Question

QUESTION: How is soil important to living organisms? (Like Humans, animals, plants)
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Answer 1

​There are seven general roles that soils play:

1 Soils serve as media for growth of all kinds of plants.

2 Soils modify the atmosphere by emitting and absorbing gases (carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and the like) and dust.

3 Soils provide habitat for animals that live in the soil (such as groundhogs and mice) to organisms (such as bacteria and fungi), that account for most of the living things on Earth.

4 Soils absorb, hold, release, alter, and purify most of the water in terrestrial systems.

5 Soils process recycled nutrients, including carbon, so that living things can use them over and over again.

6 Soils serve as engineering media for construction of foundations, roadbeds, dams and buildings, and preserve or destroy artifacts of human endeavors.

7 Soils act as a living filter to clean water before it moves into an aquifer.

Answer 2

Soils provide anchorage for roots, hold water and nutrients. Soils are home to myriad micro-organisms that fix nitrogen and decompose organic matter, and armies of microscopic animals as well as earthworms and termites. ... Soil plays a vital role in the Earth's ecosystem. Without soil human life would be very difficult.