Semester 1 Final Review 2

Food, wool, and leather come from which natural resource?

• Animals

• Water

• Minerals

• Forest

Which of the following best describes a synthetic material?

• Petroleum is refined through a chemical process to produce plastic that is carved into a figure.

• A tree is cut down, carved into a shape, then burned to add color.

• Sand is struck by lightning, causing it to turn into glass that is then carved into a shape.

• Volcanic glass (obsidian) is carved and polished into a sculpture.

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Natural resources can be chemically changed to make ______ materials.

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Which human-made product has been produced using a synthetic material?

• Cotton sheets

• Nylon stockings

• Silk sheets

• Wool scarf

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The production of which of the listed materials would require growing plants?

• Nylon fibers

• Glass

• Paper

• Gasoline

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Compare and contrast synthetic and natural materials.

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Plastics are created from processed petroleum which is pulled up from below the ground.

This is important because...

• petroleum is a non-renewable resource

• processing and using petroleum releases contaminants into the environment

• plastic products are not biodegradable and pollute the environment

• all of the above

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This table shows common synthetic materials and the raw materials used to make them. Medicines made of plant parts are renewable resources because...

• plants can be grown in a short amount of time

• plants are mixed together to create them

• they are used to help illness

• they are man-made

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Most gasoline comes from fossil fuels, which are mined from deep below Earth's surface using oil rigs. Fossil fuels are considered to be a non-renewable resource because...

• they can be made from other resources

• there are alternative resources to using them

• the resource can be replaced in a short amount of time

• it takes millions of years to replace the resource

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In the early 1900s, people used glass bottles to store and transport milk. These bottles would be washed and reused many times. With the invention of the synthetic material known as plastic, milk began to be sold in disposable plastic jugs. How did this change affect our world? What might be the long term effects of this change?

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