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