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WorksheetsThe REAL Mousetrap Racer Quizziz
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 2hrs 0mins
Metal rods that attached your wheels to one another and held the wheels on each racer. These spun when the string wound around them was pulled and unwound.
axles
string
spring
eyelet screws
The primary part of the mousetrap car that is powering your mouse trap vehicle and is basically the engine of your racer and what got power to the axles of your car:
axles
string
spring
eyelet screws
An essential material used to hold the axles on the body of your racer if you did not choose to drill holes in the wood to hold the axles in place on your racer:
axles
string
spring
eyelet screws
An essential material that linked the power of the spring of your mousetrap to the rear axle or drive axle of your mousetrap vehicle to transfer the unwinding of the spring and cause the rear drive axle to spin.
axles
string
spring
eyelet screws
A VARIABLE in our experiment to test how far our mousetrap vehicles traveled:
size of the wheels
The location of the starting line
The engine that powered each of our mousetrap cars, the mousetrap itself.
Length and width of the hallway where we tested
Access to materials
A VARIABLE in our experiment to test how far our mousetrap vehicles traveled:
Length and width of the hallway where we tested
The location of the starting line
The engine that powered each of our mousetrap cars, the mousetrap itself.
length of the string
Access to materials
A VARIABLE in our experiment to test how far our mousetrap vehicles traveled:
Length and width of the hallway where we tested
The location of the starting line
The engine that powered each of our mousetrap cars, the mousetrap itself.
Access to materials
length of the rod attached to the arm of the mousetrap spring
A CONTROL/CONSTANT in our experiment to test how far our mousetrap vehicles traveled:
length of the string
type of wheels
The engine that powered each of our mousetrap cars, the mousetrap itself.
measurements (length, width, height, mass) of mouse racers
length of the rod attached to the arm of the mousetrap spring
A CONTROL/CONSTANT in our experiment to test how far our mousetrap vehicles traveled:
Access to materials
type of wheels
length of the string
measurements (length, width, height, mass) of mouse racers
length of the rod attached to the arm of the mousetrap spring
A CONTROL/CONSTANT in our experiment to test how far our mousetrap vehicles traveled:
type of wheels
Length and width of the hallway where we tested how far our mousetrap vehicles would travel
length of the string
measurements (length, width, height, mass) of mouse racers
length of the rod attached to the arm of the mousetrap spring
The BEST wheels to use in this challenge were the ___________________ because they were the largest wheels available to most of us. Larger wheels require more force to turn once, but for every turn they make they give you greater distance than smaller wheels.
black plastic wheels
small paper wheels
large paper wheels
CD wheels
If the string of your vehicle was tied to the rear axle or did not come free of the rear drive axle of your vehicle after the string reached the end of unwinding, it would:
allow your mousetrap to roll and coast freely, making it go even farther
start quicker than other cars without string tied around the rear drive axle.
have a negative effect on the motion of your mousetrap vehicle, causing the racer to STOP and possibly even roll backwards a bit after it stopped.
suddenly flip over and blow up and burn.
What would happen to your mousetrap vehicle if you did not wind the string around the rear drive axle very tightly?
The car would begin very slowly and move smoothly to build up to full speed gradually, getting faster the farther as it moved down the hallway, until the string ran out and it would coast the rest of the way.
Your car would suddenly stop as it traveled down the hallway and possibly even roll backwards a bit after it stopped.
Your car would suddenly flip over and come to a complete stop.
When you released the rod connected to the mousetrap spring, it would fly upwards quickly and the string would unwind so fast that rear axle would not turn as much as if the string was wound tightly around the rear drive axle. The motion of the car would not travel as far as a result.
The tool we used to measure the MASS of our Mousetrap Racers was the:
meterstick
triple beam balance
metric ruler
pliers
We used a _________________________ to measure the distance that the mousetrap traveled if it stopped in the middle of a tile and added this measurement to the number of tiles to get their final total distance traveled each time.
meterstick
triple beam balance
metric ruler
pliers
The minimum required distance for a “successful” mousetrap car or cars that earned a grade of a 100 on the testing of their car was:
1,000 cm
20 cm
200 cm
2,000 cm
45.5 cm
Each tile in E Hall was ________________ long.
1,000 cm
20 cm
200 cm
2,000 cm
45.5 cm
The racers that traveled the farthest and were therefore the MOST successful, were those whose cars traveled over
1,000 cm
20 cm
200 cm
2,000 cm
45.5 cm
The most successful mousetrap cars that we observed:
moved in very spastic, jerky, abrupt movements and released their string in an unpredictable manner
traveled very quickly at first, but slowed down the farther they traveled
started off with a sudden burst of speed, jumping forward immediately and then used this sudden start as momentum to cruise the rest of the way down the hall
began very slowly and moved smoothly to build up to full speed gradually, getting faster the farther they moved down the hallway, until their string ran out and they coasted the rest of the way.
Which of the following was an essential TOOL required to build a successful mousetrap car?
band saw to cut the wooden body
metal cutting pliers for cutting the mousetrap arm
drill press to drill holes for the axle
hammer to nail in nails
Mousetrap cars convert or transfer the _______________________ energy of the wound up spring on the mousetrap, into _________________________ energy as the spring is unwound as it is released.
chemical to mechanical
kinetic to potential
potential to kinetic
nuclear to electrical
No matter how well you built your mousetrap car, eventually two forces working against it would cause it come to a stop as it traveled down the hallway. What were these two forces working against every car, no matter how awesome the design and build of the car were?
friction and magnetism
gravity and torque
gravity and friction
friction and torque
Which of the following was an essential TOOL required to build a successful mousetrap car?
Band Saw
glue- hot or wood
Disc/Belt Sander
Drill Press
If you did not pay attention or account for how straight your CD wheels were glued on or how much your axles slid side to side in the eyelet screws as your mousetrap vehicle traveled down the hallway, what unintended consequence could occur to make your mousetrap car not travel as far down the hallway?
The car would begin very slowly and move smoothly to build up to full speed gradually, getting faster the farther as it moved down the hallway, until the string ran out and it would coast the rest of the way.
Your car would suddenly flip over and come to a complete stop.
Your car would suddenly stop as it traveled down the hallway and possibly even roll backwards a bit after it stopped.
The mousetrap vehicle could pull to the left or right, or drift to the side as it travels down the hall, eventually running into a wall and halting or limiting its ability to continue traveling forward down the hall. This would result in a shorter distance traveled than if the car went more or less straight ahead
