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STS- Preparing for Midterm Examination

Total questions: 90

Worksheet time: 2hrs 42mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

a)

Science

b)

Technology

c)

System

d)

Knowledge

2.

It's Also known as Scientia ("to know")

(a)  

3.

What are the goal of Science?

a)

Describe

Predict

Explain

b)

Destroy

Enjoy

Control

c)

God

Tyranny

Strong

d)

All of the Above

4.

A branch of knowledge that deals with the study of the universe and physical world.

(a)  

5.

Deals with the scientific study of social, cultural, economic, psychological and political forces.

(a)  

6.

The study of Non-Living things.

(a)  

7.

The study of the Earth and the system of in Space.

(a)  

8.

The study of living things, their life cycle, adaptation and interaction with the environment.

(a)  

9.

The Study of Plants

(a)  

10.

The study of animals

(a)  

11.

Deals with the study of the interaction between organisms and their environment.

(a)  

12.

The study of the concepts related to motion, force, energy.

(a)  

13.

The study involving matter, their properties, behavior and composition

(a)  

14.

The study of the earth

-its composition, structure, and the processes.

(a)  

15.

The study of the weather and the atmosphere.

(a)  

16.

The study of the heavenly bodies and the phenomena

happening outside the earth's atmosphere

(a)  

17.

The study of the human mind and behavior

(a)  

18.

The study of the society and its relationship.

(a)  

19.

The study of the government and how they work.

(a)  

20.

Facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.

(a)  

21.

Epistemology ("Episteme"-Greek Word)

(a)  

22.

Study of the nature, origin and limits of human knowledge.

a)

Knowlegde

b)

Science

c)

Technology

d)

Society

23.

Tripartite of knowledge

a)

Justified

true

belief

b)

Describe

Predict

Explain

c)

Psychology

Sociology

Political Science

d)

Social Science

24.

He is best known for his short 1963 article "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

a)

Edmund Gettier

b)

Plato

c)

Willard Van Orman Quine

d)

Isaac Levi

25.

What knowledge gained through firsthand experiences or

Knowledge by acquaintance.

(a)  

26.

What knowledge is about how to do something("Know-how"), or

Implicit/Ability knowledge

(a)  

27.

Descriptive/Declarative Knowledge or Knowledge of facts.

(a)  

28.

The application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life, like practical purposes, especially in industry.

a)

Technology

b)

Science

c)

System

d)

Knowledge

29.

Study of how to use the energy coming from the sunlight.

a)

Science

b)

Technology

c)

Both Science and Technology

30.

Genetically Modified Organism ("GMO")

a)

Science

b)

Technology

c)

Both Science and Technology

31.

The laws of motion

a)

Science

b)

Technology

c)

Both Science and Technology

32.

Engine or motor belongs to?

a)

Science

b)

Technology

c)

Both Science and Technology

33.

Is science and technology is interdependent

to each other?

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Maybe

d)

I don't know

34.

Understanding on lenses and lights

a)

Science

b)

Technology

c)

Both Science and Technology

35.

An age where Human live in a small nomadic groups

a)

Stone age

b)

Bronze age

c)

Iron age

d)

Dark age

36.

Stone tools that are used for gathering of foods and building houses in their nomadic lives

a)

Oldowan

b)

Bronze

c)

Iron

d)

Acheulean

37.

An age where humans have started smelting copper because of its durability and hardness,

making it better for tools and weapons.

a)

Stone age

b)

Bronze age

c)

Iron age

d)

Dark age

38.

What age where iron became the preferred choice of metal for making tools?

(a)  

39.

Which of The Following are not part of the characteristics of civilization?

a)

Advance Cities

b)

Industrial societies

c)

Complex institutions

d)

Established record keeping

40.

Sumerian schools used for educating people at different ages,

but not compulsory; teachers were called ummia or the experts

(a)  

41.

A writing system with pictographic symbols representing words and

was invented by Sumerians

(a)  

42.

A record of Sumerian keeping for the yearly cycle of agricultural activities.

(a)  

43.

Served as the deciphering civilization of the Sumerian writing scripts.

a)

Akkadians

b)

Sumerians

c)

Babylonians

d)

Egyptians

44.

A Babylonians set of rules or laws unifying the people

(a)  

45.

Agriculture and trade flourished maintaining the irrigation system, built roads and postal service; including Crafting of woven clothes, trades of wood, silver, gold and animals.

a)

Babylonians Agricultural and Engineering

b)

Assyrians Agricultural and Engineering

c)

Sumerians Agricultural and Engineering

d)

Akkadians Agricultural Engineering

46.

Construction of tall mounds, canals for land irrigation farming. aqueducts for channeling water in different area for drinking.

a)

Babylonians

Cultural and Engineering

b)

Assyrians

Cultural and Engineering

c)

Sumerians

Cultural and Engineering

d)

Akkadians

Cultural and Engineering

47.

Establishment of tombs, Ziggurat and flood pits.

a)

Sumerians

Culture and Engineering

b)

Akkadians

Culture and Engineering

c)

Babylonians

Culture and Engineering

d)

Assyrians

Culture and Engineering

48.

Development of the Sumerian irrigation techniques and writing system;

invented "year names" and created 3d Sculptures.

a)

Sumerians

Culture and Engineering

b)

Akkadians

Culture and Engineering

c)

Babylonians

Culture and Engineering

d)

Assyrians

Culture and Engineering

49.

What civilization develop the geometry that preserves architectures and farmlands?

a)

Indian civilization

b)

Egyptians civilization

c)

Chinese civilization

d)

Sumerians civilization

50.

The first civilization known mention of the practice and study of medicine.

a)

Indian civilization

b)

Egyptians civilization

c)

Chinese civilization

d)

Sumerians civilization

51.

An alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent

(a)  

52.

The use of Mathematics helped create bricks for their buildings with appropriate ratios for the stability

a)

Indian civilization

b)

Egyptians civilization

c)

Chinese civilization

d)

Babylonians civilization

53.

The discovery of functions and decimal boards, including astronomical observations predicting different astronomical phenomena

a)

Indian civilization

b)

Egyptians civilization

c)

Chinese civilization

d)

Sumerians civilization

54.

The first civilization use of seismology.

a)

Chineses civilization

b)

Indians civilization

c)

Egyptians civilization

d)

Sumerians civilization

55.

An astronomical model in which the Earth and planets

revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe.

(a)  

56.

A natural philosophy proposing that the physical universe is

composed of fundamental indivisible components known as atoms.

(a)  

57.

Bonus round!

The people studying the natural world are called natural Philosophers

(Please Type>>>l Bonus l<<< on the blank.)

(a)  

58.

Who proposed the division of matter into four elements named, earth, water, air, and fire?

a)

Empedocles of Agrigento

b)

Democritus of Abdera

c)

Leucippus of Miletus

d)

Claudius Ptolemy

59.

who developed five major points describing atomic theory?

a)

Democritus of Abdera

b)

Empedocles of Agrigento

c)

Leucippus of Miletus

d)

Claudius Ptolemy

60.

Theorized atomism explaining that materials are made of small particles named atom.

a)

Leucippus of Miletus

b)

Democritus of Abdera

c)

Empedocles of Agrigento

d)

Claudius Ptolemy

61.

who created a better "Geocentric Model." and wrote almagest (astronomy book)

a)

Claudius Ptolemy

b)

Leucippus of Miletus

c)

Democritus of Abdera

d)

Empedocles of Agrigento

62.

Who provide manuscripts named codex

(a)  

63.

This is the age were Roman empire fall and cut off the Europe from greek and Roma's in their knowledge.

Religious teaching started to engulf scientific knowledge making this period the (a)  

64.

This invention by johannes guttenberg democratized the information throughout the ages.

a)

Computer

b)

ENIAC

c)

Printing press

d)

Bombe

65.

Who proposed the heliocentric theory?

a)

Nicholas Copernicus

b)

Johannes Guttenberg

c)

Johannes Kepler

d)

Galileo Galilei

66.

He provide support on the heliocentric theory and created his own law on planetary motions describing how planets move.

a)

Johannes Kepler

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

Nicholas Copernicus

d)

Johannes Gutenberg

67.

The first person to study the sky using telescope and noted some moons on Jupiter.

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Johannes Kepler

c)

Johannes Gutenberg

d)

Nicholas Copernicus

68.

Who proposed that knowledge can be acquired thru logic and mathematics.

a)

Rene Descartes

b)

Francis Bacon

c)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

d)

Charles Babbage

69.

Who developed the scientific method. And called as father of empiricism?

a)

Francis Bacon

b)

Rene Descartes

c)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

d)

Charles Babbage

70.

He conceive the ideas of differential calculus.

a)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Francis Bacon

d)

Rene Descartes

71.

An overseas exploration Sparks the start of globalization.

a)

Age of exploration

b)

Empiricism

c)

Industrial revolution

d)

Age of reasons

72.

It is the idea that all learning comes from experience and observation.

a)

Empiricism

b)

Age of exploration

c)

Industrial revolution

d)

Age of reason

73.

Massive transformation were agricultural, demographic, manufacturing, and transportation contributing to a positive effect on the culture, economics, and social climate of countries.

a)

Industrial revolution

b)

Age of exploration

c)

Dark age

d)

Empiricism

74.

The start of individual and novel experiments sparked like newton and others.

a)

Age of reason

b)

Age of exploration

c)

Empiricism

d)

Industrial revolution

75.

Formulated the law of universal gravitation and the laws of motion and the corpuscular theory.

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Charles Coulomb

c)

James Watt

d)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

76.

He showed the electrical force between charges and his law.

a)

Charles Coulomb

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

James Watt

d)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

77.

He developed a practical steam engine and became the cheap source of power.

a)

James Watt

b)

Nikola Tesla

c)

Charles Coulomb

d)

James Watson

78.

He invented mercury filled thermometer basing on the freezing and boiling point of water.

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Charles Coulomb

c)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

d)

James Watt

79.

He showed that Newton's law can be applied to comets and he analyzed the pattern of occurrence of comets.

a)

Edmond halley

b)

Antoine Lavoisier

c)

Caroline Herschel

d)

Laura Bassi

80.

the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

a)

Science

b)

Technology

c)

System

d)

Knowledge

81.

He provided evidence of the conservation of mass and published articles explaining the role of oxygen in the burning of objects.

a)

Antoine Lavoisier

b)

Edmond Halley

c)

Caroline Herschel

d)

Laura Bassi

82.

Focused on the astronomical research giving discovery of periodic comets name after her.

a)

Caroline Herschel

b)

Antoine Lavoisier

c)

Edmond Halley

d)

Laura Bassi

83.

The first woman who earn a professorship at a university. She provided experimental research on Franklinian electricity.

a)

Laura Bassi

b)

Caroline Herschel

c)

Antoine Lavoisier

d)

Edmond Halley

84.

Coined the term "Scientist"

a)

William Whewell

b)

Alessandro Volta

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Louis Pasteur

85.

The creation of electric battery know as voltaic pile thereby improving the study of electric currents.

a)

William Whewell

b)

Alessandro Volta

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Louis Pasteur

86.

He proposed the theory of evolution, proposing that all species have descended over time from common ancestor

a)

William Whewell

b)

Alessandro Volta

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Louis Pasteur

87.

He discovered the principles of vaccination, fermentation by use of bacteria and pasteurization.

a)

Louis Pasteur

b)

William Whewell

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Alessandro Volta

88.

Formulation of the periodic law and the creation of periodic table elements.

a)

Dmitri Mendeleev

b)

Nikola Tesla

c)

Alfredo Nobel

d)

Charles Coulomb

89.

He introduced the concept of rotating magnetic field.

a)

Nikola Tesla

b)

Dmitri Mendeleev

c)

Alfredo Nobel

d)

Charles Coulomb

90.

He recognized for his invention of dynamite and the creation of the Nobel prize.

a)

Alfredo Nobel

b)

Nikola Tesla

c)

Dmitri Mendeleev

d)

Charles Coulomb