Soil Profile
This layer includes humus, plants, and decaying material.
What is the humus layer/ organic layer?
This soil property allows us to determine how acidic or basic the soil is.
What is soil pH?
What is breaking?
What is moving?
Landforms are created by ...
What is weathering, erosion, and deposition?
This layer is the start of weathering for the soil at the top of the soil profile. Also known as the Horizon C.
This soil property tells us the particle size of the soil.
What is soil texture?
This grows into the cracks of rocks and break rocks apart.
What is plants/ roots?
What is the shortest definition of deposition?
What is dropping?
This landform contributes water to a river, drainage basin.
What is a watershed?
This layer is made of soil rock.
What is bedrock/ Horizon R/D?
This soil property tells us how tightly packed the soil particles are.
What is soil porosity/ structure?
This melts into the cracks of rocks, causing them to break apart when it freezes.
What is water/ ice?
This landform is created when sediments are deposited as a stream enters a large body of water.
What is a delta?
This landform is a small stream merging with a large one.
What is a tributary?
This layer is directly below the organic layer.
What is topsoil/ Horizon A?
This soil property tells us how much nutrients the soil has.
What is soil fertility?
This type of weathering is a result of chemical reactions.
What is chemical weathering?
This landform is created when constant erosion cause meanders to get so wide that they are cut off from the original stream/ river.
What is an oxbow?
What soil particle is considered large?
What is a sand?
This is another name for Horizon B.
What is subsoil?
This soil property tells us the different layers in a soil profile.
What is soil horizons?
This type of weathering means that structures are being broken down manually.
This type or erosion helped create the Grand Canyon.
What is water erosion?
What soil particle is considered small?
What is clay?