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Tong AP World Niino
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| EMERGENCE | Definition: the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions Significance: Simple ideas that made changes in the world emerged from actions that happened in everyday life |
| INTEGRATION | Definition: the act of combining parts to make a unified whole Significance: Communities around the world have been integrated for centuries. Integration caused a boost in the economy through communication, transportation, and trade between nations. |
| PARADOX | Definition: an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction Significance: They are important in discovering unstated assumptions in thoughts of poeple in the past. Paradoxes have no universally accepted resolutions. |
| THEORY | Definition: A system of ideas intended to explain something based on general principle significance: theories have led to great achievements. Without them, scientific experiments wouldn't have existed because there wouldn't be anything to try to prove |
| EVOLUTION | Definition: change over time in inherited traits found in populations of organisms Significance: Evolution is the only theory connecting the similarities and differences of all the species on Earth and is supported by evidence found around the world. |
| REGIME | Definition: a mode or system of rule or government Significance: They are crucial to function in international relations, so they can influence world politics and moniter activity in other countries. They also serve as a root for international laws. |
| COMPLEXITY | Definition: characterize something with many parts in intricate arrangement Significance: supplies attention mostly in the natural sciences but also in the sciences dealing with human interaction |
| Ice Age | definition: is a geological period of long-term decrease in temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and glaciers. significance: hunters become farmers after the Ice Age |
| GOLDILOCKS PRINCIPLE | definition: something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. significance: Some people think that this is the reason for why the Earth is able to function the way it is |
| Gaia | definition: Greek goddess personifying the Earth, the Greek version of "Mother Nature," or the Earth Mother. significance: They believed that the earth was like a living organism and instead of thinking they owned the earth they thought they were using |
| AGRARIAN REVOLUTION | definition: people made a transition from hunting to true farming by domesticating plants and animals near their continual villages Significance: shortage possibility decreased worldwide |
| ENTROPY | definition: thermodynamic quantity in a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, also a degree of disorder in a system. Significance:there is no less than making sense of how the Universe is organized or started |
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