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Arts and Crafts: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Machines and Engineering (Questions)

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There are machines everywhere, and they do lots of different jobs. The computer or smart-phone you are using is a machine. There are machines in our homes and our places of work. In our houses they help to do the washing and the cleaning. There are machines in factories to help make things. Robots are machines. Engineers design, build and look after machines. How many of these quiz questions about machines can you answer?

Connor’s Mom works in a factory. She helps to design and build machines. Connor’s Mom is an ________.

[ ]	Nurse
[ ]	Doctor
[ ]	Teacher
[ ]	Engineer

What machine helps to keep clothes clean?

[ ]	A cooker
[ ]	A washing machine
[ ]	A food mixer
[ ]	A fridge

Which one of these machines is used to clean the carpets in a house?

[ ]	A washing machine
[ ]	A hair dryer
[ ]	A vacuum cleaner
[ ]	A hedge trimmer

What is needed to make both washing machines and vacuum cleaners work?

[ ]	Gas
[ ]	Steam
[ ]	Water
[ ]	Electricity

Sunil’s Mom is painting a door. The lid of the tin of paint is stuck on. Sunil’s Mom gets a screwdriver. She uses the screwdriver to prize the lid off the tin of paint. Sunil’s Mom has been using a _____.

[ ]	Knife
[ ]	Lever
[ ]	Spoon
[ ]	Wheel

Freddie is building a toy car. He makes the body. Then he adds wheels. Why does he add wheels?

[ ]	So it moves more easily
[ ]	So it looks good
[ ]	So it can fly
[ ]	So it looks finished

Freddie puts the wheels on to axles. What do the axles do?

[ ]	Stop the wheels moving
[ ]	Let the wheels go round
[ ]	Make the car lighter
[ ]	Make electricity

Emma is on her bike. When she has to go up a hill she changes ____.

[ ]	Gear
[ ]	Her shoes
[ ]	The wheel
[ ]	Her clothes

Sam is in a big shop with his mom. They want to go up to the second floor. They use a machine to go up to the second floor. What machine do they use?

[ ]	A corridor
[ ]	A flight of stairs
[ ]	An escalator
[ ]	A hall

10.

Which one of these parts of a car is a machine?

[ ]	The windshield
[ ]	The seats
[ ]	The engine
[ ]	The boot

Arts and Crafts: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Machines and Engineering (Answers)

Connor’s Mom works in a factory. She helps to design and build machines. Connor’s Mom is an ________.

[ ]	Nurse
[ ]	Doctor
[ ]	Teacher
[x]	Engineer

What do you want to be when you grow up?

What machine helps to keep clothes clean?

[ ]	A cooker
[x]	A washing machine
[ ]	A food mixer
[ ]	A fridge

How does a washing machine work?

Which one of these machines is used to clean the carpets in a house?

[ ]	A washing machine
[ ]	A hair dryer
[x]	A vacuum cleaner
[ ]	A hedge trimmer

Vacuum cleaners are often called hoovers

What is needed to make both washing machines and vacuum cleaners work?

[ ]	Gas
[ ]	Steam
[ ]	Water
[x]	Electricity

Lots of machines use electricity

[ ]	Knife
[x]	Lever
[ ]	Spoon
[ ]	Wheel

What else might you open with a lever?

Freddie is building a toy car. He makes the body. Then he adds wheels. Why does he add wheels?

[x]	So it moves more easily
[ ]	So it looks good
[ ]	So it can fly
[ ]	So it looks finished

Lots of machines have wheels so they can move more easily

Freddie puts the wheels on to axles. What do the axles do?

[ ]	Stop the wheels moving
[x]	Let the wheels go round
[ ]	Make the car lighter
[ ]	Make electricity

The axles also connect the wheels to the body of the car

Emma is on her bike. When she has to go up a hill she changes ____.

[x]	Gear
[ ]	Her shoes
[ ]	The wheel
[ ]	Her clothes

Lots of machines, like bikes and cars, have gears so they can go at different speeds and work harder

Sam is in a big shop with his mom. They want to go up to the second floor. They use a machine to go up to the second floor. What machine do they use?

[ ]	A corridor
[ ]	A flight of stairs
[x]	An escalator
[ ]	A hall

Lifts are also machines

10.

Which one of these parts of a car is a machine?

[ ]	The windshield
[ ]	The seats
[x]	The engine
[ ]	The boot

Most cars have gasoline or diesel engines