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Exploring Technology
The process of sending and receiving messages
Communication
Technologies connected with plant & animal life
Bio-Related
The measure of excellence that something possesses
Quality
Positive or negative effect a product has on people/environment
Impacts
The study of the effect of a product is called a technology _____
Assessment
Process by which people think of as many solutions as possible
Brainstorming
______ provides ways to move people and cargo.
Transportation
Process used to analyze problems and make judgements is Critical
Thinking
In scientific method, this is an explanation that can be tested
Hypothesis
Imitation in a lab environment of a real life circumstance
Simulation
The changing of raw materials into finshed products is ______.
Manufacturing
Economic system in which businesses are privately owned/operated
Capitalism
In a free _____, people can buy, sell, and set prices for goods.
Enterprise
A person who starts a business is a(n) ________.
Entrepreneur
_____ thinking skills are used to develop new, original ideas
Creative
The fuel in cars and airplanes is an example of ______ technology
Energy/Power
The Inventor said "Books will soon be obsolete in school" in 1913
Thomas Edison
Building homes, surveying, and real estate are part of _____.
Construction
____ questions are those dealing with what is right and wrong.
Ethical
Processes/knowledge that extend our abilities to satisfy needs
Technology
____ method involves testing a hypothesis against a control group
Scientific
This inventor at 3M discovered Post-It Notes by accident.
Spencer Silver
Making a choice among several possiblities involves ___ making
Decision
Last step in the ____ solving process is to evaluate the solution
Problem
An improvement upon an existing technology is a(n)
Innovation