Lesson 7 - 10

Question 1

School of thought espoused the idea that to generate happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic.

Answer 1

Stoicism

Question 2

T or F: Biodiversity has been increasing due to human actions.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The number of different species in a particular ecosystem or on Earth.

Answer 3

species diversity

Question 4

The differences among individuals or populations; variation within a species.

Answer 4

genetic diversity

Question 5

The variety of life and its processes; including the variety of living organisms, the genetic differences among them, and the communities and ecosystems in which they occur.

Answer 5

biodiversity

Question 6

It is the process of protecting species in its natural habitat, either by establishment and management of protected areas where the species abound.

Answer 6

In Situ Conservation

Question 7

The many types of functional units formed by living communities interacting with their environments.

Answer 7

ecosystem diversity

Question 8

Date: Apple Macintosh computer

Answer 8

1984

Question 9

Date: 1st Microprocessor chip

Answer 9

1971

Question 10

Date: Dewey Decimal System

Answer 10

1876

Question 11

Date: Integrated Circuit

Answer 11

1958

Question 12

Date: 1st Magnetic Recordings

Answer 12

1899

Question 13

Information became accessible through management of information by the use of computer networks

Answer 13

information age

Question 14

The application of information technology to store, organize, and analyze vast amount of biological data.

Answer 14

Bioinformatics

Question 15

Led a school whose primary belief is that the world is made up of and is controlled by the tiny indivisible units in the world called atomos.

Answer 15

Democritus and Leucippus

Question 16

A person who considers material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values.

Answer 16

Materialism

Question 17

Whereas “truth” is the aim of the theoretical sciences, the “_______” is the end goal of the practical ones.

Answer 17

Good

Question 18

World’s largest fish

Answer 18

Rhincodon typus

Question 19

World’s largest shell

Answer 19

Tridacna gigas

Question 20

Most expensive shell

Answer 20

Connus gloriamaris

Question 21

World’s largest eagle

Answer 21

Pithecophaga jefferyi

Question 22

World’s tiniest shell

Answer 22

Pisidum

Question 23

a huge computer system that can fill an entire room

Answer 23

Mainframes

Question 24

A system of thought that rejects religious beliefs and centers on humans and their values, capacities and worth

Answer 24

Humanism

Question 25

An American entrepreneur who co-founded an Apple computers

Answer 25

Steve Jobs

Question 26

a species present in such small numbers that is at risk of extinction

Answer 26

Endangered

Question 27

An organism exclusively native to a place or biota

Answer 27

Endemic

Question 28

The NAME of the place where the creature lives

Answer 28

Habitat

Question 29

The vast variety of life forms in the entire earth

Answer 29

Biodiversity

Question 30

A self-contained community of organisms which interacts along with the physical environment

Answer 30

Ecosystem

Question 31

A PC that is not designed for portability

Answer 31

Desktop

Question 32

T or F: Google is now the world's most popular search engine

Answer 32

True

Question 33

T or F: Paul Nipkow is the creator of the earliest robot in the early 1950’s.

Answer 33

False

Question 34

A software tool used for an interactive genome analysis.

Answer 34

annotator

Question 35

The first true portable computer was released in what year?

Answer 35

1981

Question 36

An English Mathematics professor who designed the Analytical Engine which was used as the basic framework of the computers.

Answer 36

Charles Babbage

Question 37

T or F: Personal service robot is a service robot used for a commercial task.

Answer 37

False

Question 38

Declared the Greatest Happiness Principle by saying that an action is right as far as it maximizes the attainment of happiness for the greatest number of people.

Answer 38

John Stuart Mill

Question 39

A software tool used for comparing sequences of gene proteins.

Answer 39

BLAST

Question 40

Who disagreed that there is no reality over and above what the senses can perceive?

Answer 40

Aristotle

Question 41

Who said the thought that things in the world are not real and are only copies?

Answer 41

Plato

Question 42

Tool to identify coding regions and splice sites.

Answer 42

Gene Finder

Question 43

A senior engineer at Motorola who made the world’s first mobile phone call.

Answer 43

Martin Cooper

Question 44

T or F: Information age a period known also as the New Media Age.

Answer 44

True

Question 45

The name of the invention created by a German student Paul Nipkow.

Answer 45

Electric telephone

Question 46

T or F : English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1998.

Answer 46

True

Question 47

T or F: Unimate is the name of the earliest robot created in the early 1950’s.

Answer 47

True

Question 48

What type of species is most likely to lead to extinction of another species?

Answer 48

Invasive species

Question 49

The belief that pleasure is the most important thing in life

Answer 49

Hedonism

Question 50

T or F: Isaac Asimov formulated the laws of robotics back in the 1940s.

Answer 50

True

Question 51

The first commercial mobile phone available to the public.

Answer 51

Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

Question 52

T or F: Charles Babbage is an English Mathematics professor, who designed the Analytical Engine which was used as the basic framework of the computers.

Answer 52

True

Question 53

School of thought that espouses the freedom of man to carve his own destiny.

Answer 53

Humanism

Question 54

Who said that technology can be perceived as a means to achieve man’s end?

Answer 54

Martin Heidegger

Question 55

T or F: Professional service robot is a robot used for a commercial task.

Answer 55

True