Vocab
The work of technologists to build products and structures
What is development?
It was a period of sustained technological advancement.
What is Iron Age?
This period saw technology widely applied to agriculture.
What is the Iron Age?
The consequences of technology are more feared than....
What is natural events?
Nearly all technology is developed and produced by...
What is profit-centered businesses?
Knowledge of the natural world
What is science?
Started in England about 1750 and moved to America in the late seventeenth century.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
During this period, copper and copper-based metals were the primary materials for tools.
What is the Bronze Age?
Technology may cause ________ changes in the ways people live.
What is unemployment and radical changes?
A competitive edge is gained through employing technology. This includes standardization of products, interchangeable parts, labor-saving practices, and machines.
True or false?
What is True?
Explaining why something exists or happened
What is research?
Describes the relationships between groups of people.
What is Humanities?
The _____was further supported by the steam engine
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Technology must be developed and used wisely and appropriately. People who have this understanding are called....
What is technologically literate?
What are the four basic characteristics of technology?
What is....
- Technology is human knowledge
- Technology uses tools, materials, and systems
- Application of technology results in artifacts or other outputs
- Technology is developed by people to modify or control the environment
Humans using objects to change the natural and human made environment.
What is Technology?
During this period, copper and copper-based metals were the primary materials for tools.
What is Bronze Age?
Who created the interchangeable parts?
Who is Eli Whitney?
Who made the first movable conveyor?
Who is Henry Ford?
Technology increases.......
What is human capabilities?
Places emphasis on processing information and cooperative working relations between workers and managers.
What is Information Age?
*BONUS*
Tools are fabricated, crops are grown, materials are engineered, and transportation systems are developed.
What is Civilization?
What are the FOUR characteristics of Information Age that we talked about in class?
What is
- Wide use of automatic machining and information processing
- Declining number of low-skill jobs
- High energy consumption
- Technological unemployment
What are the four characteristics of the industrial revolution?
What is
- Interchangeable parts
- Dividing the job into parts that are assigned to separate workers
- Material-handling devices that bring the work to the workers
-Professional management
If past technology improved productivity......
What is future technology will increase it even more.