12 Soil Types

For one of our labs, we went across the street from Mercer and dug into the groud to observe the different types of soil. There are 12 different soil orders in the world and below is a chart that shows where the 12 different orders are generally located.

One interesting soil order is called the vertisols, it is a clayey soil that has the capacity to absorb alot of water. this soil is usually found at the bottom of a lake. and when the lake is dry, it is usually the cracked soil at the lakebed.