Technology Vocabulary: Innovation

What is the development of an entire new technology, never heard or seen before?

• Innovation
• Invention
• Engineering

Improvements on an invention are described as: (choose the best answer)

• Innovations
• Technology
• Enginneering

When you go through the process to modify a technology you are essentially doing what?

• Innovating
• Engineering
• Designing

The process of creating and planning a product or system is best described as what?

• Innovating
• Designing
• Engineering

Which one is not an example of natural world?

• Plants
• Water
• Cars

Which one is not an example of human-made?

• Earth
• Cars
• Shoes

Scientists explain the natural world through investigating?

• True
• False

Engineers create for the human-made world by design process.

• True
• False

You decide to improve a pencil by adding a grip, larger eraser, and making it shorter. The process of improving on an existing invention is innovating.

• False
• True

What makes use of human knowledge to convert goods and services?

• Engineering
• Technology
• Invention