Earthquake Engineering | Hurricanes and Tsunamis | Oil Spills | Flooding and Water Resources Engineering | Fire Safety |
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What is (flooding, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes)?
Name three natural disasters that engineers have to keep in mind when designing buildings, roads, etc.
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What are Katrina and Patricia?
These are two hurricanes that happened recently.
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What is BP or British Petroleum?
Name the company that had a major oil spill in 2010.
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What is a flood warning?
This type of alert means a flood is happening and you should move to higher ground.
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What are (cooking, heating, electrical, candles, smoking materials, automobiles)?
Name two things that start fires.
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What is an earthquake?
This is the shaking and trembling that results from movement of rock/tectonic plates beneath the Earth's surface.
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What are stilts?
This is what is added to a house to prevent the house from flooding during hurricanes.
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What are (animals, ecosystem, environment, people)?
Name three things affected by oil spills.
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What are (river, coastal, storm surge, and inland)?
Name two out of four types of floods.
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What are fuel, oxygen, and a heat source?
Name three things that fires need to start.
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What is the Richter scale?
This scale is based on the size of the earthquake's seismic waves.
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What are a hurricane, tsunami, and typhoon?
Name three types of tropical storms that are actually the same type of storm but are just named differently based on where they occur.
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What are (bread, soap, newspaper, kitty litter, paper towels)?
Name three of the materials we used to clean up our oil spills during the activity.
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What are (a body of water overflowing and accumulation of rainwater on saturated ground)?
Name one of the two ways flooding can occur.
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What are (sprinklers, fire extinguishers, fire blanket)?
Name two things that stop fires.
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What is divergent?
This type of tectonic plate movement is when two plates move away from each other.
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What is 10 to 20 feet?
This is the height range for stilts.
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What are (geotechnical, environmental, and water resources)?
Name two out of the three types of engineers who work with oil spills.
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What is a water resources engineer?
This type of engineer works with water treatment facilities, makes sure there is clean water for consumption, and develops methods to prepare for floods.
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What are (items with flame resistant materials, automatic doors, smoke alarms)?
Name something that prevents or contains fires.
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What is steel?
This is what engineers add to buildings to make buildings stronger in tension.
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What are (warm ocean waters, winds coming together, humid air rising, light winds outside the hurricane)?
Name three things that a hurricane needs to form.
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What are containment and skimming, and sorbents.
Name two ways that engineers clean up oil spills.
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What is 100 year flood?
This terms means there is a 1% chance annually that flooding will occur in that area or floodplain.
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What is a fire protection engineer?
This type of engineer conducts fire risk analyses and conducts forensic fire scene analyses.
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