Quiz Name: Simple Machines 
Type: Multiple Choice 
Instructions: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Check your answers by clicking on “answer key” below the last question.

Question 1: Which lever has the resistance between the fulcrum and effort?

1st Class 
2nd Class 
3rd Class 
Incline Plane 

Question 2: Which lever has the fulcrum between the resistance and effort?

1st Class 
2nd Class 
3rd Class 
Incline Plane 

Question 3: Which lever has the effort between the resistance and fulcrum?

1st Class 
2nd Class 
3rd Class 
Incline Plane 

Question 4: Which type of lever would a wheelbarrow be?

1st Class 
2nd Class 
3rd Class 
Incline Plane 

Question 5: Which type of lever would a see-saw be?

1st Class 
2nd Class 
3rd Class 
Incline Plane 

Question 6: Which type of lever would a baseball bat be?

1st Class 
2nd Class 
3rd Class 
Incline Plane 

Question 7: Where would you move the fulcrum to make a higher mechanical advantage for a 1st class lever?

Toward the resistance. 
Toward the effort. 
RIght in the middle. 

Question 8: Where would you move the resistance to increase the mechanical advantage for a 2nd class lever?

Toward the effort. 
Toward the fulcrum. 
Right in the middle. 

Question 9: Which type of lever always has a mechanical advantage less than one?

1st Class 
2nd Class 
3rd Class 
Incline Plane 

Question 10: What is found by dividing effort distance by resistance distance?

input work 
output work 
IMA 
AMA 
efficiency 

Question 11: What is found by multiplying effort times distance effort moved?

input work 
output work 
IMA 
AMA 
efficiency 

Question 12: What is found by dividing resistance by the amount of effort?

input work 
output work 
IMA 
AMA 
efficiency 

Question 13: What is found by multiplying the resistance by the distance the resistance moved?

input work 
output work 
IMA 
AMA 
efficiency 

Question 14: What is found by dividing the output by the input and multiplying times 100?

input work 
output work 
IMA 
AMA 
efficiency 

Question 15: The effort arm on a lever always goes from

effort to the resistance 
effort to the fulcrum 
fulcrum to the resistance 
one end of the lever to the other 

Question 16: The resistance arm on a lever always goes from

resistance to the fulcrum 
resistance to the effort 
effort to the fulcrum 
one end of the lever to the other 

Question 17: The screw is actually a type of what?

lever 
pulley 
wedge 
incline plane 

Question 18: Two inclined planes placed back to back forms what simple machine?

pulley 
wedge 
1st Class Lever 
3rd Class Lever 

Question 19: The IMA of a wheel and axle can be found by

diameter of rod divided by the diameter of the wheel 
multiplying diameter of the wheel by the diameter of the rod 
dividing the diameter of the wheel by the diameter of the rod 

Question 20: More than one pulley used together to move an object is called which of the following?

Fixed pulley 
Moveable pulley 
block and tackle 
wheel and axle

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