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Junior Cycle Science: Materials & recycling
How often Materials & recycling comes up on the Science papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 2 of the last 6 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.
Materials & recycling, Common Level(7 marks)
Quick ones on Materials & recycling.
(a)Why is recycling aluminium cans good for the environment?
- It makes the aluminium much stronger
- It saves energy and raw materials
- It sends more waste to landfill
(b)Which of these materials is biodegradable?
- Most plastics
- Glass
- Paper
(c)Old phones and laptops (e-waste) should be recycled partly because they contain?
- Valuable metals like gold and copper
- Living micro-organisms
- Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and peat
Show the answers
(a) It saves energy and raw materials
(b) Paper
(c) Valuable metals like gold and copper
Common Level
Asked on 2 of the last 6 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Not asked |
| 2024 | Q10 |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Not asked |
| 2019 | Q15 |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
Other Science topics
- Analysing data & graphs
- Earth-Sun-Moon system
- States of matter & changes
- The universe & solar system
- Acids & bases
- Atoms & the Periodic Table
- Cells & microscopes
- Ecology & habitats
- Electricity & circuits
- Energy conversions & efficiency
- Exothermic & endothermic
- Forces & Hooke's law
- Human body systems
- Measurement & density
- Properties of materials
- Scientific investigations
- Speed & acceleration
- Climate change
- Genetics & evolution
- Human health & micro-organisms
- Human reproduction
- Rates of reaction & gases
- Science in society
- Space exploration
- Water & carbon cycles
- Biodiversity & conservation
- Energy sources & sustainability
- Mixtures & separation
- Photosynthesis & respiration