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STEM vocabulary
Vocabulary for semester
Term | Definition |
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Agriculture | The raising of crops and animals for food, feed, fiber, fuel, or other useful products. |
Artifact | A human made object |
biotechnology | All the technology connected with plant and animal life. |
communication | The transmission of information through a common system, sign, behavior, speech, writing, or signal |
Construction | The act or process of building, erecting, or constructing buildings, roads, or other resources |
Energy | The ability to do work. Energy is one of the most important resources |
Engineering | Using technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems |
Environment | The surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives. |
ergonomics | The study of workplace equipment design or how to arrange and design devices, machines, or work space so that people and thing interact safely and most efficiently. |
Industrial | Of, relating to , or resulting industry |
Innovation | An improvement of an existing technological product, or method of doing something |
Invention | A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study or experiment. |
Manufacturing | The process of making a raw material into a finished product. Normally in large quantities. |
Math | The science of patterns and order and the study of measurement, properties, and the relationship of quantities using numbers and symbols. |
Nanotechnology | The science and technology of building devices, such as electronic circuits, from a single atom |
Process | Human activities used to create, invent, transform, produce, control, maintain, and use products or systems: a sequence of actions that combine resources to produce an out come. |
Science | The study of our nature through, observation, identification, description, experiment, investigation, and theoretical explanations. |
System | A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a goal. |
Technology | The way people use resources to meet their wants and needs. |
Transportantion | The process by which passengers or goods are moved or delivered from one place to another place. |