Vocabulary
Types of Bridges
Parts of a Bridge
Name that Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge
100
A bridge is a structure built for this purpose.
What is helping people cross over something?
100
Even Ronald McDonald would tell you that this bridge type is supported by semi-circles.
What is a Roman arch bridge?
100
If you don't know that this is the part of the bridge that people walk on or vehicles drive on, you might not be playing with a full one.
What is the deck? (Or roadway)
100
This is the name of this longest bridge in New York.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
100
Never forget that P.T. Barnum famously reassured New Yorkers that the Brooklyn Bridge would be safe by marching 21 of these creatures across.
What are elephants?
200
This is a line that connects back to itself.
What is a Shape?
200
This type of bridge, known for the long length of its spans, is named after the way the deck is held up.
What is a suspension bridge?
200
This wedge-shaped stone is the last piece added during construction of a Roman arch bridge, it locks the bridge together and carries the load.
What is the keystone?
200
This is the name of this Roman arch bridge that lets pedestrians and cyclists get from Manhattan to the Bronx.
What is the High Bridge?
200
The Brooklyn Bridge connects Brooklyn to this other borough.
What is Manhattan?
300
A push or a pull on an object
What is force?
300
This type of bridge rotates the middle of the deck to let ships pass between its towers.
What is a swing bridge?
300
These structures in a suspension bridge are the tallest parts of the bridge.
What are the towers?
300
This is the name of this vertical lift bridge.
What is the Roosevelt Island Bridge?
300
The Brooklyn Bridge is a cross between a suspension bridge and a cable-stayed bridge, and it is known as this type of bridge.
What is a hybrid bridge?
400
This is the pushing force.
What is compression?
400
Any artist worth their salt would tell you that this type of bridge pulls apart in the middle to let ships pass.
What is a draw bridge?
400
These TWO PARTS of the bridge are both made up of hundreds of individual braided steel wires and work together to hold up the deck of a suspension bridge.
What are the main cables and the suspension cables?
400
This is the name of this truss arch bridge.
What is the Hell Gate Bridge?
400
The Brooklyn Bridge is built across this New York river, a great place to watch the sun rise.
What is the East River?
500
This is the pulling force.
What is tension?
500
You can believe me when I tell you that this type of bridge is made up of repeating triangle shapes that reinforce each other.
What is a truss bridge?
500
In this diagram of a truss bridge, the bottom chord is under this force.
What is Tension?
500
This is the name of this suspension bridge that connects Staten Island to Brooklyn.
What is the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge?
500
Three members of this family--John, Washington, and Emily--were all responsible for the building of this amazing bridge.
Who are the Roeblings?