WHAT MAKES SOIL AS A SHELTER FOR MANY LIVING ORGANISMS ?

 

Soil is fertile. It contains nutrients for small organism living inside it . Almost all living organisms are dependent on soil. Some depend directly, while some depend indirectly. Plants need soil for getting support as well as nutrients to prepare their food. On the other hand, organisms depend on plants for food and other substances that are essential for life. Herbivores depend directly upon plants, and carnivores depend upon animals, which in turn depend upon plants for food. This makes them depend on soil indirectly. Even without the supply of minerals from the soil to the water bodies, it is impossible to imagine aquatic life.