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Exercise book
1.* Can you tell the origin of a wool sweater? and a knife? Find out!
Place the following objects in their corresponding group according to whether they are
made out of materials of vegetable (V), animal (A) or mineral (M) origin.
Objects:
wool sweater
metal chair
wooden chair
clay object
a glass
leather shoes
paper roll
book
wooden spoon
pot
wooden object
knife
2.** I will show you some objects. Can you tell me their degree of processing?
Place these groups of three materials in order according to their degree of processing.
Place the raw material first, then the half-processed product, and finally the consumer
goods.
Objects in order:
sheep
ball of wool
wool sweater
cotton plant
cotton string
cotton t-shirt
petroleum
plastic bar
plastic bottle
mineral
metal bar
screws
3.** Objects can be made out of different materials, test your knowledge!
Match each object with the material its made out of.
Objects
Bicycle
Parquet
Power cable
Bicycle wheel
Credit card
Material
aluminium
copper
plastic
wood
rubber
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Property
plasticity
electrical conductivity
thermal conductivity
hardness
density
COPPER
PLASTIC
IRON
Property
Wood
Plastic
Copper
Iron
Water
Edison
Glass
Mass
200 g
475 g
475 g
15 g
125 g
Volume
74 cm3
49 cm3
42 cm3
Density
8.9 g/cm3
7.1 g/cm3
0.75 g/cm3
2.6 g/cm3
9.** Which plastic is our washing machine made out of? Find out!
Relate each object with the kind of plastic its usually made out of.
Object
bleach bottle
Washing-machine
Yoghurt
button
umbrella
vinyl
glass
fishing line
canoe
Plastic
nylon
polystyrene
polypropylene
unsaturated polyester resins
polyester
methacrylate
polyvinyl chloride
polyethylene
melamine resin
11.** Identify each part of the blast furnace in the following diagram.
15.* Classify the following materials according to whether they are good or poor
thermal conductors (XML)
Good thermal conductor
Elastic
Fragile
Rubber, iron wire
Ceramic, glass
Non natives
non ferric
Car bodyworks
Saw blade
Gear teeth
Faucet