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Factors Affecting Soil Fromation
Types of Parent Material Affecting Soil
Soils of Glacial Origin
Types of Organisms Affecting Soil
How Weather & Time Affects Soil
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The type of rock material from which the soil is formed
What is Parent material
100
formed by the disintegration and decomposition of rock
What is parent material
100
Originated from blowing of the soil after the glaciers melted and dried
What is Loess
100
Two types of organic matter in Illinois
What is Tall prairie grass and Deciduous-hardwood forests
100
The effects of climatic factors, such as temperature, water, and wind
What is Physical weathering
200
The slope characteristics of the soil
What is Topography
200
a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity
What is a glacier
200
Oiginated when glaciers melted
What is Outwash
200
Organisms that live in soil include
What is plants, animals, and microbes
200
What are the two major contributors to physical weathering
What is Freezing and thawing
300
The organisms, include plant material, that live within the soil
What is Living Organisms
300
Two major glaciers that have the greatest influence on present day soils in Illinois
What is Illinoisan and Wisconsinan
300
What type of outwash was carried farther down stream
What is Sandy outwash
300
a dfark and deep surface is known as what
What is Prairie soil
300
the effects of factors that change the elemental makeup of rock and break it down
What is Chemical Weathering
400
The age of the soil or the climate where the soil mis found
What is Time or weathering
400
a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment, which is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust
What is loess
400
A parent material that was physically moved and deposited by the glacier itself
What is Glacial till
400
A thin, moderatly dark layer
What is Timber soil
400
What does weathering cause soil to do
What is Develop, Mature, and age
500
The temperature and moisture characteristics of the area where the soil was formed
What is climate
500
unsorted glacial sediment
What is glacial till
500
what are very common to see in till
What is Pebbels and various size boulders
500
Insects that incorporate organic matter into soil
What is Earthworms, crawfish, and ground squirrels
500
What makes soil become lighter in color
What is Age