Technology Vocabulary Review

The use of scientific principles and mathematical reasoning to optimize technologies in order to meet the needs that have been defined by requirements under given limitations.

• Cooking
• Sculpting
• Engineering
• Farming

A tangible item produced by means of either human or mechanical work, or by biological or chemical processes.

• idea
• service
• concept
• product

The modification of the natural environment through human designed products, systems, and processes to satisfy needs and wants.

• History
• Art
• Technology
• Biology

The things needed to get a job done.

• Food and water
• Money and power
• Tools or resources
• Entertainment and leisure

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

• machine
• individual
• system
• random

The process of understanding a problem, devising a plan, carrying out the plan, and evaluating the plan in order to solve a problem or meet a need or want.

• Trouble-making
• Problem-solving
• Solution-finding
• Problem-creating

A smaller part of a system that, in itself, has the characteristics of a system.

• ultrasystem
• megapart
• subsystem
• supersystem

The effect or influence of one thing on another.

• effect
• cause
• impact
• influence

A community, nation, or broad group of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests.

• Society
• Club
• Gang
• Individual

Moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.

• ethics
• beliefs
• values
• morals