This 2-part simple machine made human transfer possible
What are a wheel and axle?
Thanks to chemical engineers you can drink your recommended 8 glasses per day of this liquid
What is water?
A household item that uses electrical energy
What is a(n)_____________?
This concrete arch-gravity dam is in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River at the boundaries of Arizona and Nevada.
What is Hoover Dam?
This alloy of iron and carbon was the precursor to many later mechanical engineering marvels
What is steel?
This non-Newtonian fluid is best known for its pairing with french fries
What is ketchup?
The ability to do work such as ride your bike, bake cookies and play sports
What is energy?
A pulling force that acts to lengthen an object
What is tension?
This favorite playground ride is an example of this simple machine
What is a lever?
The majority of this synthetic product was made for packing materials such as bubble wrap, packing peanuts and water bottles.
What is plastic?
This "color" energy is produced with little-to-no environmental impact and does not dispense greenhouse gases into the air
What is green?
3 types of infrastructure in your city
What (are) roads, railways, bridges, tunnels, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, and telecommunications
This ingenious device converts wind power into useful mechanical work.
What is a windmill?
BONUS: What kind of energy do the new wind turbines produce?
The combination of substances can lead to these two types of changes
What are a chemical change and a physical change?
Copper, lithium, zinc and nickel are common metals in this "Energizing" energy source
What is a battery?
These two materials are optimal materials for building bridges
What are steel and concrete?
This simple machine enables us to raise the flag up a pole
What is a pulley? (fixed)
These 2 biochemical engineering innovations have changed the medical quality of life worldwide
What are vaccines and antibiotics
Any material can conduct an electric current but these materials do not allow a current to flow very easily
What is an insulator?
A type of bridge in which the weight of the deck is supported by vertical cables suspended from larger cables that run between towers and are anchored in abutments at each end
What is a suspension bridge?
His was the first printing device to mechanize the process of applying text and images to paper "en masse"
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
BONUS: This book was the first major book mass-produced on the printing press
The 3 states of matter
What are liquid, solid and gas?
A complete path of electrical energy
What is a circuit?
This U.S. State is home to Kingda Ka, the world's tallest roller coaster
What is (Jackson) New Jersey?
This simple machine causes this classic Disneyland ride to spin
What are gears?
The measure of a substance's ability to dissolve in liquid, especially water
What is solubility?
This lighting product produces light up to 90% more efficiently than incandescent light bulbs
What is LED?
What is water?
BONUS! The weight of 1 cubic foot of water
The "Father of Mechanical Engineering"
Who is James Watt?
This machine converts the target object into vapors in an oven and then analyzes the chemical makeup of those vapors and converts them to flavor markers
What is a chromatograph?
Three ways energy can be transferred
What are through light, sound and heat?
Unaligned force that pushed one part of a body in one specific direction, and another part of the body in the opposite direction
What is a shear force?
The world's first rotating steam engine
What is the aeolipile?
The primary ingredient in plastics
What are polymers?
A "misnomer", this device concerts one type of energy to another
What is a generator?
Prior to the 18th century, the term "civil engineer" was synonymous with this profession
What is an architect?