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35 Cards in this Set
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Define Technology
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means by which we try to improve our people made world
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Where do you find technology?
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it's all around us
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List the seven areas of technology
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medical, construction, agriculture and biotechnology, information and communication, transportation, power and energy, and manufacturing
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MEDICAL
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the development of techniques and the produciton of products to aid the human body es. artifical limbs, x-rays, and pacemaker
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CONSTRUCTION
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the process of building structures such as buildings, tunnels, dams roads and bridges
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AGRICULTURE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
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Bio- the use of living cells to create new products es. genetic engineering Agri.- the business of producing plants and animals for food, clothing and other products. ex. hydroponics
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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
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the movement of ideas and information; provides a means of collecting, organizing, storing, send, and processing information
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TRANSPORTATION
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applies to the movemnt of goods and people from one place to another
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POWER AND ENERGY
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provides the means by which work is done and movement created
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MANUFACTURING
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the process of creating products in a factory
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What is science
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The study of our natural world
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Give an example of how science and technology work together
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they do not...but they help one another..ex. pacemaker
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List the eight basic nedds of people
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food, water, shelter,healthcare, protection, transportation, communication, and recreation
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How do people satisfy basic needs with technology
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we use our knowledge, tools, skills, and resources to solve practical and emerging problems
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Explain the Agricultural Era
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people began to band together into villages, people soon specialized in divinsion of labor, sickle, how and plow emerged, cottage industry emerged which is people working out of their homes, and the economy was based on agriculture
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Explain the Industrial Era
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began with the Industrial Revolution, people moving from rural eras to urban eras to obtain work, steam engine was the driving horse behind the industrial revolution, and it has a factory based economy
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Explain the Information Era
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began with the inroduction of computers, the major technology is computer, a service base economy, and home offices= electronic cottages
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List the seven resources of technology
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people, information, tools and machines, materials, energy, time and capital
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List the three roles people play as a resource of technology
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people are consumers of technology, create technology, and govern technology
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What is a consumer
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people who buy or use a product
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What is an entreprenueur
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forms or starts their own business which may be based on and invention or innovation
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What is an innovation
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a change to an already existing product
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what is ergonomics
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human factors engineering
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How do people govern technology
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by creating rules and laws to try to maintain control over the impacts
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how is worker safety provided for
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OSHA creates regulations desgned to crate better working conidions, regulations are designed to protect the health and welfare
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What does OSHA stand for
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Occupational Safety Health Administration
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what is the UL
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underwriters labortory, tests products to ensure they work safely
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What are product safety laws
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designed to protect consumers from products that might be unsafe
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What is the EPA
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Environmetal Protecion Agnecy, created ot protect our land, air, and water
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Define Energy
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the ability to do work and create movement
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What are the major forms of energy
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Mechanical, electrial, light, heat, chemical, sound, and atomic
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MECHANICAL
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energy found in moving things
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ELECTRIAL
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the flow of electrons through wrie
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CHEMICAL
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energy stored in a chemical
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Explain an energy conversion
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Energy changes from one form to another ex. hammer hitting a nail
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