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What is the term for the smallest unit of soil?

What is the term for the smallest unit of soil?. What is the term for a soil body?. Identity each soil horizon. 1. 2. 3. 4. What are the three components of Soil?. Identify the difference between Alluvial and Eluvial Soils. Granular, Blocky, Prismatic, and Columnar are types of:

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What is the term for the smallest unit of soil?

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  1. What is the term for the smallest unit of soil?

  2. What is the term for a soil body?

  3. Identity each soil horizon 1 2 3 4

  4. What are the three components of Soil?

  5. Identify the difference between Alluvial and Eluvial Soils.

  6. Granular, Blocky, Prismatic, and Columnar are types of: • Soil Structure • Soil Horizon Structure • Alluvial Depressions • Residuum

  7. Identify 5 Important Benefits from Soils

  8. Underground supplies of water that generally occur closer to the surface during wet periods and are deeper during dry periods are referred to as what?

  9. Water movement through soil depends on what characteristics of a soil [Name 4]

  10. What is the most important waste product found within the soil for crop growth?

  11. In what way are biodiversity and food web complexity related?

  12. If a soil is 70% silt, 70% Sand, and 30% Clay what type of soil is it?

  13. Having lost all or part of the upper soil horizon or horizons by soil removal is the definition of this term

  14. The horizon of A is often divided into A1 and A2 because of a change in color. Identify the cause for this color change.

  15. In an ideally packed soil, the ratio of % soil, % water and % air would be what respectively?

  16. Rock enroute to the sea is a generalized view of what?

  17. An R horizon is essentially what in a soil horizon?

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