The study of soil has changed our world because soil filters our water, provides needed nutrients for our plants and forests. It also helps regulate Earth’s temperature as well as many greenhouse gases.
Which of the following best describes the Western Front in WWI?
a. Stretched across France from the North Sea to the Swiss border.
In the lower South the majority of slaves lived and worked on cotton plantations. Most of these plantations had fifty or fewer slaves, although the largest plantations have several hundred. Cotton was by far the leading cash crop, but slaves also raised rice, corn, sugarcane, and tobacco.
So slaves did a lot of heavy farm work and were household servants.
Loaf is a verb when used in that context, it means to idle one's time away, typically by aimless wandering or loitering.