Definitions and Terms
Design Standards and Requirements
LEED and Ethics
Structures and Transportation
Water, Energy, and Environment
100

The limits of land which the public owner of the roadway may use for locating utilities.

What is the Right of Way?

100

To produce safe drinking water and to provide aesthetically pleasing water.

What are the Goals of Water Treatment?

100

Design of infrastructure that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

What is Sustainability?

100

An alternate form of transportation that includes busses, trolleys, rail, and ferries.

What is Mass Transit?
100

Identify the outlet, the highpoints, and the saddles along the sides of the water course. Connect these instances where the boundary line crosses contour lines at a right angle. 

What is the Method to Delineate a Watershed?

200
An embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river.

What is a Levee?

or

What is a Dike?

200

An aspect of road design that is based on intended use, desired traffic volume, adjacent land use, and other factors. 

What is Design Speed?

200

Bribery, Extortion, Fraud, Collusion, and Money Laundering.

What are examples of Corruption?

200

Point where the paths of two through or turning vehicles diverge, merge, or cross.

What are Conflict Points?

200

The parameter for rate of precipitation. 

What is the Rain Intensity?

300

The pressure that soil or rock exerts in the horizontal direction.

What is Lateral Earth Pressure?

300

Indicates the likelihood of a precipitation event happening. Used as a design parameter to ensure that flood control structures can withstand an appropriate amount of rainfall.

What is a Recurrence Interval?

or 

What is a Return Period?

300

Adaptation, Professional Credentials, Project Rating Levels, MPRs, Categories, Credit Intent & Requirements.

What are components of the LEED Rating System?

300

They are used for navigation, flood control, hydroelectric power, water supply, and/or recreation.

What is the purpose of a Dam?

300

A facility that uses heat from combustion or nuclear reactions to produce steam to turn the turbines, generating electricity.

What is a Power Plant?
400

Accumulated solids collected from clarifiers and treated for disposal. 

What is Sludge?

400

This includes runways, taxiways, terminal parking, pavement design, and stormwater management plans.

What are Airport Design Elements?

400

A nonprofit organization composed of leaders from every sector of the building industry working to promote buildings and communities that are environmentally responsible, profitable, and healthy places to live and work.

What is the USGBC?

or

What is the United States Green Building Council?

400

Something that is considered when determining the speed of a road to ensure drivers are able to stop or maneuver the vehicle in a controlled manner if they see an obstacle blocking their lane. 

What is Sight Distance?
400

The total water use of a community divided by the population.

What is Per Capita Water Demand?
500

Liquid generated from decomposition of waste and from rainfall.

What is Leachate?

500

Preliminary, Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.

What are the Treatment Steps of Wastewater?

500

Competition, Pressure to Perform, Economic Dependance, and Ignorance of What Constitutes as Unethical Behavior.

What are Motivations for Unethical Behavior?

500

A costly but very effective means of 'shortcutting' transportation routes for rail or roadways.

What are Tunnels?

500

A protection plan required on all construction sites to protect the environment from polluted runoff created during construction.

What is the SW3P?

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