Technology & Society

Question 1

represents the product life on an innovation

Answer 1

s-curve

Question 2

inventor of gasoline powered car 1885

Answer 2

Karl Benz

Question 3

inventor of airplane

Answer 3

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Question 4

inventor of integrated circuit

Answer 4

Jack Kilby of TX Instruments and Robert Noyce - Fairchild Semiconductor

Question 5

inventor of internet

Answer 5

Robert E. Kahn & Vince Cerf

Question 6

Funding for technological development

Answer 6

Private Business or Government Programs

Question 7

reduce energy making better use of existing resources

Answer 7

conservation

Question 8

productive for a long time

Answer 8

sustainable systems

Question 9

medicine, agriculture, biological engineering, bioremedial and biodegradation, cloning, human genome project

Answer 9

biotechnology

Question 10

create organisms for purpose of removing environmental contamination

Answer 10

bioremediation and biodegradation

Question 11

funds and regulates technology

Answer 11

government

Question 12

incineration, landfill, recycle, sustainable methods

Answer 12

material disposal

Question 13

speed of a inviscid flow increases, pressure decreases. Consequently, faster moving air creates slower pressure. Carburetors and pitot tubes

Answer 13

Bernoulli’s principal

Question 14

thrust, life, drag, weight

Answer 14

aerodynamics

Question 15

uses laboratory equipment to diagnose disease

Answer 15

pathology

Question 16

ethylene, propylene, benzene, styrene

Answer 16

petrochemicals

Question 17

fertilizers, insecticides, gherbicides

Answer 17

agrochemicals

Question 18

polyester, polyethylene, Bakelite

Answer 18

polumers

Question 19

vanillin coumarin

Answer 19

fragrances/flavors

Question 20

ammonia, nitric acid, sodium hydroxide, sulfuric acid

Answer 20

inorganic industrial compounds

Question 21

phenol, urea, ethylene oxide

Answer 21

organic industrial compounds

Question 22

silica, brick, and frit

Answer 22

ceramics

Question 23

ammonium nitrate, nitrocellulose, notroglycerin

Answer 23

explosives

Question 24

lard and soybean oil

Answer 24

oleochemicals

Question 25

polyisoprene, neoprene, polyurethane

Answer 25

elastomers

Question 26

start and end, processing steps, inputs and outputs, conditionals, decisions, junctions, and connectors

Answer 26

flowcharts

Question 27

visual representation of complex information to see quickly: bar charts, pie charts, column charts, organizational charts, flowcharts

Answer 27

graphs

Question 28

systematic approach to measuring the human body

Answer 28

anthropometrics

Question 29

better design in reducing injury at workplace

Answer 29

ergonomics

Question 30

electric impulses from upper arm to prosthetic

Answer 30

myoelectric impulse

Question 31

measures blood pressure

Answer 31

sphygmomanometer

Question 32

braces to improve physical performance and reduce pain

Answer 32

orthotics

Question 33

reproducing segments of 100 billion molecules of the same DNA

Answer 33

polymerase chain reaction

Question 34

DNA identification in criminal science

Answer 34

forensics

Question 35

using microbes to improve air quality

Answer 35

biofiltering

Question 36

microbe-filled liquid to contaminated gas

Answer 36

bioscrubbing

Question 37

microbes that eat oil - example of....

Answer 37

bioremediation

Question 38

chemicals that adhere to oil globs and neutralize them

Answer 38

dispersant (detergent)

Question 39

accelerating the removal of hazardous waste from the environment

Answer 39

biostimulation

Question 40

Sewage undergoing anaerobic digestion to be used as fertilizer or completing the digestion process to create heat

Answer 40

Methane Production

Question 41

fermenting starches and sugars, mostly corn and sugarcane, into fuel

Answer 41

ethanol

Question 42

ethanol and gasoline

Answer 42

"gasohol"

Question 43

80% regular diesel fuel and 20% natural oil from deep fryers

Answer 43

biodiesel

Question 44

technique of identifying chromsomal abnormalities in fetuses and identify problems

Answer 44

aminiocentesis

Question 45

medical procedure for failing kidneys

Answer 45

dialysis

Question 46

cuts moist tissue, most common in LASIK, low intensity encourages would healing

Answer 46

laser surgery

Question 47

provides rhythmic electrical impulses for heart function

Answer 47

pacemaker

Question 48

electrical shock in event of arrhythmia and cardiac arrest

Answer 48

difibrillator

Question 49

deprived of oxygen, will ferment sugar and other substances

Answer 49

yeast

Question 50

chemical that is extracted from living cell and used as a reagent during some production process (high fructose corn syrup, sweeteners) isolate mRNA for cells to behave in desired manner

Answer 50

bioreagent

Question 51

foreign genesm known as transgenes

Answer 51

Genetically Modified (GM)

Question 52

crops modified to tolerate herbicides create this organism impervious to herbicide

Answer 52

"superweeds"

Question 53

relied on bt organic farmers,aka soil bacterium, which acts as insecticide.

Answer 53

Bt