Infrastructure and civil engineering

Question 1

What is infrastructure?

Answer 1

Infrastructure is the physical structures and facilities that are needed for the the built environment.

Question 2

Name three types of infrastructure?

Answer 2

1) Roads
2) Bridges
3) Railways
4) Tunnels
5) Water supplies
6) Energy supplies
7) IT and telecommunications

Question 3

Infrastructure are ____ cost and take ____ amounts of time.

Answer 3

High and large

Question 4

Infrastructures are often a collaboration between _____ governments /___________ governments

Answer 4

local and national

Question 5

What are the three phases of any infrastructure?

Answer 5

Planning, design and construction phases

Question 6

The second stage of construction involves what?

Answer 6

Creating bridges and tunnels that take the line over low-lying ground and under high ground

Question 7

The water supplies are responsible for what?

Answer 7

Supplying clean water to households at adequate pressure.

Question 8

A mobile telephone does what?

Answer 8

It is a telephone that accesses a cellular radio system so that it can be used over wide areas without a physical connection