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The Little Shovel

by Rich and Will

The Little Shovel

There once was a shovel named Rifty who found digging pits a bit nifty
But one day when the weather was ify he went outside and found his friend Jiffy
And by standing in the cold their noses became snifly.
Now stuck in his shed with ice on his head he puts his socks on but 10 to 1 says he'd rather dig a,o,b,r horizons.
So stuck in doors he calls his friend Tucker to do him a favor and find the soil structure.

UFL soil

Quick question: In the poem, the Little Shovel asks his friend Tucker to find the soil structure. Can you name the different types of soil structure and what they look like? If you have any ideas, email us at: globe@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Rich and Will are eighth graders from Richard M. Teitelman school in Cape May, New Jersey.

Photograph courtesy of the University of Florida

Submitted: December 1998

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