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C FALSE
A The Voyage of the Beagle B The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
A FALSE B TRUE
C CAN'T SAY.
5. Science, Technology and Society (STS) is the study of how science and technology shape and are shaped by social in uences.
A FALSE B TRUE
C CAN'T SAY.
6. STS deals with the historical development of science and technology but does not cover their philosophical underpinnings.
C FALSE
7. The study of STS primarily concerns students of science and technology programs and not non-science students as well.
A FALSE B TRUE
C CAN'T SAY.
8. STS is an important area of study because science and technology permeate every aspect of everyday life.
C TRUE
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C TRUE
10. History cannot teach people about evaluating present-day science and technology.
A FALSE B TRUE
C CAN'T SAY.
11. STS draws from other disciplines, such as history, sociology, philosophy, economics, political science and international relations, and science
policy.
C FALSE
12. is the study of how society, politics, and culture a ect scienti c research and technological innovation, and how these, in turn, a ect society,
politics and culture
A Education B Science
C Engineering D Technology
16. A ________ is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by common interest and may have distinctive culture and institutions.
A Individual B Community
C Society D School
17. Science will try to discover facts and relationships and then tries to create theories that makes sense of these facts and relationships.
A False B True
18. Printing shops had become very numerous and the number of printed books had increased.
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A only sleep can regenerate their energy B use verbal defense that often hurts others
C task-oriented with great capacity for work D he relies on facts instead of speculations
21. They had a little taste for basic science in its application.
A Aristotle B Copernicus
C Ptolemy D Lamarck
25. This type of characteristic is NOT inherited or something that you are born with
C adaptation
26. This explained why Mars seemed to moved backwards as seen from the Earth
A Evolution B Rotation
A The earth is too big to move B The earth stays at the center motionless
A Darwin B Copernicus
C Freud D Lamarck
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A Lamarck B Aristotle
C Darwin D Freud
A Aristotle B Copernicus
C Ptolemy D Lamarck
A survival B tness
C evolved
32. __________ came up with the heliocentric theory, and _______ proved it to be true with the use of his telescope.
A Practicality B Reason
C Correct
A Consenter B Philosophe
C Reason-er
37. _________ is the belief that the government is only true and just if it comes from the people.
C Revolution D Change
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C Earth D Sun
43. A European intellectual movement that stressed the use of human reason to solve political, social, and economic problems
C Reformation D Enlightenment
44. Enlightenment philosophers wanted to use the _____________ of the Scienti c Revolution for problems in government and society
C Renaissance D Reformation
46. On/in what did most peasants lived during the Medieval Period?
A Lords/nobles B Merchants
C Clergy D Peasants
48. Which term is de ned as the rebirth of classical (Greek & Roman) knowledge?
A Medieval B Enlightenment
C Reformation D Renaissance
49. Emphasis on the power, potential, and achievements of people came to be known as:
A Earth B Geometry
A Galileo B Brahe
C Newton D Copernicus
52. What can be considered as the topmost priority of many countries in these modern times?
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C Globalization
C Food shortage
54. What was the title of Martin Heidegger's book that explained the idea of subject and object as inseparable concepts?
A Existentialism B Essentialism
A False B True
57. Technology as a means to an end pertains to the use of technology for no particular reason.
A True B False
58. "We're always on, always plugged in, always stimulated, always in a constant state of self-presentation" illustrates _____.
A False B True
61. A good leader should understand the human conditions and be able to e ectively manage them by...
A making uncomfortable leadership changes B using the ten step leadership model to remove them
weaving the right actions into your general leadership
D
C having good 90 day plans approach
62. It is an Eastern Philosophical movement with great prominence during the Edo Period of Japan that promotes the study of the Sciences not
for one's self but for the service of the many.
C Shintoism D Taoism
63. "Two heads are better than one."
This adage is re ective of what importance of collaboration and diversity?
A Collaboration and diversity balance possible ideas B Diversity and collaboration stimulate problem solving
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64. Human ourishing in terms of Science and Technology is a result of check and balance by the basic tenets of societal ethics and morality.
Where should science and technology place itself in the society then?
A they should be the primary source of divisionary force B alongside human society
A Revealing B Technology
C Enframing D Clearing
A clearing B revealing
C amnipulating D enframing
72. It is an e ort to achieve self-actualization and ful llment within the context of a larger community of individuals, each with the right to pursue
his or her own such e orts
A Enframing B Clearing
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A True B False
74. For Heidegger, enframing is the supreme danger, because it causes the event of revealing (Being itself) to slip into oblivion
A True B False
A maximise pain and minimise pleasure B maximise pleasure and minimise pain
C about being the best human you can be D the attempt to minimise pleasure
A Maya B Aztec
C Mexica D Inca
83. Their knowledge and understanding about celestial bodies was advanced for their time, as evidence of their knowledge of predicting eclipse
and using astrological cycles in planting and harvesting. Who are they?
A Mexica B Inca
C Maya D Aztec
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A Canoe B Balsa
C Titanic D Chinampa
86. This is the largest empire in pre-columbian america, and possibly the largest empire in the whole world in the early 16th century.
A Mexica B Aztec
C Inca D Maya
A Maya B Inca
C Aztec D Mexica
A Mayan B Aztec
C Inca D Maya
A technology B Paleolithic
C revolution D nomad
A surplus B agriculture
C specialization D hunter-gatherer
A domesticate B technology
C migration D culture
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A Neolithic B domesticate
C migration D surplus
A animism B hunter-gatherer
C technology D revolution
94. person who moves from place to place without a permanent home
A irrigate B settler
C culture D nomad
95. tools & skills people use to meet their needs & wants
A nomad B hunter-gatherer
C revolution D technology
A nomadic B stable
C e ortless D isolated
99. Which of these BEST describes the importance of mankind's rst use of re approximately 1 million years ago?
Harnessing re meant that dinosaur meat could now be Hunter-gatherers' ability to hunt at night meant they
A B cooked. could eat more.
C Humans could now invent tools to make life easier. D People were more protected from predators.
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100. About 10,000 years ago, human civilization changed in a major way. What was this change?
A Humans began to farm & domesticate animals. B Humans began to use spoken language.
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