Soil Recipe
The smallest particle size of soil.
What is clay?
Organic matter deposited by organisms
Which is the O horizon?
What is carbon?
40% sand, 40% silt, and 20% clay
What is loam?
What is irrigation?
The base geological material that is broken down.
What is parent material?
Some organic material mixed with mineral components. Topsoil
What is A horizon?
What is climate change?
30% sand, 20% silt, 50% clay
What is clay?
This type of irrigation is what most people use in desert landscaping.
What is drip irrigation?
Gives plants a dark green color.
What is phosphorus?
Minerals and organic matter tend to leach out of this horizon.
What is E horizon?
Billions are located in one tablespoon of soil.
What are microbes?
20% sand, 70% silt, 10% clay
What is silt loam?
This is added to soil when nutrients are low.
What is fertilizer?
Living things in soil that break down nitrogen.
What are amazing bacteria?
Bedrock, lava
What is R horizon?
Because we can run out of good soil in under 100 years, it is considered this.
What is non-renewable?
A common type of pollinator used to pollinate crops.
What are bees?
45% of soil is this.
What is pore space taken up by air or water?
Minerals and organic matter accumulate here.
What is the B horizon?
This farm/agricultural process is one of the greatest causes of soil depletion.
What is plowing?
30% clay, 30% sand, 40% silt
What is clay loam?
This is one way to conserve soil when farmers alternate or rotate crops.
What is crop rotation?