INVENTIONS & TECHOLOGY VOCABULARY PRACTICE

What does the word 'cultivate' mean? Fill in the blank: To cultivate means to ________ and use (land) for crops or gardening.

• prepare

• destroy

• ignore

• pollute

Fill in the blank: An __________ is an individual who creates a new business, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards.

• entrepreneur

• employee

• manager

• investor

What is the term for any community whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland?

• farming society

• industrial society

• nomadic society

• hunter-gatherer society

Fill in the blank: (to) _______ means the process or period of gathering crops.

• harvest

• plant

• water

• fertilize

Fill in the blank: The process by which an economy is transformed from a primarily agricultural one to one based on the manufacturing of goods is called _________.

• industrialization

• urbanization

• globalization

• privatization

Fill in the blank: _______ is the process of creating something that has never been made before.

• invention

• imitation

• repetition

• modification

Fill in the blank: An _______ is the person who first comes up with a brand new idea or thing.

• inventor

• customer

• manager

• seller

What is the meaning of the word 'labor'?

• work, especially hard physical work

• a type of fruit

• a musical instrument

• a kind of weather

Which word means 'work, especially hard physical work'?

• labor

• rest

• play

• travel

Fill in the blank: ________ is the method of turning raw materials into finished goods or products in a manufacturing process.

• production

• consumption

• distribution

• transportation