The teeth of this gear are cut at an angle and are often used in cars.
What is a Helical Gear?
100
A wheel with teeth around the outside.
What is a Gear?
100
In our gear experiment, what gear turned the most? Why?
What is the Small Gear because it has the most number of teeth.
100
The spooky animated character that you are creating in math
What is an Animatronic?
200
Using a simple machine makes your work easier.
What is Mechanical Advantage?
200
This gear has a round gear called a Pinion and a straight gear called a rack. This type of gear is used to help trains get up steep hills.
What is a Rack and Pinion Gear?
200
Why gears work together with other gears.
What is changing speed, changing force, or changing direction?
200
Suppose the first gear in a system has five teeth. How many teeth should the second gear have if you want to get one turn from it for every two turns of the first gear?
What is 10 teeth?
200
One of the names of Ms. Adams' cats.
Who is Olivia?
300
This pulley system does not make the object feel any lighter, but it is easier to lift because you can pull down.
What is One Fixed Pulley?
300
This is the most common gear that is joined together side by side.
What is the Spur Gear?
300
The gear that rotates more quickly and with increased speed.
What is the smaller gear?
300
An example of a gear in our classroom.
What is the pencil sharpener, clock, laptops or projector
300
The building that royalty lives in that you are creating in Social Studies.
What is a Castle?
400
In this pulley system, the load of the object being lifted is shared, halving the amount of force it takes to lift the object.
What is a Moveable Pulley or Two Pulleys?
400
These gears help you turn a corner working at 90 degree angles.
What is a Bevel Gear?
400
Name three examples of how gears are used in our world.
What is a washing machine, bicycle, ferris wheel, car, xbox, or wind turbines.
400
Used in a clock to help move the hands.
What is a gear?
400
This holiday falls on Sunday, March 27th this year.
What is Easter?
500
One pulley holding a paint can on one side and a jug on the other.
What is A Fixed Pulley System?
500
This gear is efficient at decreasing speed and increasing force.
What is a Worm Gear?
500
When you have two gears of the same size, will they turn in the same direction or opposite directions?