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What is soil? Formation and the soil profile

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  • about 30 minutes
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Find out what soil is made of, how it forms very slowly from weathered rock, and how to describe the layers of a soil profile.

15 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Is soil just dirt?
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. What is in a typical soil?
  5. The soil profile
  6. Five factors that shape a soil
  7. I Do
  8. Hinge Check
  9. We Do
  10. Describe the soil horizons
  11. Explain how soil forms
  12. Self-Check
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