PLTW 1.1 Key Terms Crossword

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