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You Eat Dirt!. Soil, Food, and Health. Healthy bodies need lots of nutrients . . That’s why we need to eat a diversity of foods. He’s Eating Dirt !. Everything in that juicy burger came from the soil:. ….. the beef and cheese come from cows (that eat plants), . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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You Eat Dirt!
Soil, Food, and Health
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That’s why we need to eat a diversity
of foods.
Healthy bodies need lots of nutrients.
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He’s Eating Dirt!
Everything in that juicy burger came from the soil:
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….. the beef
and cheese
come from cows
(that eat plants),
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……. the tomatoes,
onions,
and lettuce……Tomatoes Onions Lettuce
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……and wheat for the bun …….even the sesame seeds came from the soil…..Oh, and the ketchup …(from tomatoes), mustard…(mustard seeds), french fries…(potatoes)
Wheat Mustard potato
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Vocabulary• Compost • Deficiency• Fertility• Fertilizer• Macronutrients• Minerals• Nitrogen• Nutrients• Phosphorus• Potassium• Uptake
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Vocabulary• Calcium – macronutrient essential to plant growth
and function, important to moving Nitrogen• Iron – micronutrient responsible for plant
photosynthesis and growth• Magnesium – macronutrient essential to plant
growth and phosphorus uptake• Micronutrients – essential nutrients not needed in a
large amount, but still very important• Soil testing - the process to find out what kind of
nutrients a soil has.