Poster of the twelve soil orders, including high resolution PDF files of each order.

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Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
3-5
6-8
9-12
Lesson Area
Soil Basics
Lesson Type
Poster
Reading
Lesson Keywords
Soil Orders
Soil Names
State Soils
Soil Classification
Alfisol
Andisol
Aridisol
Mollisol
Gelisol
Histosol
Entisol
Inceptisol
Vertisol
Oxisol
Spodosol
Ultisol
Soil Basics

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
3-5 ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems

Four major Earth systems interact. Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Water, ice, wind, organisms, and gravity break rocks, soils, and sediments into smaller pieces and move them around.
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.
9-12 ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems

Feedback effects exist within and among Earth's systems.