Simple Machines
Towers
Catapult/Trebuchets
Tunnels
Careers
100
This simple machine is a crank or a tuning circular object rigidly connected to a fixed or moving point.
What is, a Wheel and Axle?
100
This tower got its famous name from a bad engineering mistake.
What is the Tower of Pisa
100
Catapults and trebuchets are the same thing. True or false?
What is false?
100
Footings, spread footings, and slab-on-grade footings are this type of foundation.
What is a shallow foundation?
100
This type of engineer improves health care, and make us healthier.
What is a biomedical engineer?
200
This is an inclined plane wrapped around a central point.
What is a screw?
200
This word means to change or adjust something.
What is modify?
200
This simple machine makes up the arm of the catapult/trebuchet.
What is a lever?
200
This is what type of tunnel.
what is a cross section?
200
This job offers one of the largest engineerings salaries.
What is a chemical engineer?
300
This type of lever has the fulcrum at one end the effort in the middle and load at the other end.
What is, a third class lever?
300
This is the outside of something, like a building.
What is the exterior?
300
This is a good advantage for hitting something small.
What is accuracy?
300
This is what type of tunnel
what is a cut and cover?
300
This is the largest branch of engineering.
What is an electrical engineer?
400
These simple machines have teeth. But don't eat?
What are gears?
400
The Effiel tower is named after this man.
Who is Alexandre Gustave Effiel?
400
We fired these sweet treats around the room.
What are Jolly Ranchers, Tootsie Rolls, and Marshmallows?
400
These are the three steps of making a tunnel.
What is, excavation, support, and lining?
400
These engineers make rollercoasters! (like the ones at Canobie Lake Park)
What are mechanical engineers?
500
This machine is a compound machine consisting of wheels and axles.
What is a belt system?
500
This is a small one-story house.
What is a bungalow?
500
This part of a trebuchet is the projectile.
What is a payload?
500
This is the first thing tunnels transported.
What is water?
500
Usually, these engineers work on things around the community like roads and bridges, but now they work on things in the environment too, such as cleaning up the environment.
What are civil engineers?