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Soil moisture sensor

Imagine you're making a cake, and you need to know if the batter is wet enough. You can use a toothpick to poke the cake, and if it comes out clean, the cake is dry. But what if you're a farmer and you need to know how much water is in the soil for your crops?

That's where a soil moisture sensor comes in! It's like a special toothpick that goes in the soil and tells you how much water is there. But instead of a toothpick, it's a tiny machine that measures how easily electricity flows through the soil.

When the soil is wet, the electricity travels through the water and the sensor can sense that. But when the soil is dry, there isn't as much water for the electricity to travel through and the sensor can tell that too. The sensor then sends this information to a machine that tells the farmer whether to water the crops or not.

Just like you need to check the cake to make sure it's just right, farmers use soil moisture sensors to make sure their plants get just the right amount of water they need to grow strong and healthy.
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