Additional Notes (Prelim) Flashcards
This is a system of knowledge of the natural world gained through the scientific method.
Science
This is the practical application of what we know about nature.
Technology
It is a group of people with common territory, interaction, norm, culture, etc.
Society
This defines as a precursor to the unfolding of or existence of something
Antecedent
This is considered to be the origin of civilization.
Mesopotamia
This is the modern day Iraq and Kuwait.
Mesopotamia
This is the land “firsts”
Ancient Sumer
In this civilization, there was a shift from conceptualization to actualization.
Sumerian Civilization
This is a writing system used to keep records.
Cuneiform
This is the first true city and a symbol of power.
Uruk City
This is the mountain of God and was dedicated to the Moon God Nanna.
Great Ziggurat of Ur
This was used for general transportation, navigating through water, and transportation of goods.
Sailboat
This, along with the axle, became the most important around 4500 BC.
Wheel
What is the longest used invention human history?
the wheel
This civilization is founded by Amorites.
Babylonian Civilization
This civilization is had great builders, engineers, and architects.
Babylonian Civilization
This had no concrete evidence of its existence but it was built by King Nebuchadnezzar for his wife.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Who was the king who built the hanging gardens of Babylon?
Nebuchadnezzar
What was the religion of the people in Babylon?
Polytheism
This is the pre-columbian civilization. It tis the independent civilization.
Mesoamerica
This was the most advanced pre-columbian civilization.
Mayan Civilization
This was the largest empire inure-columbian civilization.
Inca Civilization
These were knotted ropes to keep records.
Quipu
This was a Sun God.
Inti
This was the most sophisticated civilization. It had warrior nomads and mandatory education.
Aztec Civilization
This is an agricultural land built to support farming.
Chinampa
These were used as tombs of pharaohs and queens.
The pyramids
This is a writing system but it was more like art than text.
Hieroglyphics
He was the father of Indian mathematics.
Aryabhata
This is a place value system and approximation of pi and trigonometry.
Aryabhatiya
He is an Indian mathematician responsible for defining the properties of zero both as a placeholder and decimal digit.
Brahmagupata
He is an Indian mathematician and astronomer who laid groundwork for mathematical analysis.
Madhava
This is an ancient Indian system of medicine that focus on natural healing.
Ayurveda
He was the father of optics.
Hassan Ibn al-Haytham
He was the father of chemistry.
Jabir Ibn Hayyan
He was the father of medicine.
Hippocrates
These are bound books covered with wax, which was then replaced with animal skin.
Codex
This was iron technology.
Metallurgy
What was the first printed book?
The Bible
This allowed spreading knowledge to be a more efficient process.
Typography
He created magnification of 270 and discovered tiny single-celled creatures in pond water.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
This was the first locomotive to pull heavy loads for long distance.
George Stephenson’s rocket
In what field did the first paradigm shift occur?
Cosmology
This is the scientific study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the Earth’s atmosphere.
Astronomy
This is the study of the universe and its components, how it formed, how it was evolved and what is its future,
Cosmology
Darwin founded evolution where?
Galapagos Islands
This is the driving force of instinct.
Libido
He is an islamic scholar best known for his works on light and vision.
Ibn al-Haytham
This is used as a domestic fuel for cooking and heating.
Charcoal
This is the most familiar art form among Filipinos.
Wood Carving
This is tattoo in Bontoc.
Fatek
He created an improved internal combustion engine in 1876.
Nicolas Otto
What was the first car?
Benz
This was introduced by brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere at the Grand Cafe in Paris
The Movies
Who introduced the movies?
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
He pioneered a celluloid film with holes punched in the side to show the film frame by frame.
George Eastman
He is a German physicist who developed the first x-ray image.
Wilhelm Rontgen
He discovered radioactivity while trying to find out more about x-rays.
Henri Becquerel
She is a Polish chemist and physicist best remembered for her research in radioactivity.
Marie Curie
He was the first to prove radio waves existed.
Heinrich Hertz
He was the first person to set up the world’s first radio stations to transmit and receive morse code.
Gugliemo Marconi
He founded the Baird Television Company Limited.
John Logie Baird
This uses short an long elements (dots and dashes) to transmit information.
Morse Code
Where were the earliest rockets used in?
China
This was invented, making computers smaller and more powerful.
Electronic silicon chip
This brand combined the World Wide Web with the mobile telephone.
Blackberry
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
