Plastics
Metals
Resource Management
Vocabulary
Wildcard
Challenge
100
The two elements that most plastics are made out of.
What are hydrogen and helium?
100
A common metal used to make steel.
What is iron?
100
Unused or useless materials left over after consuming useful resources.
What is waste (or garbage or rubbish)?
100
The process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
What is recycling?
100
This is the term for the three common states of matter that water can exist in naturally on Earth.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
100
The quality of bending easily without breaking.
What if flexibility?
200
The raw material that plastics are made from.
What is petroleum?
200
A 100% recyclable metal used for many things, but mostly for electric wires.
What is copper?
200
A place where waste is stored long term without recycling or reprocessing it.
What is a landfill?
200
A secondary product made during the manufacture or synthesis of something else; an unintended result of a process.
What is a byproduct?
200
This system in the human body is responsible for transporting oxygen, nutrients, and waste products through the blood.
What is the circulatory system?
200
The watery mush created by adding chemicals and heat to shredded wood; an intermediate product in the paper-making process.
What is pulp?
300
The type of factory where raw materials are processed to make plastics.
What is a refinery?
300
A lightweight and non-magnetic metal used for many purposes, including cans, window frames, the metal case for most consumer products.
(it's the metal you come into contact with the most often)
What is aluminum?
300
A facility where waste products are burned to reduce their size.
What is an incinerator?
300
A sedimentary rock that is the world’s main source of aluminum.
What is bauxite?
300
This is the (English) name for the galaxy that contains our solar system.
What is the Milky Way?
300
A factory where raw ore is converted into finished metal products.
What is a foundry?
400
A common type of flexible plastic used to make plastic bags.
What is polypropylene?
400
A radioactive metal used as fuel for nuclear power plants.
What is uranium?
400
A facility where garbage is burned in part to reduce it's volume and in part to generate electricity.
What is a waste-to-energy plant?
400
The process of taking or pulling something out from a source, such as removing minerals or oils from the Earth.
What is extracting?
400
This is the name for the group of elements in the first column of the periodic table of elements.
What are alkali metals?
400
A process where a material is heated to nearly it's boiling point to make it soft, then forced into a desired shape by a machine.
What is stretch-molding?
500
A type of plastic used to make durable objects like reusable water bottles, pipes, and car parts.
What is High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)?
500
A relatively rare metal used as the coating on stainless steel.
What is chromium?
500
A product that is found in nearly every processed food and is farmed from trees that are planted at a huge scale in Indonesia, resulting in deforestation.
What is palm oil?
500
A colorless, flammable liquid hydrocarbon derived from petroleum, used as a chemical building block but toxic to humans.
What is benzene?
500
Every element on the periodic table of elements with an atomic number higher than 95 is one of these.
What are the synthetic elements?
500
The measure of how much light or radiation is reflected off a surface.
What is reflectivity?