Earth's Resources Quiz Review - TMS 6th grade

________ formed when plant and animals decay

• humus

• sand

• clay

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

_______ is made of tiny broken rocks and has the largest particles

• sand

• clay

• loam

Texture is the way the soil

• feels

• looks

Soil is made of

• weathered rocks and minerals
• dead plants and animals
• air and water
• all of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is HUMUS made from?

• Chick-Peas

• The remains of decayed plants and animals

• Inorganic materials

• Rocks and Minerals

Which of the following layers of soil is nutrient rich containing an abundance of humus?

• subsoil

• parent material

• bedrock

• topsoil

What do we call one layer of soil?

• soil sample

• horizon

• profile

• rock

Which of the following best describes the composition of soil?

• dirt

• Weathered rock, humus, air, water, and minerals

• minerals and fertilizer

• Water, air, and humus

Which kind of soil is MOST LIKELY to make puddles of water on its surface because its pores are very small?

• clay

• gravel

• silt

• sand

What is the name of Horizon 1?

• Subsoil 
• Topsoil
• Bedrock 
• Parent Rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3