JG Unit 14 Vocab

What is a geometric sequence?

• Subtracting the previous term by a fixed, nonzero number

• Multiplying the previous term by a fixed, nonzero number

• Dividing the previous term by a fixed, nonzero number

• Adding the previous term by a fixed, nonzero number

What are sequences?

• An unordered list of numbers, objects, or elements

• An ordered list of numbers, objects, or elements

• A collection of numbers, objects, or elements

• A random arrangement of numbers, objects, or elements

What are patterns?

• Recurring structures, arrangements, or behaviors that can be observed in data, objects, or systems

• Irregular arrangements of data or objects

• Random occurrences that cannot be explained

• Unpredictable sequences of numbers or objects

What does it mean to extricate?

• To ignore entanglements or difficulties

• To create entanglements or difficulties

• To free from entanglements or difficulties

• To avoid entanglements or difficulties

What does it mean to filch?

• To borrow temporarily

• To share equally

• To steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts

• To give generously

What is a precept?

• A moral principle or rule

• A scientific theory

• A legal document

• A mathematical equation

What is rotation?

• The movement of an object around another object

• The orbit of a moon around a planet

• The spinning of a planet on its axis

• The revolution of a planet around the sun

What is revolution?

• The spinning of a planet on its axis

• The movement of a planet around the sun

• The movement of an object around another object

• The orbit of a moon around a planet

What is Social Darwinism?

• The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to different laws of natural selection than plants and animals

• The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are not subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals

• The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals

• The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are not subject to any laws of natural selection

What is the Bessemer Process?

• A process that allowed steel to be produced using a low amount of fuel

• A process that allowed steel to be produced using a high amount of fuel

• A process that allowed steel to be produced without any impurities

• A process that allowed steel to be produced without fuel, using the impurities of the iron to create the necessary heat