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Post Test - Intro to Tech

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Technology   The use of accumulated knowledge to process resources to meet human needs and wants.  
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Technological System   An orderly way of achieving a goal; designed to produce a desired result.  
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Invention   The process of designing new products.  
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Computer Aided Drafting   The process of using a computer to create a drafted documents.  
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World Wide Web   A system of informational pages linked together located on computers around the world.  
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Modem   An electronic device that sends and receives information over the telephone lines or cable.  
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Search Engines   Programs or Web sites that enable users to search for information on the internet.  
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Maglev Train   High-speed ground transportation vehicles which are suspended, guided, and propelled along a special guideway by magnetic forces.  
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Photovoltaic Cell   Absorbs sunlight and converts the Sun's radiation into electricity or heat.  
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Human Factors Engineering   The application of knowledge relating top people and thier actions and environments; improving the link between humans, machines, devices, and products.  
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What are advantages of email over snail mail?   Speed, custom distribution, storage, privacy  
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Design   Gather information, develop alternative solutions, select the best solution, implement the solution, evaluate the solution  
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Name the components of a technological system?   input, process, output, feedback  
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resources   All the things you need to produce a product, provide a service, or solve a problem  
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Internet   Links together thousands of computer networks around the world that can all communicate with each other  
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links   when clicked take you to other web pages  
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ergonomics   The study of designing equipment and devices that fit the human body, its movement, and its thinking patterns  
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inexhaustible energy   unlimited energy supplies that cannot be used up, such as energy of the Sun, wind, and water.  
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Three primary functions basic to magnetic levitation technology.   levitation, propulsion, guidance  
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