Vocabulary
We have one of these just outside of Veinerville.
What is a landfill?
These 3 types of waste are named after the 3 states of matter.
What is solid, liquid and gas?
The names of 3 places where waste can be thrown.
What is a landfill, garbage, or recycling bin?
What is glass, metal, plastic, cardboard, bike tire etc.
Some examples of these include bacteria, worms, and fungi.
What is a decomposer?
Any electronic device that is no longer wanted is known as this type of waste.
What is E-waste?
True or False: Composting helps breakdown organic materials which in turn provide nutrients for the soil
What is true?
This country receives a lot of our waste.
What is China?
Coal, Oil, and Gas are examples of this type of waste
What is gas waste?
This dictates how long it takes for certain materials to decompose into the Earth's soil
What is biodegradable?
This type of waste is apart of the 3 R's.
What is recycle?
List 5 materials that can be composted.
What is a banana peel, apple core, tree branch, sticks, and egg shells?
The percentage of waste that is incinerated or burned in Canada. Hint: It is less then 50%.
What is 3%?
The amount of time it takes for glass to decompose.
What is 100 years?
A battery would be an example of this type of waste.
What is hazardous waste?
This type of waste undergoes decomposition by worms, bacteria, and other fungi.
What is organic material?
The 4 types of recyclable waste.
What is cardboard, paper, glass and metals?
List the 5 steps that happen after a cardboard box is recycled.
What is collected at your house, goes to a recycling facility, seperated, shredded apart, reused to make new products?
Incinerating waste creates these two types of energy.
What is heat and electricity?
List 5 real-life examples of liquid waste.
What is water, soda, oil, bleach, and sewage?
This Canadian city does not treat their human waste and releases it into local waterways. Gross!
Hint: It is a big city in the province West of Alberta.
What is Victoria, BC?
What is saves energy, reduces pollution and reduces landfill waste?
Lyle finds a nickel on the ground. He knows it is important to reuse and remake items. List 3 objects/items that can be made out of nickel.
What are batteries, cutlery, computer chips?
Toxic waste is any waste that is harmful to humans, plants or animals. List 4 places that can create toxic waste.
What is a factory, hospital, farm, power plant?