Funeral Home Operations Mod 1

Which of these would be the most durable and long lasting ferrous casket?

Stainless steel

Your casket supplier offers two types of stainless steel, namely 300 series and 400 series. You want the better of the two. Which one is better?

300 series

How does one create the casket metal known as bronze?

By combining copper, tin, and zinc

Most burial receptacles sold by funeral homes in the US today are:

Caskets

The term "casket" comes from the root word ________.

Casse

In which of these types of copper is a copper shell submerged in a copper ionic solution in order to reinforce the copper shell?

Copper deposit solution

What is the term that describes the wood that is derived from a leaf-bearing tree?

Deciduous

Which of these types more closely resembles cardboard in its composition?

Fiberboard

Lignin is primarily seen to-

Helps hold the material (wood cells) together like glue.

"Extreme oxidation" would be an applicable term for which one of these casket metals:

Iron

What common element or material is shared among all ferrous caskets?

Iron is shared

Client families that purchase wood caskets usually do so because of:

It's warmth beauty, and craftsmanship

Which of these would be the ultimate hardwood?

Mahogany

Which of these is not a softwood? Maple, Redwood, Cypress, or Cedar

Maple

A casket truck has brought your funeral home two caskets, a pecan casket and a pine casket, weighing a total of 500 lbs. The first casket you remove from the truck weighs 200 lbs., so you deduct that the casket still on the truck is the __________ casket.

Pecan

What type of laminate has layers of wood glued together so that each layer has grains at a right angle to the layer above or below it?

Plywood

Which of these are not hard woods? Redwood, Cherry, Oak, Maple, Pecan

Redwood

While looking at a hardwood casket at a visitation, you notice that the lines of the grain pattern are not close together. You correctly deduct that the not-so-close grain pattern makes this casket wood a/an?

Softwood

You observe that your deceased mother-in law's casket has the words "16 gauge" written on the base molding of the foot end of the casket. You immediately draw the conclusion that her casket is made from what material?

Steel

What does the term "selected hardwood actually mean?

The casket is manufactured using different species of wood.

Judging the differences between the weights of two ferrous metal casket thicknesses, the casket with the higher number represents the casket with the ____ metal.

Thinner

A receptacle that is "in the shape of man" would most likely be:

Wide and the shoulders and more narrow at the head and at the foot

Which of these types of copper is the most common used in casket construction today?

Wrought copper

How does one make a casket material known as copper?

You can't: its a natural element

"Anthropomorphic" would be a term that best describes a:

coffin

If a wood comes from a coniferous tree, that tree_______.

is cone-bearing

A coffin _________ the same article as a casket.

is not

Generally speaking, hardwoods are _________ resistant than softwoods.

more

In measuring the thickness of a ferrous casket, the lower the number, the _________ the casket metal.

thicker

In measuring the thickness of a non-ferrous casket metal, the higher the number, the ________ the casket metal.

thicker

Which of these burial receptacles was the oldest? (Historically)

Coffins history

In which of these methods of producing a copper is the molds of a casket submerged in a copper ionic solution; thereby allowing the creation of a casket within the molds of the casket? Later, the mold is broken away, leaving the casket for finishing.

Seamless copper deposit mold

Which of these types of cooper was considered to be the ultimate copper casket ever produced?

Seamless copper deposit.