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