Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan Catholic Schools

SAINT CHARLES ACADEMY

San Carlos City, Pangasinan
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
A.Y. 2019– 2020
Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Science
NAME:__________________________________ DATE:_____________
YEAR.&SECTION:________________________ SCORE:

I. Directions: Read the following statement carefully and choose the best answer. Circle
the letter of correct answer.
1. Which of the following best describes what social sciences have in common?
a. An interest in studying human being
b. The study of the human mind
c. A focus on material culture
d. Research that overlaps with genetics
2. Studies changes in population growth through the analysis of statistics on birth, human
movement, and morbidity, agedness, and mortality.
a. Geography c. Economics
b. Demography d. Statistics
3. Studies the interaction between people and their environments and explores both the
physical properties of Earth’s surface and their relationship with human societies.
a. Demography c. Sociology
b. History d. Geography
4. Studies how people and groups experience the world through various emotions, ideas
and in different conscious states.
a. Sociology c. Psychology
b. Economics d. Political Science
5. A branch or a discipline that deals with the institutions and functioning of human society
and helps to explain how society works.
a. Sociology c. Social Science
b. Applied Social Science d. Society
6. It deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and
interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and
place.
a. Geography c. Human Geography
b. Physical Geography d. Anthropology
7. Refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes,
meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations and concepts of
the universe.
a. Behavior c. Ethics
b. Culture d. Personality
8. They attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior.
a. Sociologists c. Biologists
b. Economists d. Psychologists
9. A study of human and human behavior amd societies in the past and present.
a. Anthropology c. Psychology
b. Sociology d. Demography
10. Who is the father of Geography?
a. Alexander von Humboldt c. Herodotus
b. Eratosthenes d. Adam Smith

II. TRUE OR FALSE

Direction: Read each of the following statement. Shade the circle of your answer.
11. Microeconomics is a branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure,
behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole.
True False
 12. Human geography deals with the study of processes and patterns in the natural
environment like the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere.
True False
13. Barometer, Anemometer, seismograph and astrolabe are the instrument used in
Anthropology.
True False
14. Thomas Robert Malthus is the founder of modern Sociology.
True False
15. Unconsciousness is the state or quality of awareness or of being aware of an external
object or something within oneself
True False

III. MATCHING TYPE

Direction: Match Column A with Column B. Write the letter of your answer on the SPACE
provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES.
Column A Column B

_____16. Sociology A. Scientific Method

_____17. Anthropology B. Legislative
_____18. Geography C. Emotions
_____19. Demography D. Money
_____20. Economics E. Social Problems
_____21. Political Science F. Herodotus
_____22. History G. Weather
_____23. Psychology H. Death
_____24. Science I. Family
_____25. Society J. Evolution of man
K. Technology
IV. ESSAY (5 POINTS)
Direction: Identify one social issue or problem base on the different branches we
discussed and provide solution or plan that might help us to improve or solve the
problem.

“If you want to be trusted, BE HONEST”

Prepared by: Submitted to:

Raphael D. Manangan Marie F. Quijano

Subject Teacher Subject Coordinator

Checked by:

Dr. Irene R. Nama

Assistant Principal
Answer Key:
1. D 11. C 21. A
2. A 12. B 22. A
3. B 13. C 23. C
4. C 14. B 24. B
5. B 15. A 25. D
6. B 16. C 26. B
7. A 17. C 27. D
8. B 18. C 28. A
9. D 19. D 29. C
10. C 20. B 30. B