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This document contains a soil conservation worksheet and vocabulary matching activity. The worksheet asks questions about soil conservation topics like what causes soil erosion, the Dust Bowl, contour plowing, and crop rotation. The vocabulary matching defines key terms related to soil conservation like natural resources, fertility, erosion, legumes, and the Dust Bowl. George Washington Carver is identified as developing new crops and farming methods to improve soil fertility in the American South.

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SoilConservationWorksheet PDF

This document contains a soil conservation worksheet and vocabulary matching activity. The worksheet asks questions about soil conservation topics like what causes soil erosion, the Dust Bowl, contour plowing, and crop rotation. The vocabulary matching defines key terms related to soil conservation like natural resources, fertility, erosion, legumes, and the Dust Bowl. George Washington Carver is identified as developing new crops and farming methods to improve soil fertility in the American South.

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NAME: DATE:

Soil Conservation
Worksheet

1. Before the lesson begins what is the first thing you think of when
you hear the words soil conservation?

2. A is something in
the environment that humans use.

3. Why is soil one of the most important natural resources?

4. Soil that loses its fertility is called .

5. What scientist developed new crops and farming methods to help


soil fertility in the South?

6. have small nodes in their roots that


contain bacteria that fixes nitrogen into the soil.

7. What caused the Dust Bowl?

8. How would contour plowing prevent soil erosion?

9. is when a farmer plants


one crop one year and a different one the next.
NAME: DATE:

Soil Conservation
Vocabulary Matching

1. Natural Resource A. An event in the 1930s that


cause tons of soil to erode
2. Fertility and create dust storms
B. When a farmer plants one
3. Erosion crop one year and a
different crop the next
4. Exhausted
C. An accomplished botanist
D. Something in the
5. George Washington
environment that humans
Carver use
E. When farmers plow their
6. Peanuts fields with the curve of the
slope
7. Legume F. When the top soil is blown
or washed away
8. Dust Bowl G. The crop George
Washington Carver used to
9. Soil Conservation
fertilize soil in the South
H. Soil that loses its fertility is
10. Contour Plowing
I. Management of soil to
prevent its destruction
11. Conservation Plowing
J. The soil’s ability to produce
12. Crop Rotation plant life
K. When farmers disturb the
surface as little as possible
leaving the plant cover
L. Have small nodes that
contain bacteria that fixes
nitrogen to the soil
NAME: DATE:

Answer Key
1. Answers will vary
2. Natural resources
3. Soil supports many of our other natural resources
4. Exhausted
5. George Washington Carver
6. Legumes
7. An extreme drought and improper soil conservation practices
8. Plowing with the contour of a slope will slow down excess rain
water so it cannot take away as much soil
9. Crop rotation

Vocabulary Matching
1. D
2. J
3. F
4. H
5. C
6. G
7. L
8. A
9. I
10. E
11. K
12. B

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