9 Cores
7 Ages
Definitions
Buildings & Structures
Definitions 2
100
The technology of using, adapting, and altering organisms and biological processes for a desired outcome.
What is Bio Technology?
100
Known for stone tools, fire, and cave painting.
What is the stone age?
100
The resources that go into the system and are used by the system.
What are inputs?
100
Buildings in which people live.
What are residential buildings?
100
Constantly changing, such as technology.
What is dynamic?
200
The technology of putting parts and materials together to create supports, containers, shelters, connectors, and functional shapes.
What is Structural Technology
200
Known for computers, robots, lasers, and solar energy.
What is the information age?
200
Manufactured products, constructed structures, communicated messages, or transported people/goods that technological systems are designed to produce.
What are outputs?
200
Buildings that house the machines that make products and support the machines and supplies needed for the manufacturing process.
What are industrial buildings?
200
A step by step process, such as the technology system.
What is systematic?
300
The technology of producing, storing, controlling, transmitting, and getting work from heat energy.
What is Thermal Technology?
300
Known for the printing press, magnetic compass, and paper money.
What is the middle ages?
300
Process that involves using information about the outputs of a process or system to regulate the system.
What is feedback and control?
300
Foundations used for buildings that are built on soft soils.
What are slab foundations?
300
Resources that come from living things, and we obtain through activities such as farming, fishing, and forestry.
What are genetic materials?
400
The technology of using small amounts of electricity for controlling, detecting, and information collecting, storing, retrieving, processing, and communicating.
What is Electronic Technology?
400
Known for the steam engine, cotton gin, factories, and cars.
What is the industrial revolution?
400
The limits on a design such as safety, reliability, and money.
What are constraints?
400
Types of foundations that are used on rock and in hard soils such as clay.
What are spread foundations?
400
Mixtures of carbon and hydrogen that come from petroleum, natural gas, and coal.
What are fossil fuels?
500
The technology of producing light; using light for information collecting, storing, retrieving, processing, and communicating; and using light to do work.
What is Optical Technology?
500
Known for the telescope, hydraulic press, calculating machine, and modern architecture.
What is the Renaissance?
500
Characteristics of a successful solution, such as the desired function or a particular level of efficiency.
What are criteria?
500
Types of foundations that are used on wet, marshy, or sandy soils.
What are pile foundations?
500
Any substance with a specific chemical composition that occurs naturally, and includes ores and gems.
What are minerals?
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