STS Prelim Questions and Answers Verified
General Concepts and Historical Events in Science, Technology, and Society
Chapter 1 Title
Intellectual Revolutions That Defined Society
Lesson 1 Title
Science
Since time immemorial ___________ has always been interwoven with the society.
Science
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STS Prelim Questions and Answers Verified
General Concepts and Historical Events in Science, Technology, and Society
Chapter 1 Title
Intellectual Revolutions That Defined Society
Lesson 1 Title
Science
Since time immemorial ___________ has always been interwoven with the society.
Science
is as old as the world itself
- Trepanation
- The practice of raising fish in rice paddies
- Mummification in the Philippines
Examples of Scientific Revolutions
- Cappadocia, Turkey
- Trepanation
- 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
- 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
is a process of preserving a deceased human
method and the medium of preservation
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.
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.
Science as an IDEA
The study involves systematic observations and experimentations
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)
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.
Science as a PERSONAL AND SOCIAL ACTIVITY
- Noble Ideas
- Philosophy
, People developed ___________, later known as __________ to provide possible
explanation to certain phenomena.
- religion
- rationalize
People used _____________ to _____________the origin of life.
Scientific Revolution
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Chemistry
Was the period of elightenment when developments in the fields of
_________________________ transformed the views of society about nature.
Europe
Scientific Revolution started in ________________.
Scientific Revolution
- Explains the emergence or BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE as a result of these
developments.
- 15th-17th Century
- Copernicus
- Vesalius
- Galileo
- Bacon
- Newton
- Linnaeus
- Diderot
Scientific Revolution (Age of Reason) People
Scientific Revolution
refers to historical changes in thought & belief, to changes in social & institutional
organization, that unfolded in Europe between 1550-1700.
did not accept
- Some rulers and religious leaders __________________ many of the early works of
scientists.
- sentenced to death under condemnation
- curiosity of the natural and physical world
- Scientific individuals were ________________________ from religious institutions.
- These did not stop scientists to satisfy their ____________________.
NICHOLAUS COPERNICUS
- heliocentrism
- 1543
- Sun
- motionless
- _____________ developed (Copernican Model) ___________________, it is the
name given to the astronomical model published in ____________.
- It positioned the _____ near the center of the universe, ______________, with Earth
and the other planets orbiting around it in circular paths.
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