Types of Communication Quiz

A media model combining professional journalism, contributors, and readers.

Where public citizens actively collect, report, and share news.

Journalism that uses sensationalism and exaggeration for sales.

Journalism aimed at uncovering wrongdoings of public officials.

Computer-based systems allowing user control of various media types.

An ancient Chinese belief system emphasizing personal ethics and morality.

The best-known Confucian philosopher after Confucius, lived from 372 to 289 B.C.E.

A major world religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama over 2,500 years ago in India.

Native indigenous peoples in Spanish America and Asia; lower-ranked in the colonial hierarchy.

Gradual changes from simple to complex forms, believed to start in oceans billions of years ago.

Process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce.

Ancestors of humans and apes, adapted to forest life, primarily herbivores.

Early human ancestor found in South Africa, walked erect and used stones.

A contract with an insurance company for tax-deferred funds accumulation.

Units of ownership in a corporation, entitling profits and capital gains.

General term for ownership certificates of a company, includes common and preferred.

A statement assumed true until evidence shows otherwise; it's a baseline for argument.

Contradictory to Ho; accepted if evidence favors it after rejecting Ho.

Decision made when sample data favors the alternative hypothesis over the null hypothesis.

A vertical line where a function approaches as x approaches a specific value.

A horizontal line that a function approaches as y approaches a specific value.

A statistical function describing possible values and their likelihoods for a random variable.

A metric that shows how spread out measurements are from the average value.

A range of values likely to contain the true statistic with a specific probability.

The upper open ocean zone, from the surface to 650 feet deep.

The middle open ocean zone, ranging from 650 to 3,300 feet deep.

Bathypelagic is 3,300-13,000 feet deep; Abyssopelagic is deeper than 13,000 feet.

The largest organ that acts as a barrier and regulates temperature; covers 15-20% of body mass.

A community of living organisms interacting with each other in a specific environment.

The framework that supports and protects the body's organs and provides shape.

Provides support, protects organs, stores minerals, and produces blood cells.

Includes cardiac, smooth, and skeletal muscles, each with distinct functions.

Cardiac muscles maintain blood flow throughout the body.

Breaks down nutrients, absorbs essentials, and eliminates waste.

Maintains breathing, supplies oxygen, and disposes of carbon dioxide.

Includes arthritis, osteoporosis, fractures, and muscular dystrophy.

Transports fluids back to blood and houses white blood cells for immunity.

Occurs when a parent organism breaks into pieces, each developing into a new one.

A new organism develops from a bud on the parent cell; it may detach or stay attached.

New individuals form without seeds or spores, commonly in plants.

Reproduction that does not involve a male gamete like sperm.

Reproduction involving one parent without gamete fusion, producing clones.

A genetically identical copy of a gene, cell, or organism.

Asexual reproduction where a parent splits into two or more equal-sized individuals.

A cell with one set of chromosomes; in humans, that’s 23 chromosomes.