Grade 7 Technology Term 1 Test 2 + Memo
About this resource
Help your Grade 7 learner prepare for Term 1 Technology with this comprehensive 60-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 1½ hours and includes a balanced combination of lower-, middle- and higher-order questions.
The test covers:
- Levers and mechanical systems
- First-, second- and third-class levers
- Fulcrum, load and effort
- Identifying the parts of a lever
- Classifying different types of levers
- Everyday examples of levers
- Fishing rods, wheelbarrows and seesaws
- Pliers, staplers, nail clippers, tongs, bottle openers and crowbars
- Hammer, scissors, nutcracker and tweezers
- Mechanical advantage
- How lever arrangement affects mechanical advantage
- The position of the fulcrum
- How levers reduce or increase the effort required
- Hydraulics and pneumatics
- Differences between hydraulic and pneumatic systems
- Using liquids and compressed air to transfer force
- Force transfer using syringes
- The design process
- Design briefs
- Purpose, materials, features, target users and constraints
- Designing a practical product for a specific user
The test includes true or false, visual labelling, image-based lever identification, table completion, fill-in-the-blanks, short-answer questions and a practical design brief. Learners work with visual examples of everyday tools and objects to identify lever types and understand the relationship between fulcrum, effort and load.
Total: 60 marks | Duration: 1½ hours | Full memorandum included | PDF format.
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