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This task is about how wheels work.
These pictures show four stages in the development of the wheel over time.
Wooden-spoked wheel
Wooden disc wheel
Wooden wheel with iron rim
Metal-spoked wheel
Question
a) Which of these wheels would have been developed first?
Wooden-spoked wheel
Wooden disc wheel
Wooden wheel with iron rim
Metal-spoked wheel
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b) Give one reason why spoked wheels are better than the wooden disc wheel.
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Wooden wheel with iron rim
Wooden wheel with iron rim
c) Why is an iron rim put around the wooden-spoked wheel?
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d) Old cars had solid rubber tyres. Modern cars have air-filled rubber tyres.
d) Old cars had solid rubber tyres. Modern cars have air-filled rubber tyres.
i) What is an advantage of air-filled tyres?
ii) What is a disadvantage of air-filled tyres?