STS (MIDTERM EXAM) REVIEWER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
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What is STS? - ✔✔Science, Technology, and Society
Is an organized, hierarchical activity that investigates nature and human nature by
experiment and observation. - ✔✔Science
What are the four (4) main focus of science? - ✔✔Explanation, Understanding,
Prediction, and Control.
What are the four (4) characteristics under "Technology"? - ✔✔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. - ✔✔STS
Is characterized as an idea, an intellectual activity, a body of knowledge, and a personal
and social activity. - ✔✔Science
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, 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. -
✔✔Revolution
In the 1500s and 1600s the ___________________ changed the way Europeans looked at
the world. - ✔✔Scientific Revolution
People began to make conclusions based on _______________ and _____________,
instead of merely accepting traditional ideas. - ✔✔Experimentation, Observation.
Until the mid 1500's, European scholars accepted and believed the teachings of
_______________, an ancient Greek astronomer. - ✔✔Ptolemy
_____________ taught that the Earth was the center of the universe. - ✔✔Ptolemy
People felt this was common sense, and the __________________________ the Church. -
✔✔Geocentric Theory
Ptolemy's geocentric model of the solar system: - ✔✔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.)
He was a Polish astronomer who studied in Italy. - ✔✔Nicolaus Copernicus
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
PASS
What is STS? - ✔✔Science, Technology, and Society
Is an organized, hierarchical activity that investigates nature and human nature by
experiment and observation. - ✔✔Science
What are the four (4) main focus of science? - ✔✔Explanation, Understanding,
Prediction, and Control.
What are the four (4) characteristics under "Technology"? - ✔✔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. - ✔✔STS
Is characterized as an idea, an intellectual activity, a body of knowledge, and a personal
and social activity. - ✔✔Science
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, 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. -
✔✔Revolution
In the 1500s and 1600s the ___________________ changed the way Europeans looked at
the world. - ✔✔Scientific Revolution
People began to make conclusions based on _______________ and _____________,
instead of merely accepting traditional ideas. - ✔✔Experimentation, Observation.
Until the mid 1500's, European scholars accepted and believed the teachings of
_______________, an ancient Greek astronomer. - ✔✔Ptolemy
_____________ taught that the Earth was the center of the universe. - ✔✔Ptolemy
People felt this was common sense, and the __________________________ the Church. -
✔✔Geocentric Theory
Ptolemy's geocentric model of the solar system: - ✔✔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.)
He was a Polish astronomer who studied in Italy. - ✔✔Nicolaus Copernicus
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