What is technology?

• Making a new invention

• The knowledge, processes, and products to make life easier and solve problems

• Building a prototype to test in the design process

Prototypes...

• Rarely work the first time

• Are an early model that is tested in the design process

• Can be redesigned

• Always lead to a new invention

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Research is an important step in the design process, but it is not necessary during the scientific method.

• True

• False

Robots can perform jobs that are too dangerous for humans.

• True

• False

Technology always has to be electronic.

• True

• False

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What made computers smaller, faster, and more affordable?

• Motherboards

• Microchip

• Hardware

• Memory

What are the people that design new technologies called?

• Teachers

• Doctors

• Engineers

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In the design process, it is okay to make many prototypes and test them instead of choosing one solution to try.

• True

• False

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Nanobots can't be used yet in medicine, so many have stopped even trying to make them.

• True

• False

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What can replace a missing hand, foot, or leg?

• Prosthetic Limb

• Computer

• Robot

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