Technology and Industry (Lesson 1)

Question 1

A method of making goods in which one worker performs a specific task to build a product and passes the product to the next worker, until the good is finished.

Answer 1

assembly line

Question 2

A person who starts and runs a new business.

Answer 2

entrepreneur

Question 3

A government grant that allows an inventor to be the only person to make, use, and sell his or her invention for a set period of years.

Answer 3

patent

Question 4

This word means to make large amounts of something

Answer 4

manufacture

Question 5

What word describes a company that has control over a product or a service?

Answer 5

monopoly