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STEM Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | the raising of crops and animals for food, feed, fiber, 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 |
| Constructed | the act or process of building erecting, or constructing buildings, roads, or other structures |
| Energy | the ability to do work. ______ is one of the basic resources used by a technological system |
| engineering | using technological 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 things interact safely and most efficiently |
| industrial | of relating to, or 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 experimentation |
| manufacturing | the process of making a raw material into a finished product, especially 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 building devices, such as electronic circuits, from the single atoms and molecules. |
| process | human activities used to create, invent, design, transform, produce, control, maintain, and use products or systems; a sequence of actions that combines resources to produce an output |
| science | the study of out natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explainations |
| system | a group of 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 |
| transportation | the process by which passengers or goods are moved or delivered from one place to another |