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Completing this form will help you find the information you need to answer you quest. When your group has answered all the questions print it out two times and once for your group and once for your teacher. Use the reference page to find the answers.

Describe at least five different components of soil. How does each impact the soil?

Where does soil come from and how?

Do soils come in different colors? What does the color tell you?

 

How does water stay in soils?

Describe topography.

On one of the websites there are two short stories about soil. They are Grandmother's Story and Roger Swain Finds "Joy In Mudville". Tell one of the stories in your own words.

How is soil structure determined?

What factors make good soil?