PLTW 1.1 Key Terms Crossword

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