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History of Building Technology MCQ

Who wrote the first surviving treatise on architecture?

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Correct Answer: Vitruvius

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How much is known about Roman building construction?

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Correct Answer: An enormous amount

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What is the oldest construction drawing?

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Correct Answer: The Temple of Apollo at Didyma

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Who is credited with inventing the lathe?

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Correct Answer: The ancient Egyptians

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What is the study of Ancient Egyptian technology called?

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Correct Answer: Egyptology

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How did the Egyptians achieve their extraordinary feats of engineering?

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Correct Answer: With relatively primitive technology

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What was the material used for construction of grand buildings?

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Correct Answer: Stone

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Where is the Ramesseum located?

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Correct Answer: Egypt

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What is Adobe construction?

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Correct Answer: Sun-baked mud brick construction

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How many visitors does the Louvre Museum get per year?

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Correct Answer: Millions

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What is the name of the largest museum in Iran?

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Correct Answer: Tehran archaeological museum

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What is the Susa?

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Correct Answer: A city in the lower Zagros Mountains

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Arch is a term associated with which of the following?

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Correct Answer: Vertical curved structure

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What was used for pavement?

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Correct Answer: Fired bricks and stone

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What is a brick?

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Correct Answer: A type of block used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.

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What is Adobe?

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Correct Answer: A building material made from earth and organic materials

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What was the chief building material in ancient times?

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Correct Answer: Mud-brick

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What is firebrick?

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Correct Answer: A kind of brick used for high temperature

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What is the span distance?

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Correct Answer: The distance between two structural supports

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What is a Hip Roof?

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Correct Answer: Roof that has four sloping sides

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What is Rip-rap Stone?

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Correct Answer: Stone placed on a slope to prevent erosion

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What is the process of removing concrete forms from the cured concrete called?

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Correct Answer: Stripping

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What is a Filipino term for the bottom chord?

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Correct Answer: Tirante

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What is the Filipino term for plastered course?

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Correct Answer: Kusturada

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What is the Filipino term for rabbet?

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Correct Answer: Vaciada

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What is the Filipino term for floor joist?

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Correct Answer: Soleras

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What is a Cold Joint?

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Correct Answer: Joint formed when a concrete surface hardens before the next batch of concrete is placed against it

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What is an expansion joint?

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Correct Answer: A joint used for adjoining existing building to new building

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What is the purpose of an eaves?

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Correct Answer: To protect the walls and foundation of the house from rainwater

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What is a cantilever beam?

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Correct Answer: A beam that projects beyond one or both of its supports

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What is a Hybrid Girder?

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Correct Answer: A plate girder consisting of tees, angles and multiple web

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What does HGS stand for?

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Correct Answer: Hybrid Girder Special

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For which purpose was the Intramuros wall built?

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Correct Answer: Fortification

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What is a baluster?

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Correct Answer: Vertical member in a railing used between a top rail and bottom rail or the stair treads

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What is the definition for "backset"?

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Correct Answer: Horizontal distance from the face of a lock or latch to the center of the knob or lock cylinder

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What is the definition of an alloy?

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Correct Answer: Composition of two or more metals fused together usually to obtain a desired property

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What is a Tryolean Finish?

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Correct Answer: Rough plaster finish obtained by flinging plaster on a wall with a hand operated machine

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What is Balloon Framing?

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Correct Answer: A system of framing a building in which the studs are continuous to roof supporting second floor joints

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What is Foundation Wall?

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Correct Answer: Part of the building foundation which forms the permanent retaining wall of the structure below grade

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What is a Dado Groove?

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Correct Answer: A groove cut into a board to receive the edge of a connecting board

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What is the shape of a Pantile Roofing tile?

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Correct Answer: "S"

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What is a hand plane?

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Correct Answer: A tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting blade over the wood surface.

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What is the name of the new woodworking tool?

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Correct Answer: Hand-plane

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What is steel made up of?

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Correct Answer: Iron with typically a few tenths of a percent of carbon

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What is the purpose of tempering?

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Correct Answer: To increase the toughness of iron-based alloys

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When did the Iron Age take place?

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Correct Answer: 1200 BC to 50 BC

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Iron tools and weapons were first used in which cultural period?

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Correct Answer: Iron Age

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What is a beehive tomb?

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Correct Answer: A tomb with a corbelled arch

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What is the name of the new tool developed in the copper age?

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Correct Answer: Saw

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What is the process of creating bronze sculptures?

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Correct Answer: Bronze is cast into desired shapes

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Which metal came into use first, copper or bronze?

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Correct Answer: Copper

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What is the difference between bronze and brass?

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Correct Answer: Bronze is an alloy made when tin is added to copper, and brass is copper with zinc.

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What is the Bronze Age?

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Correct Answer: The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC

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What is the Copper Age?

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Correct Answer: The early part of the Bronze Age

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What is the Copper Age characterized by?

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Correct Answer: Regular human manipulation of copper

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What is the Copper Age also called?

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Correct Answer: The Chalcolithic

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How many years ago was Eridu first inhabited?

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Correct Answer: Archaeological site

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What are Neolithic villages large enough to have rural and urban features called?

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Correct Answer: Proto-cities

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What is a land surveying professional called?

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Correct Answer: A land surveyor.

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What is tongue and groove used for?

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Correct Answer: Fitting similar objects together, edge to edge

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What is a mortise and tenon joint?

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Correct Answer: A joint that connects two pieces of wood or other material.

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What is the name of the building system where strong horizontal elements are held up by strong vertical elements with large spaces between them?

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Correct Answer: Post and lintel

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What is the process known as when woodhenge is translated into stone?

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Correct Answer: Petrification

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What is Woodhenge?

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Correct Answer: A Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument

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Where is Stonehenge located?

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Correct Answer: Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England

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What is the most remarkable Neolithic structure in Western Europe?

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Correct Answer: Stonehenge

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What is the time period of Neolithic architecture?

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Correct Answer: 10,000 to 2,000 BC

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In archaeology, what is a posthole?

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Correct Answer: A cut feature used to hold a surface timber or stone

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What was the Neolithic long house?

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Correct Answer: A long, narrow timber dwelling built by the first farmers in Europe

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What was the largest structure of the Neolithic period?

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Correct Answer: Neolithic long house

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What is Jericho?

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Correct Answer: A Palestinian city in the West Bank

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Where were the first mud bricks found?

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Correct Answer: Jericho

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What is the earliest date mudbricks are known from?

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Correct Answer: 9000 BCE

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What is a mudbrick?

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Correct Answer: A brick made of a mixture of loam, mud, sand, and water.

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When was Skara Brae built?

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Correct Answer: Neolithic

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What is the Scottish term for dry stone?

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Correct Answer: Drystane

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What is Vernacular architecture?

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Correct Answer: Building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance.

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What is the state of being in which a person or organization needs little or no help from others?

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Correct Answer: Self-sustainability

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What is a hut?

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Correct Answer: A small dwelling, which may be constructed of various local materials.

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What is a cave dweller also known as?

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Correct Answer: Troglodyte

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What is a rock shelter?

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Correct Answer: A shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff.

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What is a troglodyte?

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Correct Answer: A human being who inhabits a cave or the area beneath the overhanging rocks of a cliff.

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What are historic roads?

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Correct Answer: Paths or routes that have historical importance due to their use over a period of time.

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What is a bridge?

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Correct Answer: A structure built to span a physical obstacle without blocking the way underneath.

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When were the first bridges made by humans?

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Correct Answer: Wooden logs across a stream

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What were some of the building materials used in the past?

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Correct Answer: Bones, hide, stone, metal, bark, bamboo, clay, lime plaster, and more

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What is the name of the tool that was used to scrape or chop?

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Correct Answer: Flake tool

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What is a stone tool?

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Correct Answer: A tool made either partially or entirely out of stone.

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What can be used to create a bone tool?

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Correct Answer: Any bone

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What is a bone tool?

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Correct Answer: A tool created from bone

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What was the first material used to make tools?

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Correct Answer: Bone

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What did the tools available during the Stone Age primarily consist of?

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Correct Answer: Natural materials

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What is the Old World archaeological period that immediately follows the Stone Age?

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Correct Answer: Neolithic period

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What is the art and technique of designing and building called?

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Correct Answer: Architecture

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What is history?

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Correct Answer: The study and documentation of the past.

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What is the definition of urban sprawl?

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Correct Answer: The spreading of urban developments on undeveloped land near a city.

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Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with what?

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Correct Answer: The design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment

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What is the main purpose of structural engineering?

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Correct Answer: To design the 'bones and muscles' that create the form and shape of man-made structures.

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What is the history of construction related to?

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Correct Answer: Structural engineering, civil engineering, city growth and population growth

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