Soil Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What are the elements of soil? | Mineral matter, Air, Water, Living organisms. |
Name the two soils commonly found in Ireland? | Podzols and brown earth soils |
What is the soil formation? | Climate, parent material, Living organisms, Landscape, Vegetation, time |
What are the 4 soil horizons | O horizon, A horizon, B horizon, C horizon. |
What is leaching | Leaching occurs when rain ashes minerals from A horizon down 2 the B horizon this makes the soil less fertile. |
What is hardpan | In places where there is heavy rainfall, the minerals may form a crust called a Hardpan which prevents water sinking through it. |
Name 2 human interference with soil. | Deforestation, over cropping |
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adamkearney
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