Unit 1 - Introduction to Technology

Question 1

Definition of technology

Answer 1

Humans using objects and prior knowledge to enhance or change the natural environment.

Question 2

How is technology dynamic?

Answer 2

• Technology is always changing.

- Expanding and improving on preexisting tech.

Question 3

What does it mean by, “technology is dynamic”?

Answer 3

This means that tech is always changing.

Question 4

List four basic features of technology

Answer 4

• Is human knowledge
• Uses tools, materials, and systems.
• Application of tech results in artifacts or other outputs.
• Is developed to modify or control the environment.

Question 5

List two things about the Stone Age (2)

Answer 5

• Pebble stone tools found in Africa

- Stone hunting tools made (helped get food)

Question 6

List three things about the Bronze Age (3)

Answer 6

• Discovery and smelting of copper.
• Better ways to store food discovered.
• Navigating and writing discovered/started.

Question 7

Two things about the Iron Age (2)

Answer 7

• Steel and iron primarily used for tools.
• Machines for weaving cloth made.
• Machines for grinding grain discovered.

Question 8

List two things about the Industrial Age (2)

Answer 8

• Edmund Catwright’s invention of the power loom helped spur this revolution.
• Steam Engine discovered.

Question 9

List three things about the Information Age (3)

Answer 9

• Automatic machinery widely used
• Declining numbers of low skilled jobs
• High quality products

Question 10

How are science and tech different?

Answer 10

Science is the study of nature. Technology is how you apply what you know about science to make things easier.