biotic or abiotic resource
What is a biotic resource?
resources that can be replenished by natural processes
What are renewable resources?
The most familiar type of soil, particles are visible to the naked eye (largest particles of all soil types). hint- you sit on me on the beach
What is sand?
This horizon is made up of decaying plant and animal matter.
What is horizon O, organic matter or humus
78% of Earth's atmosphere is made up of this gas.
What is nitrogen?
Solar Power
What is an abiotic resource
resources that will not run out, no matter how much of it people use.
What are inexhaustible resources?
microscopic particles , smaller particles than sand, smooth when wet , not sticky
What is silt?
All of the materials leached ( traveled down) from A - minerals (topsoil) , and E - eluviated soil.
What is horizon B- subsoil?
How much the air above you weighs is called. The higher you go, it decreases (goes down)
What is air pressure?
Leather
What is a biotic resource?
resources being used up faster than they can be replaced
What are non renewable resources
sticky when wet, forms hard clods (dense lump or mass) when dry.
What is clay?
Rock layer, includes limestone , granite, quartzite, basalt, sandstone.
Technically not soil, found under horizon C
What is bedrock?
Each layer of the atmosphere is made up of a different combination of gases that vary in how they absorb energy, therefore air temperature.........
What is varies (changes), ie. air temperature does not consistently decrease the higher up you go.
Food crops
What is a biotic resource?
Example of non renewable resource
What is oil, coal etc.
soil that is made up of equal parts sand, silt, and clay. Most fertile, best for planting.
What is loam?
What are horizon O & A?
Layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
soil
What is an abiotic resource? (but soil has biotic components
Example of a renewable resource
What is wind, sunlight, water energy etc.
Describes the size of particles that make up the soil.
What is texture?
Classified by physical features like color and texture. Physical , chemical, and biological features differ from the ones above and below. There are 6 of me. Name them.
Soil Horizons- O , A, E, B, C , R
Layer of the atmosphere that contains the auroras. (Aurora Borealis)
What is the ionosphere?