Year 6 Unit 9- Wastes

A ____________ is a waste disposal facility where wastes are put in the ground and covered each day with a layer of dirt, plastic, or both.

• landfill

• incinerator

• compost heap

• aquifer

Solid waste includes all of the following except;

• newspaper and soda bottles

• food scraps and yard clippings

• ozone and carbon dioxide

• junk mail and milk cartons

If your shirt is partly cotton and partly polyester, what part is biodegradable?

• cotton

• polyester

• both a and b

• none of the above

What does RECYCLING mean?

• throw away

• give things to other people

• make new things out of old ones

• using things again and again

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What does "reduce" mean?

• use more

• use less

• make new things

• save the Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

What does "reuse" mean?

• use less

• use more

• use again

• don't use

Waste from a construction site is classed as...?

• Rubble waste

• Harmful waste

• Industrial waste

• Dirty waste

Group this waste.

• Paper

• Organic

• Toxic

• Excretion and defecation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

Group this waste.

• Metal

• Glass

• Plastic

• Paper

Group this waste.

• Excretion and defecation

• Organic

• Paper

• Toxic