Year 8 Earth Resources | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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What is the raw material that plastics are made from?

Crude oil

What is the cathode?

The negative electrode

What is the word given to a resource that is not in danger of being used up?

Renewable

What is paper made from?

Trees

How are fossil fuels made?

Remains of dead organisms were buried under layers of sand. Heat and pressure turned the organisms into fossil fuels

How could you test a sample of water to see how much salt is dissolved in it?

Weigh a watch glass, evaporate the water, re-weigh the watch glass and calculate how much salt is left

What does the term pure mean in chemistry?

Something that only contains one element or compound

What is electrolysis?

Using electricity to split up a compound

What is the anode?

The positive electrode

When iron oxide reacts with carbon what will the products be?

Iron + carbon dioxide

Using an item again, but in a different way is called what?

Reusing

What is potable water?

What that is safe to drink

What is an electrolyte

A liquid that conducts electricity

What do we need to heat copper oxide with to extract copper metal?

Carbon

Which word means a resource that is in danger of being used up?

Non-renewable

Which metal is found in the Earth in it's native state (not bonded to any other elements)?

Gold

What is recycling?

Breaking the item down into its raw materials and turning it into something new

Using less of something to preserve our natural resources is called what?

Reducing

What process is used to extract metals from compounds when the metal is more reactive than carbon?

Electrolysis

Give an example of a renewable resource

Trees

What does the term impure mean?

When a substance is mixed with something else