Science and Technology Quiz

STS traces its roots from what historical period?

• early modern period and late modern period

• start of the Cold War and medieval period

• interwar period and the start of the Cold War

• late modern period and interwar period

Which of the following is NOT included in the Nature of Science?

• Scientific enterprise

• Scientific inquiry

• Scientific explanation

• Scientific world view

These are “factors that paved the way for the presence of advanced and sophisticated scientific and ethnological innovations today.”

• Ancient Period

• Historical antecedents

• Middle Age

• modern Age

The following are the contributions of the Sumerian civilization, except.

• cuneiform

• wheel

• plow

• Shadoof

It is the key in discovering new means in preventing and curing various illness and invented by Zacharias Janssen.

• airplane

• television

• microscope

• telescope

The following technologies were developed during the Middle Ages EXCEPT:

• Gunpowder

• Heavy Plow

• Mechanical Clock

• Spinning Wheel

It refers to series of events that led to the emergence of modern science and more current scientific thinking across critical periods in history.

• Intellectual revolution

• Scientific revolution

• Paradigm shift

• All of the above

He carefully observed the star, Cassiopeia and he developed a compromise between the heliocentric and geocentric models of the universe.

• Tycho Brahe

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Claudius Ptolemy

It is defined as a set of psychological theories and therapeutic methods with the belief that all people possess unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories.

• id

• ego

• superego

• psychoanalysis

It is the model that says the earth is at the center of the cosmos or universe, and the planets, the sun and the moon, and the stars circles around it.

• heliocentric model

• geocentric model

• Copernican model

• None of the above