vocab Flashcards
(19 cards)
The raising of crops and animals for food, feed, fiber, fuel, or other useful products.
Agriculture
A human-made object.
Artifact
The transmission of information through a common system of symbols, signs, behavior, speech, writing, or signals.
Communication
The act or process of building, erecting, or constructing buildings, roads, or other structures
Construction
The ability to do work. Energy is one of the basic resources used by a technological system.
Energy
Using technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
Engineering
The surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives.
Enviroment
The study of workplace equipment design or how to arrange and design devices, machines, or work space so that people and things interact safely and most efficiently.
Ergonomics
Of, relating to, or resulting from industry
Industrial
An improvement of an existing technological product; system, or method of doing something.
Innovation
A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation.
Invention
The process of making a raw material into a finished product; especially in large quantities.
Manufacturing
The science of patterns and order and the study of measurement, properties, and the relationships of quantities using numbers and symbols.
Math
The science and technology of building devices, such as electronic circuits, from single atoms and molecules.
Nanotechnology
Human activities used to create, invent, design, transform, produce, control, Maintain and use products or systems; a sequence of actions that combines resources to produce an output.
Process
The study of our natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations.
Science
A group of interacting, interrelated, or independent elements or parts, that function together as a whole to accomplish a goal.
System
The way people use resources to meet their wants and needs.
Technology
The process by which passengers or goods are moved or delivered to on place or another.
Transportation
