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