Question

prepare a note on 'soil and humans'​

Answer 1

Answer:

Take anything in your life and you can trace it back to soil. We could not survive without soils! While we are often not aware of it, soils really do directly or indirectly affect every part of our lives: from food, water and air availability and quality, to engineering implications to various essential ecosystem services, to influences on human cultures and careers. Soils produce our food: our crop plants are grown in soil, our livestock eat crops grown in soil, wildlife feeds on plants grown in soil, even fish eat plants, insects, etc, that at some point in their life-cycle were directly tied to soil.

The soil beneath my feet is important from several aspects; such as where should I build my home, from what will my house be made: brick or wood or adobe? From where does my water come? Underground aquifers or rivers, and how is it cleaned?

The jeans I am wearing are made from cotton, which started as a plant, but the plant gets its nourishment from the soil. The food that I eat may be an egg that came from a chicken. The chicken eats grain that was from a plant that grew in the soil. So soil is the origin of my life.

HUMANS NEED SOIL

Soils have a role in food production, clothing, water and air quality, shelters and buildings, art, medicine, and various other parts of life.

Corn provides food for livestock and humans, and needs to be nurtured

For information on how soil is valueable to ecosystem functions, water and air quality, visit the soils in the environment page

More information on how soil scientists help with producing food and fiber with minimal envrionmental damage can be found on the Humans and Food page.  

The soils and culture page has information on the values of soils to everyone, including music, art, and medicine.

Answer 2

Human and Soil Interactions. Since soil is so vital to human life, humans have to move and manipulate it in order to utilize it. This, however, can lead to environmental problems, soil loss, and degradation. Soil degradation is a human-induced or natural process which impairs the capacity of soil to function.