WorksheetsScience, Technology and Society
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 17mins
It takes into account per capita wages, export diversification, and global financial system integration.
International Monetary Fund
United Nations
World Bank
World Health Organization
Which of the following characteristics pertains to a developing country?
Engaged with global markets
High standard of living
The income source often agricultural
Transitioning to modern industrialized economy
They are extremely vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks, and they have little human capital.
Highly Developed Countries
Least Developed Countries
Moderately Developed Countries
Emerging Markets
It is considered the main cause of human-induced global warming and associated climate change.
Cement
Agriculture
Deforestation
Carbon dioxide
In some parts of the world, rainstorms have become more intense over the past several decades. Is that a change in weather or climate?
Weather
Climate
Which of the following environmental challenges in biodiversity brought out by climate change?
Changes in phenology
Desertification
Salinization
Ocean Acidification
It is the leading cause of overpopulation.
Unemployment
Stratification
Poverty
Migration
One of the greatest limiting factors to ecosystems carrying capacity is:
availability of a food supply and freshwater
increase unsanitary conditions
absence of good health care
increased prevalence of the disease
Currently the world population is approximately:
10 million
5 billion
1 billion
7 billion
What is the definition of Ecological Footprint?
The impact of a person on their neighbors
The impact of the oceans on erosion
The impact of a person on the environment
How much pollution an animal produces
A Canadian ecologist who created the Ecological Footprint concept.
William Rees
William Harvey
William Burn
William Peares
What does sustainability mean?
Avoiding the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain ecological balance.
Using only non-renewable resources
Using only fossil fuels
Having a happy and good life.
Services are the non-physical, intangible parts of the economy. Which of the following is the best example for services?
Paper products
Medical treatment
Appliances
Light bulbs
As of 2021, what is the poverty rate of the Philippines?
24.50%
18.70%
16.60%
23.10%
It is characterized from a social standpoint as a living standard in comparison to the economic standards of the surrounding population.
Absolute Poverty
Relative Poverty
Situational Poverty
Generational Poverty
What is a nonrenewable resource?
Water
Coal
Wind
Biomass
Why are fossil fuels considered nonrenewable resources if they are still forming beneath the surface today?
They are being formed as a type of methane that we cannot use.
Fossil fuels are being broken down by a natural process.
They are being formed too far beneath the surface.
We are depleting fossil fuels much faster than they can form.
Some power plants pump water down deep holes into the hot rock. The hot rock heats the water, which turns the water into steam. The steam rushes back to Earth’s surface and is used to make electricity. This plant is generating which alternative energy resource?
biomass
solar energy
wind
geothermal energy
For him, change is so perplexing that it can only make sense if there are two realities which are the world of forms and the world of matter.
Leucippus
Plato
Aristotle
Epicurus
It is the Greek word used by Aristotle to signifies the function of the purpose.
Apatheia
Atomos
Telos
Pathos
In order to achieve happiness, most people are clinging on to material wealth. Which school of thought pioneered this idea of existence?
Stoicism
Hedonism
Materialism
Theism
Which of the following is the concept for happiness s espoused by Stoicism?
Life is about obtaining and indulging in pleasure.
One must learn to distance oneself.
The freedom to carve its own destiny.
The capacity to achieve material wealth.
Most people find the meaning of their lives using God as the fulcrum of their existence.
Humanism
Hedonism
Theism
Materialism
Based on this school of thought, man is the captain of his own ship.
Humanism
Materialism
Hedonism
Stoicism
The end goal of life is to acquire pleasure.
Hedonism
Stoicism
Materialism
Humanism
