Lesson 7: Nature's Waste Matter

Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. Where do you think the items came from originally?
2. Do you think the items look the same today as they did a month ago?
3. What happened to the matter in each item over the past month?
4. Do you think the items will be the same forever? Why or why not?
5. What do all of the items in the bag have in common?
6. Do you notice any relationships between the items in the bags? They all...
7. What evidence do you have that the items were all once part of a living thing?
8. Another name for "nature's waste" is "organic remains." These are all organisms that are no longer living, or parts of organisms that are discarded, excreted, or no longer needed.  What other examples of organic remains can you think of?
9. What would happen to each item from your bag if it were left outside? What might it look like in 6 months? What would cause it to change?
10. What would eventually happen to the waste MATTER in each type of organic remain?
11. Why isn't the earth just piled up with all the matter from nature's waste?
12. Why could all of the items in the mystery bags be classified as nature's waste?
13. Do you think that all living things generate waste? What makes you think that?

Answers:

1. a maple tree and the grownd
2. no it might of been smaller
3. it got a lot more squoshie
4. No i do not think it will like the leaf will get brown
5. they all are things that had to grow
6. they all had to grow
7. They all look like they are starting to die
8. Sticks leafs acorns
9. it might look better then it would in the inside
10. It would evenualy die
11. Because Earths waste will Decompose and decinagrate


12. Because they all fell of of living things
13. Because they all need to have new things to grow on them so they are not just giving water to old plants.