Soil Formation
The 4 components that makeup soil
What is Water, Mineral, Air, Organic Material
What are the 3 soil particles?
Sand, Silt , Clay
What is a soil profile?
What is a vertical section of the soil that depicts all of its horizons
What soil horizon can only be at the top of the profile?
What is the O horizon
What career consists of perfoming general maintenance of the college campus grounds including lawn care, landscaping, and trash pickup
What is a groundskeeper
The 4 soil forming processes
What is, Additional, Loss, Translocation, Transformation
What happens when clay becomes wet?
What are the three tools used to extract a soil profile
What is a probe, push probe, and bucket auger
What master horizon AND subordinate go with the words " highly decomposed organic materials"
What is master horizon O and subordinate a
What book is used in the soil field to identify colors.
What is the Munsell Book
The chemical weathering of sand and formation of clay minerals, the transformation of coarse organic material into decay-resistant organic compounds is what type of soil forming process?
What is Transformation
Very smooth and powder like describe what soil particle?
What is silt
How many master horizons can make up soil profiles?
What is 6
What subordinate represent very sticky, very firm, very plastic
What is the value in the given color distinction: 7.5YR 4/3
What is 4
Parent material consists of...
The underlying geological material
(generally bedrock or a superficial or
drift deposit) in which soil horizons form
What is going to determine how permeable the soil is going to be
What is the soils particle sizes
Where does a soil profile start and end?
What is the soil surface to the parent rock material.
What horizon is leached of materials and appears lighter in color compared to the rest of horizons
What is horizon E
What soil career consists of serving as an expert or teacher on a topic relating to economics, community development, agriculture, family, animal production, diet, and nutrition
What is an extension agent
What is 1,000 years
What soil particle is going to have the fastest permeability?
What is sand
What is one reason we take soil profiles?
What is to show fertile the soil may be, help to determine the type of crop to grow, or determine the suitability of a soil for agriculture
What is the only master horizon that does not have any subordinates that are associated with it?
What is master horizon R or bedrock
What are the two regulations for a horizon to be identified as grey?