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Soil Orders
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Deep accumulation of organic materials, wet conditions. (organic) | Histisols |
| Very cold permafrost (permafrost). | Gelisols |
| Desert shrubs, grasses, dry | Aridisols |
| Moist, mildly acid clay accumulation | Alfisols |
| Wet tropical and subtropical forests, acid silicate and Fe, Al oxides. (strongly acid clays) | Ultisols |
| Wet, tropical forest, extreme weathering, low activity clays, Fe, Al oxides (oxides) | Oxisols |
| Soils start from here (recent) | Entisols |
| Mild weathering on volcanic ejecta | Andisols |
| Mild weathering, various conditions (beginning B) | Inceptisols |
| High base status, high activity clays, dry season (swelling clays) | Vertisols |
| Semi-arid to moist grasslands, mollic epipedon (soft, dark) | Mossisols |
| Cool, wet, sandy acid, coniferous forest (spodic horizon) | Spodosols |