Engineering
An alloy of iron and carbon which was the precursor to many engineering projects
What is steel?
Someone activates the emergency beacon manually.
Rewrite using the passive tense.
The emergency beacon is activated manually.
The beacon sent a signal to the satellite
Transmitted
You fill me with water then switch me on and wait for me to boil.
What is a kettle?
To drive or push something forward
What is propel?
This two-part machine made human transport possible
What is a wheel and axel used for ?
The helicopter winches the sailors out of the life raft.
Rewrite using the passive tense.
The sailors are winched out of the life raft by the helicopter.
The ground station changed the signals into data
converted
It's composed of radio beacons, satellites, ground stations, national centres and rescue teams.
What is the Cospas-Sarsat system?
make sure that something will happen or be the case.
E.g. the client must make sure that records are kept.
What is ensure?
The force preventing objects continuing to move forever when pushed.
What is friction?
Signals are transmitted to the satellite which/who/where then sends the signals to earth.
Choose correct answer.
Signals are transmitted to the satellite which then sends the signals to earth.
The beacon activates itself.
The beacon switches itself on.
This piece pushes the pellets along the cylinder.
See page 12 in course book.
What does the rotating screw do?
They are the measurements of height, width, weight and length of an object.
What do these questions give:
how high?
how wide?
how heavy?
How long?
This piece of playground equipment consists of a long, narrow board with a pivot point in the middle - as one side goes up, the other side goes down. It is an example of a simple machine.
What is a lever?
The boat was found 120km from the coast.
What is the question?
How many kilometres from the coast was the boat?
Where was the boat found?
Tear off the price label from the new article of clothing before you wear it.
Remove.
People in this profession design, evaluate, develop, test, modify, install, inspect and maintain a wide variety of products and systems.
What does an Engineer do?
For example: the movement of magma onto the surface of the earth through volcano craters and cracks in the earth's crust, forming igneous rock.
Hint: squeezing out.
What is extrusion?
a rotating machine part having cut projections called teeth which mesh with another toothed part to transmit power or force.
What is a gear?
Car manufacturers will probably make a plastic fuselage for cars before 2035.
They will probably not do it sooner.
Rewrite using 'likely' and 'unlikely'.
it is likely that car manufacturers will make a plastic fuselage for cars before 2035.
It is unlikely that they will do it sooner.
Deflate the tyre before it is removed from the bike.
Let/empty all the air out.
How is a hollow shape formed?
see page 14 in course book.
By the method of blow-moulding and extrusion.
This material has been heated to a very high temperature and has become a hot thick liquid. It can then be poured into a mould.
What is molten metal?