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Soils around the world, and why soil matters

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  • 35 marks
  • about 30 minutes
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Name the soil that forms under coniferous forest in a cool, wet climate.

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Find out how climate and vegetation make different soils around the world, why soil matters for food, water and the climate, and how soil is lost and protected.

15 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Four soils, four climates
  5. Four soil profiles compared
  6. I Do: why a podzol forms
  7. Why soil matters
  8. Hinge Check
  9. We Do: why a brown earth is fertile
  10. Erosion or protection?
  11. Self-Check
  12. Homework
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