Vocabulary
Simple Machines
Simple Machines II
Compound Machines
Simple Machines III
100

A push or a pull on an object that causes it to move.

What is force?

100

Which simple machine has a fulcrum as the balance point?

What is a lever?

100

What is the rod that goes through the wheels called?

What is an axle?

100

These machines have 2 or more simple machines.

What is a compound machine?

100

Name an object that has a pulley system.

What is a flagpole, a blind, a clothesline, a crane?

200

What unit is the measurement used for work?

What is Joules?

200

Which simple machine has a grooved wheel with a rope or a chain that goes around the wheel?

What is a pulley?

200

What are the metal spirals on a screw called?

What are threads?

200

A pair of scissors is made of which 3 simple machines.

What are levers, wedges, and a screw?

200

Name an object that is a lever.

What are your arm, seesaw, hammer, shovel, door handles, lightswitch?

300

What is a simple machine?

A machine that has few or no moving parts.


300

Which simple machine has a slope that has one end higher than another?

What is an inclined plane?

300

What unit measures power?

What is a watt?

300

Name at least 3 simple machines found on a bicycle. 

What are wheel and axles, screws, levers, gears, and a pulley?

300

Name 2 objects that are wedges.

What are push pins, nails, knives, forks, teeth?

400

The rubbing of one object against another causes this.

What is friction?

400

These wheels have teeth.

What are gears?

400

This word is used to measure work.

What is a Joule?

400

A bottle opener to take a cork out has which 2 simple machines?

What are a lever and a screw?

400

Name an object that is a screw?

What are a lightbulb, a jar lid, a hose nozzle, spiral staircase?

500

What is the formula used to calculate work?

What is work equals force times distance?

W = F x D

500

Which simple machine has two inclined planes joined together to cut or split things apart?

What is a wedge?

500

This is a rod with an inclined plane wrapped around it.

What is a screw?

500

Name 4 simple machines on a pizza cutter.

What are lever, screw, wedge, and wheel and axle?

500

Name an object that is an inclined plane.

What is a ramp, stairs, escalator, slide?

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