1. Transportation TechnologyPart 1 8th Grade Technology

2. What is transportation technology Transportation Technology refers to the systems that we use to … Move people and/or freight from one location to another.

3. Examples What are some examples of transportation systems?

4. Transportation Environments When talking about transportation, the term environment refers to “where” the vehicle travels. There are four environments of transportation.

5. Environments Land Air Water Space

6. Land Transportation There are two categories of land transportation. Stationary Vehicular

7. Land Transportation Cont. Stationary refers to systems that have a permanently set path. Vehicular refers to systems that have a random or changing path.

8. Air Tranportation There are two categories of air transportation systems. Lighter-than-air Heavier-than-air

9. Air Transportation CONT. Lighter-than-air refers to a vehicle that use a “lighter-than-air” gas to stay in the air. Heavier-than-air refers to a vehicle that must create “lift” to stay in the air.

10. Water Transportation There are two categories of water transportation systems. Inland Oceanic

11. Water Transportation Cont. Inland refers to vehicles that are designed to travel on smaller bodies of water like rivers and lakes. Oceanic refers to vehicles that are designed to withstand that forces of the ocean.

12. Space Transportation There are two categories of space vehicles. Staffed Unstaffed

13. Space transportation cont. “Staffed” refers to vehicles are a designed to carry people. “Unstaffed” refers to vehicles that are not designed to carry people.

14. Your Assignment Create a chart like you see below and list the assigned number of examples of each category.