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