Soil Layers
Horizons
Soil Forming Factors
Soil Vocabulary
Types of Soil
100

The second layer of soil?

What is topsoil?

100

The C horizon is known as?

What is Parent Material?

100

The shape and steepness of the landscape?

What is topography?

100

Small hole or space in the soil?

What is Pore?

100

The smallest weathered rock that doesn't allow plants to grow?

What is sand?

200

The layer of solid rock?

What is bedrock?

200

The A horizon has what kind of organisms?

What is earthworms, fungi, bacteria?

200

The average weather of an area measured by temperature and amount of rainfall?

What is Climate?

200

Rock material that has been broken down or dissolved in water?

What is sediment?

200

The layer that is sticky when wet but smooth when dry?

What is clay?

300

The fourth layer is known as?

What is parent material?

300

The horizon that has clay in it?

What is the C horizon?

300

Soil "starts" from this forming factor?

What is Parent Material?

300

Mixture of weathered rock, rock fragments, decayed organic matter, water, and air?

What is soil?

300

The type of soil that is found near lakes and rivers?

What is silt soil?

400

Another name for the organic layer?

What is Humus?

400

The organic layer is known as what horizon?

What is O horizon?

400

Mites, Nematodes, Amphibians, and Insects are all what?

What is biota?

400

Process that changes once-living material into organic matter?

What is Decomposition?

400

Loamy soil is a mixture of what 3 materials?

What is sand, silt, clay?

500

Materials the subsoil is made up of?

What is weathered rock and clay?

500

Bedrock is what horizon layer?

What is the R horizon?

500

In one year soil grows how much?

What is 1mm a year?

500

Layer of soil formed from the movement of the products of weathering?

What is Horizons?

500

True or False, All soil in America is brown?

What is false?

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