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Vocab from DHS classes
Question | Answer |
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The possible y values of a function that result when we substitute all the possible x-values into the function | Range of a Function |
A relation between a set of inputs and a set of potential outputs with the property that each input is related to exactly one output | Function |
Photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that are responsible for color vision; they function best in relatively bright light | Cone |
Slender resistant elastic membrane; it vibrates when sound waves are received from the auditory canal, then transmits the waves to the ossicles | Tympanum |
An economic system that stresses the goals of the national government rather than the individual; developed in Europe as the feudal system; required the government to control businesses to export more goods to other countries rather than importing | Mercantilism |
A political and military organization which was created in 1964; was considered by the United States and Israel to be a terrorist organization; PLO later recognized Israel's right to exist; founded by Yasser Arafat | PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) |
To pay or give one-tenth of your annual income for the support of the church | Tithe |
(1961) An unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government; an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro; John F. Kennedy assumes presidency in the USA | Bay of Pigs |
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1955-1964; succeeded Joseph Stalin; presided over the Cuban Missile Crisis; joined the Bolshevik Party (1918) and served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War; initiated a campaign of de-Stalinization | Nikita Khrushchev |
Name given to Nazi Germany’s invasion of Russia in 1941; largest military attack of World War Two; many deaths and other economic and political effects; based on a massive military strategy known as blitzkrieg | Operation Barbarossa |