How is soil formed? How is it useful to us?
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Soil is the thin layer of material covering the earth's surface and is formed from the weathering of rocks. It is made up mainly of mineral particles, organic materials, air, water and living organisms—all of which interact slowly yet constantly. ... Therefore, most living things on land depend on soil for their existence. and it formed by Advances in watershed, natural resource, and environmental sciences have shown that soil is the foundation of basic ecosystem function. Soil filters our water, provides essential nutrients to our forests and crops, and helps regulate the Earth's temperature as well as many of the important greenhouse gases.
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Soil formation is a very long process. The weather and climate conditions break the rock into smaller and smaller particles by rain, water, sunlight, etc. throughout years. It atleast take a thousand years to form around an inch of soil.
Soil is very useful to us as it holds mosts of the part of ground where man can live. We do agriculture on different type of soils. It gives habitat for animals as well as plants.
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