Mechanical Engineering
The force pulling down on objects.
What is gravity?
The 3 states of matter
What are liquid, solid and gas?
The name of what flows through wires in a circuit.
What is current?
A push or pull that can change the motion of an object.
What is Force?
The force preventing objects from continuing to move forever when pushed.
What is Friction?
Atoms are made up of Neutrons, ________, and Electrons.
What are Protons?
The ability to do work such as ride your bike, bake cookies and play sports
What is energy?
The process that takes away land by water, ice, wind, or gravity.
What is erosion?
A measure of the amount of matter.
What is Mass?
The boiling temperature of water in Fahrenheit.
What is 212 degrees?
Materials that don't allow current to flow very easily.
What is an insulator?
A pulling force that acts to lengthen an object.
What is tension?
A type of energy that is stored and could be used by an object.
What is potential energy?
99% of the mass of an atom is in this part.
What is a nucleus?
The amount of bits in two bytes.
What is 16?
These two materials are optimal materials for building bridges.
What are steel and concrete?
This alloy of iron and carbon was the precursor to many later mechanical engineering marvels.
What is steel?
The ends of a magnet.
What are poles?
What LED stands for.
What is Light-Emitting Diode?
A framework, typically consisting of rafters, posts, and struts, supporting a roof, bridge, or other structure.
What is a truss?
The first law of thermodynamics is based on this law.
What is the Conservation of Energy Law?
The measure of a substance's ability to dissolve in liquid, especially water.
What is solubility?
The circuit component that stores energy by magnetic field.
What is an inductor?
Discipline within civil engineering that deals with the behavior of geological materials in engineering systems.
What is geotechnical engineering?