Get the dirt on DIRT!

• Dirt can be in a rainbow of colors- red, bluish gray, grayish brown,green,lemon-yellow, white, black, and of course...brown.
• Did you know that an earthworm can eat 36 tons of soil in a year?

Every state has a "state soil". What's YOUR state's soil?

• Here's a vocabulary word for you-geophagy, the eating of dirt.
• Scientists say that there are more living organisms in a tablespoon of soil than people on the earth(that's about 7 Billion)

Many of the antibiotics we use for medicine when we are ill come from tiny organisms that live in dirt.

• It take over 500 years to make just one inch of topsoil, the very fertile layer of soil
• About 10,000 different types of soil can be found on the continent of Europe. About 70,000 different types of soil have been identified in the United States.
• NASA uses satellites to watch our dirt from outer space. Such technology helps scientists learn about our soil.

Did you know that soil by volcanoes is extremely fertile?