Adventures of a Plastic Bottle Vocab

An industrial plant where crude oil is made into petroleum products.

• Polymerization

• Oil Refinery

• Crude Oil

• Sterilized

To make something completely clean.

• Sterilize

• Polymerization

• Bale

• Extruder

A black liquid found deep in the earth that can be made into gasoline or plastic.

• Polymerization

• Oil Refinery

• Synthetic Fleece

• Crude Oil

A machine that squeezes soft material to create long strands.

• Oil Refinery

• Extruder

• Sterilize

• Tanker

A type of cloth made from recycled plastics.

• Bale

• Tanker

• Synthetic Fleece.

• Crude Oil

A large bundle of the same items that are usually tied together.

• Synthetic Fleece

• Tanker

• Extruder

• Bale

A big ship with a large storage area where liquids can be stored and carried.

• Tanker

• Bale

• Extruder

• Oil Refinery

The changes that happen to crude oil when being made into plastic.

• Oil Refinery

• Extruder

• Polymerization

• Bale