Soil Health

Soil health is the ability of a soil to

• function as a vital, living ecosystem to sustain plant & animal production
• maintain or enhance air & water quality
• promote plant, animal & human health

Which of these is an essential chemical property that contributes to soil health?

• water content
• water movement
• pH
• relative position of the sun

Which of these is an essential physical property that contributes to soil health?

• root colour
• microbial communities
• plant type
• soil texture

Which of these is an essential biological property that contributes to soil health.

• microbiota
• plant species

Soil health involves integrating soil physical, biological and chemical aspects

• True
• False

Soil health does not correlate with soil function and/or ecosystem services

• True
• False

Diverse crop rotation is useful to improve soil health

• True
• False

Pest management is an ecosystem service that falls under which soil component?

• Chemical
• Biological
• Radiological
• Nuclear

Which scoring function was used to compute this graph?

• Less is better

• More is better

• Nothing is better

The most used soil health index is

• visual scoring cards
• Cornell Comprehensive Assessment of Soil Health