Go to the website Simple Machines and Early Mining website by Mrs. Kaltenbach's Third Grade.
Answer the following questions after you have visited the website.
1. Define wheel and axle.
2. Give 3 examples of equipment the miners used that contain the wheel
and axle.
3. Define lever.
4. Give 2 examples of how miners used levers.
5. Give 3 examples of other tools in mining that use levers.
6. How are pulleys made?
7. Give 2 examples of how pulleys helped the miners.
8. What is a wedge used for?
9. Give an example of how wedges were useful to the miners.
10. Give 2 examples of wedges.
11. Define inclined plane.
12. How did miners use inclined planes?
13. How did miners use screws?
14. Include your favorite picture of early miners using simple machines
to help them work. |
