Student Name: Cynetria Myatt

Unit 1: Technological Inventions and Innovations

Lesson 1: Inventions and Innovations: An Evolutionary

Process
File 1.1.1: Enduring Ideas of Technology

Complete each question using your background knowledge. There is no right or

wrong response. You will be asked to share your responses with the class.

1. Can people survive without technology? Yes people can survive without
technology. I say this because before Christ there was no computers, and people
had to do things different ways.
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2. As technology advances, do people live longer or shorter lives? As technology

advances people live shorter
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3. As technology advances, does technology become more or less complex?
Technology becomes less complex because you do less work if you are working on a

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computer.
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4. As technology advances, do people become more or less specialized in the things
they do for a living? _some people become less specialized, because technology can
do anything for you. Other might come more specialized because you do need some
kind of knowledge to work things.
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7. As technology advances, do the tools and processes we use to make, build,

and do things become more efficient (become faster and require less
material, energy and fewer people)? They become faster and require less
material only if you know what you are doing. Back in the 1800s in require
more materials because they didnt have
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7. As technology advances, do the things we make, become: more reliable?

Safer? More durable? Perform better? _some of the things we make become
safer but it depends on what you are creating. The things we make become
more reliable in life, and in the future.
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7. As technology advances, does it require more or fewer science and math

applications? It require fewer math and science
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