AQA A-Level Design and Technology: Product Design core technical and design overview quiz quiz

Rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle

Reduce, reuse, recycle, refill, return, renew

Repair, replace, reduce, recycle, reuse, restore

Reduce, reuse, recycle, redesign, reclaim, recover

Recycling is illegal in most countries and so manufacturers are not allowed to rely on it at all

It only reprocesses material after it has already been discarded, rather than preventing waste

Recycling never actually works in practice and always fails

Recycling is far more expensive than simply sending everything to landfill

Only the direct financial cost of manufacturing and assembling a finished product in the factory

How long a product is likely to last in normal use before it eventually breaks

The environmental impact of a product across its whole life from raw material to disposal

The total number of separate components used in a product

The systematic collection and tabulation of static and dynamic human body measurements only

The industrial process of collecting and recycling used materials

The legal protection of the appearance of a design

The study of the relationship between people and the products and environments they use

95% of the population is below this measurement

95% of the population is above this measurement

The measurement is exactly average

Only 95 people have this measurement

It covers every single member of the population exactly, with no exclusions at all

It covers about 90% of the population, a practical and economic range

It is the legal minimum required range set out in safety regulations

It only fits the single average user at the 50th percentile

Buy the equipment, train the staff and then sell the finished product to customers

Design the product, make the product, then evaluate it

Identify the hazard, judge the risk, put control measures in place

Plan the work, manufacture the parts, then distribute them

The product is the cheapest one available anywhere on the whole market at the present moment

The product was designed and made entirely in Britain by a British company

The product is fully recyclable at the end of its life

The product has been independently tested by BSI and meets the relevant safety standard

Patent

Copyright

Trademark

Registered design

Patent

Copyright

Registered design

Trademark

The brand name, the logo and other identifying marks

How the invention actually functions and works

The appearance, shape and decoration of a product

The company's written documents and instruction manuals

It guarantees that a protected product will always sell well in the marketplace

It completely removes the need for any marketing or advertising of the product

It directly makes the product far cheaper and significantly quicker to manufacture in the factory each time

It stops competitors copying the design and lets the owner recover R&D costs and licence the rights