Which quotation from the article best highlights the
current health of soil?
A “Creating one millimeter of soil coverage can take
anything from a few years to an entire
millennium.” ( Paragraph 2)
B "A healthy soil is a living ecosystem in which dead
organic matter forms the base of a food web
consisting of microscopic and larger organisms." (
Paragraph 4)
C "about two-thirds of agricultural land in Australia
is suffering from degradation, which includes loss
of nutrients" ( Paragraph 17)
D "The American 'Dust Bowl' of the 1930s caused
soil blown from Midwestern farms to color the
skies over New York and Boston" ( Paragraph 18)