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Problem
What do I think the items will do ? -
Hypothisis
I belive that the apple or orange will decompose the most.
I belive that the foil and regular chip bag will decompose the least. -
Materials and Equipment
We used shovels, rebar, hammer, stakes, and caution tape. The items we used were reg, chip bag, sun chip bag, paper, cotton fabric, styrfoam, foil, apple, orange. -
Procedures
We dug holes in the ground and put the items in the holes. At the end of the 9 weeks we will dig them up and see which one decomposed the most. -
Dig Day
Today we buried the items and we dug holes about 12 - 6 inches deep depending on what we were buring. -
Sytrofoam Cup
I do not think the Styrofoam cup will decompose.
Statistics say that on average it takes 500 years for it to decompose. -
weather
the weather ranged from 24 - 54 degrees
wind : 9 - 18 mph.
little to no precipataion -
Aluminum Foil
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weather
temp. : 12 - 65 degrees
wind speed : 8- 20 mph.
Little to no Precipation -
Sun Chip Bag
the sun chip bag sais that it is decomposable but I think it will take quite a long time for it to decompose. -
weather
temp. : 10 - 76 degrees
wind speed : 12 - 51 mph.
It is snowy. -
Regular Chip Bag
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weather
Temp. : High of 49 And a low of -5.
The wind ranged from 10 - 29 mph.
Max snow depth 6 inches . -
Apple
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Weather
Temp. : Low 28 - high of 80 degrees
Wind : 10 - 28 mphs
Little to no precipatation -
Paper
paper takes a while to decompose so in a nine week span it will not decompose. Get a recycling bin and take it to a recycling plant every week or so. -
Weather
Temp. : low 48 - 75
Wind : 11 - 27 mph.
Little to no precipation -
Cotton
I do not think that this will decompose very much -
Weather
temp. : 32 - 67 degrees
Wind : 9 - 16 mph.
Little Prectipation -
Orange
I think that this will be one of the several that will decompose the most. -
Weather
Temp. : 30 - 71 degrees
Wind: 11 - 24 mph.
No precipation -
Final Conclusion
The date we buried them was the 8th of march and remmber to recycle ! -
Apple conclusion
As I thought the apple was one of the sevaral that decomposed the most. -
Cotton Conclusion
The cotton -
paper Conclusion
The Paper Decomposed maybe a tenth of the way. -
Foil Conclusion
The foil did not decompose at all . -
Orange Conclusion
The orange was also about Half way decomposed. -
regular Chip Bag Conclusion
The reg. Chip bag did not decompose at all . 0% -
Styrafoam Conclusion
The Styrafoam cup did not decompose at all. -
The Sun Chip bag
The sun chip bag did bot decompose . It might if it had more time .
