Describe Two Ways You Can Continue to Expand Your Knowledge

question 19

Essay

Describe two ways you can continue to expand your knowledge and skills after you start working at a job in your career field.

Grasp the significance of religious policies and conflicts in European colonization efforts.

Understand the historical significance of key figures and terms in the exploration and colonization period.

Analyze the impact of European conquests on indigenous populations and their responses.

Identify and explain the cultural and economic exchanges resulting from the Columbian Exchange.

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Definitions:

Phyletic Gradualism

The idea that evolution occurs by a slow, steady accumulation of genetic changes over time; also called gradualism. Compare with punctuated equilibrium.

Stabilizing Selection

A type of natural selection that favors the average individuals in a population, reducing variation.

Fossil Record

The accumulation of evidences, such as bones, shells, or imprints, left by organisms in sedimentary rocks, providing a historical sequence of life on Earth.

Speciation

The evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species, typically through genetic isolation from other populations.