Select the Word or Phrase That Best Matches the Definition

question 8

Multiple Choice

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
-The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth.These people settled the Pacific islands and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3,500 years ago.

• A)Venus figurines
• B)Dreamtime
• C)Clovis culture
• D)megafaunal extinction
• E)Austronesian migrations
• F)"the original affluent society"
• G)shamans
• H)trance dance
• I)Paleolithic settling down
• J)Göbekli Tepe
• K)Fertile Crescent
• L)teosinte
• M)diffusion
• N)Bantu migration
• O)Ishi
• P)Banpo
• Q)"secondary products revolution"
• R)pastoral societies
• S)Çatalhüyük
• T)chiefdoms

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of how much values in a data set deviate from the mean value.

Data

Information collected for reference or analysis, often numerical.

Squared Deviation

The squared differences between each observation and the mean, used as part of the calculation for variance.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion representing the average of the squared differences from the Mean.