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Sprout & Fin · Worksheet
Lesson 2 · Grades 3–8

What soil does, and what it does not do

Name Date

Label the picture. Write the name next to each letter.

  • A · soil bits
  • B · water
  • C · air gap
  • D · roots

Answer in your own words.

  1. Which job does soil do for a plant?

  2. You stir sugar into water. It seems to vanish. What happened?

  3. Soil gets packed down hard. There are no gaps left. What do the roots miss most?

Draw or explain

Soil does several jobs for a plant. If you took the soil away, how could you do each job another way?