SUMMER HOMEWORK OF TECHNOLOGY, PROGRAMMING AND ROBOTICS
Here you have all the exams' questions of this year. During the summer study the units we have work
on in classroom and practice with these exercises. September's exam questions would be similar to these. For
the last unit of Programming with Scratch, you should be able to know how some basic programs work,
being able to explain some blocks and commands.
1. Fill the gaps:
Technology is the practical application of ____________
and __________ to create an object or a
____________ _________ that allows human beings to satisfy their _________ or ___________ .
2. Which are the factors involved in the technological process?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
3. Order the stages of the technological process (just copy the letters on the right table, DO NOT DRAW
LINES).
A Making a production estimate
1
B Collecting information and analysing previous cases
2
C Writing a building report
3
D Approach and analysis of needs
4
E Coming together and choosing the best solution
5
F Planning group work
6
G Building and testing
7
H Designing the individual idea
8
I Evaluating and checking
9
J Developing solutions
10
4. Explain the meaning of F.A.C.E. value. In which stage of the technological process can we use that?
5. What needs satisfy the next objects?
Umbrella
Ship
Telephone
Money
Tablet
6. Use the following data to draw up the production budget for a paper tower and fill in the table below.
Material necessary: 40 used sheets of paper, half a stick of glue, 80cm of sellotape, and a piece of corrugated
cardboard 20cm x 20cm.
Price: €0.01/5 sheets, €1/stick of glue, €0.02/dm sellotape, and €0.05/dm 2 cardboard.
N.
QUANTITY
MATERIAL
UNIT PRICE
TOTAL PRICE
TOTAL
7. The different types of drawings we should use to develop solutions are:
Ov_________
Pl_____, s________ view, e_______
De__________ and j______
Br_____________
8. Choose an everyday object (a pair of scissors or a pencil sharpener) and make drawings of it using two of
the four drawing types of the previous question.
9. Do you remember at least three of the six “R” to protect the environment?
10. Complete the text below with these words: stage, labour, costs, complete, process.
In the _____________ sheet you need to calculate the total time needed to
___________ a project. You must estimate the time needed for each ___________ in
the process.
This information is useful to estimate the ___________ cost which you must include in
the total estimate of ___________ for the project.
11. Draw two parallel lines and two perpendicular lines to the lines given.
12. Draw a picture of the triangle and the set square with their angles.
13. What is a scale for? Which types of scales do you know? Give an example of each one.
14. We use the A4 sheets of paper for our drawings (297mm x 210mm). If I needed a bigger sheet,
which one should I choose?
a. The A3
b. The A5
c. No one of both
What are the exact measurements of the sheet of paper?
15. Write the name of the main views of an object and put them at the right place.
16. In a drawing made with 1:50 scale, what will be the drawing measurement of a 150cm real
segment?
17. A sketch:
- is made with drawing tools.
- is freehand
- it doesn't matter how it is made.
18. Draw the views of the next object:
19. To measure angles we use:
- Protractor
- Goniometer.
- Both answers are correct.
20. Put the next pencils in order from the softest to the hardest: 4B, 2H, 5H, HB, 6B, 3H, 2B
21. Draw the sketch and the diagram of a pen.
22. On an A4 page (297mm x 210mm), what scale would we use to represent a classroom of 8
meters length?
23. Write the name of the annotation elements. (0.5 points)
24. Annotate the next figure made using a 1:3 scale.
25. Classify the following raw materials according to their origin:
iron ore, cork, sand, wool, cotton, clay, silk, linen, marble, hides
26. Hardness is:
- the ability of a material not to break when is hit by something.
- the resistance of a material to scratching.
- the capacity of a material to transfer heat.
27. Classify the following terms according to whether they are raw materials, processed materials or
finished products:
chair, natural gas, tree trunk, sheets of wood, copper ore, cellophane, porcelain, notebook
28. A material is malleable when:
- goes back to the original shape when a force is applied to it.
- can be made into sheets.
- can be made into threads.
29. The capacity of a material to bear external forces without breaking is called ________________
___________________ .
Two examples of materials with this property are ____________ and ________________.
30. Thermal conductors are:
- those materials which don't transfer heat properly.
- those materials which go from solid to liquid when the temperature increases.
- metals, for example.
31. Those metals which contain iron are called:
- Fibreboard
- Ferrous
- Non-ferrous
32. Match each engineered wood with its definition:
Is made by mixing shavings and wood chips
Fibreboard
and then gluing them together by compression
Is made by gluing together thin sheets with
synthetic resins.
Chipboard
Is made by grinding chips to small wooden
fibres which are compressed and joined
together with adhesive to make boards
33. Some materials come from renewable raw materials like:
- Wood
- Petrol
- Carbon
- Metals
34. If a material is capable to be deformed permanently, we say it has a great:
- Malleability
- Ductility
- Elasticity
- Plasticity
35. Match each material with the group it belongs to:
Material
Plywood
Group
PVC
Wood
Marble
Metal
Porcelain
Silk
Plywood
Brass
Plastic
Ceramics
Textiles
Stone and glass
36. When a material can bear a hit without breaking, we say that is:
- Hard
- Plastic
- Tough
- Fragile
37. One example of material with the properties of electrical conductivity and oxidation is
____________ .
38. Explain the meaning of the next terms:
- Toxic
- Recyclable
- Biodegradable
39. Write the name and the use of the next tools:
40. Draw the symbols of the next components:
switch
bulb
motor
battery
resistor
3-way switch
fuse
push button
41. Define the electric current and explain the difference between an insulator and a conductor.
42. Complete these sentences with the most suitable word.
-_________ (electrons/protons) have negative charge and protons have __________
(positive/negative) charge.
- A _________ (stable/charged) atom has the same number of electrons and protons.
- If an atom has a higher number of electrons than of protons it is_________ (positively/negatively)
charged.
- If an atom has a lower number of electrons than of protons it is_________ (positively/negatively)
charged.
- If an atom is stable it _______ (has/does not have) charge.
43. The basic elements of an electric circuit are:
- __________________: it produces the energy necessary for electrons to move. An example is:__________
- Conductors: ____________________________________________________. An example is: __________
- _________________ : these components transform the electrical energy that they receive into another type
of useful energy. An example is : _______________
44. Draw the diagram of the following circuit. In which direction is the “conventional current” flowing?
What is the real movement of the electrons?
45. Give two examples of machines or devices that use electricity to obtain the next effects:
Heat: _________________________________________________________________________
Light: _________________________________________________________________________
Motion: ________________________________________________________________________
46. Complete this table of the basic electric quantities:
QUANTITY
SYMBOL
UNIT
SYMBOL OF THE
UNIT
47. Write down the triangle of Ohm's law and use that to solve the next problem. We have a circuit with a
battery of 4.5V, and the current through it is of 0.5A. Calculate the resistance.
48. Make a series circuit and a parallel circuit with one battery, one switch, wires and three bulbs.
If one of the bulbs blows, will the other bulbs in series circuit still work?______________
And in the parallel circuit? ___________________
Imagine the path of an electron going from one end of the circuit to the other.
How many paths are there in the series circuit? ___________________
And in the parallel circuit? _________________
49. Say what will happen in this circuit if:
a) The motor burns out.
b) Bulb 1 blows.
c) Bulb 2 blows.
d) You turn on/off switch 1.
e) You turn on/off switch 2
50. The language or code used by computers to store information is called __________ __________ . It uses
only _________ digits, _____ and ______ .
51. How many bits are 2 bytes? How many KB are 2 TB? How many bytes are 5MB?
52. When you work with a computer you have to follow three basic steps. Write them down.
53. What type of storage devices are flash memory, DVD and hard drive?
54. Write down the definition of hardware and software.
55. Explain what are peripheral devices ans give three examples of peripheral input devices and three of
peripheral output devices.
56. Answer the next questions:
a) What is the storage capacity of a DVD?
b) And of a CD?
c) If the storage capacity of a Blue-Ray disc is 25GB, how many CDs can be stored in that type of disc?
d) If one song takes 3MB, how many songs can you store in a CD?
57. Explain what is ROM memory and RAM memory.
58. Write down the name of three different operating systems.
59. Software can be classified into two types of program, write their names and explain the difference
between them.