Unit 1 Assignment

Which of the following may be considered a negative technological consequence?

• Increased communication ability.
• Air pollution.
• Microcomputers.
• None of them.

In technology, humans change the environment using ____.

• systems
• machines
• materials
• all of them

Which of the following periods provided the technology of the printing press?

• Stone Age
• Bronze Age
• Iron Age
• Middle Ages

Because it is always changing and causing change, technology is considered to be a(n) ____ process.

• static
• inert
• dynamic
• scientific

Which of the following is a characteristic of primitive conditions?

• Making tools.
• Producing materials.Developing transportation systems.
• Comets
• Hunting game.

During the Renaissance, ____.

• Leonardo da Vinci drew plans for a movable bridge
• Edmund Cartwright invented a power loom
• humans learned how to harness fire for heating
• the waterwheel was discovered

A dynamic process is changing, but does not cause change.

• True
• False

Artifacts are things found in nature.

• True
• False

People develop technology to modify or control the environment.

• True
• False

Some negative aspects of poorly designed and poorly used technology are that it can cause air pollution and soil erosion.

• True
• False