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What is the current geological age, characterized by human activity's dominant influence on climate and the environment?
What is the average distance between Earth and the Sun?
What is the term used to describe the simultaneous buying and selling of assets to profit from differences in price?
What is the term used to describe the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem?
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What is the term used to describe the hypothetical form of matter that makes up most of the universe's mass?
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What is the term used to describe the process of spreading agricultural or economic activities over a larger area?
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What is the term used to describe the ancient Babylonian code of law created by King Hammurabi?
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What is the term used to describe a planet that orbits a star outside our solar system?
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What is the term used to describe the process of making things uniform or similar?
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What is the name of the severe worldwide economic downturn that occurred in the 1930s?
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What is the term used to describe the family of great apes, including humans, their ancestors, and related species?
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What is the term used to describe the process of increasing the productivity of a given area of land through enhanced techniques?
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What is the term used to describe the genocide of six million Jews and millions of others by Nazi Germany during World War II?
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What is the term used to describe the total value of all goods and services produced within a country in a specific period?
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What is the term used to describe the policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means?
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What is the term used to describe the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled?
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Study Notes
Geography and Environment
- Anthropocene: current geological age where human activity dominates climate and environment
- Astronomical Unit: average distance between Earth and Sun, approximately 93 million miles
- Biodiversity: variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
- Biosphere: global sum of all ecosystems where life exists
Economy and Politics
- Arbitrage: simultaneous buying and selling of assets to profit from price differences
- Communism: political theory advocating for class war, leading to a publicly owned society
- Consumer capitalism: economic system driven by consumer demand, production, and innovation
- Fascism: political ideology characterized by authoritarianism, nationalism, and often racism
- Globalization: increased interconnectedness and interdependence among countries, economically, culturally, and politically
- GDP: total value of all goods and services produced within a country in a specific period
History and Culture
- Black Death: pandemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s
- Chinampas: Mesoamerican agricultural technique of creating small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land
- Code of Hammurabi: ancient Babylonian code of law created by King Hammurabi
- Culture of spectacle: society organized around the consumption of images and commodities
- Epic of Gilgamesh: one of the oldest known pieces of literature, originating from ancient Mesopotamia
- Hieroglyphs: writing system used in ancient Egypt, consisting of pictorial symbols
Science and Technology
- Dark matter: hypothetical form of matter making up most of the universe's mass
- Dark energy: hypothetical form of energy causing the universe's expansion to accelerate
- Doppler effect: change in frequency or wavelength of a wave in relation to an observer
- Entropy: measure of disorder or randomness in a system
- Exoplanet: planet that orbits a star outside our solar system
Social Sciences
- Collective learning: ability to share, preserve, and build upon ideas over generations
- False consciousness: concept in Marxist theory where the working class is misled to accept the ruling class' ideology
- Fermi paradox: apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial life and the lack of contact with such civilizations
- Homogenization: process of making things uniform or similar
- Human rights: basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled
- Imperialism: policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, military force, or other means
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Test your knowledge of various scientific and historical terms including Anthropocene, Arbitrage, Astronomical Unit, Biodiversity, Biosphere, and Black Death.
