Unit 4 - General Vocabulary

Question 1

Artifacts

Answer 1

archaeological objects such as clothing, tools, weapons, buildings, cooking utensils, jewellry, personal items

Question 2

Assimilation

Answer 2

forcing people to acquire or meet the characteristics of a group

Question 3

Backlash

Answer 3

adverse or hostile reaction against change

Question 4

Bias

Answer 4

a type of prejudice rooted in a person’s point of view or (to like one thing more than another)

Question 5

Biodiversity

Answer 5

a vast number of plant species in an ecosystem

Question 6

Cause

Answer 6

an incident or series of incidents that lead to something else

Question 7

Civic

Answer 7

relating to citizenship or civic affairs

Question 8

Democracy

Answer 8

a form of government in which people elect representatives to rule the country

Question 9

Distortion

Answer 9

error

Question 10

Effect

Answer 10

the result or consequence of one or more causes

Question 11

Ethnocentrism

Answer 11

the perception that Europeans and North Americans are more important than other countries

Question 12

Expulsion

Answer 12

to drive or force out of a place

Question 13

Hierarchy

Answer 13

a social system in which status is ranked, and power is concentrated in the higher ranks

Question 14

Ideology

Answer 14

a set of values

Question 15

Insular

Answer 15

to be unaware of or uninterested in cultures other than one’s own

Question 16

Migrate

Answer 16

to move permanently from one geographic area to another

Question 17

Mythology

Answer 17

traditional stories about gods and their relations with humans

Question 18

Norms

Answer 18

unwritten rules of behaviour that tell us what is expected or acceptable in particular circumstances

Question 19

Oligarchy

Answer 19

an unelected group of powerful leaders

Question 20

Paradox

Answer 20

contradictory riddle

Question 21

Per capita

Answer 21

average for each person

Question 22

Perspective

Answer 22

a point of view from a group (can be expressed by a member of the group who has the authority to speak for the group; in art, the technique of representing objects in paintings as they appear to the eye)

Question 23

Point of View

Answer 23

opinions and preferences held and expressed by an individual

Question 24

Political Scientist

Answer 24

a person who describes and analyzes political processes and institutions

Question 25

Projection

Answer 25

a system of intersecting lines (ex. the grid of a map, on which part or all of the globe or another spherical surface is represented as a plane surface)

Question 26

Propoganda

Answer 26

attempting to manipulate or control others using exaggerated information

Question 27

Religious Intolerance

Answer 27

refusing to accept others beliefs

Question 28

Republic

Answer 28

a state in which power is held by the people

Question 29

Viceroy

Answer 29

the representative of a sovereign in a foreign jurisdiction

Question 30

Virtues

Answer 30

positive character traits

Question 31

Westernization

Answer 31

adopting the culture and ideas of the Western world

Question 32

Worldview

Answer 32

a collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group; the overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world