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Civil Engineering Architecture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The energy needed to warm outside air leaking into a building through cracks around doors - windows - and other areas
Footing
Fixed Support
Beam Analysis
Heat Loss
2. An engineer trained in the design and construction of public works - such as bridges or dams - and other large facilities
Exit
Civil Engineer
Sewer
Cleanout
3. The process of determining the difference in height between a plane of sight and a point
Differential Leveling
Caisson
Water Service
Grading
4. Force per unit area
Tensile Strength
Rod Intercept
Wind Load
Stress
5. The structural floor joined to the joists that support the finish flooring
Potable Water
Subfloor
Brownfield
Drainage System
6. A unit of measure of power
Duration
Internal Force
Arch
Watt
7. Surveys for which the curvature of the Earth is ignored and measurements are treated as if taken on a plane surface
Plane Survey
Statically Determinate Beam
Sill
R-value
8. An electrical connection to the earth
Rhythm
Field Notes
Ground
Design Temperature Differential
9. Ratio of the maximum design load to the weight of the structure
Distribution Panel
Structural Efficency
Impervious
Moment Diagram
10. The process of changing the topography of a property for a purpose
Grading
Building Envelope
Static Head
Fenestration
11. The maximum angle of a stable slope of a granular material determined by friction - cohesion - and the shapes of the soil particles
Simple Beam
Angle of Repose
Construction Survey
Pressure Head
12. A reinforced concrete beam that transmits the load from a bearing wall into a spaced foundation such as pile caps or caissons
Serviceability
Shear Diagram
Circuit
Grade Beam
13. Steel bar used to reinforce concrete
Circuit Breaker
Rebar
Riser
Invert Elevation
14. Legal requirements designed to protect the public by providing guidelines for structural - electrical - plumbing - and mechanical areas of a structure
Moment
Internal Force
Trap
Building Code
15. A land survey that establishes property corners - boundaries - and areas of land parcels. Also called land surveys - cadastral surveys - and boundary surveys
Drainage System
Property Survey
Non-Load Bearing Wall
Munincipality
16. Law that specifies how and for what purpose each parcel of private real estate may be used. Also called zoning code
Zoning Ordinance
Unity
Trap
Storm Sewer
17. The process of heat transfer through a solid by transmitting kinetic energy from one molecule to the next
Nominal Strength
Thermal Conduction
Design Principles
Load Bearing Wall
18. The various conductors - connections - and devices found along the path of electric flow from the source through the components and back to the source
Circuit
Column
Switch Leg
Nominal Strength
19. Any heating appliance or equipment that heats potable water and supplies such water to the potable hot water distribution system
Water Heater
Repetition
Watt
Underlayment
20. Any pipe that carries wastewater or water-borne wastes in a building drainage system
Drain
Vent Pipe
Static Head
Circuit
21. A single beam that is supported by more than two supports such that it has at least two distinct spans
AIA (The American Institute of Architects)
Electric Meter
Continuous Beam
Heat Pump
22. An upright structural member acting primarily in compression
Column
Bearing Walls
Main
Low Slope Roof
23. The lowest - widest part of the foundation that distributes the load over a broad area of the soil
Water Closet
Pressure Head
Main
Footing
24. A wall that does not carry vertical load other than its own weight
Color
Stack
Non-Load Bearing Wall
Building Envelope
25. A water-flushing plumbing fixture - such as a toilet - that is designed to receive and discharge human excrement
Water Closet
Precast Concrete
Rhythm
Built-up-Roof
26. A method of constructing concrete walls in which panels are cast and cured flat on a floor slab then tilted up into their final position
Egress
Tilt-up Construction
Deflection
Siding
27. The shape and structure of something as distinguished from its substance or material
Thermal Convection
Balance
Form
Potable Water
28. A single concrete footing that is essentially equal in area to the area of ground covered by the supported structure
Plane Survey
Setback
Control Survey
Mat (Raft) Foundation
29. An electrical connection to the earth
Ground
Force
Drain
Munincipality
30. A covering placed over exterior studs or rafters that serve as a base below the exterior finish materials
Arch
Sheathing
Ingress
Circuit
31. A land survey used to prepare maps showing location of natural and man-made features and elevations of points on the ground
Tilt-up Construction
Topographic Survey
Unity
Foresight
32. Entrances or a means to enter
Geodetic Survey
Ingress
Brownfield
Finish Grade
33. An exterior building wall that is supported entirely by the frame of the building - rather than being self-supporting or load bearing
Single-ply Membrane
Keystone
Curtain Wall
Pressure Head
34. The reading on a rod held at a point of known or assumed elevation
Backsight
Stakeholder
Ponding
Nonpotable Water
35. An instrument used to measure electric power
Electric Meter
ABET
Exit Discharge
Pin Support
36. A solid - hard material produced by combining Portland cement - aggregates - sand - water and sometimes additional mixtures
Concrete
Beam
Municipality
Hybrid
37. A curved structure for spanning an opening - designed to support a vertical load primarily by axial compression
Strength
Elevation
Arch
NCARB (National Council of Architectural Registration Boards)
38. That portion of the means-of-egress system between the exit access and the exit discharge or the public way
Element of Design
Exit
Post and Lintel Construction
Detention Pond (Dry Pond)
39. Something that is the product of mixing two or more different things
Datum
Heat Loss
Decking
Hybrid
40. The weight of movable objects such as people - furnishings - machines - vehicles - and goods in or on a building
Rebar
Curtain Wall
Live Load
Hybrid
41. A specification that indicates by whom or how the structure will be used
Low Slope Roof
Sewage
Grade Beam
Occupancy Group
42. Forces or other actions that result from the weight of building materials - occupants and their possessions - and environmental effects
Design Principles
Load
Distribution Panel
Concrete
43. Exits or a way out
Aesthetics
Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
Egress
Stack
44. Direction from which the wind most frequently blows in a given area of the country
Plastic Limit
Zoning Ordinance
Prevailing Winds
R-value
45. Incapable of being penetrated
Impervious
Live Load
Structural Efficency
Shear Diagram
46. The maximum compressive stress a material can withstand without failure
Nominal Strength
Lavatory
Compression Strength
Truss
47. A horizontal ledge cut between the foot and top of an embankment to stabilize the slope by intercepting sliding earth
Rod Intercept
Deformation
Berm
Cleanout
48. A selected storm event - described in terms of the probability of occurring once within a given number of years - for which drainage or flood control improvements are designed and built
Grade Beam
Prevailing Winds
Design Storm
Water Closet
49. A sloping roof
Pitched Roof
Mat (Raft) Foundation
Ponding
Drainage System
50. The distance between supports for a beam - girder - truss - or other horizontal structural member; to carry a load between supports
Pitched Roof
Span
Beam
Fenestration