QUALITIES OF SOIL
The degree and type of cohesion and adhesion exhibited by soil.
What is soil consistence?
When soil and water are pressed together, reducing the pore space between them.
What is soil compaction?
This kind of water is responsible for nutrient leaching and soil erosion.
What is gravitational water?
Long rows of trees planted adjacent to large agricultural fields.
What are windbreaks?
Materials in the C horizon.
What is parent material?
A measure of a soil's ability to withstand applied stress.
What is rupture resistance?
The most common root restrictive layer.
What is bedrock?
Water that flows around individual soil particles and moves to the highest points of tension.
What is capillary water?
A natural or constructed vegetated channel that carries runoff water from a field.
What is a grass waterway?
The gas that is released into the atmosphere by growing plants.
What is oxygen?
The capacity of a soil to adhere to other objects
What is stickiness?
Root restricted soils may be used for this agricultural purpose.
What is pasture or grazing?
A geological formation that is permeable; a water-bearing layer of rock or soil.
What is an aquifer?
The steepness and length of a slope.
What is topography?
This soil component helps retain nutrients and helps the soil resist compaction.
What is organic matter?
The degree to which a reworked soil can be permanently deformed without rupturing.
What is plasticity?
A dense, brittle horizon usually found in soils that formed in transported parent material.
What is a fragipan?
When water from a water table moves upward through the soil against the force of gravity.
What is capillary rise?
Dead-end river channels with the downstream end blocked up.
What are oxbows?
The area between and around soil particles through which water and air move.
What is pore space?
A soil that breaks apart when a small amount of force is applied.
What is a friable soil?
The condition when soil is at the greatest risk for compaction.
What is wet?
The frequency and duration of periods of saturation or partial saturation.
What is drainage?
This form of weathering consists of natural forces' physically breaking rocks into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical weathering?
The circulation of carbon atoms, especially through the processes of photosynthesis, respiration, and decomposition.
What is the Carbon Cycle?