This reading identifies key roles soils provide our natural world and humans in the form of ecosystem services.

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Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
6-8
9-12
Lesson Area
Soil Basics
Lesson Type
Reading
Lesson Keywords
Ecosystem Services
Environment
Water
Nutrients
Ecosystem
Soil Basics

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
6-8 ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems

Energy flows and matter cycles within and among Earth's systems, including the sun and Earth's interior as primary energy sources. Plate tectonics is one result of these processes.
6-8 ESS3.A: Natural resources

Humans depend on Earth's land, ocean, atmosphere, and biosphere for different resources, many of which are limited or not renewable. Resources are distributed unevenly around the planet as a result of past geologic processes.
9-12 ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems

Feedback effects exist within and among Earth's systems.
9-12 ESS3.A: Natural resources

Resource availability has guided the development of human society and use of natural resources has associated costs, risks, and benefits.