Students will understand the issues that can affect soil health and reduce fertility, biodiversity, and/or overall soil health.

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Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
9-12
Lesson Area
Soil Basics
Soil Mineralogy
Soil Physics
Soil Conservation
Soils and Climate
Lesson Type
Teacher's Guide
Lesson Keywords
extensification
intensification
Urbanization
Climate Change
Deforestation
Desertification
Erosion
compaction

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. 
9-12 LS2.A: Interdependent relationships in ecosystems

Ecosystems have carrying capacities resulting from biotic and abiotic factors. The fundamental tension between resource availability and organism populations affects the abundance of species in any given ecosystem.
9-12 LS2.C: Ecosystem dynamics