PLTW 1.1 Key Terms Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. The way people use resources to meet their wants and needs.
  2. 2. The study of our natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations.
  3. 5. Of, relating to, or resulting from industry.
  4. 6. The process of making a raw material into a finished product; especially in large quantities.
  5. 8. Using technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
  6. 11. The science and technology of building devices, such as electronic circuits, from single atoms and molecules.
  7. 12. A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation.
  8. 13. A human-made object.
  9. 15. The science of patterns and order and the study of measurement, properties, and the relationships of quantities using numbers and symbols.
  10. 17. The act or process of building, erecting, or constructing buildings, roads, or other structures.
  11. 18. 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.
Down
  1. 1. The process by which passengers or goods are moved or delivered from one place to another.
  2. 3. All the technology connected with plant and animal life.
  3. 4. The surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives.
  4. 7. An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something.
  5. 9. The ability to do work. Energy is one of the basic resources used by a technological system.
  6. 10. The transmission of information through a common system of symbols, signs, behavior, speech, writing, or signals.
  7. 14. The raising of crops and animals for food, feed, fiber, fuel, or other useful products.
  8. 16. The study of workplace equipment design or how to arrange and design devices, machines, or workspace so that people and things interact safely and most efficiently.
  9. 19. A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a goal.