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Tong AP World Kim
| Topic Name | Definition | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Complexity | Complexity tends to be used to characterize something with many parts in a complicated arrangement. | It is important for our environment, and therefore scientific fields have dealt with complex systems and phenomena, including the history of exploration. |
| Ice Age | Approximately 20,000 years ago, generic geological period of long-term reduction in temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere (Glacial Age). | It helps us understand early life, civilization, and survival of humans and extinct organisms. |
| Goldilocks Principle | States that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. | It is used to balance and measure specific amounts in circumstances regarding precise measurements (medicines, planets/calculations, etc.). |
| Gaia | The first Greek goddess, or Mother Nature. Used to explain the natural forces and occurrences of Earth. | Gaia is a primordial deity in the Ancient Greek pantheon and considered a Mother Titan or Great Titan. |
| Agrarian Revolution | Agrarian means relating to cultivated land. The Agrarian Revolution is a period of agricultural development between the 18th and ending of 19th century. | Its importance was the massive improvement in modern agricultural productivity and farm technology. |
| Entropy | A thermodynamic property used to measure the availability of a system's thermal energy. | Its importance is for conversion into mechanical work, when it is often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system. |
| Emergence | The gradual beginning or coming forth of something. | In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, it is a strategy of complex systems and patterns from similar simple interactions. Emergence is important to the theories of integrative levels and of complex systems. |
| Intergration | The process of blending or combining two or more opposing objects or subjects. | Plays an important role of discriminating racism during the times of segregation (1900s). |
| Paradox | A statement that apparently seems to lead to a senseless conclusion or leads to a contradiction in which it seems to defy logic. | This could lead to biased interpretations and arguments in economics. In literature,it analyzes and examines contradictory statements and drawing conclusions to explain their purpose. Philosophers also use paradoxes to compare different beliefs. |
| Theory | A system of ideas intended to explain something, esp. one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained. | It is the heart of scientific processes to explain our world and history from observations and proven hypotheses. |
| Evolution | The process of various kinds of living organisms which developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth. | Its importance is to explain how Earth's slow, constant change impacts the adaptations and survival of modern organisms. |
| Regime | An authorized government or system. | It is a form of government in order to maintain the operations and social interactions in politics. It is also a class of physical conditions by certain measures in sciences, to prove and specify a physical phenomenon or boundary condition. |
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