Vocabulary
People or goods being moved from place to place
Transportation
Give two advantages for using your feet as transportation
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You can assess out of reach/small places
You get exercise
Give two disadvantages for using your feet as transportation
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You have limited access to places
You can get tired/hurt your feet
Convenience, cost, reliability and the environment.
The 4 factors that communities must consider will creating new forms of transportation
C
C
R
E
Energy that can be reused
Renewable energy
A push or pull that alters/maintains the motion of an object
Force
Give two advantages for using a car as transportation
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Convenient
Easy to make
Give two disadvantages for using a car as transportation
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Car crashes and traffic laws
Traffic
Lift, drag, thrust
Forces that helps plane fly
Automobiles that rely on ______ are becoming more popular
(Tesla)
Electricity
Force that moves vehicle transmission and wheels forward
Thrust
Give two advantages for using a boat as transportation
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You can travel to secluded places
Lots of space for cargo
Give two disadvantages for using a boat as transportation
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Boats can get stuck
Less boats to travel by than cars
Different modes of transportation provide their own _____
(pros/cons)
disadvantages and disadvantages
Hybrid vehicles run on _____ and _____
Electricity and gas
Force that causes friction between vehicle brakes and the ground
Drag
Give two advantages for using a train as transportation
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Trains move faster than boats and cars
Can be a passenger or cargo train
Give two disadvantages for using a train as transportation
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Less trains/train stations than cars or busses
Trains are full of people
Location, population, environment, cost
The 4 factors that engineers must consider will creating new forms of transportation
L
P
E
C
Most transportation vehicles rely on ______, ______, or ______ ______
Petroleum, diesel or jet fuel
All the physical parts involved in transportation as well as the information and laws that control transportation
Transportation System
Give to advantages for using a plane as transportation
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Major airports in big cities
Faster than a car and boat
Give to disadvantages for using a plane as transportation
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Restrictions on what you can bring
Cost lots of $$$
The more green energy that people use, the less _____ we have to use
Fossil fuels
Petroleum
The cost of petroleum has ______ over time and as it continues to be used, its cost will ______
Increase; rise