Write the 20 uses of soil
Answers
1. Growing plants.
2. Making earthen utensils.
3. Some types of soil are applied on face and body.
4. Used for religious purpose.
5. Used in construction and arts.
6. Used for naturally filtering and purifying water.
7. Used in wastewater treatment plants
8. Organic soils(like peat) are a sources of fuel.
9. Soil allows gas exchanges between land and air.
10. Nutrients are recycled in soil
11. Any type of ceramic can be created with the clay soil, such as a vase, bowl, cup or sculpture.
12. Medicine. Soil is commonly used in antibiotics.
13. Soil is an important part of the building process
14. Some beauty products are made with soil. Eg: Blush, foundation etc.
15. For the purification of water, a kind of soil is used.
16. Soil is an important part of the building process
17. Soil has vital nutrients for plants.
18. Soil is made up of many minerals (the inorganic particles in soils that weather from rocks).
19. The plants that are grown in soil can be used for food, clothing, recreation, aesthetics, building materials, medicines etc.
Soil is the basic necessity of life on earth and sustains all the heterotrophs and autotrophs.
Soil and its uses
The soil is a result of weathering of rocks until it's granulated into fine particles. This came substance sustains the life on earth.
The examples of usage of soil are as follows:
- It sustains terrestrial as well as aquatic life on earth.
- Nitrogen fixation by rhizomes
- Medicinal uses
- Cosmetic usage
- Oxygen production
- Plant growth
- Plant anchoring
- Organic decay
- Manure production
- Waste management
- Habitat formation
- Building material
- Pottery mud
- Agriculture and farming
- Forms the foundation of life
- Ore to many minerals
- herbal medicines
- Sustains symbiotic interactions
- Prevents draughts and erosions
- Nutrient holder for autotrophs
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