Soil particles carried through the air to another location.
What is wind erosion?
100
This piece of equipment is used to turn the soil upside down leaving the bare side up.
What is molboard plowing?
100
Whenever soil is worked or exposed, covering the surface with mulch or vegetation reduces erosion.
What are Cover Crops?
100
Is the suitability of land for agricultural uses.
What is Land Capability Class?
200
LS stands for _______________ on the USLE Equation.
What is Slope Length and Steepness Factor?
200
Soil that is carried away by water.
What is water erosion?
200
This is a tillage system made up of two stages, primary and secondary tillage.
What is Conventional Tillage?
200
Tillage following the contours of a slope, rather than up and down a slope.
What is Contour Tillage?
200
Is the loss of topsoil by water, wind or other forces.
What is Erosion?
300
C stands for ______________ in the USLE equation.
What is Cropping Factor?
300
Soil that is displaced by one water drop.
What is splash erosion?
300
This is an implement with a series of three to ten large (2 to 2.5 feet) discs mounted on a frame at an angle to the direction of travel.
What is Disc Plow?
300
The planting of different types of crops in alternating strips to prevent wind or water erosion.
What is Strip Cropping?
300
These indicate factors that limit soil use by means of a single letter code added to the class number.
What is Land capability subclasses?
400
P stands for _______________ in the USLE equation
What is conservation practice factor?
400
Water causes many small channels in the soil.
What is Rill Erosion?
400
First ridges left from plowing are smoothed out and large clods are broken. Then smaller lumps are pulverized and a fine seedbed is produced.
What is a Tandem Disc?
400
A series of low ridges and shallow channels running across a slope or on the contour to capture water so it can soak into the soil.
What are Terraces?
400
Is a condition that develops in water supplies when the water is changed by the increase of nutrients.
What is Eutrophication?
500
K stands for ___________________in the USLE equation.
What is Soil Erodibility Factor?
500
The most highly visible erosion?
What is Gully Erosion?
500
This implement is made of long, springy, C-shaped teeth with a shear point or broad shovel that digs into the soil, dragging clods to the surface and breaking them up.
What is a Spring Toothed Harrow?
500
A shallow, sodded, wide ditch that runs down a slope. It is designed to carry excess water off the field safely.
What is a Grass Waterway?
500
This has been developed to predict the average soil loss from sheet and rill erosion on a specific site.