Polymers Web Quest

Name Polymers Web Quest Date Period

Note: all links can be found on the 8th grade assignment page! Go to http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/CHEMWEEK/POLYMERS/Polymers.html. Answer the following questions using information found on the page.

1. What is a polymer?

2. What are some examples of polymers?

3. Name and describe 4 of the polymers found in nature.

4. Name and describe 4 of the polymers found at home.

5. Why is it important to recycle polymers?

6. Describe 2 ways recycled polymers can be used.

7. What is a synthetic polymer?

Go to http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/WofMatE/polymers.htm. Answer the following questions using the information found on the page.

8. What does the word polymer mean?

9. What are plastics?

10. What are elastomers? Answer this question on your own from the information you have gathered.

11. List at least 5 polymers that you use in every day life. Describe the properties of them that make them useful to serve their purpose.