Using math and science to solve problems
What is engineering?
Represents the physical structure of an object or system
What is a physical model?
A system designed by people
What is an engineered system?
True or False: In an interconnected system, a change in one system, affects another system?
What is true?
True or False: Only computer models are really accurate
What is false?
The study of phenomena, a search for knowledge about how natural and designed systems work
What is science?
A model that describes an idea, process, or concept
What is a conceptual model?
A system that exists in nature.
What is a natural system?
What is happening to the elk population
What is decreasing?
A diagram of a food web would be this type of model
What is conceptual model?
Tools, processes, or systems that are designed to solve a problem
What is technology?
Graphs and equations are usually this types of model
What is a mathematical model?
What carbon dioxide is in the process of photosynthesis?
What is an input?
What money is in a vending machine system
What is an input?
A lock and dam system is this type of system
What is an engineered system?
A set of interacting parts that work together
What is a system?
Can analyze large amounts of data
What is a computer model?
What oxygen is in the process of photosynthesis.
What is an output?
The cell phone system is considered this type of system.
What is an engineered system?
The human body would be what type of system?
What are components?
What is a conceptual model?
What carbon dioxide is in the process of respiration or breathing?
What is an output
True or False: An output for one system can be the input for another system
What is true?
In the digestive system, this would be an input
What is food