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CSET Science Vocab 2

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The network of glands and tissues that secrete hormones.






2. Compounds that are fats and oils.






3. A dry - north wind in late spring - summer - and early fall in north and central California.






4. The physical - chemical - and biological processes by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces.






5. Evidence of past life.






6. A visible group of water or ice particles in the atmosphere.






7. An almond shaped cloud usually seen on windy days.






8. An instrument that uses air pressure to record height - such as the height of a plane.






9. In metamorphosis - the stage between the larva and adult.






10. A warm - dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.






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






12. In the United States - the part of the western mountains that seperates water flowing toward opposite sides of the country.






13. A bundle of neurons - or nerve cells.






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






15. The process by which gas reverts back to liquid phase.






16. 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.






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






18. A simple sugar and a product of photosynethesis.






19. An organellein a cell that contains chromosomes.






20. Biological molecules that have important roles in energy metabolism and storage as well as the structure of cells and organisms.






21. A level of plant and animal classification between class and kingdom.






22. The fundamental unit of all life. The cell consists of an outer plasma membrane - the cytoplasm - and the genetic material (DNA).






23. A cell with two copies of each chromosome.






24. The reproductive parts of flowering plants.






25. The tissues aquatic animals use to breath in water.






26. The framework for the attatchment of skeletal muscles in vertebrates that also protect vital organs.






27. A cell with one set of chromosomes - which is half the regular (diploid) number.






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






29. The tissue in plants that conducts nutrients.






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






31. An kinterstellar cloud of dust and gas.






32. A relationship between disimilar organisms that is adventageous to one and doesn't affect the other.






33. A hormone needed to transpost glucose to cells.






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. This primary component of chromosomes carries an organisms genetic code.






39. Reproduction involving only one parent.






40. The portion of the Earth from beneath the mantle to the Earth's center.






41. A malignant tumor - which forms in the skin and outside of internal organs.






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






43. A solute the denotes protons.






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






45. The movement and collision of gas molecules in the atmosphere that can form into high or low pressure areas.






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






47. A dark cloud - but not a thundercloud - the frequently produces rain.






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.






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






50. A relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits and the other does not die - even though the second organism may be harmed.