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Engineering Worksheet: What Engineers Do

Engineering lesson 1: What engineers do · Set 975 · 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.🛠️ Is a rainbow made by engineers or found in nature? (a) found in nature (b) made by engineers
  2. 2.Which of these is made by engineers? (a) a bicycle (b) a banyan tree (c) a seashell (d) a mountain
  3. 3.Which of these is found in nature? (a) a bicycle (b) a mobile phone (c) a coral reef (d) a lift
  4. 4.True or false: a mountain is found in nature. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a bicycle (b) a water filter (c) a volcano (d) a bridge
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a rainbow (b) a lift (c) a coral reef (d) a cloud
  7. 7.True or false: a ceiling fan is found in nature. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these is found in nature? (a) a volcano (b) a mobile phone (c) a bicycle (d) a dam
  9. 9.🛠️ People need to talk to someone far away. Which invention helps? (a) a microscope (b) a water filter (c) a fridge (d) a telephone
  10. 10.🛠️ Is a waterfall made by engineers or found in nature? (a) made by engineers (b) found in nature
  11. 11.True or false: a dam helps people cross a wide river. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🛠️ People need to reach a top floor fast. Which invention helps? (a) a water filter (b) a lift (c) a tunnel (d) a fridge
  13. 13.🛠️ People need to see very tiny things. Which invention helps? (a) a bridge (b) a tunnel (c) a microscope (d) a telephone
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cloud (b) a railway track (c) a ceiling fan (d) a bridge
  15. 15.🛠️ Is a lift made by engineers or found in nature? (a) found in nature (b) made by engineers
  16. 16.Which of these is made by engineers? (a) a cloud (b) a rainbow (c) a lift (d) a coral reef
  17. 17.Which of these is made by engineers? (a) a banyan tree (b) a rainbow (c) a water filter (d) a mountain
  18. 18.True or false: a tunnel helps people go through a mountain. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these is made by engineers? (a) a seashell (b) a mountain (c) a mobile phone (d) a cloud
  20. 20.🛠️ What does an engineer do before building anything? (a) buys every material (b) builds at once (c) paints the model (d) understands the problem
  21. 21.🛠️ Engineers use maths and which other subject the most? (a) music (b) dance (c) science (d) cooking
  22. 22.Which need does a microscope meet? (a) make power from sunlight (b) make water safe to drink (c) store water for summer (d) see very tiny things
  23. 23.True or false: a volcano is made by engineers. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these is made by engineers? (a) a volcano (b) a dam (c) a cloud (d) a river
  25. 25.Which of these is made by engineers? (a) a cloud (b) a seashell (c) a railway track (d) a mountain
  26. 26.True or false: a water filter helps people make water safe to drink. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🛠️ Is a railway track made by engineers or found in nature? (a) found in nature (b) made by engineers
  28. 28.🛠️ A scientist asks “why does it happen?”. An engineer mostly asks … (a) why is the sky blue? (b) what is for lunch? (c) who won the match? (d) how can we build it?
  29. 29.Which of these is made by engineers? (a) a ceiling fan (b) a banyan tree (c) a seashell (d) a cloud
  30. 30.True or false: a lift is made by engineers. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: a seashell is found in nature. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: a water filter is made by engineers. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🛠️ Is a cloud made by engineers or found in nature? (a) found in nature (b) made by engineers
  34. 34.True or false: a banyan tree is made by engineers. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a water filter (b) a mobile phone (c) a river (d) a lift
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a banyan tree (b) a volcano (c) a mountain (d) a dam
  37. 37.🛠️ Which of these is a problem an engineer could solve? (a) a road that floods (b) a lost cricket match (c) a sad song (d) a boring story
  38. 38.True or false: a seashell is made by engineers. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a dam (b) a seashell (c) a bicycle (d) a water filter
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a dam (b) a satellite (c) a bicycle (d) a mountain

Answer key

  1. found in nature
  2. a bicycle
  3. a coral reef
  4. True
  5. a volcano
  6. a lift
  7. False
  8. a volcano
  9. a telephone
  10. found in nature
  11. False
  12. a lift
  13. a microscope
  14. a cloud
  15. made by engineers
  16. a lift
  17. a water filter
  18. True
  19. a mobile phone
  20. understands the problem
  21. science
  22. see very tiny things
  23. False
  24. a dam
  25. a railway track
  26. True
  27. made by engineers
  28. how can we build it?
  29. a ceiling fan
  30. True
  31. True
  32. True
  33. found in nature
  34. False
  35. a river
  36. a dam
  37. a road that floods
  38. False
  39. a seashell
  40. a mountain

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