Transportation 1
What is the general term used to describe buses, trains, and subways run by the government and used by large numbers of people to commute?
Public Transportation
What do you call a person who legally crosses the street at a crosswalk or intersection?
Pedestrian
What is the British word for oil?
Petroleum
What do you call a form of energy that you get from the sun?
Solar
What do you call a person who operates a train?
Engineer
What do you call lines on a road or street that keeps automobiles, trucks, and buses separated from one another?
Lane
What do you call it when the wheels of a train accidentally slip off its tracks?
Derail
What is the general term used to describe a form of energy you get from oil, natural gas, coal, and shale rock?
Fossil Fuels
What do you call energy you get from the movement of waves?
Tidal
What do you call the steel rails and wood beams that a train travels on?
Railroad Tracks
What do you describe a bus, boat, or plane that you hire to transport people or cargo somewhere?
Charter
What do you call a long road that passes through an entire state or many different states?
Highway
What do you call a form of energy that you get from building dams along rivers?
Hydropower
What do you call the structure that energy companies build when they drill for oil in the ocean?
Offshore Oil Rig
What do you call a train that allows large numbers of people to move around on streets in urban areas?
Light Rail
What do you call a road that people infrequently use to travel in rural areas?
Back Road
What do you call it when a person illegally crosses a street?
Jaywalk
What do you call a large ship that transports large amounts of oil from one place to another?
Oil Tanker / Oil Freighter
What do you call a facility that is used to make gasoline and other fuels from crude oil?
Oil Refinery
What do you call that part of a train that transports oil or other liquids?
Tanker car
What is the name of the national train system that transports people across the United States?
Amtrak
What do you call a vehicle that transports people and is pulled by horses?
Carriage
What do you call an engine that operates by burning gasoline, oil, or other fuel with air?
Internal Combustion Engine
What do you call a type of fuel that is widely used to power the jet engines of aircraft, some rocket engines, and cooking and lighting?
Kerosene
What do you call that part of the train that is at the front and pulls everything else behind it?
Locomotive