NYSTCE CST 245 Arts and Science
Questions And Correct Answers
Seasonal changes - answer✔✔moon orbits earth once per month
Yearly Changes - answer✔✔earth orbits around the moon one time per year
physical change - answer✔✔A change in a substance that does not change its identity
chemical change - answer✔✔charastics change in state or phase
transformation of energy examples - answer✔✔Chemical Energy is converted to Electrical
Energy (stove), Kinetic Energy (car), Electricity (power plant), and Mechanical Energy (space
shuttle). Electricity is converted to light (light bulb) and sound and light (TV).
effects of common forces - answer✔✔accelerate in body is in motion if at rest
conservation of energy - answer✔✔Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it may be
transformed from one form into another, but the total amount of energy never changes
nation-state - answer✔✔A country who's population share a common identity.
nationalism - answer✔✔Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality
Fuedalism - answer✔✔political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords and vassals
where the lords let them rent land for a price
resource - answer✔✔A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically
and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.
cultural diffusion - answer✔✔The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to
another
Ecology - answer✔✔The study of how living things interact with each other and their
environment
Six Elements of Geography - answer✔✔1. The World in Spatial Terms
2. Places and Regions
3. Physical Systems
4. Human Systems
5. Environment and Society
6. The Uses of Geography
Scarcity - answer✔✔Limited quantities of resources to meet unlimited wants
oppertunity cost - answer✔✔cost of the loss of the next most desireable good or service that
could have been produced with a recource
Checks and Balances - answer✔✔A system that allows each branch of government to limit the
powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power
democratic - answer✔✔ruled by the people. In a democracy, citizens elect representatives to
make and carry out laws.
Authoritarian - answer✔✔A government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute
power.
Due Process - answer✔✔(law) the administration of justice according to established rules and
principles
Federalism - answer✔✔a form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or
national, government and the states
seperation of powers - answer✔✔dividing the powers of government among the executive,
legislative, and judicial branches
Declaration of Independence - answer✔✔Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the
United States as a free state.
U.S. Constitution - answer✔✔A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by
which the United States is governed.
Major Civil Rights Legislation - answer✔✔ended segregation
consitution of the state of new york - answer✔✔establishes the structure of the government of
the State of New York, and enumerates the basic rights of the citizens of New York
Rule of Law - answer✔✔principle that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern
Due Process - answer✔✔fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a
citizen's entitlement.
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