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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILLIPINES

RIZAL TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY


CITIES OF MANDALUYONG AND PASIG

Quiz #2 in Science, Technology and Society

I. Using the word pool below, identify the following:

1. Latin word scientia, meaning 'knowledge.’


2. Is the aggregate of people living together in an ordered community.
3. An output or devise as a result of application of science.
4. Transportation is to trade; navigation to discover new places.
5. First writing system. It is a system that utilizes word pictures and triangular symbols which are carved on clay
using wedge instruments and then left to dry.
6. It is a structure made up of layers upon layers of gardens that contained several species of plants, trees, and
vines.
7. They made use of water (or sometimes small stones or sand) that dropped into drums which sounded the alarm.
8. Main mode of transportation was through waterways.
9. With this tool, farmers could cultivate larger parcels of land faster, enabling them to mass produce food without
taking so much effort and time.
10.
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It Was the chief writing material in ancient Egypt.
11. Invented to address the need for publishing books that would spread information to many people at a faster rate.
12. The process that they do to avoid spoiling of products.
13. Who invented the Telephone?
14. the center of the solar system was not the earth but the Sun.
15. Used to record history, culture, and codified laws.
Hanging Gardens cuneiform Alarm clock Ink Plow

Sail boats Pasteurization Papyrus Alexander Graham bell

Alexander graham ball Heliocentrism Science Society Printing Press

Heiroglyphics Ancient Times Pre-historic times Technology

II.
1. He suggested that paradigm includes "the practices that define a scientific discipline at a certain point
in time".
a. Isaac Newton B. Copernicus C. Thomas Kuhn D. Tycho Brahe
2. Which civilization invented the Kite as tool used in war to carry messages to signal people and also
carries explosive.
a. Sumerian Civilization B. Babylonian C. Egyptian d. Chinese
3. This age is notable for so many events like wars, massive invasion, and migrations.
a. Stone Age B. Iron Age C. Middle Age D. Modern Age
4. He is known as the greatest physician of antiquity and regarded as the father of medicine.
a. Aristotle B. Socrates c. Hippocrates D. Archimedes
5. His experiments which led him to discover the laws of the lever and the pulley that resulted in the
invention of machines which could easily move loads.
a. Ptolemy B. Democritus c. Archimedes d. Aristotle
6. The following are the contribution of Egyptian to the field of science and technology EXCEPT
a. Cuneiform b. mummification c. pyramid of Giza d. Death Mask
7. Which best describe the era of the industrial revolution?
a. Major change in the metal as a replacement of wood and other biofuels with coal.
b. It results in population declines.
c. technology has come to reality because of the desire of early humans to thrive and survive, which
later improved and made their life easier.
d. paved way to modern means of construction. Roads, bridges, churches, and other large
infrastructures.
8. An Astronomer who believed in “Heliocentric theory”
a. Claudius Ptolemy b. Isaac Newton c. Nicolaus Copernicus D. Edwin Hubble
9. The theory that the Earth is the center of the universe
A. Heliocentric theory b. Geocentric theory c. theory of evolution d. theory of creation
10. The theory that the Sun is the center of the universe
a. Heliocentric theory c. geocentric theory
b. Theory of evolution d. theory of creation

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