General Science
A two-part Latin scientific name for a single species.
What is a binomial name?
What geographers use to pinpoint the exact location of objects, places, or features on Earth’s surface.
What is a coordinate system?
Any sort of story in which a journey is undertaken to complete some goal, during which the protagonist experiences some significant change.
What is a quest narrative?
He was known as the “Sage of Highland”
Who was Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
This theory suggests that mates make their choice based on the trait that is more exaggerated because it triggers a preexisting sensory system
What is sensory bias?
This theory purports that when an animal behaves in a way that brings harm to themselves, but benefits others to whom the animal is genetically related
What is kin selection?
The deliberate configuration of voting boundaries to favor a particular political party
What is gerrymandering?
They were writers interested in reflection and emotion, as opposed to disinterested reasoning, as the key practices for moral and social development
What were romantic writers?
Strategic laws and programs used by governments to effect population changes.
What are Population policies?
These relationships shape the evolution of both animals so that they become intertwined and dependent on one another.
What are symbiotic relationships?
Animals that reproduce by laying eggs
What is oviparous?
Shared ideals, values, and belief systems that shape culture, including religious, political, moral, and social points of view
What are mentifacts?
A “coming-of-age” story about growth and maturation, usually of a young character
What is a Bildungsroman?
A year before dying in 1992 this poet was named the Poet Laureate of New York
Who was Audre Lorde?
People from the northern United States or Canada who move to their second homes or live in their RVs in warmer states such as Arizona, Florida, or Texas, and some even go farther to Mexico and the Caribbean during the winter months but move back home in the summer.
What are snowbirds?
An ancient Egyptian goddess depicted as a cat, lion, or lion-headed woman who was worshiped as a protector and defender of the pharaoh
Who was Baset?
The incorporation or attempted incorporation of different religions, cultures, or ways of thinking.
What is syncretism?
When he died in 1963, he was arguably the most famous poet in the United States
Who was Robert Frost?
Researchers use this term to describe how an animal feels.
What is an affective state?
For his contributions to the cartography of the United Kingdom, the Royal Geographical Society awarded this guy the inaugural Victoria Medal, which was created in honor of Queen Victoria, in 1902.
Who was Ernst Georg Ravenstein?
This is when the results of two or more researchers are compared for accuracy
What is inter-rater reliability?
A trajectory of demographic stages that represent a progression from high birthrates and high death rates to low birth and death rates over time.
What is the demographic transition model (DTM)?
A treaty signed in 1938 that granted territorial concessions to Germany, including the annexation of the Sudetenland
What was the Munich Agreement?
The English statistician who proposed the theory of runway selection
Who was Ronald Fisher?
The most popular figure of the Transcendentalist movement
Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?