B.9 Soil Quality

Question 1

What is fertilizer use?

Answer 1

Soil with added nutrients.

Question 2

What is irrigation?

Answer 2

Watering crops.

Question 3

What does clearing land mean?

Answer 3

Removing Trees, bushes and native plants

Question 4

What is plowing mean?

Answer 4

Cutting into the soil and turning the top layer over

Question 5

What is Crop rotation?

Answer 5

planting a crop in a particular field every year

Question 6

How do humans reduce the quality of soil?

Answer 6

By harvesting plants and not letting them die and decompose into soil-less nutrient.

Question 7

What is helpful for fertilizer use

Answer 7

provides nutrients

Question 8

What is harmful for fertilizer use?

Answer 8

overuse can pollute streams, rivers, and lakes

Question 9

What is good for irrigation?

Answer 9

provides water for photosynthesis

Question 10

What is harmful for irrigation?

Answer 10

too much causes root rot

Question 11

what is clearing land good for?

Answer 11

make space for important plants

Question 12

what is bad for clearing land

Answer 12

disturbing ecosystem
can lead to erosion

Question 13

What is plowing good for?

Answer 13

makes soil less compact allows drainage

Question 14

what is bad about plowing?

Answer 14

makes soil particles smaller (Makes soil kinda like clay)

Question 15

what is good about crop rotation?

Answer 15

less fertilizer is needed plants don’t run out of nutrients as quick

Question 16

what is bad about crop rotation?

Answer 16

Must be planned properly or else a plant may not get nutrients needed