Compost

Examples of CARBON RICH (brown) materials include:

• newpapers

• lettuce leaves

• egg shells

• All of the above

Examples of NITROGEN RICH (green) materials include:

• hair

• food scraps

• coffee grinds

• All of the above

Which organism help to breakdown or decompose waste and dead organisms?

• Flies and mosquitoes

• Fungi and bacteria

• Bees and butterflies

• Cockroaches

Which of the following is a decomposer.

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To keep a good balance, the amount of brown wastes (carbon rich materials) should be...

• twice as much as the green waste.

• less than brown waste.

• an equal amount of green waste and brown waste

• the amount of each doesn't matter

Organic matter you should never put in your compost is . . .

• eggshells

• cardboard

• bones, meat, or fish scraps

• shredded paper

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What does letter M in the acronym ADAM stand for?

What does compost need in order to prevent smelly odors?

• Aliveness

• Aeration

• Moisture

• Diversity

Anything that has lived once can live again in your compost.

• True

• False

Good composting comes from Aliveness, ______________, ___________ and moisture.

• heat

• aeration

• live

• diversity