G6 Simple Machines & Vocab Review

devices with few or no moving parts that make work easier

• mechanical advantage

• compound machines

• simple machines

• wheel and axle

Match the following

• Inclined Plane

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• Wedge

• 
• Pulley

• 
• Wheel and Axle

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makes something easier to do, but takes a little longer to do it

• simple machines

• mechanical advantage

• compound machine

• inclined plane

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a simple machine that consists of a beam, a fulcrum, a load, and effort (or force)

• inclined plane

• lever

• pulley

• screw

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A​ (a)   is essentially an ​ (b)   wrapped around a shaft.

• inclined plane
• screw
• pulley
• lever

A (a)   is a device that combines two or more ​ (b)   .

• compound machine
• simple machines
• mechanical advantage
• wheel and axle

A SCREW is basically a/an (a)   wrapped around a ​ (b)   .

• inclined plane
• shaft
• wedge
• mechanical advantage

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a machine that uses a chain reaction to carry out a simple task

• Rube Goldberg Machine

• simple machine

• compound machine

• chain reaction

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a series of events, each of which causes the next

• Rube Goldberg Machine

• chain reaction

• simple machine

• inclined plane

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This is the energy of motion.

• moving energy

• kinetic energy

• potential energy

• Rube Goldberg Machine

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