Soil

The physical features of a land constitute its water bodies, mountains, deltas, plateaus, hills, animal life, biomes and many more. It even include the topography and vegetation along with fertility of the soil. It is of immense wonder that how are deserts, glaciers and grasslands are present in the same globe. Geography helps students to study the earth’s movements, build navigation skills and many more. It also helps to examine the topography of the land and study more about water, sand and other elements. Soil is considered to be the natural medium for the growth of plants. Soil has an important role to play in maintaining the temperature and climatic changes of a particular area. It filters groundwater and provides nourishment to the developing terrain of that land. Soil formation is considered to be a very time consuming process. Sand particles are the largest in size among sand, silt and clay. While clay particles remains the smallest.