Bridges
(Picture) The name of this bridge.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
This is a pushing force.
What is compression?
This is a very heavy type of iron, it can help hold up parts of buildings.
What is wrought iron?
The name of a hummingbird's structure
What is nest?
This is considered the strongest shape in building.
What is a triangle?
(Look at the picture). The name of this type of bridge.
What is a truss bridge?
This is a pulling force.
What is tension?
A light and strong material made from combining iron and carbon.
What is steel?
This is the name of a beaver's structure (NOT a dam).
What is a lodge?
A type of structure that has no gaps or holes in all of the building materials. (e.g. a lego tower).
What is a solid structure?
The Golden Gate Bridge is this type of bridge.
What is a suspension bridge?
This is a twisting force.
What is torsion?
The name of the room where we did our lessons at the building museum.
What is the Great Hall?
Body parts that prairie dogs dig with.
What are paws and noses?
(Look at the picture) The name of this type of structure.
What is post and lintel?
This bridge has a flat road with posts or beams holding it up. It is one of the less safe types of bridges.
What is a beam bridge?
This is a force that is a permanent part of a structure.
What is a dead load?
This is a material that looks good but is not very strong
What is marble?
The type of bird that inspired the nose of the bullet train in Japan.
What is a kingfisher?
An example of a shell structure that is also a food.
What is an egg/eggshell?
(Look at the picture) The name of this type of bridge.
What is cable-stay bridge?
This is a force on a structure that changes over time.
What is a live load?
The type of building that was in the middle of the lego exhibit at the building museum, and was the biggest lego structure.
What is a train station?
What prairie dogs do if a predator, such as a snake, comes into their burrow.
What is build a wall/trap the snake inside?
The scientific term for when engineering copies nature.
What is biomimicry?