is soil a nonrenewable or a renewable resource?

Answer 1

Soil itself is mostly non-renewable.

Yes, some rocks are slowly breaking down, but it's way slower that we are consuming our land.

We need to do something about the rate we are reducing our farmland and dumping land into the ocean, or we will be standing on rocks, or on concrete, wandering what happened.

Answer 2

That's an interesting question. It is not a self renewing resource, but it is a renewable resource in that you can create more soil through composting scrap plants and vegetables, eggshells, leaves, grass clippings, etc. It takes a while though to actually make up what blows or washes away from wind and soil erosion, and it takes a LOT. I had 22 tons of gin trash (that's the leaves and plant trash that's left over after they gin cotton) dumped in one pasture and just let it rot down over a year. By the end of the year, the place where it was dumped had gone from 9 ft above ground level, to just about 3 inches, and about the size of a semi truck trailer. With that in mind, you can see how the soil can't really renew itself fast enough to make up for the damage we do to it.

Answer 3

I think it's renewable because Aboriginal Indians in Australia burn forests and the result is black soil. It's renewable because this has been going on for many centuries around the world and we have soil. Soil is just recycled vegetation. But, if cows are raised on grass fields with good soil under the grass. The cows absorb the soil and are slaughtered and driven to supermarkets and eventually restaurants in cities where people eat the meat.The meat has taken up some of the nutrients form the soil. That's what causes soil displacement and desertification.

Answer 4

It is renewable, as long as the organic matter in it is able to regenerate.
Too much exploitation (by agriculture) may impoverish the soil until it will become sterile. That's why fertilizers must be added or crops rotation applied.
This is what happens to the thin rain forest soil a few years after the trees are cut and the land is used to grow crops such as corn.
Hope this answers your question.

Answer 5

Renewable I think because when you finish making a pot for flowers and the flower dies, you can use the soil to create another one.

Maybe nonrenewable because the soil might be bad so it can't be renewed.

Answer 6

Soil is a renewable resource. Most everthing decomposes and becomes dirt. All soil is made up of decomposed matter like food, animals and poo. It is also made up of eroded rocks and minerals, water, gases, bacteria, fungi and of course worms. But like all renewable resources, they must be used wisely or they can diappear.

Answer 7

Soil is renewable. Soil is always being created by weathering, erosion, and decay of living plant and animal matter.

Answer 8

it is renewable.

plants use it to grow and make leaves. these leaves are eaten by animals (e.g. worms) and are converted back into manure (aka fertalised soil)