AP* Practice Test Questions 1. The purpose of the pupil is to (a) focus light on the retina. (b) process color. (c) allow light into the eye. (d) enable night vision. (e) detect specific shapes. 2. Cells that can respond to specific edges‚ lines‚ angles‚ and movements are called (a) rods. (b) cones. (c) ganglion cells. (d) feature detectors. (e) bipolar cells. 3. Signal detection theory is most closely associated with (a) vision. (b) sensory adaptation. (c) absolute thresholds. (d) hearing. (e)
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Administration Chapter 9 Summation / Review DWN Sunday‚ April 13‚ 2014 The objective of the chapter is to delineate and differentiate between the three major taxes in the United States through analyzing their differences‚ applicability‚ and issues associated with each. As the chapter begins‚ Mikesell explains the beginnings of the income tax and how it evolved from an unstable and unenforced law to a steady revenue to aid in the cost of the Civil War. Throughout our early history as a nation
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Chapter 4-6 Study Guide 1. Where did Alexander the Great come from? Describe his accomplishments. Macedonia; helped create a new type of culture. 2. What type of government was founded in Athens‚ Greece? Democracy 3. Describe the Hellenistic period. Culture based on Greeks‚ Persians‚ Egyptians‚ Asians and other regions. 4. Homer is credited with writing what epic poems? What is the subject matter of these poems? The Iliad and the Odyssey; last year of the Trojan war and heroes from the Trojan
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-279400-228600Date: 10/24/2014 Name: Source: Introduction To Political Science – Chapter Nine: Political Communication 00Date: 10/24/2014 Name: Source: Introduction To Political Science – Chapter Nine: Political Communication Main Points/Questions Notes The Mass Media and Politics Mass media strongly influences politics. Scholars have long recognized the dependence of politics on communication. The mass media reach an infinitely larger audience and therefore yield a greater voter or public-opinion
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Chapter 5 Assessment Vocabulary 1.fresco- watercolor paintings done on wet plaster. 2.strait- narrow water passages. 3.aristocracy- rule by a landholding elite. 4.tyrant- people who gained power by force. 5.alliance- a formal aggreement between two nations or powers. 6.direct democracy- Citizens participate in goverment indirectly through elected representatives. 7.jury- panel of people who have the authority to make the final judgment. 8.logic- rational thinking. 9.tragedy- plays that told stories
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YEAR 9 RESEARCH TASK: FIGHTING DISEASE 1. Suggest three ways in which foreign particles could enter the inside of your body Breathing in particles‚ cuts & wounds and through your mouth. 2. Imagine you are a microbe attacking the human body. Write a paragraph about your Invasion of the blood Stream. How did you arrive there? What line of defence did you in encounter? As I was floating through the air‚ I got breathed in to the nose. There I was brushing past some filter hairs located in the nostrils
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American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers‚ a top-secret Pentagon study of government decision-making about the Vietnam War‚ to The New York Times and other newspapers. Pentagon Papers: Leaked to NYT‚ Pentagon study over failures of Kennedy/Johnson Henry Kissinger: Natl Security Adviser; met with Nixon in Paris to negotiate end of war‚ prepared path to Beijing‚ Moscow China opening
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1. Define deviance. How does this definition differ from how sociologists define deviance? Deviance is behavior or characteristics that violate important social norms. The difference between how the dictionary defines deviance and how sociologist define deviance is what may be deviant in one place‚ at one particular time‚ may not be deviant in another place and time. Basically with times changing something may or may not be tolerated as acceptable behavior. 2. What is situational deviance
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Chapter 18 Nomadic Empires And Eurasian Integration People: 1. Abbasids: Cosmopolitan Arabic dynasty {750-1258 CE} that replaced the Umayyads; founded by Abu al-Abbas and reached its peak under Harun al-Rashid. 2. Chinggis Khan: Born in 1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all Mongol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China; territories as faw west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227‚ prior to conquest of most of Islamic world 3
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Change Over Time Writing assignment: From 5‚000 BCE to 600 BCE‚ the politics of Mesopotamia shifted from a religiously-led nation‚ to a secular nation due to the replacement of hunting and gathering for food‚ with agriculture. In 5‚000 BCE‚ Mesopotamia was settled by the Sumerians‚ who built the main framework for the Mesopotamian Civilization. Mesopotamia is located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers‚ which is what made it an excellent place for growing crops. This change in lifestyle sparked
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