Savvas 5th Grade-Chapter 2 Design and Process Test Modified

Last updated over 2 years ago
22 questions
You may use your book and notes to help you on this test
1

Which of the following is the best description of technology?

1

In the design process, which step happens next after developing possible solutions?

1

Computers were made smaller and more affordable by which of the following?

1

What kind of reference materials do product designers use?

1

What part of the human body does a robotic arm mimic?

1

In what way are robots like humans?

1

Technology has improved lives but also caused problems at the same time.

1

The skeletal system is not the body structure that includes the bones connected by joints.

1

A modern prosthetic leg can mimic the actions of a real leg.

1

A microchip lets computers process information very quickly.

1

Scientists use robotic animals to study the behavior of real animals.

1

Early computers were so large that most of them filled entire rooms and weighed thousands of pounds.

1

In the design process, a version of the solution to the problem identified is called a prototype.

1

The four steps a computer use are input, processing, output, and feedback.

0

What is the name of an artificial hand, leg, arm, or foot that replaces a missing hand, leg, arm, or foot ?

1

Name the the body system that uses energy from food to move the body.

1

What is a computer-based network of information sources called?

2

Tell me how today’s prosthetic hands are more useful than past prosthetic hands.

2

Technology has contributed to the scientific knowledge of medicine. Since the late 1800's there have many advances in medical technology. Tell me two of those medical advances.

1

Name the technology scientists hope to use to build tiny robots that can perform all kinds of tasks.

1

The ______________ is a set of steps for developing products and processes that solve problems.

3

Name 3 steps in the design process.