Foundations of Technology Review

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are so closely related that progress in one area often:

• Stunts progress in other areas

• promotes advancements in all other areas

• Stunts progress in one but not all other areas

• Promotes advancement in one other area but not others

What event from the 1900s had the most significant impact on the development of technology?

• The development of mechanical labor

• The development of the assembly line

• The development of steam power

• The development of electricity

Television is a technological development that occurred during which time period:

• Renaissance

• Industrial Age

• Paleolithic Age

• Information Age

Digital photography is a technological development that occurred during which time period?

• Renaissance

• Industrial Age

• Paleolithic Age

• Information Age

A new and useful tool or process is called a(n):

• Innovatioin

• Culture Shift

• Invention

• Technology Transfer

_________ is a series of refinements to an original idea or product.

• Technology Transfer

• Invention

• Innovation

• Culture Shift

This form will allow companies and individuals to protect designs from being copied and produced without their permission:

• Patents

• Trademarks

• Lawsuits

• Original sketches

The Engineering Design Process is used to:

• Provide solutions to human needs and wants

• Increase human knowledge and understanding of the world

• Prove theories about technological processes

• Simplify human endeavors

In science, you form a hypothesis; in engineering, you:

• identify criteria

• brainstorm

• build a prototype

• define a problem

By defining the problem, the designer clearly identifies what humans:

• like or want

• like and want

• like and don't like

• need or want