Vocabulary
Tools in Medicine
Technology and the Human Body
Technology
Design Process
100
The knowledge, processes, and products that solve problems and make work easier
What is technology?
100
A wave with very high energy that allows doctors to see things inside a living thing
What is an x-ray?
100
An artificial arm, hand, leg, or food that replaces a missing one.
What is a prosthetic limb?
100
Three examples of technology in the classroom
(Answers will vary)
100
The first step in the design process
What is identifying the problem?
200
A small piece of a computer that contains microscopic circuits
What is a microchip?
200
A highly detailed image that uses magnetic fields and radio wave pulses which are fed into a computer
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)?
200
What can a robotic bat do that a person cannot?
What is go places where people could get to?
200
Technology has ___________ peoples lives, but it has also caused __________.
What is improved and problems?
200
The last step in the design process
What is evaluating and redesigning?
300
A computer based network of information sources
What is the World Wide Web?
300
Another word for stitches?
What are sutures?
300
Robots can have a body structure and movable joints, which are similar to these two human body systems
What are the muscular and skeletal systems?
300
Three ways computers differ today than they were when they were first created
What are smaller, cheaper, and faster?
300
The object built to test a solution
What is a prototype?
400
The steps for developing products and processes that solve problems?
What is the design process?
400
Technology that was discovered in 1796 and hleps prevent people from getting sick
What are vaccines?
400
Robotic technologies use this to help them move
What is electrical energy?
400
The way the cardboard arm relates to the human arm.
What is the way it moves up and down?
400
Three types of diagrams used to communicate results of your design solution
What are charts, tables, graphs, and graphic organizers?
500
A person who designs new technologies
What is an engineer?
500
A series of X=ray images that are cross section "slices" of the body that is fed into a computer to create a three dimensional image
What is a CT (computed tomography) scan or CAT scan?
500
A robot that is only a few billionths of a meter long that can perform all kinds of tasks
What is a nanobot?
500
Three helpful materials used to do research to solve a design problem
What are scientific journals, magazines, internet, informational books, and encyclopedias?