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STEM
vocab card #1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 of symbols, signs, behavior, speech, writing or signals |
| Construction | the act or process of building, erecting or constructing building, roads or other structures |
| Energy | The ability to do work energy id one of the basic resources used by a technological system |
| Engineering | using technology 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 workplace so that people and things interact safely and most effeciant |
| Industrial | Of, relating to, resulting from industry. |
| Innovation | An improvement of an existing technological product, system or method of doing something |
| Invention | A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study, and expirimentation |
| Manufacturing | the process of making raw material into a finished product especially in large quantities |
| Math | The science of patterns and order and study of measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities |
| nanotechnology | The science and technology of building devices such as electronic circuits from single atoms and molecules. |
| process | Human activities used to create, invent, design, transform, produce, maintain, and use products or systems; a sequence of actions that combines resources to produce an out put |
| Science | The study of our natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental, investigation, and theoretical explinations |
| Systems | A group of interrelated or independent 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 |
| Transportation | The process by which passengers or goods are moved or delivered from one place to another |