Lesson 1

Question 1

A combination of two Greek words, techne and logos.

Answer 1

Technology

Question 2

Means art, craft or skill

Answer 2

Techne

Question 3

Means “to speak of”

Answer 3

Logos

Question 4

Application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or, to the change and manipulation of the human environment.

Answer 4

Technology

Question 5

Emergence of a complex set of behaviors and tool use, believed by many archeologists to be connected to the development of modern language.

Answer 5

Paleolithic Age (500,000 BC - 10,000 BC) Stone Age

Question 6

Development of composite tools, farming, domestication of animals, and beginning of settled communities.

Answer 6

Mesolithic Age (10,000 BC - 4000 BC)

Question 7

Agriculture, pottery, polished stone and weavjng tools, sickles, wooden and stone plows

Answer 7

Neolithic Age (4000 BC - 2300 BC)

Question 8

Earliest civilization - development of metallurgy, combining copper and tin, bronze jewelry, tools and weapons

Answer 8

Bronze Age (2300 BC - 700 BC)

Question 9

Military dominance for uses of iron weapons and iron bladed plows that enabled humans to cultivate soil and increase food production.

Answer 9

Iron Age (700 BC - 450 AD)

Question 10

The period of European history between Fall of Rome and The Renaissance. Rise of money economy, capitalism and beginning of urbanization & industrialization.

Wheel plow, compass, cannons, cast iron, crank , windmill

Answer 10

Middle Age (450 AD - 1400 AD)

Question 11

Transitional movement of Europe between the Middle Age and Modern times. Known as “Revival of Classical Influence”.

Telescope, microscope, thermometer, clocks, barometer

Answer 11

Renaissance (1400 AD - 1750 AD)

Question 12

Cultural age - use of machinery & factories.

Steam engine, electricity, automobile, radio, television, rocket

Answer 12

Industrial Age (1750 AD - 1950 AD)

Question 13

Starting 1950s to present

Artificial heart, computer, nuclear power plant, integrated circuit, communication satellite

Answer 13

Information Age (1950 - Present)

Question 14

3 Primary Types of Technology

Answer 14

• Product Technology
• Process Technology
• Information Technology

Question 15

To use and apply design features as product build to attain optimum performance.

Answer 15

Product Technology

Question 16

Technology used to produce product or provide service.

Answer 16

Process Technology

Question 17

Impacts communication and information collection and processing.

Answer 17

Information Technology