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CSET Subject 2: Science
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1. Calories
How energy is measured
Solar eclipse
major fault types
Galaxies
2. C14 dating only works on organisms that died less than _____ years ago.
50000
Atom
Parasitism
wedge
3. Spiral disk with several long arms.
Parasitism
shape of the Milky Way
Vacuole
the stages of mitosis?
4. The Moon and the Sun are on opposite sides of the Earth.
energy
Compound
Diploid cell
Lunar eclipse
5. Angiosperms
Krebb Cycle
Prophase
Waves
Flowering plants
6. Cellular division creating diploid cells which are typically capable of beginning the process again.
Mitosis
key stages of the water cycle
types of symbiotic relationships
Atomic Number
7. Is an object's rate of motion = Distance/Time
Six Simple Machines that reduce effort
Catalyst
Speed
Male sex organ on a flower
8. 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.
Osmosis
Carbon 14
Law of Reciprocal Actions
Catalyst
9. Begin as huge clouds of dust and other particles called nebulas.
Experimental group
Stars
Boyle's Law
Convection
10. This is the motion of objects emitting or reflecting sound waves changing their frequency.
Doppler Effect
pH
Temperature
Six Simple Machines that reduce effort
11. Plants response to light
Atomic Number
Phototropism
Cell wall
Atom composition
12. 1. homeostasis 2. organization 3. metabolism 4. growth 5. adaptation 6. response to stimuli 7. reproduction
Solution
characteristics of life?
Ionic Bonds
How atomic particles on the Periodic Table are organized:
13. 1. inner core 2. outer core 3. mantle 4. crust
Matter
Galaxies
Spring tides
layers of the Earth?
14. Duplicates genetic material
Phototropism
Protostar
Sound waves
Prophase
15. 1. egg 2. tadpole (breathes water) 3. metamorphosis 4. adult frog (breathes air)
Lunar eclipse
Nucleus
Atomic Mass
life cycle of a frog
16. Occur because the shadow of the Earth or the Moon is cast onto the other body.
Seasons
Characteristics of a mammal
Solution
eclipses
17. One member benefits - the other is unaffected.
Boyle's Law
Law of Inertia
Weathering
Commensalism
18. Are a progressive disturbance propagated from point to point (with regularity between points)
Waves
An atom with an imbalance charge
Most isotopes
Flowering plants
19. Occurs when cooler portions of a liquid or gas flow in to take the place of hotter - rising portions.
Mutualism
Convection
Speed
major types of rocks on the Earth?
20. When the Moon and the Sun are in alignment we get more extreme tides.
Atom
Spring tides
Suspension
Unlike temperature - the amount of thermal energy depends on
21. Is the smallest unit of an element that still has the properties of that element.
Atom
Phototropism
Mixture
Conduction
22. Are caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun on the Earth.
Solution
Doppler Effect
Speed
Tides
23. Matter and energy have the properties of both particles and waves
Cell wall
Quantum Theory states that
Parasitism
Physical Change
24. Asserts that organisms have changed over time to adapt to the unique and varied demands of their changing environments.
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25. Force = Mass X Acceleration
Temperature
Sun (on HRD)
Element
Law of Acceleration
26. Cell begins to split
Carbon 14
Physical Change
Motion
Anaphase
27. States that all of the Earth's continents at one time were joined as a single 'super - continent' called Pangaea. Over time - the continents drifted apart.
Flowering plants
Half life
Theory of Plate Tectonics
Law of Reciprocal Actions
28. Stores food and other materials needed by the cell
Tides
Stars
Natural selection
Vacuole
29. Has the same number of protons and neutrons
A balanced atom
Law of Inertia
Geotropism
Law of Reciprocal Actions
30. A bond in which on atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other gains an electron to form a negative ion - creating an electrostatic force which holds them together.
Element
How atomic particles on the Periodic Table are organized:
Ionic Bonds
Carbon
31. The types of organisms an ecosystem can support is primarily determined by the amount of...
The Theory of Relativity states
Water
Prophase
types of symbiotic relationships
32. Refers to the vast periods of time over which the Earth changes.
layers of the Earth?
Centrifugal force
Chemical Change
Geologic timescale
33. 1. temperature (think movement) 2. pressure
The Law of Gravity
The law of Conservation of Matter
Centrifugal force
factors that cause a substance to change state
34. Is the measure of the presence of hydrogen ions in a substance.
Weathering
On the Periodic Table chemical properties are loosely organized by
Quantum Theory states that
pH
35. 1. producer 2. primary consumer 3. secondary consumer 4. tertiary consumer 5. decomposer
Chemical Change
the hierarchy within an ecosystem
Unlike temperature - the amount of thermal energy depends on
Prophase
36. 1. positive charge 2. located in nucleus 3. mass is 1 AMU
Telophase
Protons
shape of the Milky Way
Covalent Bonds
37. Causes beneficial traits to be propagated and detrimental traits to be eliminated.
major fault types
Natural selection
Electrons
wedge
38. It spreads the work over a greater distance along the planes of the wedge.
Bonds
wedge
Waves
Nucleus
39. Require a medium and travel much slower than light.
Anaphase
Hertzsprung - Russel diagram (HRD) of spectral class
Sound waves
Ribosomes
40. Is a substance composed of two or more elements
Conduction
Compound
How energy is measured
Potential energy is
41. As a nebula contracts - the particles collide with colossal force igniting a nuclear reaction and forming a protostar.
Atomic Number
Protostar
Commensalism
Theory of Plate Tectonics
42. Organelle found in cells of plants and some other organisms that captures the energy from sunlight and convert it into chemical energy
Velocity
Chloroplast
the stages of mitosis?
Solution
43. When the Moon or the Sun are pulling at perpendicular angles we get less extreme tides.
Neap tides
Commensalism
Compound
evidences for continental drift
44. 1. puzzle piece argument 2. sea floor spreading 3. fossil records
Nucleus
Acceleration
factors that cause a substance to change state
evidences for continental drift
45. 1. egg 2. larvae 3. pupae/crysalis 4. imago/adult butterfly
Cytoplasm
The law of Conservation of Matter
life cycle of a butterfly
Physical Change
46. Our solar system is made up of numerous bodies which orbit the Sun due to...
Phototropism
key stages of the water cycle
Carbon
Centrifugal force
47. Stamen
Suspension
pH
Atom
Male sex organ on a flower
48. 1. prophase 2. metaphase 3. anaphase 4. telophase
DNA
Experimental group
Cytoplasm
the stages of mitosis?
49. A bond formed when atoms share one or more of their valence electrons.
Phototropism
Boyle's Law
Most isotopes
Covalent Bonds
50. 1. the more massive either or both bodies are - the greater the gravitational force between them. 2. the further apart two bodies are - the lesser the gravitational force between them.
factors that cause a substance to change state
Solution
Anaphase
The Law of Gravity