Mean Machines
Simple Stuff
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This machine has only a few parts.
What is a simple machine?
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A long bar with a support.
What is a LEVER?
100
A doorknob is an example of this.
What is a wheel and axle?
100
A wheel with a rope, wire, or chain.
What is a pulley?
100
A ramp
What is an inclined plane?
200
It has many parts and pieces.
What is a complex machine?
200
The 3 parts of a lever.
What is the fulcrum, load, and effort (force)?
200
This part of the pencil sharpener is the wheel.
What is the handle/crank?
200
Multiple pulleys (INCREASE/DECREASE) the amount of effort needed to life a load.
What is DECREASE?
200
Two inclined planes put together.
What is a wedge?
300
Pushing or pulling to move an object or make a change.
What is WORK?
300
When the fulcrum is (CLOSE TO/FARTHER FROM) the load, less effort can be applied to the lever.
What is CLOSE TO?
300
2 things that contain an inclined plane.
What is a screw and wedge?
300
You use less force when an inclined plane does this.
What is an inclined plane that slowly goes up over a greater distance.
300
The support on which a simple machine rests.
What is a fulcrum?
400
The 6 simple machines.
What is a lever, wheel & axle, pulley, inclined plane, screw, and wedge?
400
This group has the fulcrum in between the effort and the load of a lever.
What is Group 1?
400
Wheels with spikes.
What are gears?
400
You drag a 20 pound box and a 10 pound box up ramps that incline over the same amount of distance to a truck. ________ box/es is/are heavier.
The 20 pound box.
400
Two simple machines found on a garden shears.
What is a lever and wedge?
500
This can change the direction of force.
What is a simple machine?
500
This is an example of a lever from group 2
What is a nutcracker, wheelbarrel, etc.?
500
An ice tongs is part of this group.
What is group 3?
500
An auger is a type of this.
What is a screw?
500
The 3 simple machines in a can opener.
What is a lever (handles), wedge (sharp edge), and wheel and axle (crank)?
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