Vocabulary
A push or a pull on an object that causes it to move.
What is force?
Which simple machine has a fulcrum as the balance point?
What is a lever?
What is the rod that goes through the wheels called?
What is an axle?
These machines have 2 or more simple machines.
What is a compound or complex machine?
Name an object that has a pulley system.
What is a flagpole, a blind, a clothesline, a crane?
Holds things together
What is a screw?
Which simple machine has a grooved wheel with a rope or a chain that goes around the wheel?
What is a pulley?
This is a rod with an inclined plane wrapped around it.
What is screw?
A pair of scissors is made of 3 simple machines; name at least two.
What are levers, wedges, and a screw?
This simple machine has a load, effort, and fulcrum
What is a lever?
What is a simple machine?
A machine or tool that reduces the workload.
Which simple machine has a slope that has one end higher than another?
What is an inclined plane?
A bicycle is an example
What is a compound machine?
Name at least 3 simple machines found on a bicycle.
What are wheel and axles, screws, levers, gears, and a pulley?
This class lever has the load in the middle; like a wheelbarrow.
What is a second class lever?
The rubbing of one object against another causes this.
What is friction?
A circular object rotating on a cylinder
What is a wheel and axle?
Determines the type of lever.
What is a fulcrum?
A bottle opener to take a cork out has which 2 simple machines?
What are a lever and a screw?
True or false - A wedge and a wheel and axle are examples of an inclined plane
Correct statement if you think it is false!
What is false?
What is a wedge and screw?
Force times distance
What is work?
Which simple machine has two inclined planes joined together to cut or split things apart?
What is a wedge?
This class lever has the fulcrum in the middle.
What is a 1st class lever?
Name 3 simple machines on a pizza cutter.
What are lever, screw, wedge, and wheel and axle?
Cogs on a gear.
What are teeth?