Soil Formation
This soil formation is based around living creatures
Not only found in oceans or lakes
What is Water
Holds water the best
What is Clay
Can be a problem is to much wind hits your loose soil
What is Soil Loss
The more water that flowed through your stream bed this happened (4.1.3)
What is remove more soil/What is enlarge stream
What is Climate
Leaves, roots, and organisms all are in these
What is Organic Matter
Has the largest pore space
What is Sand
Planted to keep soil in place from erosions
What is a Cover Crop
This material floats or suspends in the water (4.1.1)
What is Organic Matter
Soil started originally as something else before it weathered down
What is Parent Material
Comes from the parent material
What is Minerals
Is a happy medium of sand and clay
What is Silt
Can be planted around a field to protect it from wind
What is a windbreak
Accumulation or deposition of soil (Notes)
What is Addition
It doesn't happen over night but it takes what for soil to develop
We not only breathe it but so do plants.
What is Air
Is anything classified smaller than .002mm
What is Clay
Why is Erosion a problem?
What is loss of top soil
Leaching and Erosion (Notes)
What is Reduction
The lay of the land, valleys or peaks is this development factor
What is Topography
Not on of the 4 main makeup of soils, but is always at the bottom and is made of the parent material
What is Bedrock
Is anything between .05 and .002 mm
What is silt
Bonus Knowledge:
What type of erosion causes the formation of he Scablands near us?
What is water/What is Great Missoula Floods/What is flooding
This happens if building are built upon unstable soil
What is Unstable Foundations