The soil serves as a storage house for this, which when germinated grow into plants and can re-vegetate whole landscapes.

If the food web within the soil is healthy and diverse, there will often be beneficial insects, which help in the control of these.

These valuable resources, often used for jewelry, can be found in soil, especially near rivers and streams.

Soil grows the grass that is used as playing fields for soccer, football, and golf. These are all types of what?

The soil provides support for plants, holding them in place and giving them access to water and nutrients so they can go undergo photosynthesis, which leads to what?

Biodiversity in soils prevents the spread of what? For example, fungi in the soil produce antibiotics to protect plants from this.

Soils provide sand, gravel, and clay used as building materials. Soil also provides the home for plants, such as cotton, flax, and hemp, which provide us with paper, cloth, and rope, as well as trees that provide us with lumber and firewood. These are k

Soil also provides the foundation for hiking and mountain biking trails, as well as, campsites and national parks. This can be economically beneficial to communities as it attracts this.

What continuously moving process, involves evaporation, precipitation, snowmelt, runoff, and movement into the soil?

Plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere during photosynthesis and release it into the soil through respiration. When they die the carbon stored in the plant can be stored in the soil as organic matter, which is known as what?

In the search for more sustainable sources of this, many agricultural fields have begun growing corn and soybeans for use as biofuels, such as ethanol.

Many cultures throughout history were based in a strong connectedness to the Earth. The felt that the soil was sacred and would sit on the ground and touch the earth to feel closer to “Mother Nature.” This is a form of what?

This recycling of materials through the soil frees up things like carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, and allows them to be used as the building blocks for new living matter, such as plants.

As water moves deeper and deeper underground, the soil removes solid particles and can turn dirty water into clean water through what process.

Nearly all of the antibiotics commonly used today, such as Penicillin, were discovered from soil microorganisms. These are examples of how soil provides for the discovery of what?

Soils provide us with an opportunity to explore and observe the natural world and to conduct experiments to learn more about the way things work on Earth. This allows for advancements in what?

This is the ability of a soil to supply nutrients necessary for basic plant nutrition.

The ability of the soil to remove pollutants from the atmosphere and hold them underground or break them down into less toxic substances is known as what?

Soil grows the grasses that many livestock animals depend on and the plants that provide us with fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans and grains. These products that nourish our bodies and provide us with energy are known as what?

Soil provides the solid foundation for us to build homes and whole communities on. In less-developed nations, clay soil is often used for adobe to build shelter on this foundation. These provide us with what?