EcoPhoto 2

This photo was taken on October 17th 2018, in a patch of landscaping here on campus between the parking garage and Goodwin Hall! It is a photo of a patch of soil. Soil is important to our environment because it helps modify the atmosphere by emitting and absorbing dust and many gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor. Soil is also helpful because most of the water we drink on a daily basis has been filtered and purified through soil. Along with processing and recycling nutrients, such as carbon so that living things can use them over and over again, soil is also a big contributor to our local food web. This is because most of our plants are anchored in soil which is what helps our plants live. Plants are our primary producers, which is the start of the food web and provides for our primary consumers, who provide for our secondary consumers and so on and so forth. Finally soil doesn’t only provide for our upper levels of the food chain, by keeping our primary producers alive, soil also provides for us humans not just by aiding in water filtration but also by hosting the plants that directly and indirectly provide us with most foods!

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