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Soil
Is it Dirt or Soil???
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Vocab
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Dirt
Soil
Residual Soil
Transported soil
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How does soil form?
• Rocks  smaller particles  tiny
particles(Dirt)  Weathering and organic
remains make Soil.
• Dirt is tiny particles of rock that has been
weathered.
• Soil is dirt with
organics in it.
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Soil Info
• The longer the rocks are exposed the
more soil is made...
• It takes hundreds of years to make
fertile soil.
• Rock is broken down and made into
soil, sometimes it does transport into a
new area and make new soil there.
(River delta)
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Residual or Transported
• Residual soils have formed in place
and not been moved far from where it
has been broken down and weathered.
• Transported has been moved from one
area to another.
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Protecting our soil
• In order to protect our soil we need to
understand how it is made.
• More plants means more soil. The
water will carry away the soil.
• Save the trees!
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WHY?
Not?
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Soil or Dirt
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Dirt
Lighter in color
Lacking minerals
Small un-weather
rocks
Fresh or recent
dead things in it.
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Soil
Dark colored
Rich in minerals
No rocks
Dead and decaying
things in it.
Soil
Dirt
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Questions
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How is soil created from rock?
A. Physical Weathering without chemical
weathering
B. Chemical weathering without physical
weathering
C. Erosion without weathering
D. Weathering without erosion
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WHY???
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Question
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The composition of soil that has
formed in place is mostly by the local
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B.
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Agent of erosion
Age of the bedrock
Slope of the land
Bedrock composition
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WHY?
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