Soils Quiz

The best term to describe the effect of glaciation on soil development would be:

The study of soil classifications, their properties and relationships across landscapes is defined as:

The combination of the biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and atmosphere is called the

Which soil horizon contains the most organic matter?

Soils developing on lacustrine deposited materials would show what in PGM

Which pgm would you expect to have the greatest depth of weathering

Which soil type has the smallest particle size?

The anthropogenic mode of deposition is materials moved by

Morainal deposition occurred how long ago

The study of soils influence on living things especially plants is called

The pgm of a soil directly determines the

Fine textured materials from the soil surface that move downwards is called

What type of deposition is from a flowing river

From the ClORPT soil forming factors which is the most influential

Which climate type below would have the highest weathering rates

OM forms faster and greater under which vegetation type

Which of the following will cause the greatest amount of translocation of soil

Secondary minerals are the only ones that can be

Mesoclimate is affected by which of the ClORPT

How old are western canada soils

Soil horizon layers from top to bottom

Great groups are determined by

To determine the bulk density of a soil we need to place it in an oven for 48 hours at this temperature

Soils of similar texture may still have different chemical and physical properties

Which are soil texture sizes smallest to largest

Clays that form a platy structure on top of B horizon would have

Soils that stay saturated most of the year would have

Which soil texture would have the greatest number of large pore spaces

Pressure potential is created in the field by

What kind of soil structure would you most likely find in an agricultural topsoil

The higher this is the greater the amount of water holding capacity there is

The term soil structure refers to

Soil matric potential is when water moves from a high solute concentration to a low solute concentration

A volumetric water content can be converted to a gravimetric water content using the soil's

How a soil reacts to mechanical manipulation is described by which property

What kind of soil structure would you most likely allow water infiltration deep into the soil profile

Which is true of soil water potential