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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. Entrances or a means to enter
Ingress
Serviceability
Compression Strength
Drainage
2. The pleasing or harmonious arrangement or proportion of parts or elements in a design or composition
Balance
Water Closet
Truss
Exit
3. The vertical distance from a datum to a point or object
Elevation
Stakeholder
Pressure Head
Drainage Fixture Unit
4. A support condition in which translation of a structural member is restricted in two directions but rotation is not restricted. A pin support provides two perpendicular reaction forces when the member is loaded`
Pin Support
Keystone
Emphasis
Color
5. A legal request by a property owner to allow a modification from a standard or a requirement in the zoning code
Variance
Live Load
Topographic Survey
ABET
6. Any pipe that carries wastewater or water-borne wastes in a building drainage system
Exit Access
Repetition
Shallow Foundation
Drain
7. That portion of the means-of-egress system between the termination of the exit and a public way
Building Code
Tributary Area
Caisson
Exit Discharge
8. A covering placed over exterior studs or rafters that serve as a base below the exterior finish materials
Square
Hot Water
Sheathing
Architect
9. A vertical pipe installed to provide circulation of air to and from any part of the drainage system
Lavatory
Geodetic Survey
Vent Pipe
Unity
10. A panel laid over a subfloor or subsurface to create a smooth - stiff surface for the application of a finish
Underlayment
Arch
Electric Meter
Prevailing Winds
11. A user-friendly approach to design in the living environment where people of any culture - age - size - weight - race - gender - and ability can experience an environment that promotes their health - safety - and welfare today and in the future
Radiant Heat
Universal Design
Charette
Stability
12. The reading on a rod held at a point whose elevation is to be determined
Lintel
Exit Discharge
Emphasis
Foresight
13. The weight of movable objects such as people - furnishings - machines - vehicles - and goods in or on a building
Fixed Support
Live Load
Texture
Design Storm
14. The rules that describe how designers might put together various design elements to create an aesthetic finished product
U-factor
Caisson
Foresight
Design Principles
15. Entrances or a means to enter
Ingress
Fa
Duration
Statically Indeterminate Beam
16. A wall that does not carry vertical load other than its own weight
Coarse Grained Soil
Exit Discharge
Sole Plate
Non-Load Bearing Wall
17. The collecting of water - as on a roof - into large puddles or a pond
Civil Engineer
Sanitary Sewer
Building Code
Ponding
18. A method of designing structural elements such that the allowable strength is greater than or equal to the strength necessary to support the required load combinations
Dead Load
Sheathing
Riser
ASD (Allowable Strength Design)
19. A number that indicates the portion of rainwater that will be discharged by a particular surface
Construction Survey
Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
ABET
Runoff Coefficent
20. 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
Tilt-up Construction
Valve
Berm
Construction Survey
21. A horizontal beam that supports other beams; a very large beam - especially one that is built up from other sections
Built-up-Roof
Form
Backsight
Girder
22. The distance a beam or structure deforms under loading - typically due to bending in a beam
Unity
Deflection
Value
Heat Pump
23. An electric safety switch that automatically opens a circuit when excessive amperage occurs.
Nonpotable Water
Duration
Circuit Breaker
Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
24. The state or quality of being combined into one - as the ordering of elements in an artistic work that constitutes a harmonious whole or promotes a singleness of effect
Unity
Space
Zoning Ordinance
Roller (Rocker) Support
25. That portion of the means-of-egress system that leads from any occupied portion in a building or structure to an exit
Elevation
Construction Documents
Exit Access
ABET
26. Any vertical line of soil - waste - vent - or inside conductor piping that extends through at least one story
Datum
Stack
Dome
Allowable Strength
27. One who is involved in or affected by a course of action
Occupant Load
Stakeholder
Yield Stress
Ground
28. The lowest - widest part of the foundation that distributes the load over a broad area of the soil
Bearing Walls
Radiant Heat
Footing
Runoff Coefficent
29. The applied load determined by the required load combinations
Design Load
Design Storm
Building Envelope
Stress
30. A system for disposal of domestic sewage by means of a septic tank cesspool mechanical treatment to serve a single establishment or building
Zoning Ordinance
Sewage
Concrete
Individual Sewage Disposal System
31. The minimum moisture content - expressed as a percentage of the oven dry soil weight - at which the soil will begin to flow when subjected to a small shearing force. The liquid limit is determined using a standard liquid limit device
Outlet
Post and Lintel Construction
Liquid Limit
Sheathing
32. Water at a temperature greater than or equal to 110
Aesthetics
Open Web Steel Joist
Hot Water
Texture
33. Exit or a way out
Fixed Support
Egress
Ingress
Slab-on-Grade
34. The final elevation of the ground surface after excavating or filling
Built-up-Roof
Beam
Finish Grade
Post and Lintel Construction
35. A continuous system of structural elements that transfer an applied load to the supporting soil
Load Path
Stack
Switch Leg
Weight
36. The use of physical laws and mathematics to compute internal forces - stresses - and deformations
Emphasis
Egress
Beam Analysis
Grading
37. A water-flushing plumbing fixture - such as a toilet - that is designed to receive and discharge human excrement
Vernacular Architecture
Drain
Valve
Water Closet
38. A roof that is pitched at an angle so near to horizontal that it must be made waterproof with a continuous membrane rather than shingles; commonly and inaccurately referred to as a flat roof
Low Slope Roof
Fascia
Fine Grained Soil
Compression Strength
39. A sewer that conveys storm water or other drainage but not sanitary sewage
Occupancy Group
Construction Type
Sheathing
Storm Sewer
40. The pressure of water at a given point in a pipe arising from the pressure in it
Pressure Head
Electric Meter
Source Reduction
Yield Stress
41. A storm water management approach that uses green space - native landscaping - and techniques that mimic a site's pre-development water cycle
Ground
Low Impact Development
Axial Force
Variance
42. The quality of an object that deals with art - beauty - and taste
ABET
Cast in Place Concrete
Square
Aesthetics
43. The weight of the building or building components
Vent Pipe
Footing
Dead Load
Control Survey
44. A condition of a frame or structure in which a slight disturbance in the loads or geometry of the structure does not produce large displacements or failure
Stability
Weight
Land Surveying
Fascia
45. The aspect of the appearance of objects and light sources that may be described in terms of hue - lightness - and saturation for objects and hue - brightness - and saturation for light sources
R-value
Construction Type
Precast Concrete
Color
46. A plot of the internal moment in a beam versus position along the axis of the beam
Yield Stress
Bench Mark
Moment Diagram
Retention Pond (Wet Pond)
47. A solid - hard material produced by combining Portland cement - aggregates - sand - water and sometimes additional mixtures
Square
Rod Intercept
Brownfield
Concrete
48. An assembly of structural members joined to form a rigid framework - usually connected to form triangles
Girder
Truss
Shear Force
Backsight
49. The difference between the liquid limit and the plastic limit
Plasticity Limit
Return Period
Initial Point
Zoning Ordinance
50. The perpendicular distance from a reference point to the line of action of the force
Moment Arm
Shallow Foundation
Beam
Ingress