Sec 1.1 Notebook and Reading Check

Use your BioLog to answer these questions.

1. The garbage on the Mobro originated in which city and state?
2. How many bales of garbage were on the Mobro? Show your calculations.
    
    
    
    
    
3. Why did other states and countries refuse to accept the Mobro's garbage?
    
    
    
    
4. Why did we study garbage in a biology class?
    
    
    
    
5. Compare the human waste stream and the waste stream of other organisms.
    
    
    
    
6. What was the initial mass and volume of garbage we sorted? 
   
7. What categories did we use when dividing the trash?
    
    
    
    
8. If we had a trash bag whose circumference measured 300cm, what is the volume of the trash?
    
    
    
    
9. Where does our Whidbey Island garbage go when we throw it away?
    
    
   
    
10. Describe how you estimated how much garbage the school produces.
     
     
     
     
11. What company or agency is responsible for the trash we throw away? 
    
12. What materials are recycled at OHHS?
     
     
     
     
13. What happens to old automobile tires in our area?
     
     
     
     
14. Does our community have a disposal fee for motor oil? How do you know ?
     
     
     
15. Draw a flow chart showing how paper products flow from their source to you and into the waste steam.