APES Flashcards
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| 8387885099 | smart growth | development w various buildings and types of transportations | 0 | |
| 8387891382 | smart growth examples | walkable sidewalks cost effective development various types of housing keeping open spaces | 1 | |
| 8387904103 | urban blight | loss of social environments of the city that often accelerates migration to the suburbs. | 2 | |
| 8387914692 | blight and feedback | involving the migration of goods and services away from an urban center. When city revenue sinks because people move out, then taxes are raised, and services shift to the suburbs, which is a positive feedback loop. | 3 | |
| 8387926582 | positive and negative of parks | Positive: increase in the price of housing, decreased pollution, development of sense of community, decrease in crime. Negative: increase in fossil fuel consumption, waste production | 4 | |
| 8388020433 | maximum sustainable yield | The largest average catch that can be taken continuously from a stock under average environmental conditions. | 5 | |
| 8388031353 | government needs to know about msy | how fast the fish reproduce vs how much we catch know the demand for fish try not to reduce carrying capacity (habitat reduced then we lose fish) do not overfish | 6 |
AP Vocab List 2 Flashcards
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| 10288081466 | Allegory | a short moral story | 0 | |
| 10288081467 | Conjecture | to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | 1 | |
| 10288081468 | Despicable | morally reprehensible | 2 | |
| 10288081469 | Dissolute | unrestrained by convention or morality | 3 | |
| 10288081470 | Ferocity | the property of being wild or turbulent | 4 | |
| 10288081471 | Incongruous | lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness | 5 | |
| 10288081472 | Misanthrope | someone who dislikes people in general | 6 | |
| 10288081473 | Prologue | an introduction to a play | 7 | |
| 10288081474 | Protagonist | the principal character in a work of fiction | 8 | |
| 10288081475 | Terse | brief and to the point | 9 |
Ap Vocab List 6 Flashcards
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| 10288115335 | Anecdote | short account of an incident | 0 | |
| 10288115336 | Climactic | consisting of or causing a decisive moment | 1 | |
| 10288115337 | Epilogue | a short speech by an actor at the end of a play | 2 | |
| 10288115338 | Extemporaneous | with little or no preparation or forethought | 3 | |
| 10288115339 | Fidelity | the quality of being faithful | 4 | |
| 10288115340 | Forte | an asset of special worth or utility | 5 | |
| 10288115341 | Gourmet | a person devoted to and knowledgeable about fine food | 6 | |
| 10288115342 | Hypochondriac | a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments | 7 | |
| 10288115343 | Prodigy | an unusually gifted or intelligent person | 8 | |
| 10288115344 | Stigma | a symbol of disgrace or infamy | 9 |
AP Vocab List 7 Flashcards
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| 10288117928 | Bumptious | offensively self-assertive | 0 | |
| 10288117929 | Cite | make reference to | 1 | |
| 10288117930 | Consonant | a speech sound that is not a vowel | 2 | |
| 10288117931 | Gibe | laugh at with contempt and derision | 3 | |
| 10288117932 | Repartee | adroitness and cleverness in reply | 4 | |
| 10288117933 | Rudiment | the elementary stage of any subject | 5 | |
| 10288117934 | Sanction | official permission or approval | 6 | |
| 10288117935 | Satiate | fill to satisfaction | 7 | |
| 10288117936 | Subservient | compliant and obedient to authority | 8 | |
| 10288117937 | Vivacious | vigorous and animated | 9 |
AP Devices - Flashcards
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| 5277520120 | Allusion | Connection that illuminates one situation by comparing it to another similar, but usually more famous one with historical or literary connections | 0 | |
| 5277520121 | Analogy | Comparing two things, often point by point, to show similarity or suggest that if two concepts, phenomena, events or people are like in one way, that they are probably alike in other ways as well. | 1 | |
| 5277520122 | Antonomasia | Substituting a descriptive phrase for a proper name | 2 | |
| 5277520123 | Hyperbole | Use of an overstatement for special effect | 3 | |
| 5277520124 | Irony | Convey meanings that are in tension with or even opposite of their literal meanings | 4 | |
| 5277520125 | Metaphor | Creates or implies a comparison between two things | 5 | |
| 5277520126 | Metonymy | Using a particular object to stand for a general concept | 6 | |
| 5277520127 | Oxymoron | States a paradox or contradiction | 7 | |
| 5277520128 | Rhetorical Question | Questions posed that don't require answers | 8 | |
| 5277520129 | Signifying | Writer cleverly and often humorously needles another person | 9 | |
| 5277520130 | Simile | Uses like or as to compare two things | 10 | |
| 5277520131 | Understatement | Quiet message to make a point | 11 | |
| 5277520132 | Anaphora | Effective repetition | 12 | |
| 5277520133 | Antithesis | Use of parallel words or sentence structure to highlight contrasts or opposition. | 13 | |
| 5277520134 | Inverted Word Order | Not in the usual subject-verb-object order | 14 | |
| 5277520135 | Parallelism | Grammatically similar phrases or clauses for special effect. | 15 | |
| 6692147042 | Ethos | appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. | 16 | |
| 6692150436 | Logos | appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. | 17 | |
| 6692153292 | Pathos | appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. | 18 | |
| 6692159144 | Attitude | The writer's personal views or feelings about the subject at hand. | 19 | |
| 6692161718 | Compare and contrast | Discussing the similarities and differences between two things to some persuasive or illustrative purpose. | 20 | |
| 6692164620 | Connotation | The implied meaning of a word; words can broadly have positive, negative, or neutral connotations. | 21 | |
| 6692166518 | Context | The extra-textual environment in which the text is being delivered. | 22 | |
| 6692172284 | Counterargument | The argument(s) against the author's position. | 23 | |
| 6692174282 | Denotation | The literal, dictionary-definition meaning of a word. | 24 | |
| 6692175501 | Diction | The style of language used; generally tailored to be appropriate to the audience and situation. | 25 | |
| 6692179291 | Implication | When something is suggested without being concretely stated. | 26 | |
| 6692181754 | Juxtaposition | Placing two very different things together for effect. | 27 | |
| 6692184977 | Rhetoric | The use of spoken or written word (or a visual medium) to convey your ideas and convince an audience. | 28 | |
| 6692187750 | Rhetorical triangle | The relationship between the author, the audience, the text/message, and the context. | 29 | |
| 6692190372 | Syntax | The way sentences are grammatically constructed. | 30 | |
| 6692192586 | Synthesis | Combining sources or ideas in a coherent way in the purpose of a larger point. | 31 | |
| 6692194571 | Tone | The use of stylistic devices to reveal an author's attitude toward a subject. | 32 | |
| 6692199381 | Didactic | A text with an instructive purpose, often moral. | 33 | |
| 6692201977 | Euphemism | Referring to something with a veiled phrase instead of saying it directly | 34 | |
| 6692206292 | Parody | Using the form of something to mimic and make fun of it. | 35 | |
| 6692208912 | Sarcasm | Mockingly stating the opposite of what you mean. Easier to convey in the spoken word than via writing. | 36 | |
| 6692211170 | Satire | A genre of humorous and mocking criticism to expose the ignorance and/or ills of society. | 37 |
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AP Stats - Unit 1 Flashcards
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| 7392110577 | Explanatory Variable | A variable that helps explain or influences changes in a response variable. | 0 | |
| 7392113468 | Response Variable | A variable that measures an outcome of a study. | 1 | |
| 7392117896 | Conditional Distribution | Deals with the rows inside the table | 2 | |
| 7392126061 | Pie Graph | used to show parts of a whole |  | 3 |
| 7392127989 | Bar Graph | a graph that uses vertical or horizontal bars to show comparisons among two or more items |  | 4 |
| 7392127990 | Segmented Bar Graph | Used to compare the distribution of a categorical variable in each of several groups. |  | 5 |
| 7392131447 | Histogram | A graph of vertical bars representing the frequency distribution of a set of data. |  | 6 |
| 7392172704 | Box and whisker plot | shows the variability of a data set using quartiles |  | 7 |
| 7392140068 | Measure of center | Mean - Is not resistant to extreme values Median - Is resistant to extreme values | 8 | |
| 7392142169 | Measures of Spread | Range - not resistant to extremes Standard Deviation - Not resistant to extremes IQR - Is resistant to extremes | 9 | |
| 7392156454 | SOCS | S - Shape O - Outliers C - Center S - Spread | 10 | |
| 7392160944 | Standard Deviation | a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score |  | 11 |
AP Flashcards
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| 8304893778 | classical conditioning | a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. Typed of learning in which an old response attaches to a new stimulis. | 0 | |
| 8304893779 | neutral stimulus | in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning before training has nothing to do with response | 1 | |
| 8304916986 | Generalization | (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus Ability to respond differently to different stimuli | 2 | |
| 8304916987 | unconditioned stimulus | A stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning Leads to predictable response without previous training | 3 | |
| 8304916988 | Extinction | The loss of a conditioned response when conditioned stimulus is removed. | 4 | |
| 8304916989 | unconditoned stimulus | A stimulus that automatically elicts a response, as meat causes salvation Occurs naturally and predictably without training | 5 | |
| 8304916990 | conditioned response | in classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral stimulus Results from classical conditioning | 6 | |
| 8304916991 | Discrimination | When you respond to a second stimulus that is similar to a conditioned stimulus without additional training | 7 |
ap Flashcards
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| 8306457979 | Hobbes | Leviathan | 0 | |
| 8306460433 | Locke | Natural rights | 1 | |
| 8306463574 | Ptolemy | Geocentric theory | 2 | |
| 8306464963 | Copernicus | Heliocentric theory | 3 | |
| 8306472538 | Kepler | 3 laws of planetary motion | 4 | |
| 8306474981 | Galileo | Telescope | 5 | |
| 8306478047 | Isaac Newton | Scientist who discovered laws of motion and gravity | 6 | |
| 8306480886 | Montesquieu | Separation of powers | 7 | |
| 8306483081 | Voltaire | Individual freedoms | 8 | |
| 8306485004 | Rousseau | The Social Contract and the general will | 9 | |
| 8306488817 | Diderot | Encyclopedia | 10 | |
| 8306490351 | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | 11 |
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