Friction Quizzes & Trivia

It's a cold day. You walk down the road and you can see your breath in front of your face, making little clouds. You forgot to pack your gloves, so what can you do to warm your hands up? It's simple, you rub them together. You just used friction! Friction is everywhere, it's the bane of scientists that want to create perpetual motion...but why? If you know, then it's time to rub your hands together in preparation for this buzzing quiz!

With questions about surviving on a desert island, to why race cars are so smooth and close to the ground, you're bound to get some questions that will rub you the wrong way...but don't react, or else you might just burst into flames! See if you know your friction from your fiction and factions! It's time to get all fired up! Take the quiz and you'll feel a lot warmer inside!

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Basic Questions On Friction! Trivia Quiz

Friction is the force opposing the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements coming against each other. This quiz features questions concerning friction. You should be aware of what type of force is...

Questions: 18 | Attempts: 4011 | Last updated: May 27, 2021

Sample Question
Which direction does Friction act?

Same

Opposite

Types Of Friction

Questions: 6 | Attempts: 4009 | Last updated: Feb 27, 2018

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What type of friction is keeping this box from moving down the sloped incline?

Sliding

Rolling

Static

Fluid

Mechanical Advantage Of The Machine

Complete each question below. Each question is worth (4pts). Once completed check your score and review the test. If there is a question on the score please print out the test, mark the question of issue and...

Questions: 25 | Attempts: 506 | Last updated: May 4, 2018

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___________ is the process of using a tap or die to produce spiral mating surfaces for the purpose of providing mechanical tension between two mating parts.

Turning

Forging

Threading

Annealing

Force, Friction, Newton's Laws

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 477 | Last updated: Mar 9, 2013

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The type of force that includes charged particles and particles that attract and repel each other.

Nuclear force

Frictional force

Gravitational force

Electromagnetic force

Friction: Science Trivia Facts! Quiz

We generate friction almost every day when you think about it because judging by its definition, friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, or any other types of surfaces like fluid layers, or when...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 397 | Last updated: Aug 20, 2019

Sample Question
How many types of friction are there in total?

3

4

6

5

Recent Quizzes

Quiz: Types Of Friction! Trivia Knowledge Test

Quiz: Types of Friction! Trivia Knowledge Test

Did you know that there is more than one type of friction? Do you know the laws that regulate all these types of frictions and their most basic differences? Friction is normally defined as the force resisting the relative motion...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 171 | Last updated: Sep 27, 2019

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What is dry friction?

It's a force that deletes the relative lateral motion of 2 solid surfaces in contact

It's a force that depletes the relative lateral motion of 2 solid surfaces in contact

It's a force that opposes the relative lateral motion of 2 solid surfaces in contact

It's a force that raises the relative lateral motion of 2 solid surfaces in contact

Laws Of Dry Friction! Trivia Questions Quiz

Laws of Dry Friction! Trivia Questions Quiz

Dry Friction occurs on dry or rough surfaces and with the help of solid objects. It sometimes necessitates the action of humans to generate any type of motion. It is done when we move things around in our new apartment, it is...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 153 | Last updated: Oct 4, 2019

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How can one define dry friction?

It's a force that opposes the relative lateral motion of 2 solid surfaces in contact

It's pressure between the relative lateral motion of 2 solid surfaces in contact

It's a force that mixes the relative lateral motion of 2 solid surfaces in contact

It's a force that joins the relative lateral motion of 2 solid surfaces in contact

Friction History Trivia Facts! Quiz

Friction is important because thanks to it the first humans were able to figure out how to make fire. It is also important to study it for disciplines like construction and even sciences that depend on o studying how liquid...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 172 | Last updated: Aug 20, 2019

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Who were the first ones to study friction?

The Egyptians

The Germans

The Greeks

The Romans

Friction Science Trivia Questions

friction Science Trivia questions

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 146 | Last updated: Dec 5, 2017

Sample Question
Which other force acts when friction is at work?

Tension

Compression

Electric Energy

Thermal Energy