Maps, part 1
Here we go again.....

Go to the web sites linked below and answer the questions below:


Soil health 1




Soil health 2




Soil health 3




Soil health 4




Soil health 5


Soils/Land Use Objectives:
1. (A)Identify assisting agencies, and (B) describe the programs that assist land users with soil issues.

2. Explain the roles of the five soil forming factors and how each affects soil formation.
(time, organisms, topography,
parent material, and climate)

3. (A)Define and (B)be able to determine a soil’s texture using soil characteristics.

4. Explain why soils vary in color and where soil color determinations have practical application.

5. Differentiate between and identify soil horizons based upon the physical characteristics of color, texture, structure, and parent material, etc.
when given a soil profile. (Know the different parts of a soil horizon)

6. Describe/sketch blocky, platy, granular, prismatic, or columnar soil structures; and single grain or massive structure-less soil within a soil profile.

7. How does soil particle size affect soil chemical activity?

8. Identify and describe the differences between native forest, native prairie, and natural wetland
soils.

9. Describe the loactions of the boundaries of the Kansan, Wisconsinan and Illinoian glaciers in the Midwest.

10. How is a slope measuring device used to determine the percent of slope for a given area, in order to make land use recommendations?

11. Identify and Differentiate between sheet, rill and gully erosion and identify practices to correct these problems.

12. How is a soil survey used to identify soil characteristics to determine appropriate land uses?

13. Explain how soils interact with their current environments, their degradation and how to minimize this degradation, while protecting all other resources

14. Explain why soil is an important and dynamic resource.

15. Identify and explain the nature of plant nutrients & how they are held by soils.

16. Identify and explain the characteristics of wetland (hydric) soils

17. Identify and describe soil drainage classes & how wetlands are defined.


Lowell Bailey

Bedford-North Lawrence High School
595 Star Boulevard
Bedford
IN
47421
USA
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