Life in Soil
Remember that soil is made up of various sizes of broken up rock, decomposing
organic matter
Among the soil particles, in the small spaces filled with air and water,
exists a habitat where millions upon millions of microorganisms live among
larger soil residents like the earthworms, insect larvae, plant roots,
and pill bugs. It is a virtual underworld of creatures and plants
which many of us may never see unless we go digging and exploring, but
which sustains much of the life above ground which we interact with everyday.
As community soil explorers, your mission is to get to know your soil,
the underworld of your community!
Looking for Life
In order to compare data results with other students in different communities,
everyone needs to be counting organisms in areas of the same size, which
are called study plots.
First Choose a spot to sample
Create a quarter square meter quadrat. A quadrat is a name for
the square plot you will be studying.
Quadrat steps with pix
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