| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Biotechnology | All of technology connected with plants, animals and human life. Examples: medical technologies like X-ray machines and NMR machines and genetic engineering |
| Communication | the process of sending and receiving messages |
| Communication technology | all the ways people have developed to send and receive messages |
| Construction | the process of building structures such as houses, highways and dams |
| Construction technology | all the technology used in designing and building structures |
| Environment | All the conditions that surround a person, animal or plant and affect development and growth |
| Manufacturing | The process of making products |
| Manufacturing technology | All the technologies people use to make the things they want and need |
| Technology | The way people use resources to meet their wants and needs |
| Transportation | the movement of people, animals or things from one place to another using vehicles |
| Transportation technology | includes all the means we use to help us move ourselves or cargo through the air, in water or over land |
| Brainstorming | Problem solving process in which a group of people tries to think of as many possible solutions to the problem as they can without stopping to evaluate the suggestions |
| Capital | includes the money, land and equipment needed to set up a technological system |
| Energy | the ability to do work |
| Feedback | The information about the outputs of the system that is sent back to the system to help determine whether the system is doing what it is supposed to do |
| Fossil fuels | Fuels that were formed from decaying plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. Coal, petroleum, and natural gas are fossil fuels |
| Input | Anything that is put into the system. Input comes from the system's seven resources: people, information, materials, tools and machines, energy, capital and time |
| Nonrenewable energy resources | sources of energy that cannot be quickly renewed or replenished. Fossil fues, such as coal and petroleum, and nuclear energy are nonrenewable energy resources |
| Output | Includes everything that |
| problem solving | a multi-step process used to develop workable solutions to problems |
| Process | All the activities that need to take place for a system to give the expected result |
| Renewable energy sources | sources of energy that can replenish (restore) themselves regularly. Examples include sun, wind, water, wood, humans and animals |
| Resource | Anything that provides support or supplies for the system |
| Simulation | Involves using a computer or equipment to imitate as closely as possible the real-life circumstances for which a solution or product is designed to be used |
| System | A group of parts that work together to achieve a goal |
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