Force Vocabulary Test

A machine with few or no moving parts

• Compound Machine

• Simple Machine

• Fulcrum

• Weight

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

A bar that pivots, or turns on a fixed point

• Wheel and Axle

• Screw

• Scissors

• Lever

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-1

The use of a force to move an object in the same direction

• Screw

• Force

• Work

• Weight

Two inclined planes placed back to back

• Wedge

• Weight

• Gravity

• Screw

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

This tool is made up of a wheel and an axle

• Lever

• Pulley

• Wheel and Axle

• Incline Plane

The fixed point on a lever is called a

• Fulcrum

• Force

• Gravity

• Pulley

A force that pulls objects towards each other

• Weight

• Gravity

• Work

• Fulcrum

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

A wheel with a rope, cord, or chain around it

• Lever

• Fulcrum

• Screw

• Pulley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

A plane that is slanted so that one end is higher than the other

• Screw

• Decline Plane

• Incline Plane

• Lever

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

A incline plane wrapped around a shaft or a cylinder

• Lever

• Wedge

• Screw

• Pulley

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2