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Home Ec Fibers "Quiz
Home Ec Major Test Study Material
| Question | True/False |
|---|---|
| Ancient Egyptians used both cotton and linen. | True |
| Rayon was made to be an artificial silk. | True |
| Wool is a hydrophilic fiber. | True |
| Nylon was the first synthetic fiber made in the U.S. | True |
| A silk fiber's smooth surface absorbs light. | False, it reflects it. |
| Natural fibers are uniform in size. | False, they aren't uniform because they were made uneven by nature. |
| You can always tell what a fabric is by made of by looking at it. | False, you can not tell what it is made of. |
| One of the components of acrylic is limestone. | True |
| Natural fibers are extruded through a spinnerets. | False, only manufactured fibers go through spinnerets. |
| Cotton, wool, silk, and linen once were harvested by hand. | True |
| Used to make high end fabrics. | Silk |
| Seed Fiber | Cotton |
| Naturally flame resistant | wool |
| Caterpillar | silkworm |
| Made of polyamides containing carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen. | Nylon |
| Made by reacting dicarboxylic acid with dihydric alcohol | polyester |
| The basic building block of fabric | fiber |
| Bast fiber | Linen |
| Artificial wool | Acrylic |
| Manufacturer of synthetic fibers. | DuPont |
| The harvesting of which natural fiber includes rippling, retting, and scutching? | Linen |
| The most commonly used fiber in carpet: | Nylon |
| The only natural fiber that may be a filament: | Silk |
| Clothing labels are: | Required by law; identify fabric labels |
| Cotton was domesticated in: | Asia; South America; Africa |
| Rayon is made of: | Cellulose |
| The most commonly used synthetic fiber: | Polyester |
| Acrylic is used to create: | fake fur; luggage; sweaters |
| What makes a wool fiber strong? | Overlapping scales |
| Fibers can be found in: | Hot air balloons; sails; tennis balls |
| Long, continuous strands measured in yards or meters | filament |
| A process to add bulk to a fiber | air-texturing |
| Dissolved polymers are extruded into warm air | dry spinning |
| A natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn | Staple fiber |
| Repelling, tending not to combine with, or incapable of dissolving in water | hydrophobic |
| Cotton fibers | Lint |
| Fibrous chemical found in all plants | Cellulose |
| A strong woody fiber obtained chiefly from plants | Bast fiber |
| The breaking up and separating of the woody portions of flax stems from the retted fiber by means of rollers | Scutching |
| A seed pod about the size of a golf ball | Boll |
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