Edexcel GCSE Design and Technology 1.1 to 1.2 New and emerging technologies quiz quiz

Rethink

Refuse

Replace

Repair

The physical making of a finished product on a production line inside a busy factory

Recycling and reprocessing the materials in a product at the end of its life

Testing a working prototype against the points listed in the specification

Spotting a market gap and taking a financial risk to turn an idea into a product

Batch

One-off

Mass

Continuous

Only the total financial cost of making the product on the main production line

The environmental impact across the whole life, from extraction to disposal

The strength of a material under load and how much force it can take

How long a product takes to manufacture from start to finished item

Manufacturing the finished product and then shipping it out to customers worldwide

Designing the actual product for the designer and writing the full specification

Raising capital from many small backers and testing demand before manufacture

Recycling the finished product at end of life and offsetting all of its carbon

A type of recyclable polymer that is used to make the outer casings of many electronic devices

A scale of production used for making large numbers of electronic components

A method of permanently joining pieces of timber together in a workshop

A network of everyday products fitted with sensors and connectivity that collect data online

High set-up cost and the loss of low-skilled jobs

Lower consistency between the products coming off the line

A much higher number of low-skilled manual jobs being created

Slower production that is also far less reliable than manual work

An environmental perspective

An ethical perspective

A mechanical perspective

An aesthetic perspective

Increasing the overall size of the workforce on the production line

Using only renewable energy sources to power the whole factory

Making materials arrive only as needed, cutting storage and waste

Making a single bespoke item at a time for each individual customer

Reuse reprocesses the material into a new product; recycle keeps the item exactly as it is

They mean exactly the same thing and the two terms can be swapped freely

Reuse only ever applies to metals, while recycle only ever applies to polymers and other plastics

Reuse keeps the item in its existing form; recycle reprocesses the material into something new

Weighing advantages against disadvantages for the context and reaching a justified conclusion

Listing only the advantages of the technology in detail, with none of the drawbacks mentioned at all

Giving a short one-line definition of the technology and then stopping there

Drawing a single labelled diagram of the technology with no written argument