TED - Unit 2 EQ’s – Vocabulary
1. What is population growth?
2. What types of improvements were there in products during the Renaissance period?
3. What is the information age?
4. What are products of the information age?
5. How has the information age developed technological devices that have long lasting effects?
6. What is the Paleolithic age?
7. What was the result of the Renaissance?
8. What was the Scientific Revolution?
9. What was the Iron Age?
10. Which age was defined by the use of iron and steel?
11. What distinguishes engineering design from other forms of design?
12. How has development and widespread use of agricultural technology led to improvements?
13. What resources are shared among technologies and other fields?
14. What causes lower production costs?
15. What were the uses of water wheel powered trip hammers during the Middle Ages?
16. What subjects help in the advancement of technology?
17. What is the Bronze Age?
18. The Bronze Age is a prehistoric period that followed the Stone Age when certain weapons and tools
came to be made of bronze. The age that follows the bronze age is the Iron Age.
19. What time period falls in between the bronze age and the middle ages?
20. What is a technology transfer?
21. What types of inventions were there during the Renaissance age?
22. How was the microscope a catalyst for additional scientific discoveries?
23. Which of the following Technological devices was a catalyst for additional scientific discoveries?
24. How did the printing press benefit society?
25. What started the information age?
26. How was Neptune discovered?
27. What are advantages of steam powered ships?
28. What did the invention of telescopes, microscopes, thermometers influence?
29. What subject has a direct effect on society?
30. How does studying the history of technology help people?
31. What is the middle age?
32. What was the renaissance?
33. How did the Renaissance influence the advancement of science?
34. When did alphabet and coins come into general use?
35. When must new equations be created?
36. What does revolutionary mean?
37. What does computer technology allow the exchange of?
38. What are transistors and microprocessors?