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WorksheetsUnit 3- Soil
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 18mins
Are there minerals in soil?
Yes
No
The weathering of rocks into small pieces forms what natural resource?
Minerals
Water
Coal
Soil
Which of the following is NOT a property of soil?
Color
Texture
Where it's located
Ability to retain water
Where do plants get minerals from
soil
rain
sun
animals
Leah wants to investigate three different types of soil for their ability to retain water. She comes up with two different plans.
Which is the BEST plan to investigate the three types of soil for their ability to retain water?
Plan 1 because you can measure the specific amount of water the soil retained.
Plan 2 because you can look at the soil and see how much water is in it.
Plan 1 because you do not need to use colored water.
Plan 2 because it used colored water.
Some students noticed little trenches around the outside of the school building.
What do you think will happen to the trenches over time?
The trench holes will get larger because the rain water will continue to push the soil out of the trench.
The trench holes will disappear because rocks and soil will fill up from the bottom layer of the ground
The trench holes will get smaller because grass will grow over the area and it will be watered by the rain.
The trench holes will stay the same because they were made to catch the rain and control flooding.
Several friends were standing on the side of Providence Canyon, known as the Little Grand Canyon, in Georgia. Looking down they could see the layers of rock and the river at the bottom. They wondered how it was formed. Each had a different idea. Which one is correct?
There was a huge flood that rushed through the land and formed the Canyon in one day.
The Canyon was formed when the Earth was formed, it just got bigger with earthquakes
The river and streams slowly carved out the Canyon over time and pushed the soil away.
The Canyon was dug by humans in less than a week and the river sunk to the bottom.
During the fall, Robert noticed a small crack in a rock in his backyard. Over the winter, the area that Robert lives in got a lot of rain and temperatures dropped below freezing many nights. When Robert observed the rock again in the spring, he noticed the crack was much larger. What caused the crack to get bigger?
The rain water continued to carve out the crack over time
Wind
from the freezing nights would cause erosion to the rock.
Over time, the rain would freeze to ice, which expanded the crack in the rock.
There was a flood that moved with a fast speed that caused the crack to expand.
A group of third graders went outside for recess on the first day of school and ran down a big hill. At the bottom of the hill, they noticed that part of the ground looked different from last school year.
Which of the following BEST describe what caused the shift in the appearance of the ground?
Rain water moved quickly down the hill and the water carved out part of the soil.
Strong winds moved the soil from one spot of the playground to another.
The soil carved out quickly from other students playing before them.
An earthquake broke apart the soil.
The third graders in Mr. Miller’s class were looking at pictures of mountain ranges in the United States. The students observed that the Appalachian Mountains were round and short, while the Rocky Mountains were taller and more jagged. What would cause the mountain ranges to be so different?
More people have traveled over the Rocky Mountains than the Appalachian Mountains.
The Appalachian Mountains have had more exposure to erosion from wind and water.
More animals live in the Appalachian Mountains, so they have been worn down more from the animals walking over them.
The snow in the Rocky Mountains keeps them for eroding as quickly as the Appalachian Mountains.
Janelle wants to investigate to determine three different soils’ textures based on their particle size. She says “I only need to use a hand lens to look at them. Then I will write down what I see. This will tell me all I need to know about their texture based on their particle size.” Is Janelle correct in her thinking?
Yes, because a hand lens helps you see particle size and then you will know about the soils’ texture
No, because in order to determine texture, you also need to know what the soils feel like
Yes because to see texture you just need to look at the soil closely.
No, because you do not need to use a hand lens to determine texture
If a student wanted to tell if a soil is mostly sand, what could they do to identify the soil and why?
They could look at the particle size because sand has the smallest particles.
They could feel the texture because sand is slippery when wet.
They could add water because it will pass through sand easily.
They could add water because sand holds the most water.
Kendall has three different samples of soil. She knows one is clay, one is sand, and one is gravel, but she can’t remember which is which. What is one way she can determine which soil is which and why?
She can add water to the three soils. Sand and clay will absorb the same amount of water. Then you will know which is which by its color. Gravel will absorb the least amount of water.
She can observe the texture of the three soils. Gravel feels smooth when wets and feels rough and rocky, and clay feels gritty when rubbed.
She can use a color system to observe the three soils. Clay is usually black, gravel is a combination of white and blues, and sand is usually a red/yellow color.
She can use a hand lens to observe the particles of the three soils. Clay has the smallest particles, gravel has the largest particles, and sand’s particles are in between.
