Vocabulary
Types of Bridges
Parts of a Bridge
What Type of Bridge am I?
Bridge Fun Facts
100
A bridge is a structure built for this purpose.
What is helping people cross over something?
100
This bridge type is the simplest. Don't lose your balance!
What is a beam 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
I am one of the earliest types of bridges built by humans. I am so simple that I could be a log laying across a stream, or maybe I'm a long modern highway supported by a series of piles.
What is a Beam 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 everything designed and built by humans.
What is the built environment?
200
Even Ronald McDonald would tell you that this bridge type is supported by semi-circles.
What is a Roman arch bridge?
200
Unlock your memory and tell me the part of the Roman arch bridge that holds the bridge together and carries the load.
What is the keystone?
200
This will blow you away: I have a series of cables that connect directly from the deck to the towers. And all the cables connect to the towers at one single point.
What is a Cable-Stayed Fan Bridge?
200
This bridge is the oldest bridge in New York.
What is the High Bridge?
300
This is a push or a pull on an object.
What is a Force?
300
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?
300
These structures in a suspension bridge are the tallest.
What are the towers?
300
This will be music to your ears: I have a series of cables that connect directly from the deck to the towers, and all of the cables run parallel to each other.
What is a Cable-Stayed Harp Bridge?
300
This is the number of bridges in New York City.
What is 2,027?
(I will accept any response between 2,000 and 2,100.)
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 parts of some bridges are made up of hundreds of individual braided steel wires.
What are the cables?
400
I have a series of cables that connect vertically from the deck to a larger, thicker cable that runs the entire length of the bridge and connects from tower to tower. Don't leave me hanging!
What is a Suspension Bridge?
400
The Kosciuszko Bridge was named after Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish military leader who helped the United States in the Revolutionary War, and it is one of this type of bridge.
What is a Semi-Fan Bridge?
500
This word means that two lines never get closer together or farther apart anywhere along their length.
What is parallel?
500
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?
500
This shape is what gives a truss bridge stability.
What is a triangle?
500
I have a series of cables that connect directly from the deck to the towers. The cables all connect to the towers at different points, but they are not parallel to each other.
What is a Cable-Stayed Semi-Fan Bridge?
500
The designer of this bridge passed away after a boat accident. The bridge was completed by his son and then later his daughter-in-law.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?