Types of Bridges
This is a simple bridge in which a horizontal beam is supported at each end.
What is a beam bridge?
On Earth, gravity pulls objects towards the ____________ of Earth.
center
This person is an artist who designs buildings.
What is an architect?
This is a structure carrying a road, path, railroad, or canal across a river, ravine, road, or other obstacle.
Answer will vary.
(Public transit, roads, highways, etc.)
This bridge is a simply supported by beam that carries vertical loads by bending.
What is a Truss Bridge?
Who conducted an important experiment at the Leaning Tower of Pisa to help prove that gravity is real?
Galileo
This person designs cities and towns.
What is an urban planner?
This is the basic systems and physical components that allow a country or organization to function and devleop.
What is infrastrcture?
This bridge is mainly supported by arches.
What is an arch bridge?
This is the measurement of the force of gravity between an object and the surface it stands on.
What is weight.
This person plans, designs, and oversees the construction and maintenance of public and private infrastructure projects.
What is a civil engineer?
This is the process of dividing up land into areas and establishing what each area can be used for.
What is zoning?
Aqueducts use _____________ and the natural slope of the land to transport water.
gravity
This bridge supports the weight of the deck by vertical cables suspended from larger cables that run between towers.
What is a suspension bridge?
Who discovered gravity?
(double points for full name, including title).
Sir Issac Newton
This person designs and superivce the constructure of various structures
What is the findamental property that makes all mater oppose any force that would cause a change in its motion.
What is intertia?
Fill in the blank:
You have to work around the land you have, respecting the _____________ environment.
Natural
This bridge has one or more towers form which cables support the bridge deck.
What is a cantilever bridge?
What are the three aspects of Newton's Law of Gravitation?
1. Everything is attracted to everything.
2. The smaller the mass of an object, the lower the force of gravity.
3. The smaller the distance, the greater the force of the gravity.
This person measures pieces of land to create maps and boundaries.
What is a land surveyor?
This is the art and sicence of designing structures, such as houses, churches, and bridges.
What is architecture?
Name all six simple machines we talked about.
Inclined plane, wedge, screw, level, pulley, wheel-and-axel.