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1. Great Ocean Conveyer- The Great Ocean Conveyer belt is a system that moves constantly of deep ocean circulation forced from temperature and salinity. There is motion in the ocean, moving around constantly in the shape of the conveyer belt. This particular motion is driven from the thermohaline currents; thermo meaning temperature and haline meaning salinity. The cold water is more dense than the warm water and stays down at the bottom rather than rising to the surface. This motion and conveyer belt starts where warm water heats the air in the freezing northern latitudes. The warmness that is taken away from the water, keeps the water cool, making it sink to the bottom. As more and more hot water goes north, the cold water sinks and moves south, make room for the incoming hot water. These cold water travel way down south until they are eventually able to warm and rise to the surface, continuing the conveyor belt all the way around the globe as shown in the picture. This cycle takes almost about 1,000 years, and moves the water around the globe.

Sources:

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/conveyor.html

Picture: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/conveyor.html

-Byrn Ledbetter

2. gardening/horticulture A garden is a permanent plot of land used to grow plants. Its being permanent caused early humans to settle down in order to stay close to their food source. This step inevitably lead to the development of villages and small communities. Horticulture is simply a synonym to gardening. It is the use of gardens or fields to grow plants or crops. Some of the first crops grown were simple grains which could be collected abundantly and reproduce easily.

source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/horticulture

Harrison Ray

3. domestication The word "domestication" means to tame an animal over generations of breeding so much so that the animals are dependent upon the herders and don't know how to live in the wild. The first animals to be domesticated were goats then sheep and then pigs. the people who herded the goats picked the most aggressive and worst behaved to kill and the tamest to breed. The product of this natural selection lead to goats that had smaller horns and were more obedient. Domestication also caused small communities to come together in order to take care of the animals

source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/domestication?s=t

Harrison Ray

4. Capitalism

5. material culture The term "material culture" is often used by archaeologists as a non-specific way to refer to the artifacts or other concrete things left by past cultures. An archaeologist thus can be described as a person who studies the material culture of a past society. A material culture study is something thats based on artifacts and tiles. Material culture simply means everything that people give meaning to in the physical world. For instance cars, clothes, schools, neighborhoods, all of these things are examples of material culture.

http://archaeology.about.com/od/mterms/g/material_cultur.htm http://ask.reference.com/web?q=What%20Is%20Material%20Culture?&o=100100 6. pattern of subsistence

7. symbols

8. acculturation

9. cultural template

10. ideology

11. beliefs

12. values

13. ideals

14. morality

15. taboo

16. band

17. tribes/chiefdoms

18. state

19. nation

20. bureaucracy

21. civilization