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Soil _______ as a result of wildfires in grasslands.



A

improves


B

degrades


C

is unchanged


D

is lost

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stazia1999

The answer is A. After everything has burned away the nutrients from the ash are absorbed, making the soil better for regrowth.

Answer:

The correct answer would be a.  improves.

Wildfires are natural and often a necessary event of the ecosystem.

It helps in improving the quality of the soil in various ways:

It helps in clearing the thick underbrush growth and thus enables the sunlight to reach the forest floor which encourages the growth of native species.

It increases the fertility of the soil by increasing the mineral and nutrient contents of the soil. It does so by converting the dead plants and animals chemically into more available forms.


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