Soil

What is soil?

• Pieces of sidewalk

• Bits of rotten plants, animals, and weathered rocks

• Leftovers from volcanoes

• Crushed up Oreos

The three types of soil are...

• clay, dust, and dirt

• mold, moss, and crust

• clay, sand, and loam

• sand, dust, and rust

What type of soil lets the most water to pass through it?

• Loam

• Sand

• Clay

Compost has so much nutrients that what creature is found here?

• Bats

• Earthworms

• Penguins

• Cows

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What color is soil?

• Hot pink

• Navy blue

• many colors (red, brown, gray, yellow, black, etc.)

• Sparkly

Why is soil important for plants?

• It makes the Earth's surface hard

• It moves from one place to another

• It does not let plants grow roots

• It contains nutrients to help plants grow

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Which of the following relies on soil to survive?

• plants

• animals

• bugs

• all of the above

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What is weathering?

• Wearing down and breaking apart rocks

• Rain

• soil when it gets wet

• Sun

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Which are characteristics of rocks?

• color, texture, luster, and hardness

• light, Mohs scale, height

• color, size, shape

• price, hardness, shiny

What is erosion?

• When wind, water, and weather change rocks or soil over time

• When soil is wet

• When it hails

• Snow that turns black.

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