What grew first grass or soil?

Question

i say soil becouse it is a procces of waste matter and grass becouse it is a plant/weed that consumes minerals

Answer 1

grass didn't actually eveolve until relatively recently- in the times of the dinosaurs grass didnt exist, ferns covered most of the forest floors.
Soil will have formed long before that, from dead organisms and ground up rocks.

Answer 2

Soil, not that it grows! Soil comes from weathering of rock and organic material from early colonisers like mosses. Eventually grass moves in when there's enough soil. Though not always - marjam grass grows in sand - no soil so that's definitely first! :)

Answer 3

Soil as far as I know consists of decayed vegetable matter so it is thought by scientists that lichens were here first. Soil was produced from weathered rock and decayed lichens before grass grew.

Answer 4

As soil doesnt "Grow" then i would have to say Grass

Answer 5

i say grass, see because grass can grow in cotton wool etc. too.

soil is made up of dead and plants and animals, so the dead grass. it is just waste matters.

Answer 6

grass as soil doesn't grow

Answer 7

soil does not grow it is naturally occuring hence the reason old gravestones seem to sink into the ground.
silly Q really.
do I win??

Answer 8

soils are breakdowns of rocks and sediments,
grass needs water and soil

Answer 9

grass, soil doesn't grow it is formed

Answer 10

Well since the first cant grow without the second I'd say the first