What makes a desert soil according to ClORPT (Climate, Organisms, Relief, Parent Material, Time)

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Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
3-5
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9-12
Lesson Area
Soils and Climate
Lesson Type
Reading
Lesson Keywords
deserts
Desertification
Salinization
leaching
Desert Soils
Soils and Climate

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
3-5 ESS3.C: Human impacts on Earth systems

Societal activities have had major effects on the land, ocean, atmosphere, and even outer space. Societal activities can also help protect Earth's resources and environments.
6-8 ESS3.C: Human impacts on Earth systems

Human activities have altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging it, although changes to environments can have different impacts for different living things. Activities and technologies can be engineered to reduce people's impacts on Earth.
9-12 ESS3.C: Human impacts on Earth systems

Sustainability of human societies and the biodiversity that supports them requires responsible management of natural resources, including the development of technologies.