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Created on March 14, 2022 By

Millie Green

Picture of turtle about to eat a plastic bag

Plastic and Plastic Pollution Quiz

Science of Materials - Plastic

1 / 14

Name some properties of plastic...

Screwed up plastic bottle

Waterproof

Light

Solid

Liquid

Brittle

Adaptable

2 / 14

How much plastic packaging is recycled in the UK?

Image of plastic bottles

32%

50%

59%

77%

100%

3 / 14

How many types of plastic polymer are there?

Seven types of polymers

5

7

25

100

Over 250

4 / 14

What are most plastics made from?

Screwed up plastic bottle

Oil

Sand

Wood

Metal

Plants

5 / 14

When was synthetic plastic invented?

1700

1854

1870

1907

1949

6 / 14

How can you reduce the plastic you use at home? (Select all that apply)

Reusable bottles

Reusable shopping bags

Ask for Birthday or Christmas presents that aren't made from plastic

Check the clothes buy to see if they contain plastic

Don't change anything

Buy fruit and veg without packaging

Talk to your family about plastics

7 / 14

Which of these inventions actually exists as an alternative to plastic packaging?

Packaging from cow poo

Packaging from seaweed

Packaging from mushrooms

None of these

All of these

8 / 14

What is produced when plastics break down in the environment?

Child's plastic bucket on beach full of plastic litter

Carbon dioxide

Microplastics

Methane

Oil

9 / 14

Complete the sentence: Plastics are a problem when discarded at sea because....

Picture of lots of plastic litter along a beach

they float around in big islands.

ocean creatures eat them thinking they are food and they never break down entirely.

they dissolve.

they react with seawater to form acids which are dissolving coral reefs.

10 / 14

Are plastics a renewable or non-renewable resource?

Image of energy sources

Renewable

Non-renewable

11 / 14

What is the item found most regularly on beach cleans?

Picture of lots of plastic litter along a beach

Milk bottles

Yogurt pots

Cigarette butts

Coffee cups

12 / 14

Are plastics a problem to wildlife when they end up in the sea?

Picture of turtle about to eat a plastic bag

True

False

13 / 14

Where should your hard plastic packaging go?

Two simple metal dustbins on a patio.

In the recycling bin

In the sea

Throw it out of the car window

In the black bin bag

14 / 14

Choose the reasons why we should recycle.

Satellite image of the earth

We must not waste resources.

Materials are valuable.

We should save energy to help save our world.

Reducing waste, reduces pollution.

All of the above

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