Conserving Land and Soil

In order to have more land for farming, people cut down woodlands to harvest timber...

• Urbanization
• Desertification
• Deforestation
• Biodiversity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A period of less than normal rainfall is called a...

• Storm
• desert
• Land reclamation
• Drought

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The process of moving soil by wind, water, and ice is called...

• Creep
• Slump
• weathering
• erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The rock that makes up earth's crust below the soil profile is called...

• Earthen rock
• Mantle
• Top Soil
• Bedrock

A mixture of rock fragments and nutrients, water, air and dead stuff is called...

• Humus
• Sub Soil
• Top Soil
• Litter

Bed rock is the first layer

• true

• false

Plants make their own food

• True

• False

_________________ of Earth's surface is dry, ice-free land.

• Over half
• About half
• Less than a third
• Less than a quarter

What is the third soil type?

• subsoil

• litter

• bedrock

• topsoil