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CSET Subject 2: Science
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1. Are caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun on the Earth.
Tides
Charles' Law
Convection
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2. As pressure increases volume decreases
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3. One member benefits - the other is unaffected.
Why is carbon the building block of life?
Osmosis
Commensalism
Prophase
4. Organelle found in cells of plants and some other organisms that captures the energy from sunlight and convert it into chemical energy
Water
Conduction
Steps for the Scientific Method
Chloroplast
5. Require a medium and travel much slower than light.
Convection
Chloroplast
major fault types
Sound waves
6. Duplicates genetic material
Boyle's Law
Prophase
Carbon 14
Telophase
7. The quantity of substance
Stars
Six Simple Machines that reduce effort
Cell membrane
Unlike temperature - the amount of thermal energy depends on
8. 1. convergent 2. divergent 3. transform
layers of the Earth?
Carbon 14
major fault types
Characteristics of a mammal
9. 1. by row 2. atomic number and mass increase as you move left to right and top to bottom
life cycle of a frog
How atomic particles on the Periodic Table are organized:
Half life
pH
10. Has the same number of protons and neutrons
major fault types
A balanced atom
Parasitism
Mitochondria
11. Pulls apart into two separate cells
categories of taxonomy?
Telophase
Meiosis
Protons
12. Occurs when light is bent while passing from one medium into another.
eclipses
Cytoplasm
factors that cause a substance to change state
Refraction of light
13. The capacity to work
energy
Control group
Ion
Steps for the Scientific Method
14. Calories
How energy is measured
Law of Reciprocal Actions
Motion
factors that cause a substance to change state
15. 1. igneous 2. metamorphic 3. sedimentary
major types of rocks on the Earth?
Flowering plants
Theory of Plate Tectonics
Experimental group
16. Cellular division creating diploid cells which are typically capable of beginning the process again.
Electrons
Half life
Mitosis
Sound waves
17. An ion
An atom with an imbalance charge
life cycle of a butterfly
Weathering
The Theory of Relativity states
18. H2O + CO2 --> CH2O + O2
Law of Reciprocal Actions
Potential energy is
the stages of mitosis?
chemical reaction in photosynthesis
19. Is a substance that cannot be separated into simpler substances by chemical means
Protostar
Element
Temperature
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20. The measure of the kinetic energy in a substance's molecules. Simply - temperature is atomic motion.
Vacuole
Matter
On the Periodic Table chemical properties are loosely organized by
Temperature
21. Material inside the cell membrane -- not including the nucleus
Mixture
Flowering plants
Cytoplasm
eclipses
22. 1. State the problem. 2. Form a hypothesis. 3. Observe and experiment. 4. Interpret the data. 5. Draw conclusions.
Conduction
Neutrons
Steps for the Scientific Method
Spring tides
23. Plants response to light
Reflection of light
Color
Phototropism
key stages of the water cycle
24. Occur because the shadow of the Earth or the Moon is cast onto the other body.
Cell wall
Geologic timescale
eclipses
Telophase
25. Caused by the Earth's tilt on its axis. As it revolves arond the Sun - the tilt causes each hemisphere to receive more direct exposure at certain times in its orbit.
Ionic Bonds
Seasons
Osmosis
life cycle of a butterfly
26. Thin - flexible barrier around a cell; regulates what enters and leaves the cell
Cell membrane
Theory of Plate Tectonics
Atom composition
Half life
27. Stamen
Ion
Male sex organ on a flower
Matter
Doppler Effect
28. Our solar system is made up of numerous bodies which orbit the Sun due to...
Centrifugal force
Velocity
Speed
Ionic Bonds
29. 1. prophase 2. metaphase 3. anaphase 4. telophase
evidences for continental drift
pH
Half life
the stages of mitosis?
30. Force = Mass X Acceleration
Atomic Number
Electrolysis
Centrifugal force
Law of Acceleration
31. Are a progressive disturbance propagated from point to point (with regularity between points)
Waves
Law of Acceleration
Atomic Mass
Speed
32. 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.
Darwin's Theory of Evolution
How atomic particles on the Periodic Table are organized:
DNA
Control group
33. An object in motion stays in motion along a straight path unless acted upon by a net external force.
Law of Inertia
Physical Change
Doppler Effect
Osmosis
34. The time required by half the atoms of a particular substance to disintegrate
Potential energy is
Reflection of light
Ionic Bonds
Half life
35. C14 dating only works on organisms that died less than _____ years ago.
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Meiosis
On the Periodic Table chemical properties are loosely organized by
Solar eclipse
36. Energy in motion
Metaphase
Mitochondria
Displacement
Kinetic energy is
37. By wind which stirs the ocean's surface of great distances.
How waves are created
evidences for continental drift
Water
Flowering plants
38. Causes salt to move across a permeable membrane from an area of greater salinity to an area of lesser salinity.
Carbon
Osmosis
Stars
The Law of Gravity
39. 1. incline plane2. wheel and axle 3. lever 4. pulley 5. wedge 6. screw
On the Periodic Table chemical properties are loosely organized by
Six Simple Machines that reduce effort
Atomic Number
Anaphase
40. Is the particular wavelength of light we observe that is not absorbed by an object.
Geologic timescale
Law of Inertia
Ionic Bonds
Color
41. The Moon and the Sun are on opposite sides of the Earth.
Weathering
Solution
Lunar eclipse
Osmosis
42. Is an object's rate of motion = Distance/Time
Motion
Speed
Carbon
three states of matter
43. 1. evaporation 2. condensation 3. precipitation 4. infiltration 5. runoff
key stages of the water cycle
Ionic Bonds
Theory of Plate Tectonics
Ion
44. Spiral disk with several long arms.
Experimental group
Phototropism
An atom with an imbalance charge
shape of the Milky Way
45. The types of organisms an ecosystem can support is primarily determined by the amount of...
Nucleus
Solar eclipse
Water
Theory of Plate Tectonics
46. Is a substance composed of two or more elements
the stages of mitosis?
Sun (on HRD)
Doppler Effect
Compound
47. Forms the key building block at an atomic level.
characteristics of life?
Carbon
Seasons
Male sex organ on a flower
48. Control center of the cell
Sound waves
Nucleus
Spring tides
Control group
49. Cellular division to create sex cells called haploids.
Chloroplast
Sun (on HRD)
Meiosis
Potential energy is
50. Has a pair of chromosomes
Diploid cell
three states of matter
Chloroplast
Displacement