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Match the following statements with the best answer--i.e., appropriate oil or plant
listed in the key (use possible answers as many times as you wish):
1. most consumed (#1) food oil in the world .
2. second most consumed food oil in world.
3. third most consumed food oil in world.
4. obtained from flax plant.
5. plant oil most similar to sperm whale oil.
6. plant rich in saponin (sometimes called “bouncing bet”).
Key:
A. canola F. oil palm
B. castor bean G. peanut
C. coconut H. soapwort
D. jojoba J. soybean
E. linseed oil K. tung oil
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7. An important rubber plant native to the U. S. is: (A) Brazilian rubber, (B) India
rubber tree, (C) gutta percha, (D) ylang-ylang, (E) guayule, (F) fennel.
8. Turpentine and rosin are most closely related to: (A) latex, (B) saponin, (C) jojoba,
(D) pitch, (E) linoleic acid, (F) essential oil.
9 . The high quality wax, carnauba, comes from a: (A) pine, (B) palm, (C) grass, (D)
flax, (E) castorbean, (F) bouncing bet, (G) tung oil tree, (H) Chinese tallow tree.
10. Bristlecone pine growth rings suggest that “carbon 14 dates” are generally: (A)
too young, (B) too old, (C) just right.
11. This oil plant of western American deserts was once thought to be native to China:
(A) tallow tree, (B) jojoba, (C) bouncing bet, (D) gutta-percha, (E) guayule, (F)
soybean, (G) tung oil.
12. Vessels and fiber cells would most likely be absent in wood of: (A) red oak, (B)
white oak, (C) black walnut, (D) green ash, (E) sugar maple, (F) slash pine, (G)
ironwood.
13. “Old Ironsides” (an American sailing ship) got its nickname because: (A) it sides
were reinforced with iron strips, or it was made of: (B) balsa, (C) live oak, (D) teak,
(E) ironwood, (F) chestnut.
14. Lipids or fatty acids that are most harmful in human nutrition are: (A)
monosaturated, (B) polyunsaturated, (C) saturated.
15. Deposition of gums, tannins, or mucilage, etc. help characterize: (A)
softwood,(B) hardwood, (C) early wood, (D) late wood, (E) heartwood, (F) sapwood, (G)
firewood.
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