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