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Warm-Up
Write the question and the examples:
1. Tell me whether each of these is an example of chemical weathering, mechanical weathering or both:
a) A rock getting hit by sand carried in the wind
b) A weed growing through a crack in the sidewalk
c) Polluted rain falling on Stone Mountain
d) A kid leaves his bike out in the rain and it gets a rusty chain.
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Get the Dirt on Soil
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What is Soil? Soil forms as
rock is weathered and mixes with other materials on the surface
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What is soil made out of? Soil composition:
A mixture of rock particles, minerals, decayed organic material, air, and water.
Humus is a dark-colored substance that forms as plant and animal remains decay
Humus is rich in nutrients plants need to grow
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Soil Texture
From largest to smallest: Gravel Sand Silt Clay
If texture is too dense or not dense enough plants may not survive
Loam is made up of about equal parts of clay, sand, and silt. Best for growing plants
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Horizons
A soil horizon is a layer of soil that differs in color and texture from the layers above or below it Horizon A (topsoil) Horizon B (subsoil) Horizon C Bedrock
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Horizon A
Topsoil: a crumbly, dark brown soil that is a mixture of humus, clay, and other minerals
This is what you walk on outside
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Horizon B
Subsoil: usually consists of clay and other particles washed down from the A horizon, but contains little humus
Below the topsoil. The subsoil is a little lighter in color than the topsoil
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Horizon C
Contains only partly weathered rock This is where you will see bigger rocks and
less soil
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Bedrock
Bedrock is the solid layer of rock beneath the soil
Once the bedrock gets to the top, it becomes weathered and turns into topsoil
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How fast is soil made?
Soil develops the quickest in areas with a warm and rainy climate
Areas with limestone weather quicker than areas with granite
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What else is down there?
Plants contribute the most to humus Decomposers are the organisms that break the
remains of dead organisms into smaller pieces and eat them with chemicals!!! Fungi (mushrooms and molds) Bacteria Earthworms
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Earthworms
Natures mixers Earthworm poop is rich in substances plants
need to grow
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How do they help?
Many burrowing animals (mice, moles, prairie dogs and gophers) break up hard, compacted soil and mix humus through it
These earthworms and animals help to mix air into the soil. Plants need this oxygen to survive.
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Review Questions
1. What is soil?
2. What is humus and how is it helpful?
3. What are the different soil horizons?
4. Put these in order from top to bottom:Subsoil bedrock Topsoil
5. How do earthworms and animals help the soil?
Georgia Red Clay
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Conserving Land and Soil
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Land Use
Three things that change the land1. Agriculture
2. Development
3. Mining
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Agriculture
This is an important land use.
New farmland must be created by clearing forests, draining wetland, and irrigating (watering) deserts.
Also have pastures for grazing cattle.
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Development
The construction of homes, stores, office buildings, roads, bridges, and other structures.
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Mining Strip Mining causes the top
layer of land to be stripped away. Trees are bulldozed down. Holes are drilled through rock. Explosives break up rock. This waste is piled up on the strip
next to it in order to start another strip.
It leaves no tress or plants to prevent erosion.
Miners must reclaim the land (prevent erosion) by replanting trees and grass.
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Value of Soil
Soil is one of Earth’s most valuable resources because everything that lives depends on it.
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Soil Damage and Loss
Desertification- Where a land that is fertile turns into desertlike conditions
Happens during drought.
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Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl
• In the 1930s, too many plants were removed from the land. • This caused the soil to erode
away.
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Soil Conservation
Soil Conservation - The management of soil to prevent its destruction.
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Ways to Conserve
Ways that soil can be conserved include : contour plowing conservation plowing leaving the soil to lie fallow (unplanted with crops) crop rotation.
Pg. 233.
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Strip Cropping
Farmers alternate strips of tall crops (corn) with strips of short crops (squash)
Short crops prevent soil from washing out from tall crops which are less protected
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Contour Plowing During the 1930s wind erosion destroyed the
land. To prevent this from happening again, farmers
began to plow the land according to its shape rather than just up and down like they had in the past.
It forms ridges to keep water and topsoil from flowing away.
It slows water flow and saves topsoil.
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Conservation Plowing
Instead of plowing fields and leaving them exposed farmers will use machines that break up only the subsoil
The weeds left will help keep the topsoil from blowing away
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Terracing
Steep hillsides are built into a series of flat terraces
Slows runoff and catches eroding soil
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Windbreaks
Rows of trees or shrubs planted along the edges of fields
Block wind and trap eroding soil Sometimes can be a fence (construction sites)
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Leaving land fallow
Leaving land unplanted with crops Restores the fertility of soil
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Crop Rotation
A farmer plants different crops in a field each year
Some crops use less nutrients than others Certain crops, such as peanuts, add nutrients to
the soil