Aerospace Engineering
This airplane part is the “tube” that holds passengers and cargo and connects the wings and tail.
What is the fuselage?
What is the calculation for force?
This term refers to water that is safe for human consumption.
What is potable water?
This is the push or pull of an object.
What is force?
This is the largest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This forward-acting force, usually created by engines or propellers, pushes an aircraft through the air.
What is thrust?
When two or more simple machines are combined into one device, like a wheelbarrow or can opener, the result is called this.
What is a compound machine?
These parts of community are often grouped together and call infrastructure.
What are roads, bridges, and water systems?
A workshop is 12 ft by 9 ft in real life. You are making a floor plan where 1 in on paper = 1 yd in real life. How long should your lines on the paper be?
4in x 3 in
He was the first human to set foot on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
These small hinged surfaces on the wings move opposite each other to roll the aircraft left or right.
What are ailerons?
This simple machine uses a rigid bar and a pivot point called a fulcrum to multiply force.
What is a lever?
UV light kills these kinds of contaminants during water treatment.
What is biological contaminants?
On an engineering team, this person focuses on finding potential dangers and making sure the design meets safety rules and standards.
Who is the safety engineer?
This famous orator wrote the play Hamlet.
Who is William Shakespeare
This word describes the up-and-down tilting motion of the airplane’s nose, controlled mainly by the elevators.
What is pitch?
This quantity, measured in watts, tells how quickly work is done over time.
What is power?
This is the process of adding chemicals or electricity to wastewater in order to clump particles together.
What is coagulation?
A driver travels 90 miles in 1.5 hours. This is the driver’s average speed for the trip.
What is 60 miles per hour?
This hall of fame athlete played in both the World Series and the Super Bowl.
Who is Deion Sanders?
These devices on the trailing edge of the wings extend downward to increase lift and drag so a plane can safely fly slower during takeoff and landing.
What are flaps?
This quantity, measured in joules, is equal to a force multiplied by the distance over which it acts.
What is work?
This tool removes large solid waste in the wastewater treatment plant.
What is the bar screen?
This type of drawing shows an object from several flat directions, usually front, top, and side views, so builders can see its true shape and dimensions without perspective distortion.
What is an orthographic drawing?
This Florida city was the departure point of the world’s first commercial airline flight on January 1st, 1914, piloted by Tony Jannus in a Benoist XIV.
What is St. Petersburg, Florida?