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Grade 8 Technology

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name the six basic machines:

a)

Pulley, couch, wedge, wheel and axle, inclined plane, screw

b)

Pulley, lever, wedge, wheel and axle, inclined plane, screw

c)

Pulley, lever, wedge, wheel and axle, inclined plane, hammer

d)

Mug, couch, wedge, wheel and axle, inclined plane, pulley

2.

What type of machine is the following?

a)

Wheel and axle

b)

Inclined plane

c)

Lever

d)

Screw

3.

What type of machine is the following?

a)

Lever

b)

Inclined plane

c)

Screw

d)

Wheel and axle

4.

What type of machine is the following?

a)

Screw

b)

Wedge

c)

Inclined plane

d)

Lever

5.

What is a complex machine?

a)

Complex machines are marshmallows that are formed by the combination of two or more sweet machines.

b)

Complex machines are machines that are formed by the combination of two or more complex machines.

c)

Complex machines are machines that are formed by the combination of two or more simple machines.

d)

Complex machines are machines that are formed by the combination of two or more big machines.

6.

Bicycles with bigger wheels can travel much (a)   than a smaller bicycle.

7.

The front wheel of a bicycle is called a_______

a)

Small wheel

b)

Driver wheel

c)

Driven wheel

d)

Free-running wheel

8.

The back wheel of a bicycle is called a_______

a)

Free-running wheel

b)

Driver wheel

c)

Driven wheel

d)

Big wheel

9.

When the teeth of two gears touch so that the gears turn together, you say that the two gears _________.

a)

Touch

b)

Turn

c)

Mesh

d)

Fetch

10.

Any two gears that mesh turn in opposite directions. This is called _________.

a)

Counter rotation

b)

Rotating

c)

Meshing

d)

Counter mesh

11.

For a wheel to turn, it has to turn around something that is at the

center of it = _______

a)

lever

b)

axle

c)

wheel

d)

wedge

12.

A sloping ramp up which heavy loads can be raised by ropes or chains

a)

Lever

b)

Wedge

c)

Inclined plane

d)

Wheel and axle

13.

A rigid bar resting on a pivot, used to move a heavy or firmly fixed load with one end when pressure is applied to the other.

a)

Wedge

b)

Lever

c)

Wheel and axle

d)

Inclined plane

14.

A wheel with a grooved rim around which a cord passes, which acts to change the direction of a force applied to the cord and is used to raise heavy weights.

a)

Lever

b)

Inclined plane

c)

Wedge

d)

Pulley

15.

What combination of basic machines is in a wheelbarrow?

a)

Lever and a pulley

b)

Lever and an inclined plane

c)

Lever, wheel and axle

d)

Wedge and a pulley