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What is the goal of technology?
What is to improve the way people live?
100
What stage of the technology design process involves coming up with ideas or different ways to solve a problem?
What is solution stage?
100
Using one or more of your senses to gather information is called
What is observing?
100
Which of the following is an example of thinking scientifically about a topic?
What is finding out how bicycles work?
100
Many non science careers require a knowledge of science because workers must
What is use the process of scientific inquiry?
200
In the technology design process, the next step after defining a problem is to
What is choose the best solution?
200
One example of communicating a solution to a technological problem is
What is advertising, explaining the design to manufacturers, and demonstrating the product to consumers?
200
Observations that deal with a number or amount are called
What is quantitative observations?
200
In science, a hypothesis must be
What is testable?
200
Which stage of the scientific process enables a scientist to check the work of other scientists?
What is communicating?
300
Prototypes are used to
What is test the operation of a product?
300
Automobile air bag technology has
What is both positive and negative impacts?
300
Observations that deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers are called
What is qualitative observations?
300
During an experiment, which factors must be controlled so that researchers can draw a logical conclusion from the experiment?
What are variables?
300
Most scientific questions being investigated today
What is span the different fields of science?
400
An example of troubleshooting used by engineers when building the early computer mouse was
What is replacing the steel ball of the mouse with a rubber ball to reduce the noise and make it easier to clean?
400
Deciding whether to buy a new lightweight helmet that provides less protection than a heavier helmet is an example of
What is risk-benefit analysis?
400
When scientists put things into categories or group together items that are alike in some way, they are
What is classifying?
400
A well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results is called a scientific
What is theory?
400
A summary of what you have learned from a scientific experiment is called a(n)
What is conclusion?
500
When engineers identify a need, they first
What is clearly define the problem they are trying to solve?
500
Identifying the cause of any problems in a design is an example of
What is trouble shooting?
500
The factor that may change in response to the manipulated variable is called the
What is responding variable?
500
One useful tool that may help a scientist interpret data by revealing unexpected patterns is a
What is graph?