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Simple Machine Vocabulary Word Search

Explore names and concepts associated with simple mechanical systems. The clues identify a support point, applied effort, a load, and familiar devices that change how motion or force is transmitted. This is a vocabulary exercise rather than a construction plan, and it includes no numerical force calculation or rating for a real tool or structure. This three-page PDF contains an eighteen-by-eighteen letter grid with a twelve-word bank, a companion definition worksheet, and a separate marked-grid solution.

Format

PDF, not fillable

Pages

3

Paper

A4 & US Letter

Orientation

Portrait

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Find and mark the twelve listed words in the letter grid. Use the matching definition clues to check each term. Complete the companion clue worksheet, then compare your results with the answer key. Words may run horizontally, vertically or diagonally, forwards or backwards. Page 1 is the puzzle, page 2 the clues, and page 3 the grid solution. The clue answers follow the word-bank order.

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