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building struc & too
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The part of a building that the load(weight) rests on for support. Found on/in the ground. | Foundation |
| Built only a few feet into the soil to provide support of average sized buildings -single family homes, town houses -made from concrete and rebar (metal) | Shallow Foundation |
| Deep Foundation | Built several feet or miles into the ground to provide much needed support to large, massive structures - Skyscrapers, hospitals or mega-malls -Reinforced concrete and steel grid patterns for support |
| Flooring | Provides support to the lower portion of the "story". Usually the "finished product" is made from tile, hard wood or carpeting (decorative) |
| A flat surface that supports the weight of the walls, railings, furniture, sheds or human interaction. -Usually uncovered and outside the structure. | Decking |
| Found inside the structure and give support to the upper floor and roof. -Made from wood/insulated/ dry walled and painted to make finished product | Structural Walls |
| Found outside the home and provide protection against "conditions"--> critters and weather | External Walls |
| A roof built to form a triangle with the walls. Cold, Snowy areas have this to force ice and snow off to the ground during the winter. | Pitched Roof |
| Material that blocks heat transfer between the air inside and outside a building | Insulation |
| a wall built up from low ground to hold the higher ground in place | Retaining wall |
| material used to build or replace a floor | Flooring |
| a cutting tool with a thin, long, flexible blade usually mounted onto a table. They are used to cut materials into irregular shapes | Band saw |
| a tool used for making holes in hard materials...usually mounted to a table. | Drill press |
| a hand tool for driving screws | Screwdriver |
| a simple machine that consists of an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder | Screw |
| a hand tool which the front knob is used to drive nails into wood. And the back claw is used to pull nails out of wood. | claw hammer |
| an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge used to chip away pieces of a hard surface like marble or stone | Chisel |
| tool that has liquid with a trapped air bubble in the center. used to show if the structure it is placed on is built evenly | Level |
| a saw used with one hand for cutting wood | Handsaw |
| a hand tool used for gripping or bending objects | Pliers |
| a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt | Wrench |
| a tool that can be used to measure lengths and distances on a worksite | Measuring tape |
| a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt. | Nut and Bolt |
| Place where the signal is sent from or where the information begins.....example--> you speaking into your cell phone | Source |
| A device that converts a signal into a code ex the device in your cell phone that changes your voice signal into an electric code | Encoder |
| A device that receives the code from the encoder and sends it back out ex cell phone tower | Transmitter |
| a device that takes in the signal transmitted by the transmitter. there is a section of your cell phone that receives the signal from the transmitter | Receiver |
| a device that changes incoming code into useful information The person you sent the signal to--their phone decodes in incoming signal | Decoder |
| The end point of your communication your friend answers his phone and you talk | Destination |
| any type of communication that encodes a message into an electrical code | signal |
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hdambrosio
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