Mechanical
The force preventing objects from continuous motion.
What is friction?
This large piece of equipment is used to dig trenches for pipes or cables.
What is an excavator?
This measure represents the amount of electrical charge flowing through the wire of a circuit
What is current?
The measure of amount of matter
What is mass?
The discipline that uses the knowledge of soil, water, and air systems to engineer solutions from field to watershed scales.
What is environmental engineering?
This type of simple machine consists of a wheel with a rope or belt around it, used to lift or move loads.
What is a pulley?
The strongest flat shape to build with.
What is a triangle?
This component, often found in electrical circuits, is used to limit the flow of electric current
What is a resistor?
This element is the lightest and most abundant chemical substance in the universe
What is hydrogen?
The process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects, often involving reprocessing of waste.
What is recycling?
The principle stating that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
This material, a mixture of cement, water, sand, and gravel, is the most widely used building material in the world.
What is concrete?
It is a binary digit, the smallest increment of data on a computer.
What is a bit?
The three states of matter.
What are liquid, solid, and gas?
Systems that control water levels by removing or relocating water sources.
What is drainage?
A device that uses energy to do work to accomplish some desired activity
What is a machine?
The name for the horizontal structural member that supports the load from the roof or upper floors.
What is a beam?
The relationship between voltage, current, resistance in a circuit. I=V/R.
What is Ohm's Law?
The process by which a gas turns directly into a solid, bypassing the liquid phase.
What is deposition?
An artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
What is irrigation?
The study of how heat and work interact and transform in a system.
What is thermodynamics?
Joseph Strauss
Who built the Golden Gate Bridge?
A component that has an ideally zero resistance in one direction, but an ideally infinite resistant in the other direction.
What is a diode?
This type of chemical bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms
What is a covalent bond?
This type of renewable energy harnesses power from the movement of water.
What is hydroelectric power?