5. Define the following terms:
a. Cartographer
b. Hiranya-Garbha
c. Manifesto
d. Contamination
e. Tectonic Plates
Answers
Answer:
a. Cartographer:A cartographer is a person who creates maps, whether they're of the world, the local bus routes, or buried pirate treasure. It comes to us from the Latin word charta-, which means “tablet or leaf of paper,” and the Greek word graphein, meaning to write or draw.
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.b. Hiranya-Garbh:Hiraṇyagarbha (Sanskrit: हिरण्यगर्भः ; literally the 'golden womb' or 'golden egg', poetically translated as 'universal womb') is the source of the creation of universe or the manifested cosmos in Vedic philosophy, as well as an avatar of Vishnu in the Bhagavata Purana.
Explanation:
CARTOGRAPHER
study or practice of making map. Combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively.
HIRANYA GARBHA
Hiranya-garbha, or the golden womb, was a ritual performed by the Brahmanas during the rule of Rashtrakutas. It was thought to lead to the 'rebirth' of the sacrificer as a kshatriya, even if he was not one by birth.
MANIFESTO
A manifesto is a published declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government. A manifesto usually accepts a previously published opinion or public consensus or promotes a new idea with prescriptive notions for carrying out changes the author believes should be made. It often is political or artistic in nature, but may present an individual's life stance. Manifestos relating to religious belief are generally referred to as creeds.
CONTAMINATED
Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that spoils, corrupts, infects, makes unfit, or makes inferior a material, physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.
TECTONIC PLATES
Plate tectonics is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3.3 and 3.5 billion years ago.