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| Technological design | Recognizing the problem, proposing a solution, implementing the solution, evaluating the solution and communicating the problem, design and solution. |
| Technology education | The application of tools, materials, processes and systems to solve problems and extend human capabilities. |
| Theory of evolution | A theory that the various types of animals and plants have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modification in successive generations. |
| Theory | Systematically organized knowledge applicable in a relatively wide variety of circumstances; especially, a system of assumptions, accepted principles and rules of procedure devised to analyze, predict or otherwise explain the nature or behavior of a specified set of phenomena. |
| Tool | Any device used to extend human capability including computer-based tools. |
| Topographic map | A representation of a region on a sufficient scale to show detail, selected man-made and natural features of a portion of the land surface including its relief and certain physical and cultural features |
| Transportation systems | A group of related parts that function together to perform a major task in any form of transportation. |
| Transportation technology | The physical ways humans move materials, goods and people. |
| Trophic levels | The role of an organism in nutrient and energy flow within an ecosystem (e.g., herbivore, carnivore, decomposer). |
| Waste Stream | The flow of (_____) materials from generation, collection and separation to disposal |
| Watershed | The land area from which surface runoff drains into a stream, channel, lake, reservoir or other body of water; also called a drainage basin. |
| Wetlands | Lands where water saturation is the dominant factor determining the nature of the soil development and the plant and animal communities |