CIVIL ENGINEERING
This type of engineer helps design bridges, roads, building, and even parks.
What is a civil engineer?
This part of a machine looks like a toothed wheel and helps transfer motion.
What are gears?
What are
Battery
Wires
Switch
Lightbulb
What planet is known as the Red Planet?
What is Mars?
What is sustainability?
What is meeting our needs without hurting the planet for the future?
Before building something, civil engineers must think about shape, design, and this important thing that holds everything together.
What are materials?
In a catapult, what energy change happens when the spoon is released?
What is potential energy turns into kinetic energy.
What part of a circuit stores or gives power?
What is a battery?
What part of a spacecraft helps it land gently on Mars?
What is a landing system?
Where are the Bosco Verticale buildings located?
What is Milan, Italy?
This is the strongest shape engineers use when building towers or bridges.
What is a triangle?
What energy pulls things down a ramp?
What is gravity?
What happens to the metal leaves ( the two pieces of aluminon foil) on an electroscope when they feel a charge?
They move apart.
What Canadian robotic arm can grab tools and fix spacecraft in space?
What is the Canadarm3?
What is one challenge of using renewable energy?
What is the sun and wind aren’t always available? (Also acceptable: expensive, space, storage issues)
Name two things you can add to a park to make it more sustainable.
What are solar panels, LED lights, drought-tolerant plants, smart irrigation, etc.
What do engineers change to make a machine stronger or more efficient?
What is the design (or materials)?
What’s the difference between series and parallel circuits? Can you draw it?
Series: one path. Parallel: multiple paths.
Name two things a Mars Rover must do on the surface.
What is move on:
rough terrain
carry samples
take pictures
explore, etc.
What is one of the names of the UBCO’s main residences we visited on the tour?
What are Purcell, Skeena, and Nechako?
You're designing a tower with only spaghetti, marshmallows, and string. The tower keeps collapsing when it gets tall. Name two design changes you could make to help it stand strong and explain why they work.
What is:
Use triangle shapes to distribute weight evenly (strong shape)
Make a wider base to improve stability
Tie string tighter to increase tension
Use marshmallows more carefully so they don't bend too much
Gears can even be found in nature: a type of bug called a ________ uses tiny gears in its legs to jump
What is a planthopper
In Arduino code, what does digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); do?
What is it turns the LED off.
Why must space robots like Canadarm3 be extra precise?
Because even small mistakes in space can be dangerous.
What is one reason oil spills are harder to clean up than car pollution?
What is oil doesn’t naturally break down in the environment?