Lesson A Practice

Human activities used to create, invent, design, transform, produce, control, maintain, and use products or systems.

• technology

• process

• science

• engineering

The study of our natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations.

• science

• technology

• math

• engineering

The science of patterns and order and the study of measurement, properties, and the relationships of quantities using numbers and symbols.

• science

• technology

• math

• engineering

Using technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.

• science

• technology

• math

• engineering

The way people use resources to meet their wants and needs.

• science

• technology

• math

• engineering

A human-made object.

• process

• artifact

• science

• system

An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something.

• innovations

• invention

• technology

• science

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

• science

• artifact

• environment

• process

A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation.

• innovation

• invention

• engineering

• science

A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a goal.

• process

• science

• technology

• system