3rd grade-SOILS!

This is the word for taking in or soaking up!!

• reflect

• erode

• absorb

• magnify

This is made of very, very small rocks and has NO nutrients. When dry it cracks and when wet it is SLIMY!

• silt

• rock

• clay

• sand

The wise use of natural resources is called...

• conservation

• reservation

• sublimation

• transportation

The movement of weathered materials is called.......

• respiration

• erosion

• evaporation

• metamorphism

When normally dry land is covered with water it is called...

• drought

• tilling

• cracking

• flooding

The environment where an organism lives is called a.....

• niche

• habitat

• adaptation

• trait

A component of soil that has animal and plant materials is called....

• clay

• silt

• humus

• sand

A material in the environment that is useful to people is called a....

• natural resource

• human resource

• capital resource

• dud

Substances an organism needs in order to survive and grow are called.....

• poisons

• nutrients

• desires

• toxins

A living thing is called a(n) ........

• niche

• organism

• twig

• zombie