Simple Machines Vocab 1 & 2

the use of force to move an object over a distance.

• Work

• Simple machines

• Fulcrum

• Lever

a machine with few or no moving parts to which you apply just one force.

• Work

• Simple Machine

• Fulcrum

• Lever

a bar that pivots on a fixed point.

• Simple Machine

• Work

• Lever

• Fulcrum

the fixed balance point on a lever.

• Simple Machine

• Work

• Fulcrum

• Lever

A simple machine made of a wheel with a line around it.

• Lever

• Pulley

• Wheel and Axle

• Wedge

a simple machine made of a wheel and an axle that turn together

• Pulley

• Wedge

• Wheel and Axle

• Inclined plane

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-1

a simple machine that is a slanted surface

• Inclined plane

• Pulley

• Wedge

• Lever

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

A simple machine made of a post with an inclined plane wrapped around it

• Wedge

• Screw

• Lever

• Wheel and axle

A simple machine made of two inclined planes placed back to back-to-back

• Wheel and axle

• Wedge

• Lever

• Pulley

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-2