Particles and Structure
This is the largest soil particle size.
What is Sand?
This soil class have few limitations that restricts it's use.
What is Class 1?
The process of soil moving from one area to the next by wind or water.
What is Erosion
This BMP allows farmers to rid themselves of pests without the use of pesticides.
What is Integrated Pest Management?
The conversion of Nitrogen into usable biological resources.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
This type of soil structure is characterized by vertical oriented aggregates or pillars with rounded tops.
What is Columnar?
This is one of several kinds of important farmland defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
What is Prime Farmland
They type of erosion that accumulates runoff water into small channels.
What is Rill Erosion?
This is a natural or constructed vegetated channel that carries runoff water from a field.
What is a Grass Waterway?
Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium are examples of what kinds of nutrients.
What are Macronutrients?
What is Clay?
These types of soils are found in wetlands and are ideal for preserving local wildlife.
What are Hydric Soils?
The process of water-saturated soils moving down slopes in response to gravity.
What is Land Slippage?
The row of vegetation that lines that banks of a creek or stream.
What is the Riparian Buffer?
The type of respiration that occurs when oxygen is not available.
What is Anaerobic Respiration?
This type of soil structure has the aggregates arranged in thin horizontal plates or sheets.
What is Platy?
The soils in this class have very severe limitations that restrict the choice of plants or require very careful management, or both.
What is Class 4?
The time it takes to naturally form one inch of soil.
What is 50-500 years.
This BMP refers to a planned cropping sequence where different crops are planted throughout the year.
What is Crop Rotation.
The process of energy moving up through the ecosystem from one organism to the next.
What are Trophic Levels?
This type of soil structure completely lacks structure.
What is Massive?
These subclasses are assigned to soils based on their potential land usage and need for conservational management.
What are Land Capability Classes?
The most famous case of wind erosion that occurred from the late 1920's to the early 1930's.
What is the Dust Bowl?
These are strips of permanent vegetation in a field that purifies infected runoff before it reaches a water source.
What are Filter Strips?
The cycle that only partially involves the soil while the rest of the cycle takes place in the atmosphere and in living green plants.
What is the Carbon Cycle?