Geography
A region that receives more than 55 inches of rain every year, this biome is less famous than its tropical cousin but boasts more fertile soil
What is a Temperate Rain Forest?
A chronological order of events that convey the history of a given world
What is a Timeline?
A belief that there exist two fundamental forces that are opposed to each other
What is dualism?
The structured set of rules and principles that dictate how supernatural and/or fantastical elements function in a given world.
What is a Magic System?
An offspring of parents that differ in genetically determined traits
What is a Hybrid?
This landform develops as a result of sedimentary deposition by flowing water.
What is a Delta?
A mythological long-form story that prominently feature characters treated as historical by the cultures writing about them
What is an Epic?
A state in which a culture is perceived as losing touch with both its original heritage and that of its new host culture
What is Marginalization?
The obtaining of power or a satisfaction of one’s goal, but at the cost of something or someone important to them.
What is Power at a Price?
A situation in which different sexes of the same species display different physical traits
What is Sexual Dimorphism?
An area of land where all flowing surface water gathers at a single point
What is a Drainage Basin?
A deprecated historiographical term used to denote a historical period marked by economic, cultural, and intellectual stagnation.
What is a Dark Age?
A situation in which a community uses two distinct dialects or languages, with one usually more prestigious than the other
What is Diglossia?
A system of inheritance which does not differentiate on the basis of gender
What is Cognative inheritance?
An organism which has cells which are derived from different genotypes
What is a Chimera?
This very Italian term describes a region in the country of its origins but also a transition zone between plains and mountains.
What is a Piedmont?
Originally a family name, widely appropriated as a prestigious imperial title by several empires, including the Ottoman, Russian, & German Empires
What is a Caesar?
A cultural attitude that values the enjoyment of life itself and the act of living in the present moment; a positive, carefree cultural attitude
What is joie de vivre (Joy of Living)?
In this system, positions of power are awarded according to demonstrated ability or achievement rather than inherited status.
What is a meritocracy?
A phenomenon in which a species confined to an island increases in size relative to its mainland relatives
What is Island Gigantism?
Borrowed from German, this word denotes a hill, ridge, or a mountain that abruptly rises from a surrounding flat area.
What is an Inselberg?
A gap or discontinuity in the rule or administration of a state (especially of a monarchy), implying a state of unrest or a power vacuum.
What is an Interregnum?
A historical marriage practice where a woman is allowed to take multiple husbands
What is Polyandry?
This phenomenon occurs when simple rules and interactions among individual parts produce complex behavior at the level of the whole system.
What is emergence?
A progress by which an organism isolates chloroplasts from algae and becomes photosynthetic
What is Kleptoplasty?