Vocabulary
Energy
Work
Power
Machines
Miscellaneous
100

A push or a pull

What is force?

100

A diver on top of a diving board is an example of ___________ energy.

What is potential energy?

100
Two students who are similar in size walk up the same set of stairs. They are doing _________________ amount of work.
What is the same!
100
The two factors of power are work and ________________.
What is time.
100

Two inclined planes together, like a knife

What is a wedge?

100

In what direction does an applied force move an object?

In the same direction as the force. 

200

Stored energy

What is potential energy?

200
A car rolling down a hill is an example of _____________________ energy.
What is kinetic energy
200
Work = ____________________ x ___________________
What is FORCE x DISTANCE
200
Power is measured in _____________________.
What is watts.
200
Give an example of a pulley.
What is a flag pole, crane, blinds for a window...
200

Name an example of work

various answers, such as picking up a box off the floor, pushing a box across the floor, or raising a toy over your head. 

300

The units of force

What are Newtons?

300

A person skiing down a slope is ______________________ potential energy, and ____________________ kinetic energy.

What is losing potential energy and gaining kinetic energy

300
Holding a stack of books - work or not?
What is not doing work
300
The _________________ amount of time it takes to do work, the more power is produced.
What is shorter
300

What is the front of a ship considered?

What is a wedge.

300

What is a watt equal too? 

a joule divided by a second

400

the combination of 2 or more simple machines working together

What is compound machine

400

Which property of potential energy distinguishes it from kinetic energy? 

shape and position

400
Pushing against a wall is an example of doing work. True/False
What is false - not moving over a distance!
400
Two cars that weigh the same race up the hill. Car 1 gets there twice as fast as Car 2. Which car had more power?
What is car 1
400

Name both simple machines in a stapler.

What is a lever (handle) and wedge (staple).

400

Which simple machine makes up scissors? 

Two Levers and two wedges

500

How much work is performed per unit time

What is power?

500

The ability to do work

What is energy?

500
A monster truck and a golf cart climb up the same hill. Which does more work
What is the monster truck - because it weighs more!
500

Power = ___________________/ ___________________

What is WORK/ TIME

500

These are the six types of simple machine

What are the pulley, wedge, inclined plane, wheel and axle, screw and lever?

500

When does a ball have the most kinetic energy when it is dropped from he top of a building? 

What is right before it hit the ground

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