Living/Once Living/Nonliving
Soil Levels
Creatures
100

A Decomposing Leaf is a..?

Once Living

100

A level that has the same name as a type of food

Humus

100

Something so small you cannot see it with your eyes

Microbes

200

Rocks are an example of what?

Nonliving 

200

The hard bottom of the soil layers

Bed Rock

200

Dig through the topsoil pooping out nutrients as it goes

Earthworms 

300

Microbes are what?

Living 

300

Mostly large rocks that move up the layers

Parent Material

300

They are blind and eat worms 

A Mole

400

Fertilizer is? 

Nonliving

400

A level filled with life and rich in minerals

Topsoil

400

A type of bird that lives underground

Burrowing Owls

500
The water that you find in soil is an example of? 
Nonliving
500

A level where soil, minerals and clay are found

Subsoil

500

They dig through the ground and can lift much more than their body weight

Ants