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CSET Science Vocab 2
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1. Fertilization of one plant by pollen from a different plant species.
Mirage
Cross - Pollination
Reef
Fruit
2. Light refracted through raindrops to form colors of a spectrum from red to blue.
Rainbow
Fruit
Moraine
Mirage
3. An organism's unique place in the environment.
Altimeter
Condensation
Niche
Dynamcis
4. The part of flowering plants that contains seeds.
Plate Tectonics
Fruit
Binary Fission
Asexual reproduction
5. The study of the interactions of organisms with their environment and with each other.
Ecology
Plankton
Niche
Gill
6. A relationship between disimilar organisms that is adventageous to one and doesn't affect the other.
Moraine
California current
Commensalism
Carbohydrates (Saccharides)
7. A substance that can lead to cancer.
Enzyme
Virga
Core
Carcinogen
8. The study of what causes motion.
Dynamcis
Fruit
Core
Haploid Cell
9. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.
Nimbostratus
Celsius
Climate
Flower
10. One nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 miles per hour.
Knot
Base
Jet Stream
Plate Tectonics
11. A dry - north wind in late spring - summer - and early fall in north and central California.
Summer Solstice
Deposition
Air Pressure
California current
12. Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal - distributing nutrients - and usually oxygen.
Condensation
Blood
Nerve
Circulatory System
13. The process by which gas reverts back to liquid phase.
Gamete
Condensation
Flower
Phloem
14. Soil beneath the earth's surface that stays frozen throughout the year.
Permafrost
Circulatory System
Knot
Nucleus
15. A solute that accepts protons.
Chlorophyll
Fossil
Ecology
Base
16. The phenomenon when refraction of light makes objects appear where they are not.
Sonic Boom
Plate Tectonics
Cloud
Mirage
17. The place on the surface of the Earth immediately above the 'focus' of an earthquake.
Embryo
Epicenter
Lenticular Cloud
Cloud
18. An organism that relies primarily on plants for food.
Herbivore
Continental Divide
Chinook Wind
Mirage
19. The part of the gut that connects the pharynx and stomach.
Sonic Boom
Esophagus
Nucleus
El Nino
20. Plants that live through more than one growing season.
Cell
Central Nervous System
Deposition
Perennials
21. A visible group of water or ice particles in the atmosphere.
Carnivore
Cloud
Bacillus
Climate
22. A layer of tree bramches and other vegetation elevated above ground.
Clone
Canopy
Classical genetics
Embryo
23. A simple sugar and a product of photosynethesis.
Cell
Knot
Rainbow
Glucose
24. All the organisms in an area and the environment in which they live.
Gill
Phylum
Flower
Ecosystem
25. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.
Air Pressure
Classical genetics
Wind Chill
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
26. The study of the patterns and mechanisms of the transmission of inherited traits from one generation to another.
Germination
Classical genetics
Niche
Cross - Pollination
27. Study and interpretation of fossils.
Nebula
Paleontology
Central Nervous System
Tree Rings
28. A bundle of neurons - or nerve cells.
Cross - Pollination
Germination
Blood
Nerve
29. The movement of plates and the interaction across the Earth's surface to form land masses.
Altimeter
Deposition
Magma
Plate Tectonics
30. The portion of the Earth from beneath the mantle to the Earth's center.
Neuron
Core
Continental Divide
Tree Rings
31. The reproductive mechanism of prokaryotes.
Binary Fission
Air Pressure
El Nino
Phylum
32. The loutermost layer of the earth.
Phloem
Permafrost
Phylum
Crust
33. A way to date organic substances based on the carbon -14 remaining.
Radiocarbon Dating
Kelvin
Diabetes
Chemotherapy
34. 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.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Permafrost
Metamorphosis
Isotope
35. A place whjere frsh water and seawater mix.
Plankton
Binary Fission
Estuary
Air Pressure
36. A process through which organisms make nutrients available to cells.
California current
Absorption
Tree Rings
Nimbostratus
37. The rate of change of an objects velocity.
Interferon
Acceleratrion
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Nerve
38. A ridge built in water by organisms such as coral.
Double Helix
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Reef
Metamorphosis
39. 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.
Wind Chill
Deposition
Hypothesis
Kelvin
40. Material deposited by a glacier and often marking a glacier's furthest advance.
California current
Moraine
Dynamcis
Virga
41. A mammal whose young crawl into it's mothers pouch to complete development.
Lenticular Cloud
Marsupial
Parasitism
Hypothesis
42. A disease related to lower levels of insulin.
Bacillus
Diabetes
Fossil
Cloud
43. A tissue in the uterus through which nutrients pass from the mother to the fetus.
Ecosystem
Intestine
Herbivore
Placenta
44. A system for transporting nutrients and other essential materials throughout the body.
Circulatory System
Convection
Ecology
Absorption
45. An organellein a cell that contains chromosomes.
Nucleus
Mantle
Continental Divide
Lenticular Cloud
46. The flow of a charge.
Permafrost
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Plankton
Air Pressure
47. In the mateamorphosis of insects - the larva becomes a pupa before it becomes an adult.
Electric Current (direct - alternating)
Larva
Base
California current
48. The part of Earth located between the crust and the core.
Anemometer
Paleontology
Binary Fission
Mantle
49. `An important class of plant hormones associated with growth patterns.
Kelvin
Auxins
Absorption
Magma
50. A warm - dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
Convection
Nucleus
Chinook Wind
Phylum
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