SSC 100 exam 1 Created for 2022/2023

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Scientific Method - ANSWER 1. observation 2. description 3. classification 4. analysis 5. hypothesis 6. observe 7. hypothesize 8. test 9. communicate results science is the - ANSWER method by which ... knowledge is obtained disciplinary is - ANSWER particular branch of learning or body of knowledge- different branches Interdisiplinary - ANSWER draws on two or more disciplines Social science has 3 vs - ANSWER -natural vs social/behavioral -pure vs applied -theory vs method in natural vs social/behavioral what does each mean - ANSWER natural-hurricane social/behavioral-everyday living in pure vs applied what does each mean - ANSWER pure- foundation of everything applied- observation Anthropology - ANSWER study of human societies, cultures, and their development economics - ANSWER study of production, consumption, and transfer of wealth history - ANSWER study of past events mostly human affairs political science - ANSWER branch of knowledge with gov analyze political activity and behavior psychology - ANSWER behavior and human mental processes Sociology - ANSWER social relationships and institutions-develop, structure, and function of human society knowledge= - ANSWER science + arts science and arts includes - ANSWER literary arts, visual arts, and performing arts micro examples - ANSWER shopping centers, costumers, suppliers macro examples - ANSWER technology, economics, demographics, political, and natural 5 facets of society - ANSWER soc, geography, economics, anthropology, and psych society is made up of institutions like - ANSWER family, religion, education, economy, and gov culture is - ANSWER the way of life of the people who make up society non-material examples of culture - ANSWER values, customers, family systems, rules, language material examples of culture - ANSWER cell phones, technology, church subculture is - ANSWER a subgroup within a society displays different lang, beliefs, values, and norms examples of subculture - ANSWER cult, bikers counterculture - ANSWER opposition group of culture examples of counterculture - ANSWER LGBTQ, feminists Ethnocentrism - ANSWER tendency to judge other cultures by standards of one's own culture cultural relativism - ANSWER attitudes that the practices of another society should be understood "I'll try it" Multiculturalism - ANSWER respect ppl from many different countries with diff language, cultures, and accept than making it the dominant culture eurocentrism - ANSWER the dominance of european culture like the religion, hair, clothes Afrocentrism - ANSWER dominance of african culture patterns causes of hybridization - ANSWER respect, merge of culture, something in common nature of hybridization - ANSWER interbreeding of indiv of 2 distinct populations or population groups Hybridization is the process - ANSWER of producing new plant/animal from two different existing types to form a new hybridization is the way - ANSWER in which forms become separated from existing practices and recombine with new forms in new practices globalization is - ANSWER the linking of the world together, diff cultures and societies/communities that is shared by events occurring all over the world globalization is a - ANSWER global society/global village what are two outcomes of globalization - ANSWER homogenization and localization/nationalism homogenization - ANSWER process by which cultures become similar to one another examples of homogenization - ANSWER african cultures after slavery localization/nationalism - ANSWER the belief that the ppl of a particular national territory have historical or god given rights that supercede those of other people examples of localization/nationalism - ANSWER holocaust and the getting rid of Jews 6 types of the Caribbean natural environment - ANSWER 1. tropical rainforest 2. seasonal rainforest 3. dry or deciduous forest 4. savannah 5.thorny woodlands and cactus scrub 6. Mangrove tropical rainforest ex - ANSWER El Yunque, Puerto Rico, St Croix tropical rainforest is defined as - ANSWER receive 80in of rain and wet 10 months a year seasonal rainforest ex - ANSWER higher elevation of cuba and Hispaniola seasonal rainforest is - ANSWER 80in of rain in 7-9 month/year dry or tropical deciduous forest ex - ANSWER cuba dry or tropical deciduous forest is - ANSWER received 30-50 in of rain 5-7 months Savannah ex - ANSWER DR and northern Bahamas savanah is a - ANSWER flat, dry grassland thorny woodlands and cactus scrub ex - ANSWER dutch ABC islands thorny woodlands and cactus scrubs - ANSWER dry most of the year Mangrove can tolerate - ANSWER some salt water where is mangrove found - ANSWER humid windward coast of most islands Leeward islands mean - ANSWER from wind windward islands mean - ANSWER to the wind the ______________ islands are a group of islands where eastern caribbean sea meets Atlantic ocean - ANSWER Leeward the ______________ from martin to trinidad - ANSWER windward Archipelago - ANSWER group of islands that has a stretch of water containing many islands example of archielago - ANSWER hawaii Leeward Islands - ANSWER ABC islands, Aurba, Banara, and caresel Lesser Antilles - ANSWER the smaller Caribbean islands southeast of the Greater Antilles Lesser Antilles are - ANSWER The Virgin Islands Anguilla St. Martin and Netherlands Antilles Saba St. Eustatius St. Barts Antigua Barbuda St. Kitts Nevis Montserrat Guadeloupe Dominica Martinique Saint Lucia Barbados St. Vincent and the Grenadines Grenada Trinidad & Tobago Greater Antilles - ANSWER Cuba Hispaniola Jamaica Puerto Rico Caymen island [Show More]

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