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Tong AP World Oyama
| 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 that can help them cope to an increasingly complex world. |
| Ice Age | A glacial episode during a past geological period. 1/3 of the Earth was ice and 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 that it was there. It left glaciers. |
| Goldilocks Principle | The goldilocks principle states that something must fall within certain margins. It would also mean to 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 interpereted as the degree of disorder or randomness 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 organizations. |
| Integration | Process of putting individuals together. Opposite of segregation. Back then there was segregation (black people and white people) they tried to have integration among both races and not segregation. |
| 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. |
| Regime | A system of government or particular administration. It changed everything due to the fact that every human being is changing and with the change all the systems are changing within 1,000's of years. |