Simple Machines
Forces
Electricity
Metals
Famous scientists
100
A see saw is an example.
What is a lever?
100
Examples of a non-contact force.
What is magnetism and gravity?
100
The shock you get after you have been jumping on the trampoline.
What is static electricity?
100
Despite not being very hard and being very heavy this metal is popular in jewelry making because of its unusual colour.
What is gold?
100
Famous for his theory or relativity and e=mc2
Who is Albert Einstein?
200
Used by sail ships to hoist the sails.
What is a pulley?
200
When two objects rub together.
What is friction?
200
Metals are good ________ of electricity.
What is a conductor?
200
Iron does this when exposed to oxygen in the air (and water).
What is rust?
200
Naturalist that traveled to New Zealand on the H.M.S. Beagle and wrote On the Origin of the Species?
Who is Charles Darwin?
300
A steering wheel in a car is an example.
What is a wheel and axle?
300
Direction and net force
What is 100N force to the left <---
300
Electrical wires are covered in plastic because they are a good ________ of electricity.
What is a good insulator of electricity?
300
Can be beaten into shapes.
What is malleable?
300
French/Polish scientist who conducted groundbreaking research on radioactivity. The element curium is named after her and her husband Pierre.
Who is Marie Curie?
400
Split an object in two. Axes are an example.
What is a wedge?
400
What a moving object will do when the forces are balanced.
What is constant speed?
400
A ________ is represented by this symbol in a circuit diagram.
What is a lamp?
400
Can be drawn out into wires.
What is ductile?
400
An apple fell on his head, prompting him to come up with his law of gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
500
Ramps and screws are an example.
What is an inclined plane?
500
What an object will do when the thrust force becomes greater than the drag force.
What is accelerate/speed up?
500
Electricity is the movement of ____________.
What are electrons?
500
A property of metals that causes them to make a ringing sound when struck.
What is sonorous?
500
New Zealand born scientist that was the first to spit the atom.
Who is Earnest Rutherford?