Environmental Voc
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| aeration | ability of air to move through the soil
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| humus | decayed matter consisting of the remains of dead organisms
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| leaching | process in which water removes and dissolves minerals from rock/soil
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| infiltration | process in which soil absorbs water/process of water of water soaking in the soil
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| loam | soils that contain less than 20% clay and nearly = parts of sand and silt
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| mineral | certain compounds found in rocks and soil
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| soil | thin layer of Earth's surface that's made by the interaction of rocks, sunlight, water, air, and living organisms
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| topsoil | upper layer of soil that contains humus
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| subsoil | layer of soil beneath topsoil that doesn't contain humus
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| parent material | fractured bedrock that lies beneath subsoil and that's the source of minerals of the soil
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| texture | size of particles in the soil
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| structure | physical characteristics of the soil that's formed when particles are glued together to form larger particles
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