front 1 According to the article, what are some items that can be recycled? | back 1 Newspapers, aluminum cans, glass jars, plastic containers, and yard waste |
front 2 Inorganic Materials | back 2 Materials that come from things that were never alive |
front 3 Organic Materials | back 3 Materials that come from things that were once alive |
front 4 Municipal Solid Waste is called _______________. | back 4 Garbage |
front 5 Recycled Materials | back 5 Materials that are processed to be used again |
front 6 Incinerated | back 6 Means to burn |
front 7 Landfills | back 7 Modern versions of the town dump |
front 8 Organic garbage degrades. What does this mean? | back 8 Breaks down |
front 9 Living things that break down organic materials are called _________________. | back 9 Decomposers |
front 10 Most bacteria that are decomposers are aerobic. What does this mean? | back 10 They need oxygen to live. |
front 11 True or False: According to the article, each day the average American tosses out more than 4 pounds of municipal solid waste. | back 11 True |
front 12 What is composting? | back 12 Organic material is broken down by aerobic bacteria, fungi, insects, and worms |
front 13 How are landfills and compost piles different? | back 13 Unlike landfills, compost piles have oxygen to keep bacterial alive. |
front 14 True or False: Most garbage is inorganic. | back 14 False |