Soil Quiz

What does the word "conserve" or "conservation" mean?

• To get rid of

• To preserve or help keep safe

• To throw out

• To make a different kind of something

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

You might find ____ near the ocean.

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.2B

CCSS.RF.1.2C

CCSS.RF.1.2D

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

What is an oil spill?

• Someone spilled gas at a gas station

• When a tractor's oil spills out on the crops

• When oil spills in a body of water, and it can have very harmful effects on the water and animals

• When someone purposely spills vegetable oil in the kitchen

Which sounds like it would be the best to grow a plant or seeds in?

• Potting soil

• Sand

• Silt

• Clay

What are the correct components of SOIL?

• Humus

  Silt

  Sand

  Rock Fragments

  Clay

• Humus

  Silt

  Clay

• Rock Fragments

  Orchid Bark

• Clay

  Sand

  Large Rocks

Several plants in Ms. Litzau's apartment aren't doing great. What's something they might need in the soil to give them nutrients?

Soil provides... (choose the best answer)

• Sunlight

• Nutrients and support for the plant

• Air for the plant to breathe

• A place for a plant to live

The sun provides ______ for the plant.

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.2.4

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

This has small fragmented pieces of rocks and they are larger than clay but smaller than sand. What is it?

What is something that could hurt an animal population? (lower it)

• less predators

• more water

• more food

• disease