Mechanical Engineering: Vocabulary Quiz

A tall metal structure with a long horizontal part, used for lifting and moving heavy objects is called ...

• converter

• pulley

• tappet

• crane

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The amount of weight carried,especially by a vehicle ... is called ...

• load

• blocks

• floats

• outriggers

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

This tool is called

• jib

• pulley blocks

• hook

• loadsor

This tool is called

• jib

• pulley blocks

• loadsor

• hook

Something physical such as a force that has size and direction is called ...

• repulsion

• torque

• strain

• vector

Tags

CCSS.HSN.VM.A.1

We can give a pictorial representation of vector quantities...

What does it mean by pictorial?

• something physical such as a force that has size and direction

• consisting of or having the form of a picture or pictures

• a small sail in the shape of a triangle, positioned in front of the main sail on a boat

• to put something into a liquid for a short time

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Under no circumstances should outriggers be placed on ground covered by puddles of water which prevent ...

Puddles of water means ...

• rain in very small, light drops

• a pool of liquid on the ground or floor, formed by filling up the holes in uneven surfaces

• to drop a few pieces or drops of something over a surface

• very small pieces of coloured sugar or chocolate used as a decoration on the top of cakes

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

This tool is called ...

• flick

• fling

• swing

• sling

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

To (cause to) fall over onto one side ...

• slope

• tip over

• stip

• tilt

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Conductor is ...

• a group of people, especially one that meets regularly for aparticular purpose, such as government, or, more generally, theprocess of coming together, or the state of being together

• a framework (= basic structure) that something such as a sculpture isbuilt onto

• a substance that allows heat or electricity to go through it

• a part of an electrical circuit designed to produce a particular amountof resistance to the flow of current