NYSTCE CST 245 FINAL EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Locomotor - ✔✔Movement, motor skills, walking, hopping, skipping
✔✔manipulative skills - ✔✔A set of skills in which one handles objects with the hands,
feet or other body parts.
✔✔altimeter - ✔✔uses airpressure to record height eg. height of a plane
✔✔anemometer - ✔✔An instrument used to measure wind speed
✔✔Angiosperms - ✔✔A flowering plant which forms seeds inside a protective chamber
called an ovary. which may mature to a fruit
✔✔annuals - ✔✔Plants that die after one growing season
✔✔aurora borealis - ✔✔a colorful, glowing display in the sky caused when particles
from the sun strike oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the ionosphere; also called the
Northern Lights
✔✔bacillus - ✔✔Rod shaped bacteria
✔✔Carcinogen - ✔✔A cancer-causing substance
✔✔carcinoma - ✔✔a cancer arising in the epithelial tissue of the skin or of the lining of
the internal organs.
✔✔chinook wind - ✔✔A warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
✔✔Commensalism - ✔✔an association between two organisms in which one benefits
and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.
✔✔convection - ✔✔The transfer of thermal energy by the circulation or movement of a
liquid or gas
✔✔El Nino - ✔✔(oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator
from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time
✔✔epicenter - ✔✔the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an
earthquake
✔✔Estuary - ✔✔A habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the
ocean.
, ✔✔Gametes - ✔✔a mature haploid male or female germ cell that is able to unite with
another of the opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a zygote.
✔✔Zygote - ✔✔fertilized egg
✔✔diploid cell - ✔✔A cell containing two sets of chromosomes (2n), one set inherited
from each parent.
✔✔haploid cell - ✔✔A cell containing only one set of chromosomes (n).
✔✔Interferons - ✔✔interfere with viral replication within cells
✔✔Isotope - ✔✔Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons
✔✔knot - ✔✔Velocity of one nautical mile per hour
✔✔lenticular clouds - ✔✔A cloud in the shape of a lens.
✔✔Nimbostratus - ✔✔Dark stratus clouds that bring rain.
✔✔Permafrost - ✔✔permanently frozen ground
✔✔Phylum - ✔✔in classification, a group of closely related classes
✔✔Phloem - ✔✔The vascular tissue through which food moves in some plants
✔✔virga - ✔✔perceptiation that evaporates before it reaches earth surface.
✔✔allegory - ✔✔art that represents or symbolizes some idea or quality.
✔✔amphora - ✔✔egg shaped grecian urn
✔✔annealing - ✔✔softening by heating glass or metal that has become hardened
✔✔Arebesque - ✔✔Very intricate designs based on plant forms.
✔✔atrium - ✔✔open rectangular court in the front of a church
✔✔baluster - ✔✔a small curved post or pillar
✔✔batten - ✔✔strips of wood used as a base for plastering or for attaching tile
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Locomotor - ✔✔Movement, motor skills, walking, hopping, skipping
✔✔manipulative skills - ✔✔A set of skills in which one handles objects with the hands,
feet or other body parts.
✔✔altimeter - ✔✔uses airpressure to record height eg. height of a plane
✔✔anemometer - ✔✔An instrument used to measure wind speed
✔✔Angiosperms - ✔✔A flowering plant which forms seeds inside a protective chamber
called an ovary. which may mature to a fruit
✔✔annuals - ✔✔Plants that die after one growing season
✔✔aurora borealis - ✔✔a colorful, glowing display in the sky caused when particles
from the sun strike oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the ionosphere; also called the
Northern Lights
✔✔bacillus - ✔✔Rod shaped bacteria
✔✔Carcinogen - ✔✔A cancer-causing substance
✔✔carcinoma - ✔✔a cancer arising in the epithelial tissue of the skin or of the lining of
the internal organs.
✔✔chinook wind - ✔✔A warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
✔✔Commensalism - ✔✔an association between two organisms in which one benefits
and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.
✔✔convection - ✔✔The transfer of thermal energy by the circulation or movement of a
liquid or gas
✔✔El Nino - ✔✔(oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator
from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time
✔✔epicenter - ✔✔the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an
earthquake
✔✔Estuary - ✔✔A habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the
ocean.
, ✔✔Gametes - ✔✔a mature haploid male or female germ cell that is able to unite with
another of the opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a zygote.
✔✔Zygote - ✔✔fertilized egg
✔✔diploid cell - ✔✔A cell containing two sets of chromosomes (2n), one set inherited
from each parent.
✔✔haploid cell - ✔✔A cell containing only one set of chromosomes (n).
✔✔Interferons - ✔✔interfere with viral replication within cells
✔✔Isotope - ✔✔Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons
✔✔knot - ✔✔Velocity of one nautical mile per hour
✔✔lenticular clouds - ✔✔A cloud in the shape of a lens.
✔✔Nimbostratus - ✔✔Dark stratus clouds that bring rain.
✔✔Permafrost - ✔✔permanently frozen ground
✔✔Phylum - ✔✔in classification, a group of closely related classes
✔✔Phloem - ✔✔The vascular tissue through which food moves in some plants
✔✔virga - ✔✔perceptiation that evaporates before it reaches earth surface.
✔✔allegory - ✔✔art that represents or symbolizes some idea or quality.
✔✔amphora - ✔✔egg shaped grecian urn
✔✔annealing - ✔✔softening by heating glass or metal that has become hardened
✔✔Arebesque - ✔✔Very intricate designs based on plant forms.
✔✔atrium - ✔✔open rectangular court in the front of a church
✔✔baluster - ✔✔a small curved post or pillar
✔✔batten - ✔✔strips of wood used as a base for plastering or for attaching tile
