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