Soil Nutrients
This nutrient is known as the N in NPK.
What is Nitrogen?
This is something that cannot be composted.
What is bones, meat, plastic, metal, ect?
This can be composted to help reduce food waste in landfills.
The PH of water.
What is, roughly 7
This method of preservation involves leaving the food in a warm dry space over time.
What is drying?
This nutrient is known as the P in NPK.
What is Phosphorous?
This is something that can be composted.
What is food, plants, newspaper, and more?
The amount of water required to produce one apple.
What is 33 gallons?
The PH of Human Blood.
What is 8?
This method of food preservation involves vinegar and salt.
What is pickling.
This Nutrient is known as the K in NPK.
What is Potassium?
How long it takes for a plastic cup to decompose.
What is 450 years?
These are 5 things required to grow plants and raise animals?
What are: Soil, sun, nutrients / food, water, shelter, and more
The three locations we took our soil tests:
What is: gaga pit, outside STEM, and old greenhouse
This method of food preservation is famous for being done in tin in factories, but can also be done in jars at home.
What is canning?
A soil that turns very blue or purple on a PH test.
What is alkaline, or basic?
This is what happens when food decomposes in a landfill.
What is CO2 / toxins are created? (and it rots)
This is the percent of food wasted by Americans every year.
What is 40%?
List one food that exists now, that wouldn't have existed 100 years ago.
(answers vary, and will be checked with google)
This method of preservation greatly improved in 1928 when a certain household device was invented.
What is freezing?
This BMS soil had the best nutrients in our soil test?
What is the GAGA pit soil / outside the STEM room (depending on class results)
What is the final product of composting?
What is soil?
This is the amount of money wasted by throwing away food every year.
What is 185 Billion Dollars?
One way we can encourage businesses to reduce food waste.
This method of food preservation was mainly used on meats, it is not commonly used today.
What is salting?