What do we call the gear connected to the input power source, such as a motor?

What do we call the gear connected to the output, such as a wheel or mechanism in a system?

When you have a system with a driving gear that is _______ than the driven gear you will increase torque and decrease speed.

When you have a system with a driving gear that is LARGER than the driven gear you will ___________________

Gear reduction is seen as a fraction that is often reduced to simplify the expression. Gear reduction: 40 / 12 gets reduced to

_________have NO EFFECT on Gear Ratio or Gear Reduction, regardless of the number of teeth they have.

All gears in between the driving gear and the driven gear that only transmit power are known as ______

Compound Gear Reduction and is calculated by _________the gear reductions of each of the individual gear pairs.

In a bicycle the biggest gear is the

To optimize the performance of our kinetic cars the driven wheels should be connected with the _________ gears

To optimize the performance of our kinetic cars the driving gear is where the elastic band gets wound up and it needs to be _____________ than the driven gear.

True or False:

A gear ratio is the ratio of the number of rotations of a driver gear to the number of rotations of a driven gear.

The __________ Gear causes motion

The idler gear allows the driven and driving gears to rotate in the same _______

The rpm of the bigger gear is always ______ than the rpm of the smaller gear.

Gears locked together on the same shaft will always turn in the same _______ and at the same rpm.

What is the gear ratio with a driving gear with 40 teeth and a driven gear with 8 teeth?

What is the Gear Ratio of a driven gear with 8 teeth and a driving gear with 32 teeth?

When you have a system with a driving gear that is LARGER than the driven gear you will increase Speed and decrease _____

True or False: Two meshed gears always rotate in opposite directions

If two gear wheels are mounted on a common shaft then it's a ________ Gear Train.

The ______ gear is always the driving gear

The ____ gear is used to convert between rotary and linear motion

____ gears are used to transfer drive on a 90 degrees angle.

Which of the following are benefits of gears?

_____ are directly driven by a motor

The most common gear is the _____ gear with straight teeth, mounted parallel

The teeth of ______ Gears are cut at an angle for smoother transition

______ Gears are used for large gear reductions (20:1, 100:1)

Which statement is true?

Will a drive gear with 10 teeth and a driven gear of 35 teeth produce more torque or speed?

Wheels with mating teeth can turn each other without ________

Which of the following items do not have gears?

A _______ is a wheel with teeth that meshes with another similar gear that is typically larger or smaller.

Which of the following use gears?

The _____ gear doesn't change the gear ratio

_________ is a rotational force, that is, a force that causes rotation and not forward movement.

_______ gears transmit rotations in perpendicular directions, that is, their axles are perpendicular, like bevel gears.

If you need to move fast, then

use a smaller _______ gear.