Question

identify the statement that is true about soil-forming factors. a. Dry soils tend to contain more organic material than wet soils contain, because wet soils drown vegetation. b. Different plant types can add or remove nutrients within a soil, thereby changing the type of soil that is formed. c. Soil that forms on basalt bedrock will be the same as soil formed on granite bedrock because they are both igneous bedrocks. d. Soil that forms on steep slopes is thicker than soil formed on flat land because of the accumulation of sediment on slopes.

Answer 1

Answer: b. Different plant types can add or remove nutrients within a soil, thereby changing the type of soil that is formed.

Explanation:

Some plants require more a of particular nutrient than others and so will draw more of these nutrients from the soil whilst giving away some of the ones that they do not want. This is one of the reasons that some plants grow better in a particular area than not.

When these plants give or take away nutrients, they would be changing the type of nutrient composition of the soil and this is what makes crop rotation so effective.