Simple Machines
The six simple machines.
What is a lever, screw, wedge, inclined plane, wheel and axle, and pulley
The simplest type of bridge.
What is a beam bridge?
A catapult and trebuchet accomplish the same task but work differently.
What is true?
Type of engineer designs medical equipment.
What is a Biomedical Engineer?
Reason for the Leaning Tower of Pisa to lean.
What is not a strong and solid foundation?
The main parts of the lever.
What are the fulcrum, load, and effort?
Type of bridge that uses a triangle-shaped framework for support.
What is a truss bridge?
A trebuchet uses tension and torsion.
What is False?
An engineer that designs a bicycle.
What is a mechanical engineer?
Describe a bungalow.
What is a one-room story house?
Simple Machines that fall under the inclined plane.
What are a wedge and a srew?
Give an example of a suspension bridge.
Possible Answer:
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
Explain tension and torsion.
Tension is the bending of an object and Torsion is the twisting of an object.
An engineer that designs roller-coasters.
What is a structural engineer?
Describe the word retrofit.
What is to modify something that we had already built?
Toothed wheel and axle.
What is a gear?
Name all the types of loads on a bridge.
What is a Live Load, Dead Load, Environmental Load, Point Load, Distribution Load, Shock loads, Working load, and Static Load
The two types of catapults.
Mangonel and Ballista
An engineer that is responsible for designing things that help the earth.
What is an environmental engineer?
A condominium.
What is one unit in a multiple unit dwelling?
Class of lever that has the load in between the effort and the fulcrum
What is a Second Class Lever?
Describe a pony truss bridge.
A pony truss is a truss bridge which allows traffic through the truss, but the top of the bridge is not joined together with cross braces.
Describe a Mangonel and a Ballista.
Mangonel - What is a bowl-shaped object attached to the effort arm?
Ballista - What is similar to a bow and arrow?
The engineer that makes gum.
What is a Chemical Engineer?
Reason for the Eiffel Tower being built.
For the entrance to the World Fair