Forces Screws & Levers Who Am I? True or False Name Game
A push or a pull.
What is a Force
A Simple Machine does this
What is makes work easier
Can change the effort or direction of forces
What is a machine
Machines make work easier by doing this to forces
What is multiplying force
The amount of force is measured in this
What are Newtons
The point around which a lever moves
What is the fulcrum
The distance between the thread on a screw
What is the pitch
Class of lever where the fulcrum is in the middle
What is First Class Lever
Class of lever where the effort is in the middle
What is Third Class Lever
Class of lever where the load is in the middle
What is Second Class Lever
An inclined plane wrapped around a shaft
What is a screw
Two or more simple machines combined
What are Compound Machines
Type of pulley that only changes the direction of the force.
What is a fixed pulley
I am forced into or between objects to raise or split them
What is a Wedge.
Name the 3 simple machines that have an inclined plane
What are the screw, inclined plane, and wedge
Inclined planes can be used to raise loads.
What is True
In a wedge there is no change in the direction of a force
What is False.
A single movable pulley moves down when a load is raised by it.
What False.
A bicycle is a simple machine.
What is False.
In a second class lever, the load is in the middle.
What is True.
Wheelchair Ramp
Inclined Plane
Hockey Stick
Lever
Nail
Wedge
Doorknob
Wheel & Axle
Screwdriver
Lever