Composting/Landfills - Experiment 1 - Living Landfill: What effect do the microorganisms in soil have on the decomposition process?
Experiment 1
Living Landfill: What effect do the microorganisms in soil have on the decomposition process?
Purpose/Hypothesis
The purpose of this experiment is to determine what happens to common household items that are discarded and placed in a landfill. In nature, physical, chemical, and biological factors act upon our waste and work together in the process of decomposition. This experiment will determine what action organisms in the soil have on garbage. Before you begin, make an educated guess about the outcome of this experiment based on your knowledge of composting and decomposition. This educated guess, or prediction, is your hypothesisAn idea in the form of a statement that can be tested by observation and/or experiment.. A hypothesis should explain these things:
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