The definition of "decomposition" is the act or process of resolving the constituent parts of compound body or substance into its elementary parts. Which simply means it's the breakdown of raw organic material by bacteria or fungi physically and chemically. Earlier in the experiment I made a hypothesis that predicted what was going to occur by the end of the decomposition chamber experiment. I hypothesize that the cliff bar will take more time to start to show physical changes then the apple. Also, I thought the cliff bar would turn different colors and start to show many physical changes even though they're very preservative.
The materials that were needed to start this experiment was two empty 2- liter pop bottles, a pair of scissors, something sharp to poke holes with, tape, ink pen, ruler, data sheet, organic materials, water, and any other distinctive items. Next, we had to cut off the top of the first bottle and cut off the base of the second bottle. After I was finished carefully cutting, we had to take the base of the second bottle, invert it, and place it inside of the first bottle near the base. Next, we had to carefully connect both bottles together to make a single much taller bottle. When we finished constructing the chamber, we had to make 50 holes in the chamber walls using a dissecting needle. The holes were mostly positioned around the upper 2/3 of the bottle, but some of the holes were also positioned towards the entire bottle. .
There was many organic materials that were put into my chamber. This organic materials consisted of brown leafs, green grass, green leafs, dirt, compost, thin pieces of paper, a cliff bar, a apple, and twigs. The organic materials looked very lively and colorful. Also, the assembled and filled camber smelled like typical nature. Not very much water was used to wet the materials after the chamber was assembled unless it was needed. Furthermore, the chambers were placed in the left front corner of the room, and there wasn't any steps taken to help it stay moist.
