When you think of environmental challenges facing the world, the first things that come to mind might be global warming, or loss of biodiversity, since these are often in the newspapers. A serious problem that you may not have heard about is soil erosion. The goal of this project is to estimate rates of soil erosion due to rainfall at different sites using homemade sampling containers.

Concepts

soil erosion, soil types, environmental science

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Additional Tags

environment, run off, science fair project, science buddies, science project

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)