SCS Year 7 Materials

Which of the following words describes a synthetic material?

• Strong

• Man-made

• Comes from the ground

• Sonorous

Which of these groups are all natural substances?

• Milk, oxygen and gold

• Oil, plastic and chalk

• School tights, eraser and shatterproof ruler

• Wellies, safety pins and drinks can

Which word matches the following description

'breaks if you bend it'

• soft

• flexible

• brittle

• hard

Which word matches the following description

'electricity can't go through'

• brittle

• soft

• insulator

• strong

What does 'sonorous' mean?

• Makes a ringing noise when struck

• Strong

• Lets light shine through

• Very bendy

Which of the following materials and properties are correctly matched?

• copper-good insulator

• glass-transparent

• rubber-flexible

• wood-hard

What is meant by the term 'lustre'?

• Flexible

• How noisy an object is

• See through

• The shine of an object

An object that blocks all of the light from passing through is...

• transparent

• clear

• opaque

• translucent

If an object allows all light to pass through it then it is...

• transparent

• opaque

• translucent

• cold

Which is not an insulator?

• Wool

• Copper

• Plastic

• Glass