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Introduction To Engineering - 2
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Answer 20 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The great rebirth of acrt - literature - and learning in the 14th - 15th - and 16th centuries which marked the transition from the medieval to modern periods of European history. - A new way of thinking. Which laed to future reforms for the catholic
deforestation
The Renaissance
Industrial Revolution
Iron Age
2. (archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron ages - characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons
Sir Isaac Newton
deforestation
Bronze Age
The Renaissance
3. The practical application of science to commerce or industry
smelting
Constraints
Engineering
Moore's Law
4. Any epidemic disease with a high death rate
The Renaissance
eyeglasses
Moore's Law
plague
5. Tools and skills people use to meet their basic needs
plague
deforestation
Technology
Constraints
6. Made during The Renaissance
eyeglasses
The Renaissance
Fertile Crescent
smelting
7. Destruction of forests
deforestation
Moore's Law
eyeglasses
Engineering
8. (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture - characterized by the use of stone implements
Technology
Stone Age
Bronze Age
deforestation
9. A mixture of potassium nitrate - charcoal - and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery - time fuses - and fireworks
Bronze Age
Moore's Law
Engineering
Gunpowder
10. Change in technology - brought about by improvements in machinery and by use of steam power
Stone Age
deforestation
Industrial Revolution
Middle Ages
11. The period of history - succeeding the Bronze Age - when people first learned to extract iron from ore and use it to forge tools - weapons and other objects. The first organized production of objects developed in southwestern Asia shortly after 2000
Iron Age
Engineer
Industrial Revolution
Technology
12. Process by which scientists formulate a hypothesis - gather data by observation and experimentation - and come to a conclusion
Constraints
Technology
plague
Scientific Process
13. The historical period from around 500 A.D. up to around 1450 A.D. between the fall of Rome and the birth of the Renaissance
Middle Ages
Scientific Process
Fertile Crescent
plague
14. To fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
Science
Engineering
Stone Age
smelting
15. An organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world
Science
Iron Age
Industrial Revolution
Engineering
16. The premise that the power of microprocessor technology doubles and its cost of production drops in half every 18 months
17. Restrictions; limits
Gunpowder
The Renaissance
plague
Constraints
18. A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
Technology
Fertile Crescent
Stone Age
eyeglasses
19. A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
Sir Isaac Newton
Fertile Crescent
deforestation
Engineer
20. This scientist was an English mathematician and physicist who devised principles to explain universal gravitation - that all matter attracts other matter.
smelting
Sir Isaac Newton
eyeglasses
deforestation