Nature's Waste Matter - Grass Clippings - Catelyn R.

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. Trees and other Plants. There are leaves, pinecones, and pine needles. The flowers and grass come from plants 
2. . No, The small flower is a little discolored and fragile and the grass is around its dying stage. Our leave has a little sign of deadness. 
3. It most likely is decaying and dying because it can't provide photosynthesis and thats its food and water so it would die. 
4. They will not be the same. At one point it will start to die and not get the nutrients it needs from photosynthesis.
5.  They all got their energy from the sun. They also  all produced photosynthesis.
6. Every item in the box came from nature and from the sun.  


7.  Dead bugs are organisms. So are dead leaves because they came from a tree. 
8. In my mind it would start to die. It might lose its color and start to wilt. 
9. I didn't know the answer but I think that it would start to decompose and the fungi and bacteria help it!
10. Some waste evaporates. Other waste might grow into a new plant. 
11. They could be classified as waste because it was all not living anymore.
12. They could be classified as waste because it was all not living anymore.
13. Some things don't even turn into waste. They evaporate. (I don't know another answer)