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General Science Vocabulary

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Introduction:
"I was bored so I opened up The American Heritage Dictionary of Science (1986) to a random page for each letter except J (that letter was angering me today). Can you guess the word from its definition?"


1. A polysaccharide made from seaweed used to culture bacteria and fungi.
    agent
    agamete
    agar
    agglutin


2. A marsh at the inlet or outlet of a lake or a river.
    batholith
    basin
    bead
    bayou


3. A waxy membrane near the nostrils on the beak of some birds.
    cere
    cercaria
    cephalin
    centriole


4. A generator. It normally creates direct current electricity.
    dyad
    durain
    dynamo
    duramen


5. Illness found primarily among certain group of people or plants and found primarily in one region.
    endarch
    encrinite
    enantiomorph
    endemic


6. A unit of frequency equal to 1 trillion Hertz.
    frenum
    frill
    fresnel
    frond


7. Small granular pellets of snow due to riming (adding a thin layer of ice due to condensation then freezing of water vapor.)
    gravid
    graticule
    graupel
    gravel


8. The unit of inductance when a current varies at 1 ampere/second and creates an EMF of 1 volt
    heparin
    henry
    herb
    heptad


9. A number smaller than any positive magnitude yet larger than zero.
    inferior
    infradian
    infinity
    infinitesimal


10. An exceedingly hot wind from the Sahara Desert that blows into Egypt (usually) in the spring.
    ketone
    kieselguhr
    kettle
    khamsin


11. The jagged edge of a petal of a flower that forms a fringe.
    lacmoid
    lacinia
    laccolith
    lachrymal


12. A looping turn on a river running along level ground.
    meander
    medium
    medulla
    meatus


13. A solution that contains one gram-equivalent of solid for every liter of liquid.
    nonsense
    normal
    norite
    north


14. A rock that is made up of little spheres of calcium carbonate.
    opal
    operand
    operculum
    oolite


15. The tubes in a vascular plant through which nutrients pass.
    phloem
    phon
    phlegm
    pheromone


16. A fifth-degree polynomial.
    quintal
    quinone
    quincunx
    quintic


17. Similar to a root, this plant structure is a creeping underground stem.
    rhizome
    rhodopsin
    rhodoplast
    rhizocaul


18. An iron rich black tourmaline.
    schreibersite
    sciaenoid
    schorl
    scion


19. The unit of pressure that supports one millimeter of a column of mercury.
    torque
    torus
    torr
    torpor


20. The dark central section of an astronomical body's shadow.
    umbra
    uncus
    unguis
    unciform


21. The waxy covering of an embryo that protects it from amniotic fluid.
    venule
    verruca
    vernix
    vernier


22. A diagram that displays various information about the winds at a location.
    wind rose
    wind scale
    windpipe
    wind chill


23. An anatomical object shaped like a sword, like the cartilage at the end of the sternum.
    xeric
    xiphoid
    xerothermic
    xiphophyllous


24. A rare-earth metallic element. Atomic number 70. Melts at 1097 degrees K and boils at 1467 degrees K.
    yttrium
    yersinina
    ytterbium
    yotta


25. A fertilized egg.
    zygote
    zymosan
    zymogen
    zwitterion


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