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