Category: Social studies

What is the main difference between rifles and shotguns? A rifle fires a single bullet in one shot, while a shotgun fires multiple small pellets inside a shell. This makes the rifle good for long-distance use and a shotgun good for self-defense and short range use. What is the difference between a rifle and a […]

What is the legendary connection between Romulus and the Trojan Prince Aeneas? Romulus was the founder of Rome. The other “legend” is actually the story of Aeneas, a literary epic poem written by Virgil (Aenid) during the early Roman Empire. Aeneas was described by Virgil as a hero of the Trojan War who escaped the […]

Which sampling technique is not used due to the potential to produce biased results? Simple random sampling avoids bias and produces data that give us confidence that the first step in our argument is sound. Why is simple random sampling good? Simple random sampling is a method used to cull a smaller sample size from […]

What is an idea from the Enlightenment? The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the pursuit of happiness, sovereignty of reason, and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state. What did the […]

How do you identify IV and DV in research? In an experiment, the IV is a variable that is changed to see how it affects something else, whereas the DV is a variable that is being measured/observed. The DV is assumed to be affected by the IV, hence the term ‘dependent’ (its value depends on […]

When Mary was young her father was trying to learn how do you speak German? When Mary was young, her father was trying to learn how to speak German and would listen to German tapes for hours in her presence. Mary paid very little attention to the tapes. Many years later, when Mary was in […]

What are major causes of pollution in the Yangtze River and Ganges River choose 3? Industrial Waste, Human sewage and agricultural runoff. What are the problems with the Yangtze River? Climate Change of Yangtze River Basin More water area, more water evaporates. Similarly, less water, less evaporation. The change impacts the microclimate of Yangtze River […]

How do you compare two population means? As with comparing two population proportions, when we compare two population means from independent populations, the interest is in the difference of the two means. In other words, if is the population mean from population 1 and is the population mean from population 2, then the difference is […]

How did Greek geography influence the development of city states? How did the geography of Greece affect the development of city-states? the mountains, seas, islands, and climate isolated separated and divided Greece into small groups that became city-states. The sea allowed the Greeks to trade for food by traveling over water. How did the geography […]

Who is the man at the Indians side in the scarlet letter? Roger Chillingworth is a fictional character and primary antagonist in the 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is an English scholar who moves to the New World after his wife, Hester Prynne. Chillingworth, a doctor and student of alchemy, attempts […]