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DO NOW. 1 What is the cutting down all trees in an area? 2. What is cutting a pit in the surface? 3. What is the stripping the surface of the land? 4. What is the moving of sediments? 5. What do plant roots prevent?. Key Questions. 1, What is soil conservation?

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  1. DO NOW 1 What is the cutting down all trees in an area? 2. What is cutting a pit in the surface? 3. What is the stripping the surface of the land? 4. What is the moving of sediments? 5. What do plant roots prevent?

  2. Key Questions 1, What is soil conservation? 2, What methods prevent soil erosion? What is a cover crop? What is crop rotation? What is contour plowing? What is terracing? What is windbreak?

  3. 1. Soil Conservation-various methods humans use to take care of the soil

  4. 2. Methods to prevent soil erosion-cover crop, crop rotation, contour plowing, terracing, and windbreak • 3. Cover Crop-a crop that is planted in between harvests to reduce erosion and replace nutrients ex soybean and clover

  5. 4. Crop Rotation-change crops from year to year so that nutrients do not get depleted • 5. Contour plowing-rows in a field are plowed in curves instead of straight lines.

  6. 6. Terracing-one steep field is change into a series of smaller fields • 7. Windbreak-planting trees around a field to prevent wind erosion

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