CIVIL ENGINEERING
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What is a Tunnel?
What do gears have on their edges that make them interlock?
What are teeth?
What makes electricity flow in a circuit?
What is a closed loop
What planet is known as the Red Planet?
What is Mars?
A measurement of how far two points are from each other.
What is distance?
The Eiffel Tower and many bridges use this shape in their design.
what is triangles
What do gears have on their edges that make them interlock?
What are teeth?
What do resistors do in a circuit?
They slow down or limit the flow of electricity.
Why is communication important during space docking challenges?
Because docking requires teamwork and precise coordination.
The full name for GPS.
What is Global Positioning System?
Civil engineers consider 3 key things when designing structures. Name two of them
What are shapes, materials, and design?
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?
The current BLM manual for Surveying.
What is the Manual of Surveying Instructions, 2009 Edition?
This large civil engineering project in BC involves building a dam for hydroelectric power but has also raised environmental concerns.
What is the Site C Dam?
Why might engineers add loops or hills to a roller coaster?
To change speed and create more energy transfers.
What’s the main difference between static electricity and current electricity?
Static stays in one place, current flows in a circuit
Name one famous Mars rover
What is Curiosity / Perseverance / Opportunity?
The science of measuring and representing the geometry, gravity, and spatial orientation of the Earth in temporally varying 3D.
What is geodesy?
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 a Mars rover carry a payload?
To hold samples or tools for experiments.
These three presidents were surveyors.
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln?