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Altimeter - ✔✔-An instrument that uses air pressure to record height, such as the height of an airplane.
Anemometer - ✔✔-An instrumen
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NYSTCE Multi-Subject CST: Part 3, Arts
& Sciences, Comprehensive part 3/
Rated A
Altimeter - ✔✔-An instrument that uses air pressure to record height, such as the height of an airplane.
Anemometer - ✔✔-An instrument to measure wind speed.
Angiosperm - ✔✔-A group of plants that produce seeds enclosed within an ovary, which may mature
into a fruit.
Annuals - ✔✔-Plants that die after one growing season.
Asexual Reproduction - ✔✔-Reproduction involving ONE parent only.
Atmosphere - ✔✔-The Earth's atmosphere is primarily nitrogen and oxygen.
- atmosphere extends to the surface of about 10km.
- stratosphere extends from 10km to 50km
- mesosphere extends from 50km to 80km
- thermosphere extends beyond 80km
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) - ✔✔-Light emission from the upper atmosphere that appear in many
shapes and colors.
Bacillus - ✔✔-a rod-shaped bacteria.
Blood - ✔✔-Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an animal, distributing nutrients (usually
oxygen).
Canopy - ✔✔-A layer of tree branches and other vegetation elevated above the ground.
Carbon Dioxide (C02) - ✔✔-A colorless, odorless gas that is important in the Earth's atmospheric
greenhouse effect.
Carcinogen - ✔✔-A substance that can lead to cancer.
Carcinoma - ✔✔-A malignant (infectious) tumor, which forms in the skin and outside of internal organs.
Carnivore - ✔✔-An organism that eats meat, which includes animals, fungi, and plants.
Ceilometer - ✔✔-An instrument that measures cloud height.
Cell - ✔✔-A fundamental unit of all light. The cell consists of an outer plasma membrane, the cytoplasm,
and genetic material (DNA).
Celsius - ✔✔-A temperature scale which freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
Chemical Properties - ✔✔-Properties that do change the chemical nature of matter.
- change results in an entirely different kind of matter.
- burning, tarnishing, rusting, decomposing
Chemotherapy - ✔✔-A cancer treatment that includes chemicals toxic to malignant (infected) cells.
Chinook Wind - ✔✔-A warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
Chlorophyll - ✔✔-The green substance that absorbs light during photosynthesis.
Chromosome - ✔✔-A single DNA molecule, a tightly coiled strand of DNA, condensed into a compact
structure.
Clone - ✔✔-An identical copy of an organism.
Cloud - ✔✔-A visible group of water or ice particles in the atmosphere.
Commensalism - ✔✔-A relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits from the
other without affecting it.
Continental Divide - ✔✔-In the United States, the part of the western mountains that separates water
flowing toward opposite side of the country.
Convection - ✔✔-The movement up in the atmosphere of heated moisture. Thunderstorms are often
caused by convection.
Core - ✔✔-The portion of the Earth from beneath the mantle of the Earth's center.
Cross-Pollination - ✔✔-Fertilization of one plant by pollen from a different plant.
Diabetes - ✔✔-A disease related to lowered levels of insulin.
Diploid Cell - ✔✔-A cell with TWO copies of each chromosome.
Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) - ✔✔-This primary component of chromosomes carries an organisms
genetic code.
Double Helix - ✔✔-A term used to describe the coiling strands of DNA molecules that resembles a spiral
staircase.
Ecology - ✔✔-The study of interactions of organisms with their environment and with each other.
El Nino - ✔✔-Warming of the Pacific Ocean seawater along the coast of South America that leads to
significant weather changes in the United States.
Embryo - ✔✔-The stage of cellular division that develops from a zygote
Enzyme - ✔✔-A protein that aids biochemical reactions.
Epicenter - ✔✔-The part on the surface of the Earth immediately above the focus of an earthquake.
Esophagus - ✔✔-Part of the gut that connects the pharynx to the stomach.
Estuary - ✔✔-A place where freshwater and seawater mix.
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