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KOMPOR STS REVIEWER PRELIM
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1
Which of the following was discovered during the Middle Ages?
Telephone
Newspapers
Telescope
Gunpowder
2
Global problem with grave implications: environmental, social, economic, political and for the distribution of goods
Donald Trump
Ice Age
Duterte administration
Climate change
3
Which theory of evolution can be derived from the extinction of dinosaurs?
Cuvier's Catastrophism
Lamarck's Theory of Use and Disuse
Darwin's Theory of Evolution
None of the above
4
Process in which organisms have the ability to adapt to their environment and would gradually change into something
Transformation
Evolution
Development
Selection
5
Which is not a part of Laudato Si's first chapter?
Global Inequality
Issues of water
Globalization
Climate change
6
The paleolithic age began about 2.5 million years – 800 B.C. ago
False
True
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In-vitro fertilization is used as a remedy for infertility
False
True
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Statements of particular facts are generalized into general ideas about the facts
Deductive reasoning
Hypothesis
Inductive reasoning
Theory
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These are the four historical transitions of technology except
Neolithic
Pleistocene
Paleolithic
Anthropocene
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The difference of plant cells and animals cells
Organelles
Mitochondria
Cytoplasm
Cell Wall
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Indicates the acceleration of changes affecting humanity and the planet due to intense pace of life
Development
Climate Change
Rapidification
Fourth Industrial Revolution
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A methodological approach to the process of inquiry – in which empirically grounded theory of nature is constructed
Scientific Method
Hypothetico-deductivism
Philosophy
Observation
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This situation resulted to great disparities in wealth
Discovery of fire
Agricultural surplus
Development of smoother tools
Domestication of animals
14
The first industry which employed the factory system
Textile
Canning
Chemical
Automobile
15
Feyerabend thinks that fixed operation of science by universal rules is unrealistic, and detrimental.
Epistemological Anarchism
Falsificationism
Paradigm Shift
Inductivism
16
The first agricultural revolution happened in which transition?
Both Paleolithic and Neolithic
Neolithic
Paleolithic
Anthropocene
17
The Chinese invented gunpowder
True
False
18
Which of the ff. was not used during the Paleolithic Age?
Iron pyrite
Beads and statues
Needles from animal bones
Flint
19
The ff. concepts adheres with Darwin's theory: Variation, Survival, Competition, Reproduction
False
True
20
Which was not a proponent of electricity?
Benjamin Franklin
Alessandro Volta
Alexander Graham Bell
Michael Faraday
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Cell division which produces gametes
Cytokinesis
Interphase
Meiosis
Mitosis
22
No specific number of confirmations will make any hypothesis true
Inductivism
Paradigm shift
Hypothetico-deductivism
Falsificationism
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Synthetic biology has been described as the engineer's approach to biology
False
Cytoplasm
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It is scientific work done within a prevailing framework
Paradigm Shift
Inductivism
Epistemological Anarchism
Hypothetico-deductivism
25
Which of the ff. is associated to Thomas Kuhn?
Conjecture and refutation
Inductivism
Critical experiments
Hypothetico-deductivism
26
He countered the geocentrism idea of the universe with a heliocentric concept
Nicolaus Copernicus
Claudius Ptolemy
Thomas Edison
Galileo Galilei
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They established the first system of writing
Chinese
Egyptians
Sumerians
Romans