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MATERIALS USED IN TECHNOLOGY
Technologies are simply the ways things are done with different materials. Technology materials are used in different forms due to their products and properties like plastic or rubber, wood, glass and metals, they are made from.
Thus these materials are used in making or producing any technology products.
Technology can never be possible without the materials resources that produced them.
A material is the substance from which a thing can be made.
Uses of materials
Materials have different properties that make them useful for different jobs.
- They can be strong. Hence can be hammered into different metallic sheet
- Material like wood and metal are used to produced instruments like cutlass, hoe, rakes and many more
- They can used as heat insulator
- Some material resources are used to make clothes
EVALUATION
- What is technology?
- List two uses of materials
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