Direction: Fill in the blanks with the correct words to complete the following

sentences. Choose your answer from the words listed in the box and write it on a
separate sheet of paper.

Anthropology Earth Science Seismology

Astronomy Humanities Social Science
Biological Science Natural Science
Chemistry Physics

1. The _________________ can be described as the study of how people process and
document the human experience.

2. The _________________ is a branch of science that deals with the identification of the
substances of which matter is composed.

3. _________________ includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth.

4. _________________ deals with the study of the living organisms. The science under this
category focuses on the study of internal body functions and structures of body cells and
tissues.

5. The _________________ is the scientific study of human society and social relationships.

6. _________________ is the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of
matter and energy.

7. The _________________ is the study of everything in the universe beyond Earth’s

atmosphere.

8. A _________________ is the branch of knowledge which deals with the study of the
physical world.

9. The term _________________ thus embrace all those subjects which deal with the
relationship of man to the society.

10. A _________________ deals with the description, prediction and understanding of

natural phenomena, basically based on observational and empirical evidence.
True or False. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and if otherwise, FALSE if it
is wrong.

_________1. Social sciences came forth from the moral philosophy of the time and
were influenced by the Age of Revolution.

_________2. Montesquieu invented the term sociology. He was the first to

systematize and give a complete analysis of the principles of the positive character
of the social sciences.

_________ 3. The revival of interest in social science occurred in the late of the 18th
century.

_________ 4. At the beginning of the 18th century, social science had attained in all
the leading European countries a firm and respectable position.

_________ 5. Lawrence A. Kempton in his article “Social Sciences Today” states that
social science as science is very young and there is confusion with regards to its
limits and boundaries.

_________ 6. Voltaire gave the first general theory of social science.

_________ 7. The history of the social sciences begins in the roots of ancient
philosophy.

__________8. Emile Durkheim and the sociologists of the late century and early
century were influenced by Auguste Comte.

_________9. In the 18th century stage, the social science has become
institutionalized to a high degree.
_________10. By the middle of 18th century, capitalism had begun to outgrow its
early state and gradually it became the dominant socio-economic system in
western and northern Europe.

Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.

1. Anthropology traces its roots to ancient __________ historical and philosophical

writings about human nature and the organization of human society.
a. British c. French
b. European d. Greek
2. Anthropologists generally regard __________, a Greek historian who lived in the
400s B.C., as the first thinker to write widely on concepts that would later
become central to anthropology.
a. Charles Darwin c. Ibn Khaldun
 b. Herodotus d. John Locke

3. The __________ economists developed the theories about how markets and
market economies work; focusing on the dynamics of economic growth.
a. Classical c. Neoclassical
b. Medieval d. Renaissance

4. The __________ was the first civilization to practice a form of geography that was
more than mere map making or cartography.
a. Greek c. Roman
b. Persian d. None of the above

5. Who hypothesized and scientifically demonstrated that the Earth has a

spherical shape?
a. Aristotle c. Herodotus
b. Eratosthenes d. Strabo

6. One of his important contributions include the creation of three different

methods for projecting the Earth’s surface on a map, the calculation of coordinate
locations.
a. Aristotle c. Herodotus
b. Eratosthenes d. Ptolemy

7. Who among the following is known as the father of political science?

a. Aristotle c. Rene Descartes
b. Plato d. None of the Above

8. Who among the following is known as the father of modern political science?
a. Aristotle c. Plato
b. Machiavelli d. Rene Descartes

9. The term sociology was coined by the French philosopher __________ in 1838
who for this reason is known as the “Father of Sociology”.
a. Auguste Comte c. John Dewey
b. Carl Jung d. Sigmund Freud

10. Which of the following time period influenced the development of Sociology?
a. Industrial Revolution
b. Rise of Capitalism and Socialism
c. The political revolutions sweeping Europe during the 18th and 19 centuries
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d. All of the above