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.

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Organization
Soil Science Society of America
Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
9-12
Lesson Area
Soil Basics
Soil Chemistry
Soil Mineralogy
Lesson Type
Activity
Slides/Photos/Figures
Lesson Keywords
Soil Profile
Soil Horizon
Soil Formation
Soil Order

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.