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WorksheetsEngineering Technology I Final 2021
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 50mins
"The concerted human effort to understand, or to understand better, the history of the natural world and how the natural world works, with observable physical evidence as the basis of that understanding." This statement best describes...
Technology
Accuracy
Science
Systems
What is "the modification of our natural world to suit our wants and needs"?
Science
Technology
Systems
Accuracy
From the Greek word techne, meaning art
or artifice or craft, this word literally
means the act of making or crafting, but
more generally refers to the diverse collection of processes and knowledge that people use to extend human abilities and to satisfy human needs and wants.
Technology
Science
Criteria
Design
___________provides the knowledge about
the natural world that underlies most technological products today. In return, technology provides science with the tools needed to explore the world.
Design
Science
Technology
Utility
The design process generally begins with THIS STEP— there is some need to be met or some want to be fulfilled, and the designer must understand exactly what it is and what the specific criterion and constraints there are to solving the problem.
Generate Ideas
Define the Problem
Make the item
Select the Solution
This step of the TDM involves considering the original criteria and ideas,
along with various constraints, one design — or,
in some cases, more than one — and choosing the most promising to make. Generate alternatives and consider limitations.
Generate ideas
Define the Problem
Make the Item
Select the Solution
What step of the Technological Design Model (TDM) requires you to see if your solution worked?
Evaluating the item
Generate Ideas
Presenting Results
Defining the Problem
A group of scientists are explaining how their new medication is a success. They are...
Generate Ideas
Presenting the Results
Testing the Item
Making the Items
In Economics, the forces are...
Supply and Demand
Input and Output
Money and Power
Pros and Cons
A "__________" is a group of interrelated components designed collectively to achieve a desired goal.
Input
Feedback
System
Design
What is the flow of an Open Loop System?
Input, Process, Output
Input, Process, Output, Feedback
Input, Output, Process
Input, Process, Feedback, Output
What is the flow of a closed loop system?
Input, Output, Process
Input, Process, Output
Input, Process, Output, Feedback
Input, Process, Feedback, Output
What does a closed loop system have that an open loop system doesn't?
Input
Feedback
Process
Output
What is the result of the system?
Input
Process
Output
Feedback
What is also known as the "system command"?
Output
Process
Input
Feedback
Successful interfacing of subsystems is called...
Systems design
Systems Integration
Systems thinking
Systems Malfunction
Any implement, instrument,
or utensil held in the hand
and used for cutting, hitting, digging, rubbing, etc...
Energy
Time
Machines
Tools
A device that transmits or changes the application of energy (lever, inclined plane, wheel and axle, screw, pulley, and wedge).
tools
materials
machine
energy
A particular method of doing something; generally involving a number of steps or operations.
Machines
Processes
Tools
Time
Anything formed of matter and has substance.
Materials
Criteria
Constraints
Liquid
What is the most important resource for all technological activity?
Materials
People
Money
Time
"_____" is the money and other finances available for the creation and use
of technological products and systems.
Capital
Technology
Supply
Materials
What is the ability to do work?
Design
Money
Time
Energy
"Gathering, reading, observing, hearsay,
or any way and by any source. It does not always mean facts."
Design
Information
Criteria
Constraints
The technology of putting mechanical parts together to produce, control and transmit motion.
Mechanical technology
Electronic technology
Materials technology
Structure technology
The technology of producing, storing, controlling,
transmitting and getting work from electrical energy.
Electrical technology
Electronic technology
Materials technology
Optical technology
The technology of using small amounts of electricity for controlling; detecting; and information collecting, storing, retrieving, processing and communicating.
Electronic technology
Electrical technology
Structural technology
Fluid technology
The technology of putting parts and materials together to create supports, containers, shelters, connectors and functional shapes.
Structural technology
Construction technology
Optical technology
Electronic technology
The technology of using fluid, either gaseous (pneumatics) or liquid (hydraulic) to apply force or to transport.
Fluid technology
Structural technology
Construction technology
Air technology
The technology of producing light; controlling light,
using light for information collection, processing, storage,
retrieval and communication; and using light to do work.
Optical technology
Fluid technology
Structural technology
Light technology
A brand new device, product, system, or method of doing something.
Invention
Innovation
Design
System
An improvement to an existing technological system, or method of doing something.
Innovation
Invention
System
Design
"Unlike other forms of problem solving that deal with things already in existence, _________launches into the unknown and the untried."
Invention
Innovation
Technological Design Model (TDM)
Evaluating the item
This term is central to the process of invention and innovation. All technological products and systems first existed in the human imagination.
Creativity
Close-minded ideas
Fixing
Innovating
Product innovation is driven by what?
Needs and Wants
Supply and Demands
Knowledge and Ideas
None of these answers
If a society wants a product, then it is generally evident in the ______ _______of products that satisfy that want.
Sales Figures
Materials Lists
None of these
Transporation Costs
Identifying criteria and specifying _______ will provide the basis for what the design should be and what its limits are.
Constraints
Prices
Customer Needs
Consumer Wants
This term involves a choice or exchange for one quality over another.
Trade-Off
Evaluation
Trade-on
Assessment
A planned process to ensure that a product, service, or system meets established criteria.
Quality Control
Trade-off
Evaluation
Optimization
An exclusive right granted by the federal government to the inventors of new and useful machines, articles, substances or processes.
Patent
Copyright
Trademark
Technological Design Model (TDM) Right
Which of the following is NOT a type of patent?
Structural patent
Design patent
Plant patent
Utility patent
In general, exclusive patent rights last for how many years?
20 years
30 years
15 years
Not here
What administration issues a Patent?
United States Patent Office
United States Armed Forces
US Secretary of the Interior
National Security Agency
Who performs a search to see if the same or similar technology has already been claimed in a patent or publicly disclosed in other types of publications?
Patent Examiner
Trademark Executive
Patent Office
Not here
Under which of the following circumstances could Northwest Guilford High School be sued for trademark infringement?
NWGHS uses a logo that already belongs to a business
NWGHS posts a song lyric video without giving credit to the actual author
NWGH copies pages of a book and posts it on their homepage for profit
Not here
Something that makes something else happen. Out of two events, it is the event that happens first
Cause
Affect
Effect
detriment
What happens as a result of the cause. Of two related events, it’s the one that happens second or last.
Effect
Affect
Detriment
Cause
Technology, by itself, is neither good
or bad, but decisions about the use
of products and systems can result in desirable or undesirable consequences. This is an explanation of...
Technological Ethics
Technological Models
Criteria
Constraints
When technologies work as intended, consequences can be..
Anticipated and Unanticipated
Only Anticipated
Only Unacticipated
Neither Anticipated nor Unacticipated
Ethical considerations are important in the development, selection, and use of technologies. This statement is...
Always True
Always False
Never True
Outdated
This era was a competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union, that lasted roughly from 1957 to 1975. It involved the efforts to explore outer space with artificial satellites, to send humans into space, and to land people on the Moon.
Space Race
Renaissance Era
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Soon after World War II, the United States became locked in a global conflict pitting democracy against communism. What country was the United States "fighting" against?
USSR
Germany
South Korea
Japan
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the first artificial satellite was launched. What country launched this satellite?
USSR
USA
China
North Korea
What was the name of the first artificial satellite that was launched in 1957?
Sputnik I
Apollo II
Voyager I
Project Gemini
Who, in 1961, publicly announced that the United States would put a man on the moon before 1970?
John Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
John Glenn
Richard Nixon
In what year did the first human orbit the earth?
1961
1959
1957
1969
Who was the first person in space?
Yuri Gagarin
Alan Shepard
John Glenn
Neil Armstrong
Who was the first American in space?
Alan Shephard
John Glenn
Yuri Gagarin
Buzz Aldrin
Who was the first man on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
John Glenn
Michael Collins
Buzz Aldrin
What year did man first land on the moon?
July 1969
November 1963
September 1957
June 1944
This age started with the development
of stone tools used for hunting, cutting, and pounding vegetables and meat and progressed to the harnessing of fire for heating, cooking,
and protection.
Stone Age
Iron Age
Bronze Age
Renaissance Era
This age began with the discovery of copper and copper-based metals. Agricultural techniques were developed to improve the cultivation of food and its supply.
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Stone Age
Renaissance Era
During this age, the uses of iron and steel were used as the primary materials for tools.
During this period, sustained technological development caused many people to migrate from farms to developing towns and cities.
Iron Age
Bronze Age
Steel Age
Renaissance Era
This time in history saw a rebirth of the arts and humanities, was also an important development in the history of technology.
Renaissance Era
Bronze Age
Stone Age
Steel Age
The Technology Design Model (TDM)
is cyclical
is terminal
is outdated
guarantees a correct answer
Which of the following factors can affect engineering and design?
All of these answers
Environmental Impacts
Ethical Considerations
How mush a technology will cost to produce
For which of the following technologies would ergonomics NOT be needed?
Sputnik I
Apollo I
A computer keyboard
A car
Which of the following is NOT a concern in the design process?
Not listed
Quality Control
Reliability
Safety
what is the release for piggy?
1/20/2020
1/18/2020
1/02/2020
1/22/2020
Core technologies produce technology ___
Ideas
systems
designs
methods
In order to maintain established requirements, _____ are made in order to meet the characteristics of an optimum design.
rough prototypes
design models
budget decisions
trade-offs
In order to maintain established requirements, _____ are made in order to meet the characteristics of an optimum design.
rough prototypes
design models
budget decisions
trade-offs
Quality control is concerned with how well a product, service, or system conforms to _____ and _____ required by the design.
specifications and tolerances
costs and benefits
rules and regulations
parts and services
The Core Technologies are considered to be the basic "_____ _____" from which all technology systems are created.
design rules
building blocks
selling points
time savers
The Core Technologies are the bridge between _____ concepts and real‐world technology.
science
construction
central
material
The Core Technologies provide numerous opportunities to describe, analyze, and predict physical phenomena using _____.
history
materials
mathematics
machinery
There are _____ Core Technologies.
four
six
nine
two
_____ is the process of planning, organizing, and controlling work
Optimization
Research
Management
Design
_____ _____ is a planned process to ensure that a product, service, or system meets established criteria.
Quality control
Cost analysis
Market research
Design constraint
All materials are categorized as _____ or __
man‐made or synthetic
renewable or exhaustible
reliable or unreliable
available or unavailable
All materials must be grown or located in _____.
nature
society
technology
processes
Once located, materials must be harvested or _____.
frozen
extracted
packaged
duplicated
Technological processes as well as ______ processes are used in agriculture, energy conversion, information processing and communication, construction, manufacturing, medical and transportation technologies.
artificial
natural
biodegradable
chemical
The world is full of _____ and _____ that keep the planet working.
inventions and innovations
people and places
systems and cycles
causes and effects
There are hundreds of materials available. They can be used in various ways to meet various human needs and wants. They are the key to our _____.
prosperity
employment
existence
pleasure
_____ are a basic input to technological processes and systems.
Chemicals
Materials
Ingredients
Fuels
_____ materials can be grown and harvested.
Exhaustible
Renewable
Technological
Obtainable
_____ resources have a limited supply and cannot be replaced once they are used up.
Nuclear
Exhaustible
Organic
Natural
is the application of science for the real-world purposes
Science
Engineering
Technology
Prototype
Limitations or challenges
criteria
constraints
trade-off
prototype
A sample product that is used to represent the real product
Constraints
Trade-off
Engineering Design Process
Prototype
Spending more money to get stronger metal for a bridge is an example of
Trade-off
Constraints
Prototype
Technology
In the engineering design process, which step requires to brainstorm possible solutions
ask
imagine
plan
create
Spending more money to get stronger metal for a bridge is an example of
Trade-off
Constraints
Prototype
Technology
Why do engineers follow the design process?
To find solutions to real life problems
To understand how Earth formed
To practice making measurements
To use the same solution for every problem
_____ resources have a limited supply and cannot be replaced once they are used up. Select one: a) Nuclear b) Exhaustible c) Organic d) Natural
Nuclear
Exhaustible
Organic
Natural
_____ materials can be grown and harvested. Select one: a) Exhaustible b) Renewable c) Technological d) Obtainable
Exhaustible
Renewable
Technological
Obtainable
There are hundreds of materials available. They can be used in various ways to meet various human needs and wants. They are the key to our _____.
prosperity
employment
existence
pleasure
