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Subtitle: An Idea Book for Exploring the World Through Soda Bottles and Other Recyclable Materials. Explores science and the environment through scientific investigations using over 20 soda bottle constructions. Chapters: Bottle Basics (collecting, cleaning, cutting); Decomposition Column (rot, worm composting); Kimchee (fermentation chamber, acids and bases, salt/osmosis, Lactobacillus); Soil Meditations (sedimentations battle, soil column, soil density, plant nutrition, soil texture and water holding capacity); Predator-Prey Column (fruit fly trap, carnivorous plants, praying mantises, spiders); TerrAqua Column (link between terrestrial and aquatic systems, salt pollution, water cycle); Ecocolumn (ecosystems, food webs, water and nutrient cycling, niches, life cycles, Tropical Forest Ecocolumn); Science in a Film Can (germination, gravitropism, phototropism, bioassay); Gardening Systems (plant growth, TerrAqua Bottle, film can garden, grow bucket); and Bottle Instruments and Devices (terrarium, aquarium, bottle microscope, film can microscope, bottle balance, bottle timer, etc). | |