Quiz 4

Question 1

Truss

Answer 1

A construction assembled by beams that are connected to joints and create a rigid structure. Large spanning structural component.

Question 2

Resilience

Answer 2

The ability to recover after difficulties; Toughness

Question 3

Excavate

Answer 3

To make a hole by removing material; To dig or scoop

Question 4

Valve

Answer 4

A device for controlling the flow of a liquid or gas, letting it move in one direction only

Question 5

Aberration

Answer 5

A departure from what is normal, usual, or expected

Question 6

Attenuate

Answer 6

To reduce the force, effect or value of something

Question 7

Come across as

Answer 7

Seem to be; appear to be

Question 8

Rudimentary

Answer 8

Basic, primitive, simple

Question 9

Capillary effect

Answer 9

When liquid flows through narrow tubes against gravity

Question 10

Capillarity

Answer 10

A soil’s ability to suck fluids without any external forces

Question 11

Groin

Answer 11

A shore protection structure build to trap littoral drift or retard erosion of the shore

Question 12

Toxicity

Answer 12

A mearsurement of how damaging a substance is to an organism

Question 13

Account for

Answer 13

Explain how or why, provide reasons

Question 14

Alloy

Answer 14

A combination of metals or of a metal and another element

Question 15

Moiety

Answer 15

One of two equal parts; Half

Question 16

Residue

Answer 16

Something that remains after a process

Question 17

Residual

Answer 17

Something that remains; Relating to something that remains

Question 18

Negligible

Answer 18

Of very little importance or size and not worth considering

Question 19

Landslide

Answer 19

A mass of rock and earth moving suddenly and quickly down a steep slope

Question 20

Equilibrium

Answer 20

A state of balance

Question 21

Ultimate tensile strength

Answer 21

Maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched of pulled before breaking

Question 22

Irregation

Answer 22

The practice of supplying land with water artificially, so that crops can grow

Question 23

COmbustion

Answer 23

The process of burning; An exothermic reaction in which a substance reacts rapidly with oxygen and gives off heat

Question 24

Encoder

Answer 24

Sensing device that convers motion into an electrical signal

Question 25

Haptic

Answer 25

Based on or relating to the sense of touch

Question 26

Vacancy

Answer 26

A job that is available for someone to start doing

Question 27

Analyze

Answer 27

To examine or think about something carefullyin ordet to understand it

Question 28

Analysis

Answer 28

A careful examination of something in order to understand it better

Question 29

Your guess is as good as mine

Answer 29

Used to tell someone that you do not know any more than they do about something

Question 30

With/in regard to

Answer 30

Regarding, concerning

Question 31

As regards

Answer 31

Regarding, concerning

Question 32

Helm

Answer 32

The wheel of control which guides a ship or boat

Question 33

Tapered

Answer 33

Having a shape that gets narrower towards one end

Question 34

Salient

Answer 34

Describing the most important or most noticable points or features of something

Question 35

Molten

Answer 35

Melted

Question 36

Grouting

Answer 36

Injecting cement-based products into cavities to increase structural integrity as well as to decrease leakage

Question 37

Spatiality

Answer 37

A term for characteristics that define a space

Question 38

Scalability

Answer 38

The ability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work

Question 39

Conditional statement

Answer 39

A statement which can either be true of false, often found in coding

Question 40

Infiltration basin

Answer 40

An engineered low point which can fill many uses, in urban areas generally desugnes to be purposely flooded, which reduces damage done by rain water floods