The Dirt on Dirt

Soil Types

100

This type of soil dries the slowest.

What is Clay?

200

This type of soil dries the fastest. 

What is Sand?

300

This type of soil is made up of grainy, small pieces of rock.

What is Silt?

400

This type of soil is rough and heavy.

What is Sand?

500

This type of soil is slippery and smooth.

What is Clay?

Soil Layers

100

This layer of soil is the most visible layer.

What is Topsoil?

200

This layer of soil is the deepest and most solid. 

What is Bedrock?

300

This layer of soil tightly packed and usually only large bushes and tree roots can push through.

What is Subsoil?

400

This type of soil is darker than any other layer because it is the richest.

What is Topsoil?

500

Nothing can grow at this level of soil.

What is Fragmented Rock?

What is Soil

100

These animals make their homes in soil.

What are mice, rabbits, foxes, and prairie dogs?

200

These ingredients make up soil.

What are air, water, rocks, and plant/animal parts?

300

This is the number of insects that live in 1 square foot of soil.

What is 5,000 insects?

400

The number of layers soil has.

What is 4?

500

A substance found in nature that has many important uses, like soil.

What is a natural resource?

Soil Spelling

100

Select the correct spelling:

1. Ingredents

2. Ingredients

3. Ingreedints

4. Ingredience

What is 2. Ingredients? 

200

Select the correct spelling of the word:

1. Newtreents

2. Nutreence

3. Nutrients

4. Newtrience

What is 3. Nutrients?

300

Select the correct spelling of the word:

1. Bacteria

2. Backtiera

3. Bacterya

4. Backteria

What is 1. Bacteria? 

400

Select the correct spelling of the word:

1. Dyagram

2. Diuhgram

3. Dyagram

4. Diagram

What is 4. Diagram?

500

Select the correct spelling of the word:

1. Cunserve

2. Conserve

3. Cunsurve

4. Consurve

What is 2. Conserve?