10 Facts About Soils

Soils offer plants physical support, air, water, temperature moderation, nutrients, and protection from toxins.

Soils provide readily available nutrients to plants and animals by converting dead organic matter into various nutrient forms.

Soils have organic compounds in varying degrees of decomposition which rate is dependent on temperature, soil moisture, and aeration.

Soils that are all organic matter, such as peat, are infertile.

Soils are initially acid and remain such when their parent materials are low in basic cations.

Soils which contain high levels of particular clays with high swelling properties, such as smectites, are often very fertile.

Soils highlighted the importance of soil in the management of vineyards.

Soils's conclusion came from the fact that the increase in the plant's weight had apparently been produced only by the addition of water, with no reduction in the soil's weight.

Soils was able to deduce that most of the 165-pound weight of van Helmont's willow tree derived from air.

Soils realised that the soils were dynamic, and considered the classification of soil types.