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NYSTCE Multi-Subject CST: Part 3, Arts & Sciences Exam/152 Questions with 100% Correct Answers
NYSTCE Multi-Subject CST: Part 3, Arts & Sciences Exam/152 Questions with 100% Correct Answers
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NYSTCE Multi-Subject CST: Part 3, Arts & SciencesExam/152 Questions with 100% Correct Answers
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.
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