MIDTERMS Flashcards
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What is Science?
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1) An Empirical field
2) A systematized body of knowledge covering truths and facts
3) Most effective way of understanding the world.
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Empirical comes from the Greek word ____________ which means experience
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Empirikos
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3 sectors under empirical field
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Observation
Experimentation
Evidence
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This is a process that scientists use for scientific investigation
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Science as a Systematic Field
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Steps in Scientific Method
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1) Observation
2) Question
3) Hypothesis
4) Collection of Data
5) Analyze
6) Conclusion
7) Communication
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In this step, you use senses to see the surroundings
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Observation
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You use the 5 W’s and do background research
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Question or Inquiries
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This is also pertains to uneducated guess that is testable
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Hypothesis
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This is the gathering of information to test hypothesis
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Collection of Data
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Under Collection of Data has 7 example
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Observation
Experimentation
Surveys and Questionnaire
Interview
Literature Review
Field Work
Simulations
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This step interprets the data
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Analyze
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This step proves or disproves the hypothesis
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Conclusion
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This step is used after all the research in order to sharing of findings
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Communication
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What is technology?
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1) An applied science
2) A body of knowledge and skills
3) Control and modify the world
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All the methods, system, and devices are the result of scientific knowledge being used for practical purposes
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Technology as an Applied Science
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Scientific name of Yeast
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Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
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This includes the understanding of scientific concepts, theories, and principle that form the basis of technology.
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Knowledge
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These are practical abilities and techniques required to apply scientific knowledge to create and use technological solutions.
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Skills
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Enumerate the Impacts of Technology to the world:
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1) Communication & Connectivity
2) Economic Development
3) Health Care
4) Education
5) Entertainment
6) Environmental Impact
7) Social and Cultural Changes
8) Security and Surveillance
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It is a group of people with common interest, traditions, purpose, and/or activity.
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Society
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Explain the interconnection of STS
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Science informs technology as technology demands from it. Then, technology provides comfortable and convenient life for the society, so basically it benefits from it. Society on the other hand, demands more from science. Science response is seeking improvement for the society.
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It tracks the history of disciplines, the dynamics of science as a social institution and the philosophical basis for scientific knowledge.
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Science, Technology, and Society
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by?
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Thomas Kuhn, 1962
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This university required STS for undergraduate students
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UP Diliman
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In this year, CHED include STS in its revised list of GE Course
2013
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It is a historical structure which classifies human history into 3 periods based on the equipment they used during the period.
Three Age System
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He is the one introduced the 3 Age System
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen
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Thomsen introduced 3 age system in his book called
Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkyndighed Olkyndighed
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Stone Age Period
2.5 million years ago - 3000 BC
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Bronze Age Period
3000 BC - 1200 BC
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Iron Age Period
1500 BC - 400 AD
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In this age they used stone and wood as their primary tools
Stone Age
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He introduced Paleolithic as well as Neolithic Period
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock wrote this book in 1865 in order to introduce paleolithic and neolithic period
Prehistoric Times (1865)
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In 1892, he introduced the mesolithic period
John Allen Brown (1892)
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Stone Age Division
Paleolithic (2 mya-40-10,000 ya)
Mesolithic (10,000 BCE to 5000 BCE)
Neolithic (7000 BC to 1700 BC)
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Paleolithic is derived from the word palaios which means
Ancient or Old
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Whereas, lithos means
Stone
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This is the longest phase of stone age
Paleolithic Period
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This period suggested when humans evolve from
Apes to Homosapiens
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The people during paleolithic period are
Hunter-gatherers and Nomads
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Nomads means
No permanent Settlement
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Paleolithic is divided into three periods
Lower
Middle
Upper
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The tools in this period were made of crude stone and pebbles.
Lower Paleolithic
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Early hominins of Lower Paleolithic
Australopithecus
Homo Habilis
Homo Sapiens
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This is also known as the Ice Age. Their tools are designed as flake types made for hunting.
Middle Paleolithic
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A neanderthal woman who lived about 75,000 years ago
Shanidar Z
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Their clothes are from animal fur and skin
Middle Paleolithic
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Early hominins of Middle Paleolithic
Neantherthals
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This period has sophisticated stone tools
Upper Paleolithic
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Stone tools of upper paleolithic
Blades
Burins
Harpoons
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Houses of upper paleolithic
Man-made dwelling: Pit Houses
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Personal Ornaments of Upper Paleolithic
Made from bones
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Limestone Sculpture (Vcut Head)
The Venus of Willendorf
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Ivory Sculpture (Mango cuts hair)
The Venus of Brassempouy
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Ivory Sculpture (Potato)
The Venus of Hohle Fels
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Limestone Sculpture (Brilyante ng Buwan)
The Venus of Laussel
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Cave Painting (Kalabaw at Kabayo)
The Lascaux Cave Painting
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Cave Painting (Bull na Red)
The Altamira Cave Painting
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Where did Mesolithic comes from (Greek Word)
Mesos
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This marks the end of ice age
Mesolithic Period
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Mesolithic stone tool is called
Microliths
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This period is when the ice started melting and the extinction of mammoths
Mesolithic Period
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In Mesolithic period, they learned these skills in order to survive
Fishing
Using bows
Pottery Making (fish storage)
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Neo means
New
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This is where the cultural development or agricultural based development started
Neolithic Period
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Neolithic Period is known for
1) Domestication of Plants and Animals
2) Nature, Pottery, Handmade tools, and Weaving
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What are the plans and animals that the people in Neolithic Period domesticates
Plants: Rice, Corn, and Beans
Animals: Goat, Cattles, Sheep, and Pigs
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This is the rise of urban civilization
Neolithic Period
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In this age the tools are made of blended copper and tin
Bronze Age
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How many percentage of copper and tin in bronze age tools?
88% of Copper
12% of Tin
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This was discovered by Sumerians in Mesopotamia
Smelting
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Bronze Age discovered tool in Wiltshire Museum, England
Melksham Hoard
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Marks the usage of tools made with iron
Iron Age
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Are created to produce higher temperature to smelt iron
Smelting Pits
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This is also called the "Dark Ages" because a lot of people died during this era.
Middle Ages
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Middle Ages occurrence
Rome had been conquered
Economy fell along with the bubonic plague
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It is also the age where the rise of renaissance and age of discovery happened
Middle Ages
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Discoveries in China during Middle Age
Lodestone: Magnetic Compass
Seismoscope: For earthquake detection
Cannon: For weapons
Chinese paper: For lantern and art
Gun Powder: Explosives and weapons originally for medicinal purpose
Wheelbarrow: Transportation
First movable Type Printing
Acupuncture: Medicine
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Discoveries in Europe during Middle Age
Horse Collar
Clock
Magnetic Compass
Watermill
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Discoveries in India during Middle Age
Metallurgy: Mixing of Metals
Divided calendars into 12 months
Ayurveda/Ayurvedic Medicine
Linear Equation
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Before this man, the American islands developed civilization of their own.
Christopher Columbus
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Are people with temples made from limestone
Maya
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Mayan uses this as their monetary unit
Cocoa
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This says that in 2012, it will be the end of the world
Mayan Calendar
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They practice human sacrifices including prisoners, slaves, and children
Aztec
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Aztecs uses this obsidian blade in order to perform the human sacrifices
Tecpatl
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Aztecs agriculture is called
Slash and Burn Farming
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Moderately peaceful life of pre-columbian america
Inca
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Inca's farming is called
Terraces
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Inca Domesticated
Llama and Alpaca
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3 C's of Scientists
Curiosity
Creativity
Critical Thinking
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Intellectual Scientists
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
Sigmund Freud
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Copernicus made this theory which tells about planets revolving around the sun
Heliocentric Theory
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Ptolemy of Alexandra proposed this theory which tells that every planets revolve around the earth
Geocentric Theory
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Johannes Kepler proposed that planets travel in elliptic orbit, what do he call this theory?
Planetary Motion
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Law that tells that all planets orbit the sun
Law of Ellipses
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Planets moves faster near the sun and slower when farther it, what law is this?
Law of Equal Areas
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The farther a planet is from the sun, the longer it takes to complete one orbit, what law is this?
Law of Harmonies
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He proposed the Laws of Motion and Gravity
Isaac Newton
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This law of motion is when an object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it.
Law of Inertia (1st)
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The force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration, what law of motion is this?
Law of Acceleration (2nd)
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In this third law, when two objects interact, they apply forces to each other of equal magnitude and opposite direction.
Law of interaction
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He proposed the theory of evolution
Charles Darwin
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Same species, different face due to adaptation
Darwin's Finches
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He eats what he study since he is in the wild and the only choice to survive is to eat what he catches
Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin drank..
Tortoise Liquid Bladder
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Proponent of Theory of Personality
Sigmund Freud
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3 components of mind
Id
Ego
SuperEgo
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Period of development where technological creation and innovation substituted handheld tools with machinery.
Industrial Revolution
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He was the one that discovered mass printing
Johannes Gutenberg
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First printed under gutenberg's revolution
Gutenberg's Bible
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Cradle of Birthplace
Incunabula
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Information get from printed papers, emergence of the internet and WWW, and marked the beginning of the digital age
Post-Gutenberg
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Era with easy access on any piece of information
Rise of Digital Age
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Invented the First Analytical Engine (first computer)
Charles Babbage
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Period wherein the Spaniards haven't arrived in the Philippines
Pre-Colonial Period
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The belief where everything possesses spiritual qualities
Animism
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Spiritual Qualities is called
Diwata
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Early Filipino writing
Baybayin
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Geographically scattered communities
Barangays
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Head or Chief of the Barangay
Datus
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Were sharp shells attached to a wooden handle used for digging and wood working
Duyong Shell Adze
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Developed techniques such as
Sawing
Drilling
Polishing Hard stones
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Cremation jar where in the design signifies the transportation to afterlife
Manunggul Jar
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A copper portable cannon
Lantaka
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Main transportation for coastal trading
Caracoa
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Grows crops such as
Rice
Cotton
Other vegetables
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Domesticated: Pre Colonial
Swine
Goats
Fowls
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Artisan Products
Wine
Vinegar
Cloth
Honey
Honeycomb
Salt
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Are for wound healing
Beeswax
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Live nearby the shore and are relatively exposed to foreign trade including Manila, Mindoro, Cebu, Southern Mindanao, and Sulu. Water-related trading
Coastal Areas
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live in the mountains. Focuses on agriculture
Mountain Areas
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lead by spanish priests and friars. Spaniards established Christianity and religious activities. Primary education was highly religious in nature.
Education
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Found in Cebu City during spanish regime
Jesuits
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Found in 1595, in Cebu
Colegio de San Ildelfonso
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Found in 1595, in Manila
Colegio de San Ignacio
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Found in Manila, 1601
Colegio de San Jose
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Found in Manila, 1859
Ateneo de Manila
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Dominicans had this college but is accessible only for European-born and spaniards.. Mestizo and few native filipinos are also included.
Colegio de San Juan de Letran (1640)
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given in the 19th century, included science subjects such as physics, chemistry, natural history, and mathematics.
Bachiller en Artes
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was a Spanish strategy that centralized barangays into compact towns around church bells for easier control.
Reducción System
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was the inherited leader from the datus, a title preserved by King Philip II but later altered.
Cabeza de Barangay or Teniente del Barrio
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was the Spanish-appointed head of the town, originally restricted to Spaniards.
Gobernadorcillo
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was established by royal decree in 1887 and opened in July 1889. Provided theoretical and practical agricultural education for Filipino farmers.
Manila School of Agriculture
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made the Philippine economy dependent on Manila-Acapulco trade, replacing earlier trade with China.
Galleon Trade (1565-1813)
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advanced science and technology in the Philippines through scholarships, research support, and science-based public services.
American Regime
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were the first American teachers who taught elementary students; all Filipino children were granted the right to education.
Thomasites
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provided free primary education using English as the medium of instruction.
Department of Public Instruction
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trained Filipino high school graduates to become teachers.
Philippine Normal School or Philippine Normal University
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was the only publicly-supported higher education institution established by the Americans.
University of the Philippines
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recognized private schools as educational, not commercial.
Private School Act (Act No. 2076)
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was created to maintain and improve the private school system.
The Office of Private Education
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was established in 1933 to promote scientific research in the country.
National Research Council of the Philippines
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In Agriculture, the Philippines remained both an ___________ of crops and an ______
1) exporter
2) importer
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marked the transition to political independence, leading to the creation of government corporations aiming for economic self-reliance, though foreign trade remained under U.S. control, and Japanese occupation caused disruption.
The Commonwealth Period
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Oversees economic planning and development, setting major national policy directions.
National Economic Council (now NEDA)
National Economic Development Authority
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Tasked with rural electrification by 2025, managing water resources for power, and optimizing power assets.
National Power Corporation
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Promotes growth and development of the fiber industry, including abaca (Manila hemp) and cotton.
National Abaca and Other Fibers Corporation now (PhilFIDA) Philippine Fiber Industru Development Authority
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Supervises basic education institutions and formulates policies for student welfare.
Department of Education and Culture now (DepEd)
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was established to support national development through science and technology, by building local technological self-reliance and encouraging private sector participation.
Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
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provides grant for basic researches to expand scientific knowledge base
Funding
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offered to undergraduates and graduates in priority science and technology fields.
Scholarship
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support for the Philippine Science High School System for advanced secondary education
Science Schools
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contracts Filipino science experts abroad to return and work in the Philippines.
Balik Scientist Program
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aims to enhance mastery of concepts, lifelong learning, and prepare students for tertiary education, skills development, and employment.
K-12 Program
