Soil Notes

Plants grow from the soil and the plants will feed almost all life on earth. 

The soil dwellers such as bacteria and fungi recycle once-living organisms into nutrients and soil organic matter

Most of them take in oxygen do their work and they give off carbon dioxide.

Soils are more than dirt. Dirt is a mixture of mineral, air, water and dead things

The possibilities are almost endless – bugs, bacteria, fungi, feces, worms and other things.

Soil has history they are unique, colorful and exotic layers give clue to have changed over time

Most of the earth’s land is in thin soil a variable mixture of minerals, air, water and countless living organisms

The earth’s skin is just not one soil each of it has its own story

Soils are alive they are born and breathe just like us

Soils are always created and lost. You can see soil almost anywhere.

Air, Water, Minerals, and organic matter are the basic ingredients of soils.

They occur in many combinations

Roots and organisms need the water and air that fills the space between particles.

Soils forms from deposited or exposed by sediments and things.

Soils develop as parent’s materials ages in place

Soils take it shape as the water moves