Vocabulary
Materials
Polymers
Petroleum
Radioisotopes
100
A substance created as a result of a chemical reaction.
What is a product?
100
Name an example of a clothing fiber that is synthetic.
What is polyester, acrylic, rayon, nylon, kevlar, spandex, gortex, etc.
100
A single repeating structural unit in a long chemical compound.
What is a monomer?
100
Which one of the following is not an example of a crude oil product: plastic, pharmaceuticals, kerosene, paper, gasoline.
What is paper?
100
What is a use for radioisotopes?
What is biological tracers, dating objects, or treating cancer.
200
Any rock containing a sufficiently high concentration of elements for use by industry.
What is an ore?
200
What are two properties of clothing that people wear in a cold climate?
What is insulative, made of animal products, dark in color, etc.
200
A long chemical compound made of many repeating structural units.
What is a polymer?
200
Give an example of a petroleum product.
What is plastic, kerosene, diesel fuel, etc.
200
The time required for half of the atoms of an unstable isotope to undergo decay.
What is half-life?
300
A substance used up in a chemical reaction.
What is a reactant?
300
What are two properties of the clothing that people wear in a hot climate?
What is it covers a lot of the skin, breathable, lightweight, light in color, etc.
300
What is the difference between a chain polymer and a regular polymer?
What is a chain polymer has the same monomer repeating.
300
The process by which larger hydrocarbon molecules are broken into smaller ones.
What is cracking?
300
What does Carbon 14 turn into when it becomes stable?
What is Nitrogen?
400
The process by which raw materials are used to make metals or other products.
What is refining?
400
What are two properties of the clothing that people wear in a rainy climate?
What is animal furs, waterproof, quick drying, less clothing, etc.
400
DNA and Kevlar are examples of this type of polymer.
What is cross-linked?
400
What is the process by which petroleum is separated into its individual parts?
What is fractional distillation?
400
Carbon 14 is an _________ of Carbon 12.
What is an isotope?
500
Atoms that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.
What is an isotope?
500
In a less developed country, are people more or less likely to use locally derived materials?
What is more likely?
500
How does viscosity change from a monomer to a chain polymer to a cross-linked polymer?
What is it increases?
500
How are the boiling points of hydrocarbons determined?
What is by their number of carbons?
500
The half life of an atom is 100 years. An organism starts out with 3200 of these atoms, and 500 years pass. How many atoms are left?
What is 100?
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