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Plastics Quiz Number: 13 Course Name: industrial Technology/Engineering Quiz N0. = 13 Teacher: E. Schmidt Teacher's Home Page: http://www.oocities.org/Baja/2140/ENG.htm Teacher's Email: schmidte@putnam.k12.il.us

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1.	Which of theses best describes plastic:
	a)	light weight
	b)	durability
	c)	formability
	d)	none of the above
	e)	all of the above
2.	Plastics consist of building blocks called:
	a)	hydrocarbons
	b)	sodiumcarbons
	c)	chloridecarbons
	d)	mercurycarbons
	e)	marblecarbons
3.	What's the main purpose of packaging:
	a)	looks
	b)	makes for easy stacking
	c)	protect quality
	d)	reduce spoilage
	e)	keep out ultraviolet rays
4.	Durable goods are products that have a useful life of more than ____ years:
	a)	7
	b)	6
	c)	4
	d)	3
	e)	2
5.	The automotive industry uses plastic because of which characteristic:
	a)	durability
	b)	corrosion resistance
	c)	ease of coloring
	d)	light weight
	e)	all of these
6.	Appliance manufactures use plastic because of which characteristic:
	a)	flexibility properties
	b)	thermal properties
	c)	hardness properties
	d)	twisting properties
	e)	all of these
7.	The building and construction industry uses plastic because of which property:
	a)	appearance
	b)	durability
	c)	ease of installation
	d)	energy efficiency
	e)	all of these
8.	Which of these is not a resin used in plastic packaging:
	a)	HDPE
	b)	PP
	c)	WWXY
	d)	PS
	e)	PET
9.	CFC stands for:
	a)	chlorofluorocarbons
	b)	common foamed containers
	c)	cool fission chemicals
	d)	copperfluorcarbons
	e)	cartonfoaming containers
10.	What percent of the US's energy consumption is actually used to produce plastics:
	a)	1
	b)	3
	c)	4
	d)	50
	e)	25
11.	Foam polystyrene containers take _____% less total energy to make than paperboard containers:
	a)	5
	b)	10
	c)	15
	d)	30
	e)	50
12.	Without plastics, the energy used to produce packaging would ______:
	a)	triple
	b)	double
	c)	quadruple
	d)	be cut in half
	e)	multiply by 10
13.	More than 2.8 million plastic grocery bags can be delivered in one truck, the same truck can hold only_________ paper grocery bags:
	a)	1 million
	b)	750,000
	c)	600,000
	d)	500,000
	e)	1000
14.	Which of these is made with recycled plastic:
	a)	videocassettes
	b)	park benches
	c)	sweaters
	d)	all of these
	e)	none of these
15.	About what percent of bottles were recycled in 1995:
	a)	2
	b)	25
	c)	41
	d)	70
	e)	98
16.	Which of these is part of the recycling infrastructure:
	a)	collection
	b)	handling
	c)	reclamation
	d)	all of these
	e)	none of these
17.	VRP stands for:
	a)	vehicle recycling partnership
	b)	vector recycling products
	c)	very reused plastic
	d)	vehicle recycled plastic
	e)	vernier reformed products
18.	A 1995 study showed that ____businesses were involved in recycling:
	a)	500
	b)	100
	c)	1500
	d)	23000
	e)	1 million
19.	Most plastic at a recycling plant is sorted by:
	a)	machine
	b)	laser
	c)	robots
	d)	hand
	e)	conveyors
20.	Recycled PET can be used in producing:
	a)	cars
	b)	glass
	c)	juice bottles
	d)	food
	e)	animal medicines

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