Soil

Questions:

1. The water is able to move through this soil fairly easily. This is because the type of soil is loamy sand, and it lets water and nutrients slip through the tiny little rocks that make up the sand.

2. There are lots of organisms in this area, as you can see in the picture, there is a fly. Various other insects also live in this area, birds live here as you can see by their footprints. Grass lives just a bit further back up the soil (not shown in picture).

3. The effect that these organisms have on the soil's qualities are movement, since the soil I found is not very stable and it moves easily. The birds, mainly ducks, that walk on this soil can easily move it just by their weight alone.

4. The soil I collected is likely to be eroded. It's loss would not affect the current location very much, since most of the organisms fly or like to live around the water, which is where this picture is taken. It would erode into the creek, where there is more of this soil underneath the water. It would not have very much of an affect on the location it moves to, other than it would move the nutrients with it.

5. It is important to think about soil texture, because there are many different organisms that live in various different textures of soil. Knowing about the type of soil you are working with can give you some background information on the types of organisms that most likely live in that environment.

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