🌬️ Wind & Water Forces
Explore the invisible forces of wind and water! Learn how these natural pushes and pulls move objects all around us, from sailboats to water wheels. Discover how wind and water can help us and sometimes cause harm, and predict how they will move different things. **What you'll learn:** - Wind and water are forces that push and pull objects - Wind and water can move many different things - Wind and water have useful and harmful effects - How sails and water wheels use wind and water to do work - How to predict what wind and water will do
Questions in this quiz
Answers hidden — play to find out.
- Question 1
Which of these is a push or pull force that we cannot see?
- Question 2
What happens to a sailboat when the wind pushes on its sail?
- Question 3
Water is always a helpful force that never causes any problems.
- Question 4
Which object would wind be able to move most easily?
- Question 5
What does a water wheel do when water pushes it?
- Question 6
Which of these shows wind being a useful force?
- Question 7
We can see wind, but we cannot feel it.
- Question 8
If you throw a ball on a very windy day, what might happen?
- Question 9
What is one way that water moves objects?
- Question 10
A pinwheel will spin when you blow on it because your breath is a pushing force.
- Question 11
Which of these would wind have a harder time moving?
- Question 12
What can happen when a strong wind pushes on a tree?
- Question 13
Which statement best describes what wind and water have in common?
- Question 14
Wind and water are examples of invisible forces that we can see the effects of but not the forces themselves.
- Question 15
If you pour water down a toy slide, what would most likely happen?