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Welcome! The Topic For Today Is…. Soil. SOIL. Texture: 200. Question: Soil texture can be defined as the relative proportions of these particles. Answer What are sand, silt, and clay. Back. Texture: 400. Question:
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Welcome! The Topic For Today Is… Soil
Texture: 200 • Question: • Soil texture can be defined as the relative proportions of these particles. • Answer • What are sand, silt, and clay. Back
Texture: 400 • Question: • Soils with this texture have large voids between the particles and allow water and air to move freely. • Answer • What is sandy? Back
Texture: 600 • Question: • Soils with this texture may shift and slide when wet. • Answer • What is silty? Back
Texture: 800 • Question: • Clay particles are an important reservoir of plant food due largely to these two properties. • Answer • What are their large surface area and negative charge? Back
Texture: 1000 • Question: • In samples of sand, silt, or clay with equal volumes this soil particle size will have the largest total pore space. • Answer • What is clay? Back
Structure: 200 • Question: • Soil structure is defined as the arrangement of these into aggregates. • Answer • What are the primary soil particles (sand, silt, and clay) Back
Structure: 400 • Question: • A soil that allows water and air infiltration, plant root penetration, and resists erosion has this kind of structure. • Answer • What is good soil structure? Back
Structure: 600 • Question: • This is the most common type of soil structure in topsoil. • Answer • What is granular? Back
Structure: 800 • Question: • This dark brown spongy material is important because it improves soil structure. • Answer • What is humus? Back
Structure: 1000 • Question: • Name five commonly recognized types of soil structure. • Answer • What are granular, single grain, blocky, prismatic, columnar, platy, and massive Back
BMPs: 200 • Question: • BMP is short for this. • Answer • What is Best Management Practice? Back
BMPs: 400 • Question: • BMPs are activities that farmers, rural residents, and city dwellers can do to promote this. • Answer • What is the conservation (wise use) of soil and water? Back
BMPs: 600 • Question: • This BMP is an area of vegetation along a stream, river, or other body of water that is important for water quality. • Answer • What is a riparian buffer? Back
BMPs: 800 • Question: • Conservation Tillage is a BMP because it does many things. Name three benefits of conservation tillage. • Answer • What are reduces erosion, improves water quality, improves soil quality, stores carbon, reduces evaporation, improves fertility, etc. Back
BMPs: 1000 • Question: • Two important aspects of an animal waste management plan are _______ and _______. • Answer • What are keeping animal waste out of the water and utilizing the nutrients in the waste to benefit the farm? Back
Soil Survey: 200 • Question: • You can get a copy of a soil survey here. • Answer • Where is a soil and water conservation district office? Back
Soil Survey : 400 • Question: • These maps found in a soil survey are good for comparing large areas for general land uses but are not suitable for planning the management of a specific farm or field. • Answer • What are general soils maps? Back
Soil Survey : 600 • Question: • A soil map symbol tells you this. • Answer • What is the soil series name and slope class? Back
Soil Survey : 800 • Question: • Most soils are given a name that comes from this. • Answer • What is the location where they were first mapped? Back
Soil Survey : 1000 • Question: • The ratings in the soil survey interpretative tables indicate this. • Answer • What are the limitations of a soil? Back
Soil Forming Factors: 200 • Question: • The number of soil forming factors. • Answer • What is five? Back
Soil Forming Factors : 400 • Question: • This soil forming factor can be either mineral or organic. • Answer • What is parent material? Back
Soil Forming Factors : 600 • Question: • This soil forming factor has a great influence on the rate of chemical and mechanical weathering. • Answer • What is climate? Back
Soil Forming Factors : 800 • Question: • This soil forming factor causes soils that have developed under trees to usually have a thin O horizon while soils that develop under grasses to usually lack an O horizon. • Answer • What are biological factors? Back
Soil Forming Factors : 1000 • Question: • These are the result of the action of the soil forming factors. • Answer • What are soil properties? Back
FINAL JEOPARDY • Question: • Name the three types of erosion caused by water. • Answer • … • What are sheet, rill, and gully? Back