PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

GEC2- Science Technology and Society

Name: _______________________________ Score: ___________________
Program/ Year and Section: ___________________ Date: ___________________

I.IDENTIFICATION
Directions: Identify the following.
____________1. It is a systematic body of knowledge based on careful observation and
experimentation.
____________2. It is the study of people, culture and society.
____________3. It assisted the people in their journeys to unfamiliar and strange areas in the
world.
____________4. It was essential in people’s endeavor to discover and occupy new places.
____________5. It was also vital to keep records of the history and culture.
____________6. This condition implied that people must be able to produce food at a given time
and space.
____________7. It ushered the development in engineering.
____________8. They are cooperative and developed many things connected with S and T.
____________9. They are great builders, engineers and architects.
____________10. It is the first writing system.

II. CLASSIFICATION/IDENTIFICATION
Directions: Classify and identify whether it is under pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial.

____________1. Early Filipino settlers were already using certain plants and herbs as medicines.
____________2. Walls, records, bridges and large infrastructures were built.
____________3. They established public educational system.
____________4. The people able to cultivate crops on the mountainsides in cold temperatures.
____________5. Systems of farming and animal raising were also implemented.
____________6. Early Filipinos also developed different modes of transportation, whether
terrestrial or maritime.
____________7. Many agencies in science and technology were established and strengthened.
____________8. PAGASA was established.
____________9. American occupation modernized almost all aspects of life in the Philippines.
____________10. Spanish government developed health and educational systems that were
enjoyed by the principalia class.

III. MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE (2 points each)

Directions: Directions: Write the word TRUE if the statement is correct otherwise change the
underlined word that makes it wrong.
______________1. Uruk City is the first true city in the world.
______________2. The Great Ziggurat of Ur was built in the manner that they constructed the
City of Uruk.
______________3. Dikes and canals were able to enjoy year-long farming and harvesting.
______________4. Sailboats were not essential in transportation and trading as well as in
fostering.
______________5. The second wheels were not made for transportation but for farm work.
______________6. Babylonians develop the first roads using sun backed bricks.
______________7. Papyrus was a plant that grew abundantly in Egypt.
______________8. Sumerians invented ink by combining soot with different chemicals.
______________9. The Egyptians also developed a system of writing using symbols known as
hieroglyphics.
______________10. Clapsydra utilizes gravity that affects the flow of water from one vessels to
the other.
______________11. Psychology is the study that explains human behavior.
______________12. Claudius Ptolemy believed that the Earth was the center-a concept.
_____________13. Organisms with heritable genes better suited to the environment will reach
maturity and survive.
_____________14. Scientific and technological development in the Philippines began in the
colonial period.
_____________15. Science during the Spanish period was inclined towards agriculture, food
processing, medicine and pharmacy.

Prepared by:

RONALYN S. GONZALES
College Instructor
 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
GEC2- SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Name: _______________________________ Score: _________________

Course/ Year and Section: ______________ Date: _________________

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