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Copy #4 of Bridge and Tower quiz -2013-09-25-02-25-40

Question Prompt: 1 Total Points: 1 Points per answer: 1

The most expensive type of bridge to build is a _____ bridge

Question Prompt: 2 Total Points: 1 Points per answer: 1

This _____ is the center of and arch and locks everything into place

Question Prompt: 3 Total Points: 1 Points per answer: 1

The Bixby Creek bridge in Montaray California is an _____ bridge that spans a gorge and is held against a rocky cliff.

Question Prompt: 4 Total Points: 1 Points per answer: 1

The bigger the base of a pyramid, the _____ the pyramid could be

Question Prompt: 5 Total Points: 1

What help to create a stronger tower? By removing extra beams By creating a wider base By increasing the space between columns

Question Prompt: 6 Total Points: 1 Points per answer: 1

A person who designs bridges, roads and other structures is a _____

Question Prompt: 7 Total Points: 1

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Points per answer: 1

The force of _____ is acting on every structure pulling it down toward the center of the Earth

Question Prompt: 8 Total Points: 1 Points per answer: 1

Which of the following is the weakest type of bridge, Arch, Beam or Suspension, _____.

Question Prompt: 9 Total Points: 1 Points per answer: 1

If you stacked books on the top of your bridge you would be applying _____ to the piers

Question Prompt: 10 Total Points: 1 Points per answer: 1

A swing is an example of a _____ structure

Question Prompt: 11 Total Points: 1

In a well designed skyscraper: The forces of tension and compression balance each other out The force of tension is stronger than the force of compression The force of compression is stronger than the force of tension The forces of tension and compression cause gravity to pull the building downwards

Question Prompt: 12 Total Points: 2 Points per answer: 2

Stonehedge is an example of this extremely old type of structure that is made of two piers and a horizontal support, this design is called a _____ and _____.

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Question Prompt: 13 Total Points: 1

How could you apply tension to a slinky? Dropping it from a building Pushing the ends of the slinky together one person holding either end of it and walking away from each other

Question Prompt: 14 Total Points: 1 Points per answer: 1

In order to create better support for your bridge or tower you may want to add triangular supports called a _____

Question Prompt: 15 Total Points: 1

The strong supports at the ends of the arch bridge, in Norridgewock are called truss abutment steal beams

Question Prompt: 16 Total Points: 1 Points per answer: 1

Steel beams and steel columns make up this type of structure _____. An example would be the twin towers

Question Prompt: 17 Total Points: 1

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What word best describes the beams in a skyscraper's superstructure? Vertical Diagonal Horizontal

Question Prompt: 18 Total Points: 1 Points per answer: 1

The distance between two vertical supports is a _____

Question Prompt: 19 Total Points: 1 Points per answer: 1

The image below is demonstrating the _____ of the force to the abutments

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