Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.

1. What are considered as the “building blocks” for engineering materials?

• A. Atoms
• B. Elements
• C. Matters
• D. Compounds

2. What are the major classes of engineering materials?

• A. Metals, ceramics and semiconductors
• B. Polymers, metals and composites
• C. Metals, ceramics, polymers and semiconductors
• D. Metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors and composites

3. What types of materials behave like iron when placed in a magnetic field?

• A. Crystals
• B. Amorphous materials
• C. Ferromagnetic materials
• D. Metalloids

4. What do you call metals reinforced by ceramics or other materials, usually in fiber form?

• A. Metalloids
• B. Matrix alloys
• C. Metal lattices
• D. Metal Matrix composites

5. What is a combination of one or more metals with a nonmetallic element?

• A. Metalloids
• B. Matrix Composite
• C. Inert
• D. Ceramic

6. Polymer comes from Greek words “poly” which means “many” and “meros” which means __________.

• A. metal
• B. material
• C. part
• D. plastic

7. The engineering materials known as “plastics” are more correctly called ____________.

• A. Polyvinyl chloride
• B. Polymers
• C. Polyethylene
• D. Mers

8. What is a combination of two or more materials that has properties that the components materials do not have by themselves?

• A. Compound
• B. Composite
• C. Mixture
• D. Matrix

9. What is a reference sheet for the elements that can be used to form engineering materials?

• A. Periodic Table
• B. Truth Table
• C. Building blocks of Materials
• D. Structure of Materials

10. What physical property of a material that refers to the point at which a material liquefies on heating or solidifies on cooling?

• A. Melting point
• B. Curie point
• C. Refractive index
• D. Specific heat