What is a synthetic material?

• Any material that is man made

• Any material that is only made from natural resources

• Any material that is made of recycled materials

• Any material that is found in nature.

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A _____________________ is a natural resource that we can replace as fast, or faster than we use it up.

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

• synthetic material

• made made product

Natural gas, coal and oil are ___________.

• renewable resources

• synthetic products

• fossil fuels

• infinite fuels

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Both synthetic materials and natural materials are made from _________________?

• natural resources

• nonrenewable resources

• plastic

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

What are the two kinds of natural resources?

• renewable and infinite

• renewable and noninfinite

• nonrenewable and finite

• nonrenewable and renewable

Man made materials that do NOT exist naturally in the environment are ________________________.

• nonrenewable materials

• synthetic materials

• natural materials

• none of the above

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

What is the difference between natural and synthetic resources?

• Natural are man-made, synthetic are found in nature

• Natural occur in nature, synthetic are man-made

• There is no difference

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Which is an example of a natural resource?

• pencils

• paper

• books

• trees

True or False: Synthetic materials are never made from natural resources

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

What is an advantage of a

synthetic material like a plastic beverage container ?

• does not break when dropped

• not renewable

• more expensive

• does not require natural resouces

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