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Shawn's Cinquain

Soil

Soil
Dry, Soft
Plants live there
Black, Rocky
Humus

flower

Quick question: In the poem above, Shawn says that plants live in the soil. Can you think of other things or beings that live in the soil? If so, what kind? If you have any other ideas, email us at: globe@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Shawn is a third grader at a Cape May, New Jersey elementary school.

Photograph © 1997 Wild Moon Studios

Submitted: November 1997

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