Web Soil Survey
The Web Soil Survey provides soil data and information for your specific area to help cater your soil lesson to your own community. Visit the website link below for instructions, then click on "Start WSS" to find your soil data.
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Author
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Sources
Soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey
Lessons Associated with this Resource
- Earth's Land and Soil Resources
- Fertilizers and the Environment (Grades 6-8)
- In Search of Essential Nutrients (Grades 6-8)
- Plant-Soil Interactions (Grades 6-8)
- Properties of Soils (Grades 6-8)
- Plant-Soil Interactions (Grades 9-12)
- Properties of Soils (Grades 9-12)
- Plant Nutrient Deficiencies (Grades 9-12)
- Plant Nutrient Deficiencies (Grades 6-8)
- Land and Soil in the Ecosystem