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WJEC Engineering Understand properties of engineering materials

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

If 2 products are left outside, 1 made from Ferrous Metal, and 1 made from a Non-Ferrous metal which one will corrode first?

a)

Non-Ferrous Metal

b)

Ferrous Metal

2.

Which material listed below is a Ferrous Metal?

a)

Copper

b)

Brass

c)

Zinc

d)

Cast Iron

3.

Which one of the metals below is a Non-Ferrous metal

a)

Mild Steel

b)

Cast Iron

c)

Zinc

d)

Wrought Iron

4.

Which of these materials is not a composite material

a)

Carbon Fibre

b)

Glass-reinforced Plastic (GRP)

c)

High Carbon Steel

d)

Kevlar

5.

Ability to be stretched without breaking (eg. copper)

a)

Toughness

b)

Ductility

c)

Malleability

d)

Tensile Strength

6.

Resistant to breaking and bending

a)

Toughness

b)

Hardness

c)

Compressive Strength

d)

Corrosive Resistance

7.

The ability to be pressed, spread-out or hammered

a)

Elasticity

b)

Malleability

c)

Ductility

d)

Tensile Strength

8.

The ability of a material to resist scratching, cutting or wear-and-tear

a)

Hardness

b)

Compressive Strength

c)

Conductivity (thermal)

d)

Toughness

9.

Very strong under pressure

a)

Malleable

b)

Tensile

c)

Compressive Strength

d)

Ductile

10.

The ability of a material to without breaking or snapping. Retains strength when stretched.

a)

Conductivity

(|Thermal)

b)

Malleability

c)

Ductilility

d)

Tensile

Strength

11.

The ability of the material to conduct an electric current. 

a)

Corrosive Resistance

b)

Ductilility

c)

Conductivity

(electrical)

d)

Elasticity

12.

Ability to regain its original shape (eg. rubber)

a)

Tensile Strength

b)

Elasticity

c)

Compressive Strength

d)

Malleability

13.

Property changes due to working (eg. bending steel back and forth)

a)

Environmental degradation

b)

Work Hardening

c)

Hardness

d)

Ductility

14.

Will snap easily and will not bend (eg. glass)

a)

Tensile Strength

b)

Ductility

c)

Brittleness

d)

Conductivity (Thermal)

15.

Ability to conduct heat (most metals such as steel cooking pans)

a)

Conductivity (Thermal)

b)

Conductivity (Electrical)

c)

Corrosive Resistance

d)

Ductility

16.

If it will corrode in the environment it is working in (eg. Iron rusts)

a)

Environmental Degradation

b)

Compressive Strength

c)

Conductivity (Thermal)

d)

Corrosive Resistance

17.

How the material corrodes and degrades in an environment (salt, water, weather, fire)

a)

Malleability

b)

Environmental Degradation

c)

Work hardening

d)

Compressive Strength