Midterm STS

Question 1

Great problems that were or being solved by science and technology

Answer 1

• poverty
• diseases
• starvation
• wars
• transportation and communication
• illiteracy and ignorance

Question 2

great problems that were or being caused

Answer 2

• pollution that causes diseases
• possible global warming
• threat of overpopulation
• production of weapons of mass destruction
• mass exploitation

Question 3

alexander popov

Answer 3

first to communicate messages by radio waves

Question 4

alexander graham bell

Answer 4

telephone

Question 5

alexander fleming

Answer 5

penicillin

Question 6

bill gates

Answer 6

microsoft

Question 7

Samuel morse

Answer 7

single-wire telegraph and morse code

Question 8

Thomas edison

Answer 8

phonograph, motion picture camera, light bulb

Question 9

James watt

Answer 9

steam engine

Question 10

George Ohm

Answer 10

Ohm law, the amount of steady current through a material is directly proportional to the voltage across a material

Question 11

Wright brothers

Answer 11

airplane

Question 12

Michael farday

Answer 12

contributed to electromagnetism and electrochem, benzene, Bunsen burner, oxidation numbers

Question 13

volta

Answer 13

battery

Question 14

Raymond Danmadian

Answer 14

MRI

Question 15

Gregor Mendel

Answer 15

modern science of genetics

Question 16

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

Answer 16

produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength, X-rays

Question 17

Ian Donald

Answer 17

diagnostic ultrasound