Trash & Recycling
This process uses worms and bacteria to break down organic waste into soil.
What is composting?
These materials can not be used to create soil because they are inorganic.
What is noncompostable?
This is the energy of a moving object such as a rotating wheel or a ball rolling across a surface.
What is kinetic energy?
Sources of energy or resources that are recreated faster than we can use them up.
What is renewable?
These materials are man made and are not considered living.
What is inorganic?
This gas is created when trash is gong through the process of decomposition. It is written as CH4.
What is methane?
The inside of grapefruits, lemons, and limes can not be used in composting bins because they have lots of citrus. The peels can be used.
What is acid?
This is energy stored in the bonds between atoms of a molecule.
What is chemical energy?
Sun, wind, and water are _________ energy sources.
What is renewable?
An organism that is living or lived at one time.
What is organic?
The amount of time it takes for a plastic bottle to break down.
What is 450 years?
Hamburgers, hotdogs, cottage cheese, and yogurt can not be composted because they are in these categories.
What are meats and dairy?
This is energy emitted by objects that are visible to the human eye.
What is light energy?
Coal, oil, natural gas are _________ sources of energy.
What is nonrenewable?
Animals, fungi, and bacteria that break down organic waste and turn it into something we can use again.
What are detritivores?
Most of the garbage we collect everyday ends up in these places.
What are landfills?
Compost produces soil that is very high in _______.
What is nutrients?
This energy occurs when the molecules of an object increasingly vibrate or rub together to create heat.
What is thermal energy?
____________ resources and energy are replenished at a very slow rate.
What is nonrenewable?
Any food that we eat is considered to be_______.
What is organic?
The mixture toxic fluids that come from landfills and pollutants that seep down into the water.
What is leachate?
This helps our Earth stay healthy and clean.
What is recycling?
This is the energy that creates pressure waves in the air by squeezing the molecules closer together or by spreading them apart. The waves vibrate our ear drums.
What is sound energy?
Plastics are made of these materials.
What are oils?
Nonorganic materials can be very harmful to the environment because they do not ____________ quickly.
What is decompose?