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Grant Exploring Technology

Total questions: 47

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Technology does not need to be creative.
a)
True
b)
False
2.
Technology impacts every individual and society as a whole.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
Technology is constantly changing, often done in teams, and often an improvement on pre-existing designs. 
a)
True
b)
False
4.
_____________ solves problems that could not have been solved without it. 
a)
History
b)
Engineers
c)
Impacts
d)
Technology
5.
_____________________ can be intended or unintended. 
a)
History 
b)
Engineers
c)
Impacts
d)
Science
6.
___________________________ take project ideas developed by technology and design and produce solutions to be used.
a)
Society
b)
Impacts
c)
History
d)
Engineers
7.
___________________________ lets us know what technologies have or have not worked as well as the impacts they have had.
a)
History
b)
Engineers 
c)
Science
d)
Society
8.
Human innovation in action that involves the generation of knowledge and processes to develop systems that solve problems and extend human capabilities. The innovation, change, or modification of the natural environment to satisfy perceived human needs and wants.
a)
Technology 
b)
Science
c)
Impact 
d)
Society
9.
The study of the natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations.
a)
Technology 
b)
Science
c)
Impact 
d)
Society
10.
Something you have to have to survive.
a)
Want 
b)
Need 
c)
Product
d)
Innovation
11.
Something to make our lives easier or give us entertainment. 
a)
Want
b)
Need
c)
Product 
d)
Innovation
12.
The effect or influence of one thing on another. Some impacts are anticipated, and others are unanticipated.
a)
Innovation
b)
Want
c)
Impact
d)
Society
13.
Relationships among groups of humans.
a)
Need 
b)
Innovation
c)
Impact
d)
Society
14.
An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something.
a)
Innovation
b)
Technology
c)
Society 
d)
Science
15.
Developing and using devices and systems to promote health and cure illnesses.
a)
Energy & Power Technologies
b)
Medical Technologies
c)
Manufactoring Technologies
d)
Agricultural & Relate Biotechnologies
16.
Developing and using devices and systems to gather, process, share information and ideas.
a)
Agricultural & Relate Biotechnologies
b)
Information & Communications Technology
c)
Manufactoring Technologies
d)
Energy & Power Technologies
17.
Developing and using dvices and systems to covert, transmit, or process energy.
a)
Construction Technologies
b)
Energy & Power Technologies
c)
Information & Communications Technology
d)
Manufactoring Technologies
18.
A set of relate parts. Together, they form a whole, designed to accomplish some purpose. 
a)
System
b)
Input
c)
Closed Loop System
d)
Materials
19.
Something put into a system in order to achieve a result.
a)
Output
b)
Input
c)
Feedback
d)
Processes
20.
A series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.
a)
Process
b)
Output
c)
Feedback
d)
Input
21.
The results of the operation of any system. 
a)
Input
b)
Process
c)
Output
d)
Feedback
22.
Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.
a)
Constraint
b)
Criteria
c)
Output
d)
Feedback
23.
Restriction or limit placed on a product. 
a)
Quality Control
b)
Feedback
c)
Criteria
d)
Constraint
24.
All things that make up a product.
a)
People 
b)
Output
c)
Materials
d)
Input
25.
Large systems often contain smaller systems, called ______________. 
a)
closed-loop
b)
subsystem
c)
open-loop
26.

Water is a part of nature

a)

True

b)

False

27.

Technology is designed by people

a)

True

b)

False

28.
Technology helps people__________
a)
ignore problems
b)
solve problems
29.
A product is ____
a)
produced only by factories
b)
a valuable artifact produced by means of either human or mechanical work
c)
an artifact found at an archeological dig
30.
Impacts can be intended or unintended
a)
False
b)
True
31.

Airplane is an example of

a)

communication and information technology

b)

transportation technology

c)

production technology

d)

all wrong

32.
A car is an example of what area of technology?
a)
communication
b)
transportation
c)
construction
d)
biological and chemical
33.
Technology's goal is to 
a)
improve the way people live
b)
give us cool inventions
c)
take all of our time away
d)
make us sleepy
34.
Improvements on an invention are described as: (choose the best answer)
a)
Innovations
b)
Technology
c)
Enginneering
35.
The process of creating and planning a product or system is best described as what?
a)
Innovating
b)
Designing
c)
Engineering
36.
Which one is not an example of natural world?
a)
Plants
b)
Water
c)
Cars
37.
You decide to improve a pencil by adding a grip, larger eraser, and making it shorter. The process of improving on an existing invention is innovating.
a)
False
b)
True
38.
An engineer has designed and built a prototype to improve the brake system of a car. What is the next step that the engineer should take in the process?
a)
Test the prototype.
b)
Make sketches of the prototype.
c)
Identify constraints.
d)
Collect and analyze the test results. 
39.
The ultimate purpose of engineering is to ____________?
a)
Solve problems
b)
Fix things
c)
Build new things
40.

Collecting as many ideas as you can, however good you think they are.

a)

tradeoff

b)

brainstorming

c)

criteria

d)

contraint

41.

Which of these things are examples of technology? Choose all of the items that you think are technology.

a)

Wind-up Toy

b)

MP3 Player

c)

Bird

d)

Bicycle

42.

Which of these things are examples of technology? Choose all of the items that you think are technology.

a)

Sandals

b)

Piano

c)

Oak Tree

d)

Roller Blades

43.

Q1. Resources that we find in nature and are used without much modification are called ..................

a)

Human Resource

b)

Natural Resource

c)

Renewable Resource

d)

Human Made Resource

44.

Q4. Anything that can be used to satisfy human needs is a ..................

a)

THINGS

b)

VALUE

c)

RESOURCES

d)

UTILITY

45.

Q5. Resources which can be renewed or reproduced are known as ..................

a)

(a) Exhaustible Resource

b)

(b) Renewable Resource

c)

(c) Non-Renewable Resource

d)

(d) Useful Resource

46.

On the basis of the availability of supply, Natural resources can be classified as____________ and ________.

a)

Ubiquitous and Localised resources.

b)

Renewable and Non-Renewable

c)

Biotic and Abiotic resources

d)

Actual and Potential resources

47.

Name the term given to the resources that are drawn from Nature and used without much modification.

a)

DEPLETABLE

b)

HUMAN MADE RESOURCES

c)

NATURAL RESOURCES

d)

HUMAN RESOURCES