Make sure you have understood everything in this section (Lessons D5, D6, D7, D8, D9, and D10).
Use the Self-Check below, and the Self-Check & Lesson Review Tips to guide your learning.
This is also a good time to visit your Section 2 Checklist to make sure you have completed all the recommended learning activities.

Unit D Section 2 Self-Check

Instructions


Complete the following 6 steps. Don't skip steps – if you do them in order, you will confirm your understanding of this section and create a study bank for the future.

  1. DOWNLOAD the self-check quiz by clicking here.

  2. ANSWER all the questions on the downloaded quiz in the spaces provided. Think carefully before typing your answers. Review the lessons of this section if you need to. Save your quiz when you are done.

  3. COMPARE your answers with the suggested "Self-Check Quiz Answers" below. WAIT! You didn't skip step 2, did you? It's very important to carefully write out your own answers before checking the suggested answers.

  4. REVISE your quiz answers if you need to. If you answered all the questions correctly, you can skip this step. Revise means to change, fix, and add extra notes if you need to. This quiz is NOT FOR MARKS, so it is perfectly OK to correct any mistakes you made. This will make your self-check quiz an excellent study tool you can use later.

  5. SAVE your quiz to a folder on your computer, or to your Private Files. That way you will know where it is for later studying.

  6. CHECK with your teacher if you need to. If after completing all these steps you are still not sure about the questions or your answers, you should ask for more feedback from your teacher. To do this, post in the Course Questions Forum, or send your teacher an email. In either case, attach your completed quiz and ask; "Can you look at this quiz and give me some feedback please?" They will be happy to help you!

Self-Check Time!

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Self-Check Quiz Answers

Click each of the suggested answers below, and carefully compare your answers to the suggested answers.

If you have not done the quiz yet – STOP – and go back to step 1 above. Do not look at the answers without first trying the questions.

Static loads stay the same; they do not move. On a highway interchange bridge, the static load is the weight of the materials used to build the bridge. This includes materials such as steel, concrete, and/or asphalt that are in the supports of the bridge as well as the bridge deck.
Dynamic loads change. Dynamic loads on a pedestrian bridge include the weight of people, bicycles, and/or baby strollers using the bridge. Other dynamic loads that engineers must consider are the forces of winds and possible earthquakes.
The roof frame is made from triangles. A triangle distributes a load more evenly across the sides of the triangle, which makes it resistant to deformation. The roof also forms a slight curved dome shape. The dome shape transfers the load to the bottom of the roof frame. The combination of the triangle and dome shapes makes this roof very strong.
You should be concerned about bending force. The weight of clothing pulls down on the rod. This produces tension on the bottom part of the clothes rod and compression on the top part of the clothes rod. Tension and compression working together cause bending.
The Library of Parliament has arched windows. The arches transfer the load from the stone building down sides of the arches to the ground. Buttresses surround the library, providing additional support to the arches in the building. The roof of the library is a dome, which transfers the load from the roof down through the rest of the structure.