Soil will have a greater permeability when it has more _________ ____________.
What is pore spaces?
100
The arrangement of soil particles based on size to affect porosity
What is sorting
100
Name a factor that increases surface runoff.
What are steep slope, heavy rain, pavement, frozen ground or removing vegetation?
100
Water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
Soil must be _______ and ______ in order for precipitation to infiltrate the ground.
What is unsaturated and permeable?
200
Soil containing smaller particles has _____ and _____ as compared to soil with larger particles.
What is less permeability and greater capillarity?
200
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?
200
__________ ________ will decrease during a heavy rainstorm.
What is soil infiltration?
200
Clouds form.
What is condensation?
300
What would be a result of replanting vegetation in a barren field?
What is water infiltration would increase?
300
Water moves very slowly downward through clay soil because ...
What is clay soil has very small particles?
300
___________________ shaped particles have the highest porosity
What is round
300
__________ and _____________ would produce the most runoff of precipitation.
What are steep slopes and impermeable surfaces?
300
Impermeable land causes ......
What is runoff
400
The least amount of infiltration of precipitation will occur if the Earth's soil is _________ and __________.
What is saturated and impermeable?
400
When comparing pebble soil, pebble and sand soil, conglomerate bedrock and solid granite bedrock, ___________ would have the least permeability.
What is granite bedrock?
400
A soil sample with a high percentage of open space between grains must be ...
What is porous?
400
In a grass covered, tree covered forest, runoff would be increased in areas where the ground is _______________.
What is sloped?
400
Surface water becomes ground water.
What is infiltration?
500
Sand, silt, clay, pebbles, through which does water infiltrate the fastest?
what is pebbles?
500
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?
500
When comparing pebble soil, pebble and sand soil, conglomerate bedrock and solid granite bedrock, ___________ would have the greatest porosity.
What is pebble soil?
500
Areas where construction is occurring have increased runoff because of many factors. Name one.
What are removal of vegetation, parking lots, erosion, roof tops, or change in land gradation?