Soil Vocabulary practice

Something that does not come from living things

• organic

• inorganic

• decomposer

• bacteria

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

An organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter

• bacteria

• decomposer

• organic

• inorganic

Living things that are too small to see with the naked eye (example: bacteria)

• fungus

• decomposers

• nutrients

• microorganisms

The steepness of the land

• horizon

• profile

• slope

• permeability

A cross section of the entire set of soil horizons for a particular soil

• soil horizon

• loam

• soil profile

• porosity

The amount of open spaces between soil particles

• porosity

• permeability

• subsoil

• sand

The individual layers of soil

• soil profile

• slope

• soil horizons

• loam

The word used to describe how easily (or not so easily) liquids or gases can go through a material (such as soil)

• porosity

• permeability

• inorganic

• pore space

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The starting rocks and minerals that soil comes from. Also known as horizon C.

• loam

• subsoil

• bedrock

• parent material

Important materials that plants must have in order to grow and survive

• soil

• loam

• nutrients

• humus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1