Linguistics
LING 100
sociolinguistics is a study of this.
what is a descriptive study of how society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, influences the way language is used and the effects of language use on society?
ARC 100
Humans began to transition to farming and agriculture approximately this number of years ago
What is 12,000 years ago? (I will give it to them if they say anywhere from 10,000 to 13,000)
CUL 100
The definition of ethnocentrism
what is the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture, often believing one's own culture is superior?
EVOL 100
the mutated genetic information becoming the norm in a population because it continues to help a species adapt over many generations is an example of this.
what is natural section?
FAM 100
Marriages with more than two people in the relationship can be referred to as this.
What is polygamy?
LING 200
When Mandy, who is from England, mentions that her speech sounds different from the other English woman because she was raised in the Midlands, she may be talking about this characterization of her speech.
What is dialect?
ARC 200
One of the two main kinds of art that we found during the Old Stone Age, specifically the Upper Paleolithic, is this.
Cave Art or Portable Art.
CUL 200
When you establish a trusting, harmonious relationship with a research participant through active listening and empathy, you may be said to be doing this.
Building rapport
EVOL 200
when someone mentions primatology, this is what they are talking about.
FAM 200
A triangle in a kinship chart means this.
What is male?/What is a symbol that means a male.
LING 300
The meaning of the term kinesics
What is an interpretation of nonverbal ways of communication?
ARC 300
This is a series of techniques that allows archaeologists to establish a sequence of events without a fixed time-scale, such as finding a fossil in a rock layer and determining that it is older than a fossil in a layer above it.
What is relative dating?
CUL 300
as the US-born little boy began to acquire and learn elements of the American culture, he was experiencing this.
What is enculturation?
EVOL 300
squirrels that were separated from other squirrels by the grand canyon and became a different species altogether is an example of this.
what is speciation?
FAM 300
relationships between persons based on descent or marriage may also be known as this.
what is kinship?
LING 400
Using the word "Ma'am" is one example of these sets of titles, meant to denote status
What are honorifics?
ARC 400
People of the Upper Paleolithic Period lived here during the Winter months.
What are caves and rock shelters?
CUL 400
if you stumble upon a society with practices, beliefs, or norms that are no longer helpful and cause negative outcomes for individuals, communities, or the environment, then you may have also stumbled onto this kind of culture.
what is a maladaptive culture?
EVOL 400
A forward-shifted foramen magnum refers to this aspect of the human skull.
what is the hole at the base of the skull ibeing more central, allowing the head to balance directly on top of the spine?
FAM 400
Exogamy refers to this.
Marrying outside of a community, clan, or tribe.
LING 500
In English, there was no word for "orange" until this century.
The 1500s.
ARC 500
The Holocene.
CUL 500
When you address how societies change over long periods of time, and how unrelated societies could create similar cultural features to adapt to similar environments, despite being widely separated in geography, you may be in this field of study within anthropology
Neoevolutionism
EVOL 500
Finding the remains of our ancestor Lucy helped to teach us this significant thing about hominin evolution.
what is bipedalism preceding the significant growth of the brain in human evolution?
What is being traced through both the mother's and father's lines and sides of the family?