Reading the Layers: Soil Horizon Mapping

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Description: Students will learn to identify and draw the major soil horizons as present in real horizons, describe observable differences among horizons, and explain in general terms how soil forming factors and processes lead to horizon formation and how different horizons form in various soil types.
Grade Levels: 9-12
Keywords: soil profile, soil horizon, soil formation, soil order
Lesson Area: Soil Basics, Soil Chemistry, Soil Mineralogy
Resource Type: Activity, Slides/Photos/Figures

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
9-12 ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems Feedback effects exist within and among Earth's systems.
9-12 LS1.A: Structure and function Systems of specialized cells within organisms help perform essential functions of life. Any one system in an organism is made up of numerous parts. Feedback mechanisms maintain an organism's internal conditions within certain limits and mediate behaviors.