Trains & Transportation
What color are most Siemens trains?
What is white (or silver/gray)?
Siemens helps make electricity that powers your home. What do you flip on the wall to turn on a light?
What is a light switch?
In a Siemens smart building, what device keeps the building warm in winter and cool in summer?
What is a thermostat (or heating and air conditioning system)?
Siemens makes machines that help doctors see inside your body without surgery. What do doctors take of your bones if you break one?
What is an X-ray?
Siemens helps create clean energy that doesn't pollute the air. Name one thing from nature that gives us clean energy.
What is the sun, wind, or water? (Accept any)
Siemens makes trains that run underground in cities. What do we call these underground trains?
What is a subway or metro?
Siemens makes big machines with spinning blades that create electricity from wind. What are these called?
What are wind turbines (or windmills)?
Siemens makes elevators that take you up and down tall buildings. What's another word for elevator?
What is a lift?
Siemens makes a special machine that takes pictures of your whole body by spinning around you. It starts with the letters "CT" or "CAT." What does the "S" in "scan" mean?
What is scan? (Accept: a detailed picture)
Siemens makes electric trains that don't use gasoline. What do electric trains use instead of gas?
What is electricity?
True or False: Siemens trains can go faster than a car on the highway.
What is TRUE? (Some Siemens high-speed trains can go over 200 mph!)
What does the sun give us that Siemens technology can turn into electricity?
What is sunlight (or solar energy)?
In smart buildings, lights can turn on automatically when you enter a room. What detects that you're there?
What are motion sensors (or movement detectors)?
True or False: Siemens medical machines can help doctors see your heart beating in real-time.
What is TRUE? (Ultrasound and other imaging technology)
Siemens technology helps factories make things while creating less waste. What are the 3 R's of helping the environment?
What is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?
In which country did Siemens build the "Velaro" super-fast train that looks like it has a nose?
What is Germany (or Spain, China, Russia - accept any, as Velaro operates in multiple countries)?
Siemens invented a special type of light bulb over 100 years ago. It uses less energy than old bulbs. What is it called?
What is an LED (or energy-efficient bulb)?
Siemens technology can help buildings use less water and electricity. What word means using less and wasting less?
What is efficiency (or conservation)?
Siemens makes machines that use magnets (not radiation) to see inside the body. What are these called? (Hint: The letters are M-R-I)
What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
Siemens wants to be "carbon neutral" by 2030. What does carbon neutral mean?
What is not adding extra carbon dioxide (or greenhouse gases) to the atmosphere? (Or: balancing out pollution)
Siemens is helping build trains that don't need a driver. What do we call vehicles that drive themselves?
What are autonomous or self-driving vehicles?
Siemens builds "smart grids" that deliver electricity to homes and businesses. What makes a grid "smart"?
What is using computers and technology to control and monitor the electricity flow efficiently?
The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, uses Siemens technology. In which country is this super tall building located?
What is the United Arab Emirates (or Dubai)?
Siemens is working on AI (Artificial Intelligence) to help doctors. What can AI do faster than humans when looking at medical images?
What is finding patterns or detecting diseases (or analyzing data)?
Siemens offshore wind turbines are built in the ocean. Why is wind stronger over the ocean than on land?
What is because there are no trees or buildings to block it (or because of open space)?