The Design Process
Technology and Society
Natural Resources
Conservation
Soil
100

To judge how well a design works.

What is test/evaluate?

100

This is used to plant vegetables or flowers in your garden.

What is a garden shovel?

100

Things that are useful to humans and come from nature.

What are natural resources?

100

To use less of something.

What is reducing?

100

Substances in soil that plants need to grow.

What are nutrients?

200

A way of letting people know about a design.

What is communicating?

200

This is used to read fine print.

What is a magnifying glass?

200

Energy resources that were formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago.

What are fossil fuels?

200

To use something again and again in different ways.

What is reusing?

200

Something found in soil that is made of dead plants and animals.

What is humus?
300

Something that needs a solution.

What is a problem?

300

They help to keep us on time.

What is a watch/clock?

300

Natural resources that can be replaced easily.

What are renewable resources?

300

To use one thing and make it into something new.

What is recycling?

300

This is weathered by wind and water to make soil.

What is bedrock?

400

A plan for a solution that may use many drawings.

What is a design?

400

We use these when we travel from one country to another.

What are suitcases?

400

Introducing harmful materials into the environment.

What is pollution?

400

Joshua uses a plastic grocery bag to pick up trash.

What is recycling?

400

This type of soil drains water most quickly.

What is sand?

500

It is the main goal of the design process.

What is to find solutions to problems? 

500

This can be used when you leave something important at home.

What is a phone?

500

Natural resources that cannot be reused or renewed.

What are nonrenewable resources?

500

The practice of saving resources by using them wisely.

What is conservation?

500

This can be made using kitchen scraps and dead plants.

What is compost?