30 Questions
Without technology, some science experiments would not be ______
possible
Science is a way of ______
knowing
Technology is a way of ______
doing
Science and technology alter the way people live, connect, communicate, and ______, with profound effects on economic development
transact
Science and technology have the power to better the lives of poor people in developing countries through interventions for cognitive enhancement, proton cancer therapy, and genetic ______
engineering
The technological revolutions of the 21st century are emerging from entirely new sectors, based on micro-processors, tele-communications, bio-technology, and ______
nano-technology
Science is an evolving body of knowledge that is based on theoretical expositions and ______ activities that generates universal truths.
experimental and empirical
Technology is the application of science and creation of systems, processes and objects designed to help humans in their daily ______.
activities
The human attempt to change the world by creating products that makes our life ______.
easier
Society is the sum total of our interactions as humans, including the interactions that we engage in to understand the nature of things and to create ______.
things
A large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done defines ______.
Society
Some of the earliest records from history indicate that 3,000 years before Christ, the ancient Egyptians already had reasonably sophisticated ______ practices.
medical
Science is the process of acquiring scientific knowledge, Technology is the application of Scientific knowledge for people, and Society is a group of people who use technology & who are studying ______.
science
A man named Imhotep was renowned for his knowledge of ______.
medicine
The heart of Egyptian medicine was ______ and error.
trial
Before papyrus, Egyptians, Sumerians, and other races wrote on clay tablets or smooth ______.
rocks
Egyptian medicine became the most respected form of medicine in the known ______.
world
The ancient Greeks were the early thinkers and as far as historians can tell, they were the first true ______.
scientists
The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural, economic and scientific flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the eighth century to the fourteenth century, with several contemporary scholars dating the end of the era to the ______ or sixteenth century.
fifteenth
Islamic scientific achievements encompassed a wide range of subject areas, especially astronomy, ______, and medicine.
mathematics
This period produced substantial advances in scientific knowledge, especially in anatomy, zoology, botany, mineralogy, geography, ______, and astronomy.
mathematics
An awareness of the importance of certain scientific problems, especially those related to the problem of change and its cause; and a recognition of the methodological importance of applying mathematics to natural phenomena and of undertaking ______ research.
empirical
The Islamic Golden Age began during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, where scholars from various parts of the world with different cultural backgrounds were mandated to gather and translate all of the world's classical knowledge into the Arabic language and subsequently development in various fields of sciences ______.
began
Islamic scientific achievements encompassed a wide range of subject areas, especially ______, mathematics, and medicine.
astronomy
The Renaissance period saw great advances in geography, astronomy, chemistry, physics, mathematics, anatomy, manufacturing, and ______
engineering
The invention of printing democratized learning and allowed a faster propagation of new ______
ideas
The rediscovery of ancient scientific texts was accelerated after the Fall of Constantinople in ______
1453
Marie Boas Hall coined the term Scientific Renaissance to designate the early phase of the Scientific Revolution during the years ______
1450–1630
Gunpowder blew up the knightly class, the compass discovered the world market and found the colonies, and the printing press was the instrument of Protestantism and the regeneration of science in general; the most powerful lever for creating the intellectual ______
prerequisites
The 14th century marked the beginning of the cultural movement of the Renaissance, considered by many as the Golden Age of ______
Science
Explore the historical antecedents of Egyptian medicine, focusing on the practices dating back to 3000 years before Christ. Learn about key figures like Imhotep and the advanced medical knowledge of ancient Egyptians.
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