Stogs KS3 Recycling

Select all the things below which are made from fossil fuels.

• Plastic bags

• Petrol

• Metal screws

• Pencils

Select the things below which are made from fossil fuels.

• Pencils

• Wooden chairs

• Plastic cups

• Petrol

Fossil fuels are...

• ... finite resources.

• ... renewable resources.

Fossil fuels form from:

• Plastic

• Remains of dead plants

• Remains of dead animals

• Glass

Recycling is the process of:

• Buying new things

• Taking old or unwanted products and using the materials to make new things.

• Putting unwanted products in landfill.

• Burning unwanted products.

Select some benefits of recycling:

• Uses fewer limited resources.

• Uses less energy.

• Difficult to separate components of some materials.

• Makes less rubbish, which ends up in landfill sites.

What has to be done to aluminium ore to produced aluminium?

• It must be oxidised.

• It must be extracted.

• It must be carbonated.

• It must be redoxed.

Recycling could help to prevent further increases in greenhouse gas level.

• True

• False

It is important to recycle aluminium because it uses less energy to recycle aluminium than to mine and extract aluminium from aluminium ore.

• True

• False

Recycling saves money because it is completely free.

• True

• False