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Engineering Worksheet: What Engineers Do

Engineering lesson 1: What engineers do · Set 870 · 40 questions
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Engineer's tip (Problem first, then solution): Engineered things are designed and built by people; natural things are made by nature. Every invention meets a need: ask “what problem goes away when we have it?”. Scientists ask why things happen; engineers ask how to build something useful.

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  1. 1.🛠️ Engineers use maths and which other subject the most? (a) cooking (b) music (c) science (d) dance
  2. 2.True or false: a railway track is made by engineers. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🛠️ Is a ceiling fan made by engineers or found in nature? (a) made by engineers (b) found in nature
  4. 4.🛠️ People need to carry many people far. Which invention helps? (a) a water filter (b) a train (c) a dam (d) a bridge
  5. 5.True or false: a ceiling fan is found in nature. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: a water filter helps people make power from sunlight. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🛠️ What does an engineer mainly do? (a) sells tickets (b) designs useful solutions (c) only paints pictures (d) grows crops
  8. 8.Which of these is made by engineers? (a) a waterfall (b) a river (c) a railway track (d) a rainbow
  9. 9.True or false: a ceiling fan is made by engineers. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these is made by engineers? (a) a rainbow (b) a bicycle (c) a seashell (d) a banyan tree
  11. 11.🛠️ People need to cross a wide river. Which invention helps? (a) a fridge (b) a bridge (c) a dam (d) a telephone
  12. 12.🛠️ Is a waterfall made by engineers or found in nature? (a) found in nature (b) made by engineers
  13. 13.Which need does a bridge meet? (a) make water safe to drink (b) make power from sunlight (c) talk to someone far away (d) cross a wide river
  14. 14.Which need does a telephone meet? (a) keep food fresh longer (b) reach a top floor fast (c) cross a wide river (d) talk to someone far away
  15. 15.True or false: a water filter is made by engineers. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a mobile phone (b) a cloud (c) a satellite (d) a railway track
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a bicycle (b) a rainbow (c) a dam (d) a mobile phone
  18. 18.True or false: a mobile phone is made by engineers. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: a bridge helps people cross a wide river. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a river (b) a bicycle (c) a banyan tree (d) a rainbow
  21. 21.True or false: a cloud is made by engineers. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is found in nature? (a) a bridge (b) a rainbow (c) a lift (d) a mobile phone
  23. 23.Which of these is made by engineers? (a) a waterfall (b) a banyan tree (c) a bridge (d) a river
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a water filter (b) a volcano (c) a mountain (d) a coral reef
  25. 25.🛠️ Which of these is a problem an engineer could solve? (a) a sad song (b) a lost cricket match (c) a road that floods (d) a boring story
  26. 26.Which need does a tunnel meet? (a) make water safe to drink (b) store water for summer (c) go through a mountain (d) carry many people far
  27. 27.True or false: a dam helps people store water for summer. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these is made by engineers? (a) a river (b) a cloud (c) a dam (d) a waterfall
  29. 29.Which need does a lift meet? (a) reach a top floor fast (b) cross a wide river (c) keep food fresh longer (d) go through a mountain
  30. 30.🛠️ What does an engineer do before building anything? (a) builds at once (b) paints the model (c) understands the problem (d) buys every material
  31. 31.True or false: a microscope helps people store water for summer. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which need does a solar panel meet? (a) talk to someone far away (b) go through a mountain (c) keep food fresh longer (d) make power from sunlight
  33. 33.Which of these is found in nature? (a) a seashell (b) a lift (c) a bridge (d) a ceiling fan
  34. 34.True or false: a seashell is made by engineers. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🛠️ Is a railway track made by engineers or found in nature? (a) made by engineers (b) found in nature
  36. 36.True or false: a microscope helps people see very tiny things. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🛠️ Is a rainbow made by engineers or found in nature? (a) made by engineers (b) found in nature
  38. 38.🛠️ Is a bicycle made by engineers or found in nature? (a) made by engineers (b) found in nature
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a waterfall (b) a bridge (c) a satellite (d) a mobile phone
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a lift (b) a cloud (c) a waterfall (d) a river

Answer key

  1. science
  2. True
  3. made by engineers
  4. a train
  5. False
  6. False
  7. designs useful solutions
  8. a railway track
  9. True
  10. a bicycle
  11. a bridge
  12. found in nature
  13. cross a wide river
  14. talk to someone far away
  15. True
  16. a cloud
  17. a rainbow
  18. True
  19. True
  20. a bicycle
  21. False
  22. a rainbow
  23. a bridge
  24. a water filter
  25. a road that floods
  26. go through a mountain
  27. True
  28. a dam
  29. reach a top floor fast
  30. understands the problem
  31. False
  32. make power from sunlight
  33. a seashell
  34. False
  35. made by engineers
  36. True
  37. found in nature
  38. made by engineers
  39. a waterfall
  40. a lift

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