A Teaspoon Of Soil Contains More Living Organisms Than There Are People On Earth
Question: How many organisms are living inside soil?
Answer: The soil is an ecosystem in which millions of living creatures live and interact. There can be more creatures in a teaspoonful of good quality soil than there are people in the entire planet earth, i.e. more than 6+ billion. That’s truly amazing! Not only are the numbers of creatures large but there are also many different types of creature. This is partly because the soil is the source of many different types of food for these creatures and is also the source of their nutrition and water.
There is a very huge range of organisms in the soil varying in size from protozoa which require the strongest of microscopes to see them, up to large burrowing animals such as badgers and rabbits which live part of the time in the soil and part of it on the soil surface.
MessageToEagle.com
Source:
Related Posts
-
Paracelsus: Physician, Alchemist, Philosopher Whose Works Greatly Influenced Early Rosicrucians
No Comments | Apr 28, 2016
-
Comet Swift-Tuttle: Largest Known Object That Repeatedly Passes Near Earth
No Comments | Jan 29, 2016
-
Mysterious Gosford Glyphs: Remarkable Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs Discovered In Australia Could Re-Write History
No Comments | Feb 20, 2020
-
Meet Quetzalcoatlus – World’s Largest Flying Animal Had A Wingspan Of Up To 52 Feet (15.9 m)
No Comments | Apr 10, 2019
-
Tristan da Cunha: The Remotest Inhabited Island
No Comments | Mar 23, 2016
-
Legendary Harald ‘Bluetooth’ King of Denmark – ‘Who Made The Danes Christian’
No Comments | Oct 10, 2015
-
Walking Corpse Syndrome: People Who Believe They Are Dead
No Comments | Jan 2, 2016
-
Erik The Red: Famous Viking Outlaw Who Colonized Greenland And Was Father Of Leif Erikson
No Comments | Jan 16, 2017
-
The Kuiper Cliff Mystery – Why Does The Kuiper Belt Suddenly End?
No Comments | Jun 12, 2017
-
Pharaoh Hatshepsut: Skillful And Efficient Female Ruler Who Brought Prosperity To Ancient Egypt
No Comments | Mar 22, 2017