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Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Soil Horizons
This video explains the concept of soil horizons and the different layers that make up a soil profile. It highlights the three main horizons - A, B, and C - and their characteristics, such as nutrient content, humus presence, and mineral...
Crash Course
What is Soil (and Why is it Important)?: Crash Course Geography
Soil brings together all four spheres of physical geography, and understanding soil composition is kind of like baking! So in today's episode, we're going to show you how to create the perfect soil cake, examine its different soil...
Visual Learning Systems
Weathering and Soils: Introduction
In this video students will learn about the two major types of weathering, and the forces that alter the shape and composition of rocks. Students will explore the different types of soils, soil properties and the soil profile. Other...
Visual Learning Systems
Weathering and Soils: Summing Up
In this video students will learn about the two major types of weathering, and the forces that alter the shape and composition of rocks. Students will explore the different types of soils, soil properties and the soil profile. Other...
US Department of Agriculture
Soil Testing to Manage Nitrates on Delaware farms
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service in Delaware and its partners are helping farmers take care of their soil and the environment. Jacob Urian of the Kent Conservation District demonstrates how to conduct a Pre-Side Dressing...
Visual Learning Systems
Weathering and Soils: Video Quiz
In this video students will learn about the two major types of weathering, and the forces that alter the shape and composition of rocks. Students will explore the different types of soils, soil properties and the soil profile. Other...
msvgo
Soil: An Important Natural Resource for Life
It explains the formation of soil. It talks about what soil is made up of and the soil profile.
Visual Learning Systems
Weathering and Soils: Soil Types
In this video students will learn about the two major types of weathering, and the forces that alter the shape and composition of rocks. Students will explore the different types of soils, soil properties and the soil profile. Other...
Visual Learning Systems
Weathering and Soils: Soil
In this video students will learn about the two major types of weathering, and the forces that alter the shape and composition of rocks. Students will explore the different types of soils, soil properties and the soil profile. Other...
Visual Learning Systems
Weathering and Soils: Mechanical Weathering
In this video students will learn about the two major types of weathering, and the forces that alter the shape and composition of rocks. Students will explore the different types of soils, soil properties and the soil profile. Other...
Visual Learning Systems
Weathering and Soils: Chemical Weathering
In this video students will learn about the two major types of weathering, and the forces that alter the shape and composition of rocks. Students will explore the different types of soils, soil properties and the soil profile. Other...
Visual Learning Systems
Weathering and Soils: Weathering
In this video students will learn about the two major types of weathering, and the forces that alter the shape and composition of rocks. Students will explore the different types of soils, soil properties and the soil profile. Other...
NASA
NASA | SAM Engineer Profile: Synthia Tonn
This video profiles Synthia Tonn, a junior engineer on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument team responsible for SAM's ground support equipment as well as its 'plumbing,' or the series of tiny, winding gas lines that connect...
The March of Time
Profile: Farm
MOT 1940: INDEX CARD: 'FARM' WS Farmland w/ hills & houses horses grazing FG. Farmer brushing coat of mule. Young man & older woman talking in store shelved jars BG. Women w/ apron cleaning jars on table canning. Farmer w/ two...
Science360
Critical Zone Observatories help U.S. plan for the future - Science Nation
From treetops to rivers to the bedrock below, there is constant activity going on in what we can think of as the “skin” of our planet. It’s called the critical zone, the active layer of the Earth where life-forms, from microbes to...
Curated Video
This Farm Design Can HEAL the PLANET
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explains the landscape profile zones of the Keyline® farm design system.
The four zones within the landscape profile
are:
1) Water Catc
hment Zone
2) Water
Retention Zone
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The four zones within the landscape profile
are:
1) Water Catc
hment Zone
2) Water
Retention Zone
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Curated Video
Yuri Kochiyama: Unyielding Voice for Justice
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, thousands of Japanese-Americans were interned on U.S. soil. Determined to right this wrong, Yuri Kochiyama testified to Congress and helped those affected win $20,000 in compensation.
NASA
NASA | Meet the SAM Team: Jesse Lewis
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments developed for use on the Mars Science Laboratory. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Mars soil and atmosphere, this...
NASA
NASA | Meet the SAM Team: Dan Carrigan
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments developed for use on the Mars Science Laboratory. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Mars soil and atmosphere, this...
World Science Festival
Pioneers In Science: Jo Handelsman
Meet Jo Handelsman, Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Associate Director for Science, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she launched the National Microbiome Initiative. Her research at Yale at...
Vintage Space
Nova: the Massive Moon Rocket we Didn't Build
The Saturn V rocket took American astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s, and it remains the largest, most powerful rocket ever launched from American soil. But an earlier lunar mission profile demanded an even larger rocket called Nova...
Science360
Making self-driving cars safer in the rain and snow
Researchers look under the road to aid self-driving cars
Even the most high-tech vehicles don’t navigate well in rain and
snow
Car companies and researchers have been feverishly working to improve the...
Even the most high-tech vehicles don’t navigate well in rain and
snow
Car companies and researchers have been feverishly working to improve the...
Baylor College
What's Is Soil Made Of?
It's time to roll up those sleeves and get a little dirty in the second lesson of this series on the science of food. Investigate where plants and animals get the minerals they need to live in this two-part exploration of soil. First,...
Curated OER
Soil Composition
Students examine soil. In this soil composition lesson students participate in soil sedimentation and filtration activities. The students discuss what non-living and living things are in soil and why it is so important.