How is soil made?

Title
How is soil made?

Personal Author EPSB
Heather L. Montgomery

Summary
This book discusses plants' need for nutrients, nutrient cycles, and decomposition, illustrates the weathering, erosion, and deposition processes, and concludes with why humans need to safeguard soil.

Year Published
2010

Series
Everybody digs soil

Physical Description
32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Note
"Guided reading: P"--Cover p. [4], paperback ed.

Contents
What is soil? -- All about humus -- Nutrients in soil -- Nutrient cycles -- Water for life -- Fresh air -- Weathering rock -- Break it down -- Carried away -- Dumped on the land -- Soil and climate -- Soil takes it's time -- Soil conservation.

Program Information
Accelerated Reader MG 5.4 1.0 136047

Subject
Soils.
 
Soil ecology.
 
Soil microbiology.

Added Author
Peppas, Lynn.

Summary
This book discusses plants' need for nutrients, nutrient cycles, and decomposition, illustrates the weathering, erosion, and deposition processes, and concludes with why humans need to safeguard soil.

ISBN
9780778754015
 
9780778754145

Publisher
St. Catharines, Ont. : Crabtree Pub., c2010.


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