Soil Vocabulary

top layer of soil that provides support and nutrients to plants

• topsoil

• subsoil

• humus

• silt

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

fine sand and earth material carried by water

• clay

• loam

• silt

• humus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

bottom layer of soil, which is made up of solid rock

• subsoil

• bedrock

• topsoil

• humus

decayed plants and animals on the top layer of soil

• humus

• sand

• clay

• loam

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

materials that come from nature

• conservation

• natural resource

• organic

• rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-3

change due to the exposure of weather (causes rocks to break into smaller parts that eventually become part of the soil)

• erosion

• conservation

• weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

weathered material moves from one place to another

• erosion

• conservation

• weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

 tiny grains of broken rock

• clay

• humus

• loam

• sand

stone

• rock

• silt

• bedrock

• loam

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

a material found in earth that is sticky when wet and hard when dry

• sand

• nutrients

• humus

• clay