Soil Scientist
Another word to describe what is under your feet.
What is soil?
Millions! Thousands of spiders, worms, and insects, animals and tiny plants called algae.
What is the amount of living things in soil?
This animal likes to store dead spiders in finger like tubes for their babies to eat when they hatch.
What is wasps?
This place has more rocks than sand.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This critter is moist and sticky and leaves a slimy trail behind him. They can have up to 27 000 teeth.
What is a slug?
All living things need soil including plants, animals and humans.
What is important about soil?
Clay and water mixed together and shaped give us pottery that is baked in an oven until it hardens.
What is plates?
This animal uses mud nests to protect their babies from rising water and the hot ground.
What is flamingos?
The Sahara desert was covered by this thousands of years ago and now has hardly any left.
What is seawater?
This critter is the baby version of an insect.
What is a grub?
Dead plants and animals as well as tiny bits of rock, water, air and bacteria.
What is soil made of?
Mud contains vitamins and minerals.
What is mud good for you skin?
This animal uses feather and grasses to line their nests on high cliffs, rock walls and under bridges.
What is Cliff Swallows?
This has a hard time growing in the Sahara Desert.
What is plants?
This critter is tiny and has 6 legs with 2 bendy feelers on its long body. It is harmless to humans and animals.
What is a springtail?
Topsoil, subsoil, parent material and bedrock.
What are the layers of soil?
Sand is heated and cooled slowly to make glass.
What is windows made from soil?
This reptile piles up mud and plants and lays the eggs in the middle of the pile.
What is an Alligator?
Camels, goats, sheep and donkeys.
What is desert animals?
This critter is tiny in size but huge in numbers. They have no eyes and rely on touch to move around. They are also very colourful.
What is a soil mite?
Many colours and textures such as red clay soil, dry and sandy soil, rich black topsoil.
What are types of soil?
What is eating soil?
These animals wear mud to help stay cool. They also use it to help protect themselves from mosquitoes.
What is a rhino, warthog and elephant?
This animal uses its front teeth to dig burrows and eats plants and drinks from their roots.
What is the mole rat?
This critter has up to 400 legs which they use to run away from birds, beetles and other insects.
What is a millipede?