Unit 1 Vocab
Across
- 2. This includes systems that are used to maintain health and treat injuries and illness. The ¨Product¨ of the system is people and animals they have good health and fitness
- 4. Physical systems consisting of five essential, irrelated elements: inputs, processes, outputs, feedback, and goals
- 5. Areas of technology that are undergoing continuing change.
- 6. The results of a process Outputs may be desired or undesired.
- 9. This uncluedes systems that transform materials into products in a central location. The Products are then transported through a distribution system to the ultimate consumer.
- 10. One designed to meet the needs of an individual
- 11. The resources needed to make a product. These inputs may be grouped into seven main classes: natural resources, human resources, capital, knowledge, finances, time, and energy.
- 15. The study of the laws and principles that govern the physical universe.
- 16. This includes systems that construct residential, commercial, and industrial buildings and civil structures, The structures are produced on the site where they are to be used.
- 17. The capacity for doing work. It is a necessary input in all technological systems.
- 18. The meeting of human needs and wants as they relate to this specific system
- 19. Information that a system uses to control itself. By measuring an output, the system gains information needed to take corrective action.
- 21. Design to transform resources into outputs for a large number of people.
- 22. The meeting of the broad needs and wants of human society
- 23. The use of technological systems to grow genetic resources or employ living organisms to reach specific goals.
Down
- 1. The study of areas of philosophy that relate to human concerns. Studying the humanities helps people develop personal priorities.
- 3. This includes systems that produce outputs by growing plants and animals. The outputs may be food or fiber.
- 7. Processes that are used to assure the efficient and appropriate use of resources.
- 8. This includes systems that communicate information and ideas using technical means. The product is often a media message designed to reach a mass audience.
- 12. Process that change resource into outputs, such as products
- 13. The study of of how human develop and use items to change or control the world around them
- 14. The area of human knowledge that includes language and mathematics. It is the basis for communication.
- 20. The plant and equipment used to produce products.