Water
This method calculates the runoff given the intensity, area, and runoff coefficient
What is Rational?
This is the weight of all permanent objects in a structure.
What is dead load?
A length of 100 feet is called this in route surveying.
What is a station?
This occurs when vibrations or water pressure within a mass of soil cause the particles to lose contact with one another.
What is liquefaction?
This shortcut made it possible for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in half the time previously required.
What is the Panama Canal?
This percentage of the earth’s surface is covered with water (within 2%).
What is 71%?
This is the term for the bridge ends.
What are abutments?
This is the time during which no vehicles are able to pass through an intersection despite the signal displaying a green indication.
What is lost time?
These are caused by a chemical reaction between acidic groundwater and calcium carbonate bedrock.
What are sinkholes?
This is a structure that protects Southern California and Arizona from disastrous floods
What is the Hoover Dam?
This creates faster concrete curing.
What are additives?
Buses and trains are a type of this.
What is mass transit?
A bulk sample of soil consists of these three components.
What are solids, water, and air?
This shortcut made it possible for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in half the time previously required.
What is the Panama Canal?
These are places where water from aquifers naturally percolate up to the ground surface.
What are springs?
Piles, piers, and drilled shafts are types of this.
What are deep foundations?
When tying the signal timing of 3 or more signals.
What is a signal coordination?
These are the two results of a proctor test.
What are optimum moisture content and maximum dry density?
This is the longest pedestrian bridge in North America that recently opened.
What is the Gatlinburg Sky Bridge?
This is the distance that an element is displaced under a load.
What is deflection?
This is a specialized interchange that switches traffic from the right side of the road to the left side of the road.
What is a diverging diamond?
This is the water table level after a good length of time.
What is static?
This is the only surviving ancient engineering wonder.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?