Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology sustainability and society overview quiz quiz

Repair

Reduce

Reuse

Recycle

They mean exactly the same thing and are simply two different names for the very same waste process

Reduce means using less material in the first place; recycle means reprocessing the material into something new at end of life

Reduce means melting the material down to a liquid in a furnace, while recycle simply means choosing to use a little bit less of it each year

Both reduce and recycle can only happen after the finished product has been thrown away and sent to landfill

It makes the finished product much heavier and bulkier so it uses up far more raw material overall

It relies on far more permanent glue and welded joints, which locks every part together for good

It lets the product be taken apart so parts can be reused, repaired and materials recycled cleanly

It deliberately prevents the product ever being opened up, repaired or serviced once it is sold

Its impact on the wages, health and safety of the people who actually make and assemble it in the factory

Its final sale price to the customer, including any retail mark-up, taxes and delivery charges added on

Its total weight only, measured in kilograms, with no account taken of any other factor at all

Its impact on the environment, including resource depletion, pollution, carbon footprint and waste

It guarantees producers a fair price and decent working conditions, often reinvesting in their community

It directly lowers the carbon footprint by cutting the energy used in transport and manufacturing of the goods

It completely removes every piece of packaging from the product so that nothing ever has to be thrown away

It only changes how the material is recycled at the very end of the product's working life, nothing else

Designing only for the single average user and ignoring anyone whose needs fall outside that narrow band

Designing products so they can be used by as many people as possible, including different ages and abilities

Designing the cheapest possible product by stripping out features so the absolute lowest price can be reached

Designing only for users who already have a recognised disability, and for nobody else in the population

Designing a product to last as long as it possibly can so it never needs replacing

Collecting and recycling a product at the end of its life so its materials are reused

Designing a product with a limited useful life so the consumer has to replace it

Making a product fully repairable so any broken part can simply be swapped out easily

It permanently changes colour when heated and keeps that new colour once it cools down again

It only conducts electricity when it is in the dark and stops conducting in bright light

It slowly dissolves away in water until none of the original alloy is left behind at all

It returns to its original remembered shape when heated after being deformed

Temperature

Light intensity

Applied pressure

Sound vibration

It is by far the cheapest frame material that you can possibly buy, which is exactly why budget bikes are usually made from it

It has an extremely high strength-to-weight ratio, so the frame is very strong and stiff yet very light

It is a single pure metal that can be melted down and cast straight into a finished frame in one piece

It rusts very easily when wet, so racing teams must repaint the frame after almost every single race

A single pure material with just one fixed set of properties that can never be altered at all by mixing anything else into it

A metal that has simply been melted down and recycled, then cast back into exactly the same shape

Two or more different materials combined to get properties neither has alone, usually a fibre in a matrix

A smart material whose colour or shape changes whenever the surrounding temperature rises or falls

Microfibre

Conductive fabric

Cotton

Kevlar