Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Soil's Ability to Retain Water


We are continuing on our quest to learn all the properties of soil.  Today we tested a soil's ability to retain water.  We put soil samples in 4 different beakers using knee highs to hold the soil.  We added 200mL of water and then waited one minute.  We lifted the sample and read the amount of water remaining in the water.  Then, we had to do math in SCIENCE.