Key Terms Review Sheet 3, 4, & 5

Question 1

the “other”

Answer 1

Character/ Culture/ Existence of the other Construction of Western Culture

Question 2

Boundary Maintenance:

Answer 2

The Recognition of Difference

Question 3

US-OTHER DICHOTOMY

Answer 3

The way I see reality is how it should be

Question 4

White Man’s Burden

Answer 4

GOD HAS PLACED A BURDEN ON HIS OWN CHILDREN - WHITE PEOPLE, GO OUT AND CHRISTIANIZE THE WORLD

Question 5

Manifest Destiny

Answer 5

GOD GAVE HIS CHILDREN A DESTINY TO CIVILIZE

PEOPLE’S BELIEF IN 19TH CENTURY

Question 6

Age of Science

Answer 6

When science became more accepted as the explanation for life/existence.

Question 7

Colonized other

Answer 7

N/A

Question 8

Adaptive radiation

Answer 8

As an organism moves or finds itself in a new environment it must adapt or become extinct.

Question 9

Cretacious period

Answer 9

145 million to 65 million years ago (End of the era of dinosaurs)

Question 10

Australopithecus

Answer 10

Lucy (ProtoHuman) Made first step to separate from other Hominids (Somewhere around 5 million years ago)

Question 11

Dayton. Tennessee 1925/Butler Act

Answer 11

Law preventing the teaching of evolution because it in their eyes was an abomination of God. Later challenged by John scopes (highschool biology teacher)

Question 12

Homo erectus

Answer 12

Our earliest direct ancestors (2 million to 400,000) they share many characteristics with us and were successful

Question 13

Charles Darwin

Answer 13

evolution : all life changes, life constantly changes NOT A SOCIAL DARWINIST!

Question 14

“The Origin of Species”

Answer 14

does not talk about humans

Question 15

Social Darwinism

Answer 15

SUPERIOR INFERIOR ORIGINS, THE OTHER IS NOT HUMAN

Question 16

Herbert Spencer

Answer 16

an advocate of Social Darwinism, a Socialist

Question 17

Unilineal Evolution

Answer 17

One line/ one direction / who is more or less human

Question 18

ESSENTIALISM ( internal difference)

Answer 18

characteristics by nature, Inherited unchanging characteristics that determine behavior, temperament, and intelligence

Question 19

PHENOTYPES (EXTERNAL difference)

Answer 19

SUPERFICIAL PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS( skin tone )

Question 20

RACE OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Answer 20

Races are different species of being.

Question 21

Vanishing race

Answer 21

Native Americans

Question 22

Fossil other

Answer 22

Dead culture, cultures that aren’t able to change.

Question 23

Survival of the Fittest

Answer 23

The strongest should dominate the weak and the weak will eventually die out.

Question 24

Phenotype

Answer 24

Physical Appearance

Question 25

Scientific Racism

Answer 25

Taught in schools as facts and science as justification.

Question 26

Franz Boas

Answer 26

The father of American Anthropology

Question 27

Age of Science

Answer 27

The rise of Science in the 19th century.

Question 28

Polygenesis

Answer 28

We all come from different locations and time periods, Africans or any older races are less human than newer cultures like white folk

Question 29

Colonized other

Answer 29

colonized culture, a culture that is available for change

Question 30

Inuit

Answer 30

A member of an indigenous people of northern Canada and parts of Greenland and Alaska.

Question 31

Evolution

Answer 31

Evolution is the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations and relies on the process of natural selection.

Question 32

Catarrhine Primates

Answer 32

The Catarrhini or catarrhine monkeys or Old World anthropoids are the sister group to the New World monkeys

Question 33

Gorillas

Answer 33

Gorillas are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa.

Question 34

Hominids

Answer 34

a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors and also (in recent systems) at least some of the great apes.

Question 35

Orangutangs

Answer 35

The orangutans are three extant species of great apes native to Indonesia and Malaysia.

Question 36

Chimpanzees

Answer 36

The chimpanzee, also known as the common Chimpanzee, robust chimpanzee, or simply “chimp”, is a species of great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa.

Question 37

Rift Valley

Answer 37

a large elongated depression with steep walls formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earth’s surface between nearly parallel faults or fault systems.

Question 38

Opposable Thumbs

Answer 38

The thumb can be moved around to touch the other fingers, which gives people the ability to grasp things. Most primates and some other animals have opposable thumbs.

Question 39

Interdigital Grip

Answer 39

Availability to grip objects using our fingers.

Question 40

Bipedal

Answer 40

Using only two legs for walking.

Question 41

Spindle Cells

Answer 41

a narrow, elongated cell indicating the presence of a type of sarcoma.

Question 42

Homo Sapien

Answer 42

Homo sapiens is the only extant human species.

Question 43

Out of Africa

Answer 43

Human origins migration out of Africa takes people out into the world.

Question 44

Ethnicity

Answer 44

Diversity, people develop different cultures based on where they migrated to.

Question 45

The Monkey Trials

Answer 45

The Scopes Monkey Trial was a nationally-famous Tennessee court case that upheld a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools in that state in 1925

Question 46

John Scopes

Answer 46

A teacher from Tennessee that prohibited teaching Evolution.

Question 47

William Jennings Bryant

Answer 47

Former US Senator defended the right of parents to choose what schools teach Evolution.

Question 48

Clarence Darrow

Answer 48

Defended John Scopes in The Monkey Trials to prohibit the teaching of Evolution.