Term 4 Flashcards

1
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Where and when was language developed?

A

Africa 70 000 years ago

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2
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How do you use language to communicate?

A

Speaking and Listening

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3
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What is communication over time?

A

Writing a letter or reading what someone else has written

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4
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What are letters?

A

Letters are part of the alphabet example a, b, c. They are symbols that stand for different sounds.

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5
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What is a symbol?

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A picture or sign that has meaning.The first symbols were scratches made on rocks.

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6
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What information can you get from a song?

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Songs are as old as language. They tell stories and singing shows feelings like happiness, sadness, etc.

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7
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What is Art?

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Communication through pictures. 35000 years ago the San People communicated through Art on rocks.

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8
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How does dancing tell a story?

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Dance can show how people feel, happy or sad. Used to tell a story. San People used to dance for religious practice.

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9
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Who were the first people to live in Southern Africa

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The San People. They were hunter gatherers

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10
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How did the San People communicate?

A

Through Art (drawing on rocks), Songs, Stories, they used art to symbolize and communicate religious beliefs

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11
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What did the shamans do in trance?

A
Leaned forward - boiling energy in stomach
Sweated
Bled from nose
Felt they become an animal
Spirit fly out of body
Power of healing
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12
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What is trance?

A

Trance is when ordinary people become shaman during a religious healing dance. Being in a dream but you are awake.

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13
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What is a shaman?

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Shaman is the healer. God communicates through him.

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14
Q

Name 4 types of modern communication?

A

Radio, Television, Telephone, Computers

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15
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Who invented the radio and when?

A

Guglielmo Marconi in 1895.

In 1920 radio stations and radio programmes started.

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16
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What does the word electronic mean?

A

Electrical energy to make something work

17
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How does a radio work?

A

Radio signal travel through air to the aerial receiver. The receiver changes the waves into the sounds you hear.

18
Q

What does telegraph mean?

A

Far-writer. It could send message by wire to another post office very quickly

19
Q

Who invented the Morse Code used for sending telegraphs?

A

Samuel Morse (American)

20
Q

What does telephone mean?

A

Far Sound. The telephone changes sounds into electrical signals

21
Q

How does a camera work?

A

The light sensitive film is developed and a picture is printed on special paper

22
Q

What does Television communicate?

A

Images and sound over distance. SO you can see what is happening far away. Moving pictures

23
Q

How is TV sound captured?

A

Microphone

24
Q

Computer and internet is a form of what type of communication?

A

Long distance

25
Q

What is a computer?

A

Electric machine that stores huge amounts of information. The information is called DATA. A computer turns DATA into text, numbers and images.

26
Q

What is internet?

A

internet is a world-wide network of computer users and sites making up the world wide web www.

27
Q

What is a cell phone?

A

wireless telephone using air waves to send signals. Satellites send and receive the information and covers the whole earth

28
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How do cell phones work?

A

people connect through a service provider, we can sms, send photos, e-mail and connect to internet on our cell phone.