Global Transformation Lesson 1: Science and Technology Transform Life

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Across
  1. 2. Fertilizers and pesticides that contain dangerous chemicals can cause this disease.
  2. 4. A dense area with icy debris left from the formation of our solar system, over 4.6 billion years ago.
  3. 7. Human genetic material.
  4. 11. In April 1981 NASA launched the first space shuttle,_______, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  5. 12. Technology allows scientists to isolate and examine individual genes that are responsible for different traits.
  6. 15. An orbiting telescope that the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and ESA developed and launched in 1990.
  7. 16. A U.S. space probe that flew by Pluto and one of its moons. This was the first time that a space probe had flown by Pluto.
  8. 18. A project that came together in 1993 when the United States and Russia agreed to merge their individual space station programs.
  9. 20. To reduce the need for pesticides, pests are bred into what.
Down
  1. 1. Because it transmits information electronically to remote locations, the Internet paved the way for home offices and _____________.
  2. 3. The country that has the lowest percentage of the population that uses the internet.
  3. 5. This country merged its individual space station programs with the United States.
  4. 6. Medicine that focuses on how genetic diseases develop and progress.
  5. 8. A treaty was created to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and the technology to build nuclear weapons.
  6. 9. This country has the 2nd highest percentage of the population that uses the internet.
  7. 10. In 2004, NASA successfully landed two robotic rovers on what planet.
  8. 13. This is the creation of identical copies of DNA, the chemical chains of genes that determine heredity.
  9. 14. In 1943, the first electronic computer was built by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly as a way to calculate firing tables during World War II. These original computers took up an entire what.
  10. 17. An integrated circuit, also known as a what.
  11. 19. The internet has changed how people live, affecting not only traditional cultures but also _____________.