Soil Biology & Ecology
Unit 2.3 | Part 2 – 117
Assessment Questions
Assessment Questions
What is soil?
What forms of life exist in soil ecosystems?
How would you define a “healthy” agricultural soil?
What is a soil food web?
What might be some negative effects of the long-term practice of monoculture cropping and
the use of synthetic chemical fertilizer and pest control agents on the soil ecosystem?