Infiltration
Water infiltrates this type of soil most slowly.
What is clay?
Soil will have a greater permeability when it has more _________ ____________.
What is pore spaces?
The arrangement of soil particles based on size to affect porosity
What is sorting
Soil must be _______ and ______ in order for precipitation to infiltrate the ground.
What is unsaturated and permeable?
Soil containing smaller particles has _____ and _____ as compared to soil with larger particles.
What is less permeability and greater capillarity?
When comparing pebble soil, pebble and sand soil, conglomerate bedrock and solid granite bedrock, the pebble and sand soil has greater capillarity than the pebble soil because ...
What is it has smaller pore spaces?
What would be a result of replanting vegetation in a barren field?
What is water infiltration would increase?
Water moves very slowly downward through clay soil because ...
What is clay soil has very small particles?
___________________ shaped particles have the highest porosity
What is round
The least amount of infiltration of precipitation will occur if the Earth's soil is _________ and __________.
What is saturated and impermeable?
When comparing pebble soil, pebble and sand soil, conglomerate bedrock and solid granite bedrock, ___________ would have the least permeability.
What is granite bedrock?
Surface water becomes ground water.
What is infiltration?
Sand, silt, clay, pebbles, through which does water infiltrate the fastest?
what is pebbles?
Put the layers of the Earth containing ground water in order from least permeable to most permeable.
What are impermeable zone, saturated zone, aerated zone, and the surface?