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Scientific Revolution

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European History
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The Scientific Revolution?modern science Importance: begins modern age- #1 dvlp, single, most important dvlp in Europe Idea: revolution in?knowledge Idea: change in knowledge itself way look at knowledge. First to go back to before 1)Ancients: reference point Classical Greco and Roman Culture Aristotle?looked back to what is true 2)Moderns (now): Ancient heritage? Idea: SURPASED what ancients had done Now NEW and discover new knowledge -Knowledge never known by ancients -felt had possibility of learning new knowledge How?? Scientific method The ?Old? Science Idea: Revolutionary?how? Aristotelian Scholarticm?taught in medieval ed.; Aristotle ideas merged with Knowledge comes from?LOGIC

Nautre of Science and Scientific Method

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Nature of Science: Scientific Method Generally Who?s Francis Bacon (1560-1629) Rene Descartes (1596-1650) They shared.., Scholastic disdain Hated those who spent so much time finding answers to questions, which don?t matter Should focus on answershelpful Skepticism Skeptic of scholastic system Good/healthy skepticism ?raised in skeptical thought system? Rene Descartes Idea: ?modern? philosophy ?Natural philosopher? studying science using capacity of reason better understand natural world Defeated skepticism Society can?t move forward while being so skeptic Desecrate defeat skeptics with more skepticism? Hyperbolic doubt: Exaggerating, beat skeptics, doubt EVERYTHING If can find things that can?t be broken Certain knowledge breaks?what is it about it that makes it true?

Ap Human Geography Chapter 1 notes

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Human Geography
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map
Geographic coordinate system
Mercator projection
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Latitude
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Ch.?1: Basic Concepts Human Geography???the study of where and why human activities are located where they are ? for example, religions, businesses, and cities.? Physical?Geography???studies where and why natural forces occur as they do ? for example, climates, landforms, and types of vegetation.? Map?? a 2-D, or flat, representation of the Earth?s surface or a portion of the Earth?s surface.? Best way to show location and demonstrate insights gathered by spatial analysis.? Geography is distinguished from other disciplines by its reliance on maps to display and analyze information. Place?? name given to a portion of the Earth?s surface. ?Every place occupies a unique location, or position, on Earth?s surface, and geographers have many ways to identify locations.

Myers' Psychology for AP - Unit 2 Flashcards2

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HINDSIGHT BIAS Unit #2: Research CRITICAL THINKING Unit #2: Research THEORY Unit #2: Research Methods HYPOTHESIS Unit #2: Research Methods OPERATIONAL DEFINITION Unit #2: Research Methods REPLICATION Unit #2: Research Methods CASE STUDY Unit #2: Research Methods SURVEY Unit #2: Research Methods POPULATION Unit #2: Research Methods RANDOM SAMPLE Unit #2: Research Methods NATURALISTIC OBSERVATION Unit #2: Research Methods CORRELATION Unit #2: Research Methods CORRELATION COEFFICIENT Unit #2: Research Methods SCATTERPLOT Unit #2: Research Methods ILLUSORY CORRELATION Unit #2: Research Methods EXPERIMENT Unit #2: Research Methods RANDOM ASSIGNMENT Unit #2: Research Methods DOUBLE-BLIND PROCEDURE Unit #2: Research Methods PLACEBO EFFECT

Myers' Psychology for AP - Unit 2 Flashcards1

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The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (Also known as the I-knew-it all-along-phenomenon) *Example: September 11th Thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusion. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusion. *Example: An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events. *Example: A testable prediction, often implied by a theory. *Example: A statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables. *Example: Human Intelligence may be operationally defined as what ban intelligence test measures.

Botkin and Keller Chapter 3 Reading Guide

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Environmental Science
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1 APES- Chapter #3- Guided Reading Assignment The Big Picture: Systems of Change Name: ____________________________ Period: _______ Due Date: ______________ Summarize the ?Trying to Control Flooding of the Wild Missouri River? Case study Define the following and give examples of each: System: Open System Closed System Feedback Negative Feedback Positive Feedback What is the difference between positive and negative feedback systems? Exponential Growth (show an example problem) What is the main point concerning exponential growth? Is exponential growth good or bad? Explain. Doubling Time (show an example problem) Environmental Unity

Botkin and Keller Chapter 3 Reading Guide Key

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1 APES- Chapter #3- Guided Reading Assignment The Big Picture: Systems of Change Name: ____________________________ Period: _______ Due Date: ______________ Summarize the ?Trying to Control Flooding of the Wild Missouri River? Case study People considered the river to be something that was a steady state system and something that could be controlled. This was not the case and it still flooded despite the engineering and money put into the dams and levees. This shows us that it is very hard to try to control nature. Define the following and give examples of each: System: a set of components, or parts, that function together as a whole. Ex. Human body, sewage treatment plant, river

chapter_1_power_point.pdf

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Human Geography
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? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Chapter 1: Basic Concepts The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography ? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Defining Geography ? Word coined by Eratosthenes ? Geo = Earth ? Graphia = writing ? Geography thus means ?earth writing? ? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Contemporary Geography ? Geographers ask where and why ? Location and distribution are important terms ? Geographers are concerned with the tension between globalization and local diversity ? A division: physical geography and human geography ? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Geography?s Vocabulary ? Place ? Region ? Scale ? Space ? Connections ? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Maps ? Two purposes ? As reference tools

big_geographic_questions_1.pdf

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Reginald Golledge
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The Professional Geographer, 54(3) 2002, pages 305?317 ? Copyright 2002 by Association of American Geographers. Initial submission, June 2001; revised submission, January 2002; ?nal acceptance, February 2002. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, and 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF, UK. ARTICLES The Big Questions in Geography Susan L. Cutter University of South Carolina Reginald Golledge University of California, Santa Barbara William L. Graf University of South Carolina In noting his fondness for geography, John Noble Wilford, science correspondent for The New York Times , neverthe- less challenged the discipline to articulate those big questions in our ?eld, ones that would generate public interest,

chapter_1_power_point.pdf

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Human Geography
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? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Chapter 1: Basic Concepts The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography ? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Defining Geography ? Word coined by Eratosthenes ? Geo = Earth ? Graphia = writing ? Geography thus means ?earth writing? ? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Contemporary Geography ? Geographers ask where and why ? Location and distribution are important terms ? Geographers are concerned with the tension between globalization and local diversity ? A division: physical geography and human geography ? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Geography?s Vocabulary ? Place ? Region ? Scale ? Space ? Connections ? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Maps ? Two purposes ? As reference tools

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