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test 1

True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
 

 1. 

Because they ensure that an entire system functions properly, controls are complex devices.
 

 2. 

A ladder is an example of a technological invention.
 

 3. 

Biologists, chemists, and physicists are all technologists.
 

 4. 

When technologists can’t include everything they want in a design, they are forced to make trade-offs, exchanges of options for better ones.
 

 5. 

Technologically literate people understand how technological processes work and how products are made.
 

 6. 

Large technological systems are typically more complex than small ones.
 

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 7. 

To observe and record the events around them, scientists use the process of ____________________.
a.
technology
b.
scientific inquiry
c.
scientific literacy
d.
designing
 

 8. 

The desired level of fuel efficiency of a new car is a project ____________________.
a.
requirement
b.
trade-off
c.
control
d.
system
 

 9. 

Technology extends people’s natural ____________________.
a.
resources
b.
abilities
c.
inclinations
d.
innovations
 

 10. 

Which of the following is NOT an example of a new problem created by existing technology?
a.
illness caused by contaminated food
b.
noise pollution from automobile traffic
c.
waste created by disposable products
d.
eyestrain from computer use
 

 11. 

A household thermostat provides ____________________ to a furnace about its operation.
a.
requirements
b.
processing control
c.
feedback
d.
systematic information
 

 12. 

Technology deals with the human-made world; science studies ____________________.
a.
the effects of technology
b.
the natural world
c.
the real world
d.
the world’s biological processes
 

Matching
 
 
Match each term with the correct definition below.
a.
technology
f.
processes
b.
innovation
g.
control
c.
system
h.
feedback
d.
resource
i.
designing
e.
optimization
j.
requirements
 

 13. 

a series of steps by which resources are changed into desired products
 

 14. 

any type of supply, service, or support used to make a system work
 

 15. 

group of interrelated parts that work together to produce a desired result
 

 16. 

features that define the performance of a system
 

 17. 

makes use of human knowledge to convert resources into goods and services
 

 18. 

information about the output of a system that can be used to adjust it
 

 19. 

a device that is used to adjust the operation of a system
 

 20. 

the process of making alternatives work as well as they can
 



 
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