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- Technology
- Geography
- Poetry
- Dance
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Correct answer: A. Technology
Technology means using knowledge to reach practical goals, such as making useful tools.
Olympiad (Class 4) Technology — practice questions
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Using knowledge to make tools that solve daily problems is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is the earliest known technology?Read the answer and worked solution →Early people cooked food over fire. How did cooking help them?Read the answer and worked solution →Early people wore animal fur and hides. What did this help them do?Read the answer and worked solution →Which invention made it easy to carry heavy loads in carts?Read the answer and worked solution →Which early invention used the power of wind to move on water?Read the answer and worked solution →Ancient Egyptians used the yearly flooding of the Nile mainly to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →Ancient Sumerians dug canals to bring water to fields from which rivers?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the long aqueducts of ancient Rome carry across long distances?Read the answer and worked solution →The ancient Sumerians used a potter's wheel. What did it help make?Read the answer and worked solution →Which tool was made by joining simple machines like the lever and pulley?Read the answer and worked solution →The discovery of steam power in the 18th century started which big change?Read the answer and worked solution →Which invention helped spread books and knowledge to many people?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these gives light in a dark room using electricity?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair of inventions helps people talk to others far away?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair is a clean source of energy that does not burn fuel?Read the answer and worked solution →A machine now does a job that workers once did by hand. This is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →A chimpanzee pushes a thin vine into a termite nest to pull out food. What is it doing?Read the answer and worked solution →Besides chimpanzees, which bird is known to use tools?Read the answer and worked solution →A simple machine can change the direction or size of what?Read the answer and worked solution →How many classical simple machines are there?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is NOT a simple machine?Read the answer and worked solution →A sloping ramp helps workers push a box up into a truck. The ramp is which simple machine?Read the answer and worked solution →A bicycle has wheels, levers and pulleys. What kind of machine is it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Greek thinker studied the lever, pulley and screw around the 3rd century BC?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Italian scientist worked out the full theory of simple machines in 1600?Read the answer and worked solution →Archimedes found the rule of mechanical advantage in which simple machine?Read the answer and worked solution →A child uses a long lever to lift a heavy rock. What does the lever do to the push?Read the answer and worked solution →A lever lets you lift a heavy load with a small push. What do you give up?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a scientific invention that protects people from disease?Read the answer and worked solution →
Worked practice questions
Which of these is the earliest known technology?
- Telephone
- Airplane
- Stone tool
- Computer
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Correct answer: C. Stone tool
People made stone tools in prehistory, long before any machine existed.
Early people cooked food over fire. How did cooking help them?
- Food became harder to chew
- Food became easier to digest
- Food became colder to eat
- Food became heavy to carry
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Correct answer: B. Food became easier to digest
Cooking breaks food down, so the body can digest it more easily.
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