With your partner, turn to page A122 in your textbook. Read pages A122 to A129 and answer/do the following.
Both of you will need to submit a form.
1) Look at the four soil samples at your desk with your hand lens. Based on what you've know and have read, which of the following shows the soils from most fertile (best for growing plants) to least fertile. *
2) Explain your answer for question #1. Remember there is not necesssarily a correct answer for question #1. *
Your answer
3) What are the main ingredients of soil? *
Your answer
4) How do climate and landforms affect soils' characteristics. *
Your answer
5) Describe four properties of soil. *
Don't just list them; describe them as well.
Your answer
6) Which would you expect to be more fertile, the soil on hilly land or the soil on a plain? Explain why. *
Your answer
7) What kinds of roots might you expect to fint on plants that grow in arctic soils? Why? *