Bridge Vocabulary

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Use your notes and memory to help you complete this crossword puzzle on bridge history, terminology, and construction.

  1. I am the weight of the bridgedead load
  2. I am anything that crosses the bridgelive load
  3. I am the distance from one support to another supportspan
  4. I am the most basic of all bridgesbeam
  5. I am among the strongest of all bridgesarch
  6. I can span very long distances. The Golden Gate Bridge is an example of mesuspension
  7. I can span medium distances using ables from towers to my deck.cable stayed
  8. I am the bridge roadwaydeck
  9. I help hold the bridge upsupport
  10. I am built from each side and meet in the middlecantilever
  11. I am probably the most famous suspension bridge in the worldgolden gate
  12. I am the force that pushed downcompression
  13. I am the force that pushed outtension
  14. I had a nursery rhyme made about melondon bridge
  15. People live on me or shop on meinhabited bridge
  16. I can be added above or below a bridgetruss
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