Soil Quiz Review

Movement of Soil by water or wind

• Decay

• Erosion

• Minerals

• Bedrock

Solid rock layer under the soil

• Bedrock

• Erosion

• Decay

• Minerals

Breaking down of dead plant and animal matter

• Erosion

• Bedrock

• Decay

• MInerals

Soil that has small grains, is sticky, and holds water well

• sand

• silt

• clay

• loam

Soil that has large grains, is rough and does not hold water well

Responses

• sand

• silt

• clay

• loam

Waste material that earthworms leave behind that adds nutrients to the soil

• observe

• sand

• castings

• soil

Question

Layer of soil BELOW the topsoil

• bedrock

• subsoil

• parent material

• humus

Question

Changes that wear rocks down or break rocks apart

• weathering

• sand

• earthworms

• castings

A mixture of minerals, humus, air and water on Earth's surface

• soil

• subsoil

• sand

• topsoil

To look at, watch, or study closely

• bedrock

• subsoil

• decay

• observe

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4