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Tong AP World Stetse
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Complexity | The state or quality of being intricate or complicated. The complexity theory is too complex to accurately predict the future but the exhibit underlying patterns can help them cope to an increasingly complex world. |
| Ice Age | A glacial episode during the past geological period. About 1/3 of the Earth was coverred in ice. The most recent ice age was almost 10,000 years ago. As the Earth started warming up the ice started to melt. The last ice age left traces of glaciers. |
| Goldilocks Principle | The goldilocks principle states that something must fall within certain margains. This would also affect allergies and sickness in humans. |
| Gaia | Living matter on the Earth collectively defines and regulates the material conditions necessary for the continuance of life. All ancient civilizations believed that the Earth was an organism. |
| Agrarian Revolution | Men no longer hunted for food, and the shortage possibility decreased worldwide. |
| Entropy | The quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder in the system. |
| Emergence | Process of coming into being important or prominent. It is a conversation of human organizations as complex systems and the implications of complexity science for those orginizations. |
| Integration | Process of putting individuals together. Opposite of segregation. Back in history there was segregation (black and white people) that tried to have segregation among both races. (like in the movie Hairspray). |
| Paradox | A statement or proposition, reasoning from acceptable premises which leads to a conclusion that seems senseless. |
| Theory | A proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of an actual fact. |
| Evolution | A gradual development to a more complex form. For example, the education has changed from a long time before now due to evolution in the system and in humans and society. |
| Regime | A system of government and particular administration. It changed everything due to the fact that every human being is changing, and with the change all the systems will change within the next 1,000s of years. |