STS (MIDTERM EXAM) REVIEWER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is STS? - Answer-Science, Technology, and Society
Is an organized, hierarchical activity that investigates nature and human nature by experiment and
observation. - Answer-Science
What are the four (4) main focus of science? - Answer-Explanation, Understanding, Prediction, and
Control.
What are the four (4) characteristics under "Technology"? - Answer-a. Artifacts or Hardware
b. Knowledge and Methods
c. A human cultural activity or profession
d. A total societal enterprise
It is the interdisciplinary study of the interaction of science and technology with society and culture. -
Answer-STS
Is characterized as an idea, an intellectual activity, a body of knowledge, and a personal and social
activity. - Answer-Science
, Is a sudden, radical, or complete change, as well as a fundamental change in the way of thinking about
or visualizing something, which is a change of paradigm. - Answer-Revolution
In the 1500s and 1600s the ___________________ changed the way Europeans looked at the world. -
Answer-Scientific Revolution
People began to make conclusions based on _______________ and _____________, instead of merely
accepting traditional ideas. - Answer-Experimentation, Observation.
Until the mid 1500's, European scholars accepted and believed the teachings of _______________, an
ancient Greek astronomer. - Answer-Ptolemy
_____________ taught that the Earth was the center of the universe. - Answer-Ptolemy
People felt this was common sense, and the __________________________ the Church. - Answer-
Geocentric Theory
Ptolemy's geocentric model of the solar system: - Answer-1. Earth
2. Moon
3. Mercury
4. Venus
5. Sun
6. Mars
7. Jupiter
8. Saturn
(Notice, the Earth is first, and not the sun, as it should be.)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is STS? - Answer-Science, Technology, and Society
Is an organized, hierarchical activity that investigates nature and human nature by experiment and
observation. - Answer-Science
What are the four (4) main focus of science? - Answer-Explanation, Understanding, Prediction, and
Control.
What are the four (4) characteristics under "Technology"? - Answer-a. Artifacts or Hardware
b. Knowledge and Methods
c. A human cultural activity or profession
d. A total societal enterprise
It is the interdisciplinary study of the interaction of science and technology with society and culture. -
Answer-STS
Is characterized as an idea, an intellectual activity, a body of knowledge, and a personal and social
activity. - Answer-Science
, Is a sudden, radical, or complete change, as well as a fundamental change in the way of thinking about
or visualizing something, which is a change of paradigm. - Answer-Revolution
In the 1500s and 1600s the ___________________ changed the way Europeans looked at the world. -
Answer-Scientific Revolution
People began to make conclusions based on _______________ and _____________, instead of merely
accepting traditional ideas. - Answer-Experimentation, Observation.
Until the mid 1500's, European scholars accepted and believed the teachings of _______________, an
ancient Greek astronomer. - Answer-Ptolemy
_____________ taught that the Earth was the center of the universe. - Answer-Ptolemy
People felt this was common sense, and the __________________________ the Church. - Answer-
Geocentric Theory
Ptolemy's geocentric model of the solar system: - Answer-1. Earth
2. Moon
3. Mercury
4. Venus
5. Sun
6. Mars
7. Jupiter
8. Saturn
(Notice, the Earth is first, and not the sun, as it should be.)
