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CSET Subject 2: Science
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1. An atom with an imbalanced charge
Mutualism
The law of Conservation of Matter
Newton's Laws of Motion
Ion
2. Because carbon bonds readily with a variety of different elements and compounds - making possible the great chemical complexity necessary for life.
Mutualism
Physical Change
Why is carbon the building block of life?
Chemical Change
3. Duplicates genetic material
Prophase
Anaphase
Ion
The Law of Conservation of Energy states that
4. Cellular division to create sex cells called haploids.
Stars
Reflection of light
Meiosis
Color
5. Occurs when heat is transmitted in the form of electromagnetic waves.
Radiation
A balanced atom
layers of the Earth?
Darwin's Theory of Evolution
6. 1. homeostasis 2. organization 3. metabolism 4. growth 5. adaptation 6. response to stimuli 7. reproduction
Tides
Matter
DNA
characteristics of life?
7. A group which resembles the experimental group in all other ways - but on which the hypothesis is not tested. In some clinical trials the control group is given a placebo.
Metaphase
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Six Simple Machines that reduce effort
Control group
8. 1. solid 2. liquid 3. gas
Commensalism
three states of matter
Temperature
Reflection of light
9. Spiral disk with several long arms.
Control group
Flowering plants
shape of the Milky Way
characteristics of life?
10. 1. prophase 2. metaphase 3. anaphase 4. telophase
Quantum Theory states that
the stages of mitosis?
layers of the Earth?
Acceleration
11. 1. incline plane2. wheel and axle 3. lever 4. pulley 5. wedge 6. screw
Conduction
Six Simple Machines that reduce effort
On the Periodic Table chemical properties are loosely organized by
Most isotopes
12. Force = Mass X Acceleration
Law of Inertia
Law of Acceleration
Cell wall
Atomic Mass
13. Pulls apart into two separate cells
An atom with an imbalance charge
Steps for the Scientific Method
Natural selection
Telophase
14. A material that can be separated by physical means into two or more substances.
Mixture
Diploid cell
Vacuole
On the Periodic Table chemical properties are loosely organized by
15. One member benefits - the other is unaffected.
Newton's Laws of Motion
Krebb Cycle
Commensalism
Cell wall
16. Control center of the cell
Covalent Bonds
Nucleus
Experimental group
Unlike temperature - the amount of thermal energy depends on
17. Grain like organelles that produce proteins
Ribosomes
Carbon
Steps for the Scientific Method
Law of Reciprocal Actions
18. A bond formed when atoms share one or more of their valence electrons.
How energy is measured
Waves
Covalent Bonds
Temperature
19. Is a substance that cannot be separated into simpler substances by chemical means
Control group
Natural selection
Element
Law of Acceleration
20. Material inside the cell membrane -- not including the nucleus
Seasons
Protons
factors that cause a substance to change state
Cytoplasm
21. An isotope created in the earth's atmosphere by cosmic rays. All living things absorb carbon 14. When they die absorption stops and the organism's existing C14 begins to radioactively decay back to C12.
Water
Carbon 14
the hierarchy within an ecosystem
types of symbiotic relationships
22. H2O + CO2 --> CH2O + O2
chemical reaction in photosynthesis
Ionic Bonds
Control group
Kinetic energy is
23. Column
Law of Reciprocal Actions
Theory of Plate Tectonics
Galaxies
On the Periodic Table chemical properties are loosely organized by
24. 1. egg 2. tadpole (breathes water) 3. metamorphosis 4. adult frog (breathes air)
life cycle of a frog
A balanced atom
Neap tides
Meiosis
25. 1. puzzle piece argument 2. sea floor spreading 3. fossil records
energy
evidences for continental drift
How waves are created
shape of the Milky Way
26. Causes beneficial traits to be propagated and detrimental traits to be eliminated.
Doppler Effect
Natural selection
Unlike temperature - the amount of thermal energy depends on
Seasons
27. Anything that has mass and takes up space
Flowering plants
Mixture
Physical Change
Matter
28. An object in motion stays in motion along a straight path unless acted upon by a net external force.
Law of Inertia
Chloroplast
Vacuole
types of symbiotic relationships
29. C14 dating only works on organisms that died less than _____ years ago.
The law of Conservation of Matter
DNA
Protons
50000
30. Is a substance composed of two or more elements
energy
Compound
Galaxies
Chloroplast
31. Both members of a symbiotic relationship benefit
Vacuole
Newton's Laws of Motion
Mutualism
Protons
32. Unless an object is moving in a vacuum - the object causes...
Lunar phases
Displacement
categories of taxonomy?
Law of Inertia
33. Illustrates the relationship between absolute magnitude - luminosity - classification and effective temperature of stars.
Hertzsprung - Russel diagram (HRD) of spectral class
Refraction of light
Element
Electrolysis
34. 1. egg 2. larvae 3. pupae/crysalis 4. imago/adult butterfly
Phototropism
life cycle of a butterfly
Centrifugal force
Quantum Theory states that
35. By wind which stirs the ocean's surface of great distances.
Mixture
How waves are created
Color
Commensalism
36. 1. producer 2. primary consumer 3. secondary consumer 4. tertiary consumer 5. decomposer
Newton's Laws of Motion
the hierarchy within an ecosystem
Weathering
key stages of the water cycle
37. 1. igneous 2. metamorphic 3. sedimentary
Mitochondria
Centrifugal force
Meiosis
major types of rocks on the Earth?
38. The types of organisms an ecosystem can support is primarily determined by the amount of...
Most isotopes
50000
Speed
Water
39. Are a progressive disturbance propagated from point to point (with regularity between points)
Waves
Galaxies
Lunar eclipse
How energy is measured
40. A fairly typical main sequence star.
Chloroplast
Electrons
Newton's Laws of Motion
Sun (on HRD)
41. Describes speed and direction
Velocity
evidences for continental drift
Physical Change
shape of the Milky Way
42. That space and time are relative - not absolute concepts
Why is carbon the building block of life?
The Theory of Relativity states
Male sex organ on a flower
Potential energy is
43. 1. positive charge 2. located in nucleus 3. mass is 1 AMU
Vacuole
Six Simple Machines that reduce effort
Protons
Centrifugal force
44. Occurs when heat is transferred due to fast moving atoms and molecules colliding with slower ones in a neighboring region.
Atomic Mass
Conduction
50000
characteristics of life?
45. 1. neutral charge 2. located in the nucleus 3. mass is 1 AMU
Velocity
Neutrons
Weathering
Physical Change
46. Cell begins to split
categories of taxonomy?
Cell wall
Anaphase
Flowering plants
47. Stored energy
major types of rocks on the Earth?
energy
Acceleration
Potential energy is
48. Stores food and other materials needed by the cell
Vacuole
Waves
Six Simple Machines that reduce effort
Flowering plants
49. The quantity of substance
Unlike temperature - the amount of thermal energy depends on
Darwin's Theory of Evolution
Most isotopes
Cell wall
50. Thin - flexible barrier around a cell; regulates what enters and leaves the cell
Seasons
On the Periodic Table chemical properties are loosely organized by
Temperature
Cell membrane