Life Cycle of Synthetic Matierials

What are some advantages of synthetic materials?

• Cheaper to manufacture 
• Stronger than similar products made from natural material
• Often better quality 
• All of the above

What are synthetic materials mostly made from?

• Coal
• Chemicals
• Trees
• Gasoline

Read the following statements. Select each answer choice that is a true statement about synthetic materials. Please select 4 answers.

• Synthetic materials are made from natural resources

• Synthetic materials are made by chemically changing natural resouces to create a material with different characteristics.

• Some examples of synthetic materials are plastics, medicines, and new fuels.

• A synthetic substance cannot be chemically identical to a naturally-occurring substance

• Making and using synthetic materials have both positive and negative impacts on society.

What are the two kinds of natural resources?

• renewable and infinite

• renewable and noninfinite

• nonrenewable and finite

• nonrenewable and renewable

Non Renewable resources can be regenerated or replenished by natural processes

• true

• false

man made materials and substances that do not exist naturally in the environment

• nonrenewable products

• synthetic products

• systematic products

• none of the above

Which of the following is NOT a natural resource?

• wood

• cotton

• oil

• plastic

• coal

An energy resource is renewable if?

• It can cycle through it's lifetime.

• Humans have enough of it for future generations.

• It can replace itself naturally, such as trees or wind.

Which of the following is NOT a synthetic material?

• Nylon

• plastic

• paper

• polyester

Synthetic materials are made from chemically processing _________________?

• plastics

• naturals resources

• chemicals