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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Flashcards

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Body of knowledge

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SCIENCE

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The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.

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TECHNOLOGY

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People are mainly hunters and gatherers of food

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PALEOLITHIC AGE

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Water as the essence of all matter

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Thales

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Rise of Greek Civilization

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ANTIQUITY

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The age where firstly made Steel,as much as harder metal by HEATING IRON WITH CARBON

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IRON AGE

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The age system of agriculture and domesticate animals

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Neolithic Age

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The age of weapons are made up of stone, wood, and bone.

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Stone Age

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This age is where tools and weapons were widely made with COPPER AND BRONZE.

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Bronze Age

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It is a process of EXTRACTING METAL involving heating and melting.

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SMELTING

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It is the CRADDLE OF CIVILIZATION

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SUMERIANS

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The result of BLENDING COPPER AND TIN?

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Bronze

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13
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They are the first who made steel.

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HITTIES

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The ancient age where they controlled fire and used basic stone tools for hunting?

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Paleolithic Age

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This ancient age where they LEARNED FISHING AND AGRICULTURE.

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MESOLITHIC AGE

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The first civilization to develop an ARMORED CAVALRY covered in STEEL ARMOR

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Persians

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He said that the EARTH is a FLAT DISK floating on a vast sea.

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Thales

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” Unlimited, infinite, or indefinite”

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Apeiron

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19
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Suggested that AIR is the primary substance

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Anaximenes

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20
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According to him, FIRE forms the basic material

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Heraclitus

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21
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” The only Constant in Life is Change”

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Heraclitus

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22
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Always “ becoming” but never “being “

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Heraclitus

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According to him, there are four primary substance and that is: EARTH, WATER, AIR, FIRE

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Empedocles

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First idea of the ATOM, the solid and INDESTRUCTIBLE PARTICLES.

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Democritus

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25
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Negative charge

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Electron

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Positive Charge

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Proton

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Neutron Charge

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Neutron

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28
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Proponent of Negative Charge

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Thomson

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29
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Proponent of Positive charge

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Rutherford

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30
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Proponent of Neutron Charge

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Chadwick

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He recognizes that EARTH is SPHERE

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Pythagoras

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He recognizes as the FATHER OF MEDICINE

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Hippocrates

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It encourages separation medicine from religion

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Hippocratic Oath

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Contribute knowledge through dialogues using SOCRATIC METHOD.

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Socrates

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The Founder of Western Philosophy

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Socrates

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The Golden Age of Greek Philosophy

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Socrates

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He coined the term ELEMENT

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PLATO

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He established ACADEMY

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Plato

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He said that, Elements undergo changes. When they combine.

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Aristotle

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He proposed the fifth element as AETER.

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Aristotle

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He is considered as Father of Biology

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Aristotle

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He originally proposed SUN-CENTERED
(Heliocentrism)

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ARISTARCHUS

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He calculated the size of Earth and its distance to the Moon.

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Claudius Ptolemy

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Father of Anatomy

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Herophilus

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He established LYCEUM

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Aristotle

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Founder of Philosophy

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ERASISTRATUS

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Father of Modern Geomentry

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EUCLID

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Father of Mathematics

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Archimedes

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He introduced the INDUCTIVE METHOD

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Aristotle

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Also known as Medieval Period

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Middle Age

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Rise of Catholic Church

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Early/ Dark Middle Age

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Introduction of decimal system

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India

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Collection of mathematical tables used to predict the movement of the SUN, MOON , and PLANETS RELATIVE to the fixed stars.

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Toledan Tables

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Earth-centered Model

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Geocentrism

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Study of Meteor

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Astronomy

56
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Study of Earths Atmosphere

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Meteorology

57
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The REBIRTH OF SCIENCE IN EUROPE

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High Middle Ages

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Founder of Scholastic Schools

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St. Thomas Aquinas

59
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Systematically changing the type of crops over a defined period time.

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Crop Rotation

60
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He proposed the Heliocentric Theory

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Nicolas Copernicus

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World’s most printed book

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BIBLE

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He introduced Printing Press by using movable type printing

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Johannes Gutenberg

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Law of Planetary motion:

. Law of ellipses
. Law Equal Areas
. Law of Harmony

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Johannes Kepler

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He believes that sun and moon revolved around the Earth. ( GEOheliocentric)

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Tycho Brahe

65
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First to use species as the fundamental unit of classification

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John Ray

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Father of moderm taxonomy

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Carulus Limnaeus

67
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He is the first person to disect dead body?

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Andres Vesalius

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Father of Modern Anatomy

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Andreas Vesalius

69
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He is the first person to recognize the full circulation of thr blood in the body.

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WILLIAM HARVEY

70
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He formulated the LAWS OF MOTION

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ISAAC NEWTON

71
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First to propose Theory of Evolution

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Jean Baptiste de Lamark

72
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Father of Evolution

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CHARLES DARWIN

73
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First to use SPECIES as the fundamental unit of classification

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John Ray

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