science

Soil is not just dirt; in fact it is not dirt at all. Soil, “A cloak of loose, soft material, held to the earth’s hard surface by gravity, is all that lies between life and lifelessness.”(Fuller), is a living breathing part of our society. Many of today’s jobs are based on different types of soil and their roles in our community and more importantly our environment. Soil provides the world with life either directly or indirectly. Directly, soil provides a dense cornucopia of nutrients for all plant life and many insects. We as humans eat both plants and animals that consume insects which play in to our indirectly effected lifestyle. Tens of thousands of soils cover the ground every where all over the world,each with its own life story. Soils contain a mixture of minerals, air, water, decaying remains, and countless living organisms. The types of soils depend on the combination of its ingredients. If a soil contains less minerals and more decaying remains, it is going to be different soil than with more minerals and less remains. Just like in chemistry soil properties are dependant on their make up and each type of soil is unique in that way. They all have different properties than any other soils. Soil in the desert isn’t going to bear as much life but its more rugged and course than soil used by farmers to grow crops. As water wind or ice travels throught parent material, it carries minerals and eelements from the older over to the new material and forms new soils on the top layer. These new soil layersare unique and contain billions upon bu=illions of bacteria. After time, these new soils will eventually break down due to the CLORPT factors. Cllimate (CL) effects soils because the tempature affects the rate at which soils break up or weather. Organisms (O) such as moles, bacteria