5th grade forces and motion
5th grade (Year 6 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: NGSS.5-PS2-1, NGSS.MS-PS2-4, NGSS.MS-PS2-2, NGSS.3-PS2-1 · England: KS2 Y5 Forces
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Question 1
What do levers, pulleys and gears have in common?
- A. They remove friction completely.
- B. They let a smaller force have a bigger effect.
- C. They make energy from nothing.
- D. They only work in water.
Question 2
Why does air resistance increase as a cyclist goes faster?
- A. Gravity gets stronger
- B. The cyclist hits more air particles each second
- C. The air gets heavier
- D. The bike gets bigger
Question 3
Which simple machine is used here: a bicycle chain and cogs?
- A. lever
- B. pulley
- C. gears
Question 4
Air and water resistance: which statement is NOT true?
- A. A parachute with a bigger area falls more slowly.
- B. Air resistance acts against the direction of motion.
- C. Air resistance gets smaller as you go faster.
- D. Air resistance is a type of friction.
Question 5
On the Moon, an astronaut dropped a hammer and a feather at the same time. What happened?
- A. The feather landed first
- B. The hammer landed first
- C. They hit the ground together
- D. They floated away
Question 6
A gear with 12 teeth drives a gear with 36 teeth. How many turns must the small gear make for the big gear to turn 3 times?
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Question 7
Gravity: which statement is true?
- A. Without air resistance, a heavy and a light object fall at the same rate.
- B. Heavy objects always fall faster than light ones.
- C. Gravity only acts on things that are falling.
- D. There is no gravity in space.
Question 8
Which falls slowest: a flat sheet of paper or the same paper screwed into a ball?
- A. the flat sheet
- B. neither falls
- C. the ball of paper
- D. they always land together
Question 9
Gravity: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Astronauts float in the space station because there is no gravity there.
- B. Gravity is a force that attracts objects with mass towards each other.
- C. Gravity is weaker on the Moon than on Earth.
- D. The Earth's gravity keeps the Moon in orbit.
Question 10
What do levers, pulleys and gears have in common?
- A. They make energy from nothing.
- B. They only work in water.
- C. They remove friction completely.
- D. They let a smaller force have a bigger effect.
Question 11
A skydiver falls at a steady top speed (terminal velocity). What is true about the forces?
- A. There is no air resistance
- B. There is no weight
- C. Weight and air resistance are balanced
- D. Air resistance is bigger than weight
Question 12
Which simple machine is used here: a seesaw?
- A. lever
- B. pulley
- C. gears
Question 13
Air and water resistance: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Water resistance only acts on boats.
- B. Streamlined shapes reduce air and water resistance.
- C. Air resistance acts against the direction of motion.
- D. Air resistance is a type of friction.
Question 14
Who is famous for describing gravity after watching things fall?
- A. Isaac Newton
- B. Charles Darwin
- C. Thomas Edison
- D. Marie Curie
Question 15
A gear with 8 teeth drives a gear with 32 teeth. How many turns must the small gear make for the big gear to turn 1 time?
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Question 16
Gravity: which statement is true?
- A. There is no gravity in space.
- B. Gravity is a force that attracts objects with mass towards each other.
- C. Heavy objects always fall faster than light ones.
- D. Gravity only acts on things that are falling.
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