WorksheetsMachines
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
A machine is...
Apparatus consisting in interrelated parts with separated functions.
Apparatus consisting in many apparatus.
Apparatus consisting in many types of inventions and creations for one and only one purpose.
Apparatus consisting in a single kind of machine which is only simple or compound.
What do we use a machine for?
To dream about nice things.
To create new worlds.
To make a job easier.
To start a job.
Name the 2 important kinds of machines.
High and low.
Good and bad.
Dark and light.
Simple and compound.
What is a “simple machine”?
A machine with any moving parts.
A machine with few or not moving parts.
A machine with some moving parts at all!
A machine with many moving parts.
What is a compound machine?
A very simple machine with a complex machine.
A complex machine with only 1 piece.
An invented machine that is new and complicated.
A machine made up of several simple machines.
Which ones are the types of simple machines?
Lever, pulley, inclined plane, screws, wedge, wheel & axle.
Rotors, motors, engine, surges, heavy machinery.
Cables, stones, sticks, glue, tacks, boards.
Paper, rubber bands, pencil sharpeners, pencils.
What is a lever?
A simple machine with many different parts.
A simple machine made of an inclined board.
A simple machine made from a wheel.
A simple machine with a bar and a fulcrum.
Which one of these images is a lever...
What is a wedge...
An object with a soft side shaped as a “v”.
An object with a rounded side shaped as a “v”.
An object with at least one slanted side shaped as a “v”.
An object with a squared side shaped as a “v”.
Which one of the next images is a wedge...
What do we use the “wheel and axle” for?
To have peace.
To move things more difficultly
To move things more easily.
To move things the same way.
Which one of the next images show a wheel and an axle...
What is an “inclined plane”?
A plane that flies very high.
A surface that is straight with NO inclination, used to connect high levels with
A plane that is very short.
A flat, slanted surface used to connect higher levels with low ones.
Which one of the next images is an inclined plane...
What is a pulley?
A wheel on the bus that goes round and round.
A wheel that makes your life easier.
A wheel with no other moving part.
A wheel with a chain, rope or belt.
Which of the next images shoes a pulley...
What is a screw?
Inclined planes wrapped around a pole.
Straight planes wrapped around a pole.
Mobile planes wrapped around a pole.
Immobile planes wrapped around a pole.
Which of the next images shows a screw...
These are examples of simple machines...
Pencil, axe, wheel of a bus.
A car, an engine, a chainsaw.
A table, a drink, sugar.
Electricity, calories and kilograms.
These are examples of compound machines...
Electricity, kilograms, calories.
A pencil, an axe, a wheel.
An engine, a washing machine, a car.
A dog, a bird, a rhino.
