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This document describes and identifies different types of simple machines: wheel and axle, screw, pulley, lever, wedge, inclined plane. It provides examples of each machine and pictures where the machine must be identified. It also includes a crossword puzzle using simple machine terms and diagrams of levers where the load, effort and fulcrum must be labeled. The document asks questions about how a wedge is similar to and different from an inclined plane, what machine contains a fulcrum, how a bathtub floor is an inclined plane, why doorknobs are placed far from the fulcrum, and which simple machine is most essential in everyday life.

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Simple Machine

This document describes and identifies different types of simple machines: wheel and axle, screw, pulley, lever, wedge, inclined plane. It provides examples of each machine and pictures where the machine must be identified. It also includes a crossword puzzle using simple machine terms and diagrams of levers where the load, effort and fulcrum must be labeled. The document asks questions about how a wedge is similar to and different from an inclined plane, what machine contains a fulcrum, how a bathtub floor is an inclined plane, why doorknobs are placed far from the fulcrum, and which simple machine is most essential in everyday life.

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SIMPLE MACHINES

II. ANSWER WHAT IS ASKED.

A. Identify the simple machine being described.


a. This reduces the friction of moving objects. WHEEL AND AXLE
b. This hold things together. SCEW
c. This uses a rope and can change the direction of a force. PULLEY
d. This is similar to a seesaw that can lift an object. LEVER
e. This can split an object apart. WEDGE
f. This simple machine is found on the head of this ax. WEDGE
g. The bottle cap is an example of this simple machine. SCREW
h. The door knob and rod make up this simple machine. WHEEL AND AXLE
i. The screwdriver is an example of this simple machine. WHEEL AND AXLE
j. This is an inclined plane wrapped around a pole. SCEW

B. On the line by each picture, write the type of simple machine.


1. WEDGE
2. SCEW
3. INCLINED PLANE
4. LEVER
5. LEVER
6. WEDGE
7. SCEW
8. WHEEL AND AXLE
9. SCEW
10. WEDGE
11. INCLINED PLANE
12. LEVER
13. LEVER
14. PULLEY
15. PULLEY
16. WHEEL AND AXLE
17. INCLINED PLANE
18. INCLINED PLANE
19. WHEEL AND AXLE
20. SCEW

On which type of simple machine would you find a fulcrum? Explain what a fulcrum is.

C. Use the words to solve the crossword puzzle. (Some words will not be used.)
• ax • building • cap • five • four • inclined plane • knife • nail
• bottom • broom • doorknob • flagpole • force • fulcrum • hammer • lever • pulley
• rake • screw • seven • slide • wedge
• sail • screwdriver • seesaw • shovel • swing • wheel and axle
• scissors • six • wrench

• ACROSS
1. tool with two levers attached together for cutting paper
5. wheel and axle device that is turned when you open a
door
6. wedge used for cutting food
8. fixed point on a lever that doesn’t move 10. number of different types of simple machines 11. type of simple machine that is made of a
wheel with a rope or chain
13. inclined plane that is often found on a playground 14. type of simple machine that is made of a wheel attached to a rod
16. pulleys are used to raise this on a sailboat 2

17. lever used for digging holes in the ground

• DOWN
2. part of a water bottle with a screw
3. wheel and axle tool that is often used with screws 4. type of simple machine that is a flat surface with one end higher than the other
7. When you push, pull, or turn something you are applying this.
9. Pulleys are used to raise a flag up this tall object. 10. lever that kids sit on; often found on a playground 12. type of simple machine made
up of a bar that moves on a fixed point, or fulcrum
13. type of simple machine that is spiral-shaped and pulls two things together
14. a simple machine used to separate something; made up of two inclined planes back-to-back
15. wedge used for chopping wood

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D. Name the lever, identify the class of lever and label the load, effort and fulcrum.

Name Class Parts Name Class Parts


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3. 3.
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E. Answer the following briefly but intellectually.
1. How is a wedge like an inclined plane? How is it different?

A wedge is a simple machine that is made up of two inclined planes forming a


triangular shape. It provides mechanical advantage by converting the force applied
at its end into forces perpendicular to the inclined surfaces.
2. On which type of simple machine would you find a fulcrum? Explain what a fulcrum is.
3. The floor of a bathtub is an inclined plane. Explain.
4. Why are doorknobs usually placed at the edge of the door, far from the fulcrum?
5. For you, which among the simple machines is most essential in your everyday life. Explain.

III. CONCLUSION AND GENERALIZATION:

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