Soils
What is the largest soil particle?
Sand
Plants that protect the soil from erosion and are not grown for profit. These plants also add nutrients back to the soil.
Cover crops
What is an annual plant?
What does the K stand for in NPK?
Potassium
Someone who studies crops and plants.
Agronomist
Which soil is the slowest to drain?
Clay
An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers or basins, or seas.
Watershed
What is a perennial?
Comes back every year
Which nutrient deficiency shows purple leaves?
Phosphorus
Preventing the wasteful use of a natural resource is called...
Conservation
What is the soil type called that is equal parts sand, silt and clay?
Loam
Refers to the capture, storage and treatment of animal wastes in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Manure management
What is our growing zone?
5 or 5B
What is an example of a nutrient deficiency?
Stunted, color in the leaves, delayed reproduction, etc.
The process of breaking rocks to form soil is called...
Weathering
What is the erosion type that erodes the side of a creek or stream?
Streambank erosion
Wide, shallow channels that are installed where water runoff usually concentrates in an agricultural field?
Waterway
What is a pepper plant? Annual or perennial?
Annual
Which soil has the least amount of nutrients?
Sand
Another name for organic matter in the soil.
Humus
How many years does it take to produce one inch of top soil?
500 years
An area of land in permanent vegetation that helps to control water quality.
Buffer strip
What is a monocot?
Germinates with one cotyledon
What is it called when we grow plants without soil?
Hydroponics, aquaponics, etc.
What does WOTUS stand for?
Water of the US