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FINAL TERM EXAMINATION IN GENERAL EDUCATION 7

(Science, Technology, and Society)
BEED 1
SY 2020-2021 Second Semester

NAME: Bartolome, Amily P. DATE

SUBMITTED:

COURSE/YEAR/SECTION:BEED/1

TEST I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Highlight with color RED the letter and the corresponding words of the BEST
ANSWER among the given choices

1. This era is defined as the period in where information is accessible through publications
and through the management of computers and computer networks
a. Neolithic Period
b. New Media Period
c. Information Age
d. Ice Age

2. A theorist once said “the information age is a true new age based upon the
interconnection of computers…”
a. Richard Wurman
b. James Messenger
c. Robert Harris
d. Claude Shannon

3. In what year does the first personal computer for the public was released?
a. 1975
b. 1977
c. 1979
d. 1980

4. This is the most important contribution of advances in the Information Age.

a. Personal Computer
b. Computers
c. Laptops
d. Wearable Computers

5. What do you call a computer that has been improved to provide network services to
other computers?
a. Laptops
 b. Personal Digital Assistants
c. Servers
d. Wearable Computers

6. What is Biodiversity?
a. A type of coconut
b. A type of oil
c. The spread of all living things
d. A plant species

7. What is the root cause in the decrease of biodiversity?

a. Habitat Destruction
b. Pollution
c. Human Population
d. Industrialization

8. Which of the following environments would you expect to have the most biodiversity?
a. Sahara Desert
b. Amazon Rainforest
c. North Pole
d. Mt. Everest

9. If there’s golden snail in your rice field, are you going to extinguish it?
a. Yes, because golden snails are considered pest for rice plant.
b. Yes, because it can negatively affect the rice production.
c. No, because we as human being should preserve organisms either great or small.
d. No, because it’s a predictor of sustainable life in the rice field area.

10.Which of the following situations shows over exploitation?

a. Humans inhabit many land areas and use it for economic gains.
b. Collectors collect tusks of the elephant for ivory as much as they can.
c. People draining their garbage to the rivers that can contaminate the river and the
species living in it.
d. Severe climatic changes happen nowadays.

11.There are several consequences of biodiversity loss because of what we did to the
environment. And the concept of biodiversity loss is first studied by whom?
a. Charles Wallace
b. Alfred Darwin
c. Russel Wallace
d. Russel Darwin

12.Who first used the term nanotechnology and when?

a. Richard Feynman, 1959
b. Norio Taniguchi, 1974
c. Eric Drexler, 1986
 d. Sumio Iijima, 1991

13.Richard Feynman is often credited with predicting the potential of nanotechnology. What
was the title of his famous speech given on December 29, 1959?
a. There is a tiny room at the bottom
b. Things get nanoscopic at the bottom
c. There is plenty of room at the bottom
d. Bottom? What bottom?

14.What is the 2008 and 2009 budget for the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative?
a. $587 million
b. $917 million
c. $1.4 billion
d. $2.1 billion

15.Nano particles target the rare _____ causing cells and remove them from blood.
a. Cold
b. Fever
c. Infection
d. Tumor

16.What best approximates the diameter of a DNA molecule?

a. 1 Micron
b. 2 Nanometers
c. 3 Angstroms
d. 10 Angstroms

17.What might be a concern about the use of nanotechnology?

a. Nanobased materials could be toxic.
b. Nanoparticles may build up in the brain or liver.
c. Nanoparticles may not break down in the environment.
d. All of the above are legitimate concerns about nanotechnology.

18.Which process is used to insert normal genes into human cells to correct disorders?
a. Gene therapy
b. Live vector vaccines
c. Molecular cloning
d. Stem cell therapy

19.Which vehicles are often used for gene therapy to carry a healthy gene?
a. Bacteria
b. Plastic capsules
c. Powder balls
d. Viruses

20.Gene therapy targeting the germ-line is _____.

 a. Heritable
b. Not heritable
c. Sometimes heritable
d. Unrelated to heritability

21.In gene therapy, in order to be successful, the healthy gene inserted into a target cell
must _____.
a. Take over and kill the defective gene
b. Be inserted manually into the cell's mitochondria
c. Become attached to the cell's mRNA molecules
d. Be able to make the correct amount of the protein needed

22.What is gene therapy?

a. Pre-clinical testing for inherited diseases in newborns
b. Treatment of diseases caused by genetic defect
c. Genetic engineering using recombinant DNA technology
d. Cancer treatment using in vitro cultured stem cells

23.Germ line gene therapy could potentially correct a genetic defect in a(n) _____.
a. Affected individual only
b. Affected individual and his or her offspring only
c. Affected individual and all of his or her descendants
d. Parent of an affected child

24.What is the greenhouse effect?

a. The tilt of the Earth changes the amount of solar energy the Earth receives
b. Certain gases in the atmosphere trap heat and warm the earth
c. Life on Earth 'exhales' gas that warms up the atmosphere
d. The Sun is putting out more radiant energy over time

25.What is the primary cause of the overall rising trend in carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere?
a. Carbon dioxide is increasing because we are coming out of an ice age.
b. The increase in carbon dioxide is caused by burning of fossil fuels.
c. As human population grows, people exhale more carbon dioxide.
d. Carbon dioxide is released by the oceans as they warm.

26.Which of these natural events affect the climate?

a. The path of the Earth around the sun
b. Thawing permafrost
c. Volcanic eruptions
d. All of the above

27.Which of these greenhouse gases is most abundant in the atmosphere?

a. Carbon dioxide
b. Nitrous oxide
 c. Water vapor
d. Methane

28.If the climate becomes warmer, sea levels will _______

a. Rise, both because of ice melting and because of water expanding when it
gets warmer.
b. Rise, because water expands when it gets warmer.
c. Rise, because of glaciers and ice sheets melting
d. Fall, because hot water evaporates faster.

29.Which among these mountains causes snowfall in the northeastern United States and
Canada?
a. Mt. Pinatubo
b. Mt. Krakatau
c. Mt. Tambora
d. Mt. Fuji7

30.Variation of the tilt of Earth’s axis away from the orbital plane and as tilt changes, the
seasons become more severe.
a. Orbital Changes
b. Eccentricity
c. Obliquity
d. Precession

TEST II. MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE. Write T if the statement is correct and if the statement is
false, write F, identify which makes the statement false, and write the correct answer. You can
type your answer after every statement.

For Example (this is for the items which are false)

Gene therapy is based on correcting a DNA at its roots.
Answer: F – DNA – Disease

1. Somatic gene therapy involves genetic modification of the origin cells that can be
inherited to the next generation.
T
2. The gene therapy identified as Anc90 enables the transfer of genes to the inaccessible
outer hair cells when introduced into the cochlea.
T
3. One of the processes involved in gene therapy is the inactivation of a mutated gene that
is functioning improperly.
F-Inactivation- introduce
4. Embryonic stem cells are derived from human embryo that is in the blastocyst phase of
development.
T
 5. A gene can be directly inserted into a human gene or cell.
F-inserted-vector
6. Melting of ice sheets is the direct result of rising carbon dioxide levels.
F-carbon dioxide-sea level
7. Greenhouse gases is one of the major effects of climate change.
T
8. The Montreal Protocol aims to regulate the production and use of chemicals that
contribute to the depletion of ozone layer.
T
9. In the next fifty years, it is predicted that the average global temperature will rise by 10
to 30 degree Celsius.
F-10 to 30-3 to 5 degree celcius
10.When the Earth has the farthest distance from the sun it is called aphelion.
T

TEST III. ESSAY. Give your stand about the following questions. Each item is worth 5 points. You
can type your answer after every statement.

1. Do technological devices bring more good than bad to people? Justify your answer.
Technology now is very important to us, some people cant imagine life without
technology, and these can give us easier and comfortable living , we can be more
productive and progressive and we cant deny the help that these technologies giving to
us. It is only to us people on how we deal and how we able to use such. 4 points
2. As an education student, how can you preserve and protect our biodiversity?
I as a student for all I can do is to follow what the government is implementing on what is
and how to restore the nature, avoiding throwing garbage anywhere participating the
government projects in the community and involving myself in the school through school
activities in accordance to the policies and rules of the school. 4 points
3. For your consumption, are you in favor in eating genetically modified foods? Justify your
stand
For me, I am not on favor of eating such foods a genetically modified foods for me is not
safe to our health, it is not like the natural food that we used to know, the process of how
they grow till time of harvesting. It is good to know what we eat because what we eat is
what we are. 3 points
4. Do you think nanotechnology can kill the corona virus inside the human body? How?
Yes. Nanotechnology may offer valuable solutions for this corona virus, and I believe that
through this nanoparticles it will be successfully employed to eliminate corona viruses
inside human body by making use of their ability to confine, immobilization, and
preventing these viruses from attacking the hostile cells. 4 points
Prepared by:

KIESHA DAME E. SALIWAN

Instructor