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Woodruff & Woodruff
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The following demonstration helps us
understand the small portion of earth capable of producing
food and emphasizes the importance that each generation use the soil wisely. |
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| Cut the apple into four equal parts.
Three parts represent the
oceans of the world.
The fourth represents the land area. |
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Cut the land section in half lengthwise.
Now you have two
one-eighth pieces.
One section represents the deserts, swamps, mountainous, artic, and
Antarctic regions of the world.
The other one-eighth represents land where man can live but cannot grow
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| Slice this one-eighth section crosswise into four equal parts.
Three of these one thirty-second
sections represent the areas of the world which are either so rocky, wet
and hot,
or contain soil
so poor that food production is not possible. |
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Carefully peel the last one thirty-second section.
This small
bit of peeling represents the soil of
our earth that
all of us depend on for food! |
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