You Are Sent to Examine Two Adjacent Farm Fields with Very

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Multiple Choice

You are sent to examine two adjacent farm fields with very similar soil types.Every year, one field is plowed before winter and allowed to sit bare until spring.The neighboring field is planted with a cover crop for winter.What difference would you most likely observe between the two fields?

• A) The bare field would have higher soil fertility due to the absence of weeds.
• B) The bare field would have more soil erosion due to the lack of the soil-retaining effects of year-round planting.
• C) The cover-crop field would be drier because of the year-round use of water by plants.
• D) The cover-crop field would have less soil because the plants would use up nutrients, leading to soil erosion.
• E) The two fields would have the same amount of soil.