleton
29. Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal - distributing nutrients - and usually oxygen.
Nerve
Placenta
Blood
Canopy
30. A mammal whose young crawl into it's mothers pouch to complete development.
Marsupial
Crust
Climate
Bacillus
31. In most Amphibians - a process in which larve goes through significant changes - perhaps including a pupa stage - before becoming an adult.
Metamorphosis
Hypothesis
Marsupial
Ceilometer
32. The network of glands and tissues that secrete hormones.
Endocrine system
Mirage
Annuals
Nucleus
33. A cancer treatment that includes chemicals toxic to mailgnant cells.
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
Knot
Chemotherapy
Virga
34. The portion of the Earth from beneath the mantle to the Earth's center.
Ecosystem
Core
Bacillus
Metamorphosis
35. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.
California current
Moraine
Insulin
Angiosperm
36. A tissue in the uterus through which nutrients pass from the mother to the fetus.
Placenta
Tree Rings
Core
Esophagus
37. A relationship between disimilar organisms that is adventageous to one and doesn't affect the other.
Lipids
Commensalism
Auxins
Canopy
38. 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.
Glucose
Gamete
Hypothesis
Kelvin
39. An excess or deficiency of electrons in a body.
Continental Divide
Chemotherapy
Charge
Radiocarbon Dating
40. A cell with one set of chromosomes - which is half the regular (diploid) number.
Central Nervous System
Cloud
Lenticular Cloud
Haploid Cell
41. The part of flowering plants that contains seeds.
Pupa
Fruit
Condensation
Phloem
42. The loutermost layer of the earth.
Plankton
Crust
Jet Stream
Nebula
43. Movement of pollen to a plant egg cell - often b y wind - bees - or other animals.
Pollination
Chromosome
Charge
Herbivore
44. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.
Acceleratrion
Tree Rings
Mirage
Celsius
45. A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecule that resembles a spiral staircase.
Ecosystem
Knot
Double Helix
Gamete
46. A temperature scale in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
Lenticular Cloud
Celsius
Base
Germination
47. An instrument that measures cloud height.
Genus
Metamorphosis
Cell
Ceilometer
48. The larval stage of an aquatic insect.
Estuary
Nymph
Plate Tectonics
Interferon
49. The framework for the attatchment of skeletal muscles in vertebrates that also protect vital organs.
Gut
Endoskeleton
Pollination
Parasitism
50. A system for transporting nutrients and other essential materials throughout the body.
Angiosperm
Circulatory System
Continental Divide
Mirage