Working Together

In what ways did primitive people collaborate?

• business productivity      

• social congregation

• survive, find food, raise children

The study of swarms is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems from online search engines to military robots.

• True

• false

Process to be followed in performing a calculation, especially by a computer.

•       sonar                                          

• algorithm

• server

A group of individuals who respond to one another and to their environment in ways that give them the power, as a group, to cope with uncertainty, complexity, and change.

• collaborators             

• scientist

• smart swarm

Choose the correct synonym for the underlined word.  If one member of the group were to break down others could take its place.

• explain                                  

• stop working

• destroy

When you write a summary, it’s important to paraphrase; that is, to duplicate what is written.

• true

• false

The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.

• swarmanoid

• collaborating

• plagiarism

A group of words that contains a subject and a verb and makes sense on its own as a sentence.

•    dependent                        

• independent

A group of words that contains a subject and a verb and doesn’t make sense on its own as a sentence.

• dependent                        

• independent

A complex sentence has one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.

• true

• false