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soil-net educational web site
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| Resource Type: |
web links
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| Producers or distributor |
Cranfield University
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| Author / Producer Type: |
University research group / research institute
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| Web link for product information: |
http://www.soil-net.com
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Contaminated land overview
Soil-->Soil Overview
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
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| Short description: |
Soil-Net.com is a free and compelling environmental Internet resource for Key Stages 1-4 providing teachers and school students extensive curriculum-based information about soil. As one of the three major natural resources, alongside air and water, soil is vital to the existence of life on earth. Soil-Net.com will help you discover what soil is, the teeming life in soil and about the many environmental threats facing soils. Remember, soil is all around us, just under our feet!
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| Long description: |
It includes many soil-related case studies, to extend and deepen the points made in the main text.
Farming and food production
Forestry
Ecology
Soils and water
Land reclamation
Soils and infrastructure
Soils, history and archaeology
Soils and literature
Soils and climate change
Soils and health
Land quality and planning
Soils and gardening
Threats to soil
Properties of soil
Soil techniques, equipment and technologies
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Link to Organisation(s):
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Cranfield University
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 26/07/2007
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