Environmental
This term describes the buildup of salt in soil.
What is salinization?
This type of rock forms the unweathered base beneath soil layers.
What is bedrock?
This is one of the most important industries that makes the most use of soil
What is Agriculture?
Name the two types of manure.
What is Green Manure and Animal Manure?
List the soil horizons.
What is the O horizon, A horizon, B horizon, and C horizon.
This occurs when rivulets of fast-flowing water come together, and with the help of rain, can slowly cut the streams until they become deeper.
What is gully erosion?
This term describes soils with roughly equal mixtures of clay, sand, silt, and humus.
What are loams?
This type of farming can increase the crop yield, helping with the productivity of the farm.
What is strip cropping?
This is used in soil to add extra nutrients and aid in growing healthy plants, made out of other materials.
What is Organic Fertilizer?
Test used to determine soil composition by separation of layers.
What is the Soil Texture Triangle?
This is the term for the reduction of soil erosion on steep slopes, where the land is transformed into multiple similar-sized steps that follow the contour of the land.
What is terracing?
This term describes how soil particles are organized and clumped together.
What is soil structure?
This can lead to increased costs and funding by the government for repairing damages due to the soil being __________, which can damage farms, waterways, and infrastructure.
What is (soil) erosion?
This occurs when crops are planted in strips between other fruit or wood-bearing plants
What is Agroforestry?
Most soils fall into this pH range (they are neutral to slightly acidic).
What is 4-8?
The cycle where bacteria in the soil convert nitrogen into forms that plants can use.
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
This soil property determines the rate at which water and air move from upper to lower soil layers.
What is permeability?
This method of farming is oftentimes seen in Christmas tree farms, where the trees are planted on sloped hills in the countryside.
What is contour farming?
This issue raises the water table due to overwatering and insufficient drainage when trying to leach salts into the soil.
What is Waterlogging?
This soil order is common in temperate forests (characterized by a high water-holding capacity).
What are Alfisols?
Soil’s contribution to water regulation.
What is holds rainwater, filters runoff pollutants, and prevents flooding?
This process occurs when the productive potential of arid or semi-arid land falls by 10%
What is desertification?
Countries whose biggest industry is agriculture.
What is China, the United States, India, and Russia?
The difference between conventional tillage and conservation tillage
What is conventional breaks up soil to plant, and conservation uses little tilling to reduce erosion?
Definition of cation exchange capacity (CEC).
What is the ability of soil to hold and exchange positively charged ions?