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Science Technology and Society

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DIRECTION: Analyze the given questions 5.

It is a period known as the rebirth of


below. Shade the letter of the correct knowledge.
answer.
A) Bronze Age
1. This legislation outlaws computer hacking
B) Medieval Era
and provides opportunities for new
C) Renaissance Era
businesses emerging from the Internet-
D) Modern Era
driven New Economy.
A) Philippine Clean Air Act 6. He was the first to use modern scientific
B) Magna Carta for Science and methods based on experiment and
Technology Personnel testable observations.
C) Electronic Commerce Act of 2000
D) The Intellectual Property Code of the A) Socrates
Philippines B) Galileo
C) Euclid
2. Under whose administration wherein the D) Archimedes
science and technology sector of the
Philippines was dubbed as the “golden 7. He is considered as the most famous
age” of science and technology? scientist of the 20th century.

A) President Joseph Estrada A) Isaac Newton


B) President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo B) Copernicus
C) President Rodrigo Duterte C) Galileo
D) President Bongbong Marcos D) Albert Einstein

3. This was the coined term used in 8. Considered as the sophisticated product
helping the Philippines to be an of engineering by pre-Spanish Filipinos.
innovation hub in Asia during President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s term. A) The Banaue Rice Terraces
B) Underground River in Palawan
A) Philippines 2000 C) Boracay
B) Filipino First D) Batanes Rolling Hills
C) Filipinovation
D) Golden Age of the Philippines 9. Science during the American period was
inclined towards:
4. He was considered as the “Father of
Organic Agriculture”. I. Agriculture
II. Food processing
A) President Benigno Aquino III III. Industrial technology
B) President Ramon Magsaysay IV. Medicine
C) President Fidel Ramos
D) President Rodrigo Duterte
A) I, II, II
B) I, II, IV
C) II, III, IV
D) I, II, III, IV
10. The president who helped establish the 15. Which of the following nitrogen base is
Department of Science and Technology not found in DNA?
(DOST).
A) Thymine
A) Cory Aquino B) Cytosine
B) Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo C) Guanine
C) Fidel Ramos D) Uracil
D) Benigno Aquino
16. It is a variety of life that make up our
11. The following are policies and laws natural world.
pertaining to Science and Technology
EXCEPT: A) Vertebrates
B) Pollution
A) R.A. 2067 C) Biodiversity
B) R.A. 8749 D) Abiotic factor
C) R.A. 7836
D) R.A. 9367 17. Which of the following is the leading
cause of extinction?
12. This is a concept created by Aristotle
which describes the highest good of A) Lack of food supply increases the
human attempt to achieve his/her goal. number of deaths among animals.
B) Animals are dying because of age.
A) Human development C) Loss of habitat because of
B) Human flourishing industrialization.
C) Human evolution D) Lack of food supply increases the
D) Human advancement number of deaths among animals.

13. This belief aims that comfort, pleasure, 18. The following are definitions of
and wealth are the only highest goals. nanotechnology EXCEPT:

A) Hedonism A) Various technologies to produce


B) Stoicism materials of extra high precision and
C) Humanism dimensions on the scale of one-billionth
D) Materialism of a meter.
B) Ability to observe measure, manipulate,
14. Who is the Father of the Information assemble, control, and manufacture
Age? matter at the nanometer scale.
C) Scientific study of materials of
A) Blaire Pascal nanometer size, i.e., one billionth of a
B) Claude Shannon meter.
C) Alexander Graham D) None of the above.
D) Charles Babbage
19. The following people have contributed to 24. A powerful greenhouse gas produced by
the growth and study of the Nano World soil cultivation practices.
EXCEPT:
A) Carbon dioxide
A) Erick Drexler B) Nitrous oxide
B) Gerd Binnig C) Oxygen
C) Richard Feynman D) Water Vapor
D) Charles Babbage
25. It is the most abundant greenhouse gas.
20. He was the first to manipulate atoms
using a scanning tunneling microscope A) Carbon dioxide
in 1989. B) Nitrous oxide
C) Oxygen
A) Gerd Binnig D) Water Vapor
B) Heinrich Rohrer
C) Christopher Gerber 26. The following are some causes of the
D) Don Eigler energy crisis:

21. It is a phenomenon that refers to the I. Overconsumption


increase in Earth’s temperature. II. Overpopulation
III. Poor infrastructure
A) Sustainability IV. Major Accidents and Natural Calamities
B) Global warming
C) Climate change A) I and II
D) Deforestation B) I, II, III
C) II, III, IV
22. Greenhouse gases that contribute to the D) I, II, III, IV
greenhouse effect include:
27. The following are renewable energy
A) Water vapor, oxygen, carbon dioxide, EXCEPT:
nitrous oxide
B) Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, A) Solar
nitrous oxide B) Wind
C) Carbon dioxide, methane, argon, nitrous C) Coal
oxide D) Geothermal
D) Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide,
oxygen 28. What is the most abundant renewable
energy resource?
23. What greenhouse gas is released into
the atmosphere from burning of fossil A) Biomass resources
fuels? B) Solar energy
C) Wind energy
A) Carbon dioxide D) Hydro resources
B) Nitrous oxide
C) Oxygen
D) Water Vapor
29. Where did the earliest record of science C) Experiment
come from? D) Theories

A) China 35. Which civilization emerged near the


B) India Tigris and Euphrates river?
C) Rome
D) Mesopotamia A) Romanian
B) Indian
30. Who is the founder of modern C) Mesopotamian
geometry? D) Greek

A) Archimedes 36. What civilization developed a system of


B) Euclid writing using symbols called
C) Socrates hieroglyphics?
D) Plato
A) Sumerian
31. Who is the founder of engineering B) Babylonian
mechanics? C) Greek
D) Egyptian
A) Archimedes
B) Euclid 37. Johannes Gutenberg is usually cited as
C) Socrates the inventor of the ___________ that
D) Plato has been called one of the most
important inventions in the history of
32. What is the most outstanding humankind.
development in science and technology
in Egypt? A) Woodcut Printing
B) Textile Press
A) Hieroglyphics C) Printing Press
B) Sundial D) Screen Printing
C) Pyramids
D) Calendar 38. During the term of President
___________ he declared that the
33. He helped define the laws of gravity and “advancement of Science and
planetary motion. Technology shall have priority in
National Development”.
A) Albert Einstein
B) Galileo Galilei A) Ferdinand Marcos
C) Isaac Newton B) Diosdado Macapagal
D) Alexander Fleming C) Ramon Magsaysay
D) Emilio Aguinaldo
34. A ____________ is set of assumptions
for a possible explanation of certain
facts that are conditionally accepted.

A) Observation
B) Hypothesis
39. What would be a good way to preserve III. Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999
biodiversity? (R.A. 8749)
IV. The Intellectual Property Code of the
A) Kaingin System Philippines (R.A. 8293)
B) Deforestation
C) Reforestation
D) Mining A) I, II, III
B) I, II, IV
40. During the term of President Corazon C) II, III, IV
Aquino, this act opened the free D) I, II, III, IV
education at the secondary level.
44. Which is not true about science?
A) R.A. 19844
B) R.A. 6655 A) Systematized body of knowledge
C) R.A. 9367 B) Social enterprise
D) R.A. 8749 C) Allows quick solution to a problem
D) An organized and dynamic inquiry
41. Eudaimonia, literally “good spirited”, a
term coined by Aristotle to describe the 45. ___________ is the intellectual and
pinnacle of happiness that is attainable practical activity encompassing the
by humans; has often been translated systematic study of the structure and
into _______________. behavior of the physical and natural
world through observation and
A) Moral language experiment.
B) Emotional attitude
C) Human Flourishing A) History
D) Hedonistic B) Science
C) Astrology
42. During the term of President D) Mathematics
_____________ , the Philippines was
estimated to have around 3,000 46. Which of the following is the major
competent scientists and engineers. accomplishment of Duterte
administration in science and
A) Joseph Estrada technology?
B) Ferdinand Marcos
C) Corazon Aquino A) Entry into the frontiers of space through
D) Fidel Ramos its support to the Philippine Space
Technology Program
43. The following are some of the laws B) Republic Act 11035 “An Act
enacted by Congress during President Institutionalizing the Balik Scientist
Ramos’ term: Program”.
C) On weather, 271 new weather stations
I. Magna Carta for Science and were installed by the Department of
Technology Personnel (R.A. 8439) Science and Technology throughout the
II. Science and Technology Scholarship country.
Law of 1004 (R.A. 7687) D) All of the Above
47. ___________ civilization puts the D) Diversity and collaboration are
community above the individual. inspiration and motivation.
Community is given the highest regard
and that the individual should sacrifice 51. What are the three ways by which we
himself for the sake of society. can understand what is meant by “a
good life” according to Westacott?
A) Eastern
B) Western A) Moral Life, Virtuous Life, Logical Life
C) Northern B) Moral Life, Life of Pleasure, Fulfilled Life
D) Southern C) Life of Pleasure, Virtuous Life, Logical
Life
48. Who said genius is 1% talent and 99% D) Life of Pleasure, Virtuous Life, Fulfilled
hard work? Life

A) Thomas Edison 52. Who wrote the Republic?


B) Albert Einstein
C) Marie Curie A) Aristotle
D) Isaac Newton B) Ptolemy
C) Plato
49. Which of the following is the importance D) Epicurus
of diversity and collaboration in the
scientific community towards human 53. An ancient Greek philosopher who was
flourishing? one of the first to declare that what
makes life worth living is that we can
A) Collaboration and diversity balance experience pleasure.
possible biases.
B) Diversity and collaboration stimulate A) Aristotle
problem solving. B) Plato
C) Diversity and collaboration facilitate C) Ptolemy
specialization. D) Epicurus
D) All of the Above.
54. This philosophy asserts that virtue is
50. “A diverse community is better able to happiness and judgment should be
generate new research methods, based acts on behavior rather than
explanations and ideas which can help words.
science over challenging obstacles and
shed new light on problems for the A) Stoicism
betterment of the society.” B) Hedonism
C) Materialism
This statement means that
D) Humanism
_______________.
A) Collaboration and diversity balance 55. This philosophy believes that the
possible biases. ultimate basis of happiness is the
B) Diversity and collaboration stimulate communion with God.
problem solving.
C) Diversity and collaboration divide labor. A) Humanism
B) Materialism
C) Theism A) I, II, III, IV
D) Stoicism B) I, II, IV, V
C) I, III, IV, V
56. The following people contributed in the D) I, II, III, V
invention of the first television EXCEPT:
61. It is an experimental technique that
A) Paul Gottlieb Nipkow involves altering the genes inside your
B) Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton body’s cells in an effort to treat or stop
C) Boris Rosing the disease.
D) Martin Cooper
A) Stem Cell Therapy
57. It is considered as a historic period in B) Gene Therapy
the 21st century characterized by the C) Chemotherapy
rapid shift from traditional industry. D) Radiotherapy

A) Iron Age 62. What do you call the process by which


B) Stone Age the DNA code is transferred to mRNA
C) Information Age code?
D) Heroic Age
A) Transcription
58. A Polish astronomer, who proposed that B) Replication
the sun, not the Earth, was at the center C) Translation
of the universe. D) Differentiation

A) Ptolemy 63. It is the technique of controlled


B) Nicolaus Copernicus manipulation of genes to change the
C) Aristotle genetic make-up of cells and more
D) Galileo Galilei genes across species boundaries.

59. When did the Computer Age or New A) Stem cell therapy
Media Age start? B) Genetic engineering
C) DNA testing
A) 1970s D) Gene mutation
B) 1980s
C) 1990s 64. It is the practice of allowing large
D) 2000s numbers of domestic animals to graze
an area too small to support them.
60. What are the four periods of the
Information Age? A) Over cropping
B) Overgrazing
I. Pre-Mechanical C) Direct Harvesting
II. Mechanical D) None of the above
III. Post-Mechanical
IV. Electro-Mechanical
V. Electronic/Information
65. His paper on the Nanosystems: 70. ______________ serves as educational
Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, tool making people understand the
and Computation, received the economic, aesthetic and biological
Association of American Publishers importance of preserving resources and
award for Best Computer Science Book reducing or eliminating the harmful
of 1992. impacts of alternations caused by man.

A) Gerd Binnig A) Environmental Awareness


B) Heinrich Rohrer B) Environmental Factors
C) Erick Drexler C) Environmental Science
D) Richard Feynman D) Environmental Engineering

66. It is an instrument for imaging surfaces 71. Which of the following is true about
at the atomic level, developed by Gerd Alternative Energy?
Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer in 1981.
A) Alternative Energy is the same with
A) Compound Microscope Renewable Energy.
B) Atomic Force Microscope B) Alternative Energy is infinite in supply.
C) Scanning Tunneling Microscope C) Alternative Energy includes solar power.
D) X-Ray Microscope D) Alternative Energy is not infinite in
supply.
67. A hydrocarbon gas produced through
manure management associated with 72. Advances in _________ have led to
domestic livestock. rapid information exchange.

A) Methane A) Nuclear technology


B) Carbon dioxide B) Weaponry
C) Nitrogen C) Communication
D) Oxygen D) Medicine

68. What was the deadliest storm on record 73. By too much reliance on ___________,
in the Philippines? humans lose track of things that matter,
reducing their surroundings to their
A) Odette economic value.
B) Yolanda
C) Lando A) Books
D) Ruping B) Science
C) Technology
69. The following are some of the causes of D) Information
energy crisis EXCEPT:
74. Which of the following is an indication of
A) Poor Infrastructure global warming?
B) Major Accidents and Natural Calamities
C) Delay in Commissioning of Power Plants A) Coastal Erosion
D) Move towards Renewable Resources B) Land and Water Pollution
C) Decrease of global temperature
D) Rising of sea level

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