STS Prelim UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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STS Prelim UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
General Concepts and Historical Events in Science, Technology, and Society - CORRECT
ANSWER- Chapter 1 Title
Intellectual Revolutions That Defined Society - CORRECT ANSWER- Lesson 1 Title
Science - CORRECT ANSWER- Since time immemorial __...
STS Prelim UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
General Concepts and Historical Events in Science, Technology, and Society - CORRECT
ANSWER- Chapter 1 Title
Intellectual Revolutions That Defined Society - CORRECT ANSWER- Lesson 1 Title
Science - CORRECT ANSWER- Since time immemorial ___________ has always been
interwoven with the society.
Science - CORRECT ANSWER- is as old as the world itself
- Trepanation
- The practice of raising fish in rice paddies
- Mummification in the Philippines - CORRECT ANSWER- Examples of Scientific
Revolutions
- Cappadocia, Turkey
- Trepanation - CORRECT ANSWER- - The earliest example of brain surgery goes back
6,000 years to __________________.
- making an opening like a small round hole in the head.
The practice of raising fish in rice paddies - CORRECT ANSWER- - Thousand year old
agricultural practice
- China's solution to sustainable farming.
- is more than 1,000 years old, not only preserves the environment but also benefits local
communities
Mummification - CORRECT ANSWER- is a process of preserving a deceased human
method and the medium of preservation - CORRECT ANSWER- Mummies are classified
based on __________________.
,The ancient egyptians believed that when someone died, their soul left their body. The soul
would then return and be reunited with the body after it was buried. However, the soul
needed to be able to find and recognise the body in order to live forever. - CORRECT
ANSWER- Why did the ancient Eqyptians mummify their dead?
It includes ideas, theories and all available systematic explanations and observations about
the natural and physical world. - CORRECT ANSWER- Science as an IDEA
The study involves systematic observations and experimentations - CORRECT ANSWER-
Science as an INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY
It is a subject or a discipline or a field of study, it deals with the process of learning about the
natural and physical world . (school science) - CORRECT ANSWER- Science as a BODY
OF KNOWLEDGE
This explains that science is both knowledge and activities by humans to develop better
understanding of the world around them. - CORRECT ANSWER- Science as a PERSONAL
AND SOCIAL ACTIVITY
- Noble Ideas
- Philosophy - CORRECT ANSWER- People developed ___________, later known as
__________ to provide possible explanation to certain phenomena.
- religion
- rationalize - CORRECT ANSWER- People used _____________ to _____________the
origin of life.
Scientific Revolution
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Chemistry - CORRECT ANSWER- Was the period of elightenment when developments in
the fields of _________________________ transformed the views of society about nature.
, Europe - CORRECT ANSWER- Scientific Revolution started in ________________.
Scientific Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER- - Explains the emergence or BIRTH OF
MODERN SCIENCE as a result of these developments.
- 15th-17th Century
- Copernicus
- Vesalius
- Galileo
- Bacon
- Newton
- Linnaeus
- Diderot - CORRECT ANSWER- Scientific Revolution (Age of Reason) People
Scientific Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER- refers to historical changes in thought &
belief, to changes in social & institutional organization, that unfolded in Europe between
1550-1700.
did not accept - CORRECT ANSWER- - Some rulers and religious leaders
__________________ many of the early works of scientists.
- sentenced to death under condemnation
- curiosity of the natural and physical world - CORRECT ANSWER- - Scientific individuals
were ________________________ from religious institutions.
- These did not stop scientists to satisfy their ____________________.
NICHOLAUS COPERNICUS
- heliocentrism
- 1543
- Sun
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