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Grade 7 Ch P3 Vocab
Nature of Science and Technology Book P Ch 3
Question | Answer |
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Constraint | any factor that limits or restricts a design |
Engineer | a person who is trained to use both technological and scientific knowledge to solve a problem |
Feedback | the information a technological system uses to monitor the input, process, and output so that the system can adjust itself to meet the goal |
Goal | the overall purpose of a technological system |
input | something that is put into a technological system in order to achieve a goal |
Obsolete | no longer in use |
Output | The result or product from the operation of a technological system |
Patent | a legal document issued by a government that gives an inventor exclusive rights to make, use, or sell an invention for a limited time. |
Prototypes | a working model used to test a design |
Risk-benefit analysis | The process of evaluating the possible problems of a technology compared to the expected advantages |
Technology | how people modify the world around them to meet their needs or to solve practical problems |
trade-off | an exchange in which one benefit is given up in order to obtain another |
Trouble shooting | the process of analyzing a design problem and finding a way to fix it |