Welcome!The Topic For Today Is…
Soil
SOILTexture Structure BMPs Soil Survey Soil Forming
Factors
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FINAL JEOPARDY
Texture: 200• Question:• Soil texture can be defined as the relative
proportions of these particles.• Answer• What are sand, silt, and clay.
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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?
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Texture: 600• Question:• Soils with this texture may shift and slide
when wet.• Answer• What is silty?
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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?
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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?
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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)
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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?
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Structure: 600• Question:• This is the most common type of soil structure
in topsoil.• Answer• What is granular?
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Structure: 800• Question:• This dark brown spongy material is important
because it improves soil structure.• Answer• What is humus?
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Structure: 1000• Question:• Name five commonly recognized types of soil
structure.• Answer• What are granular, single grain, blocky,
prismatic, columnar, platy, and massive
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BMPs: 200• Question:• BMP is short for this.• Answer• What is Best Management Practice?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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?
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Soil Survey: 200• Question:• You can get a copy of a soil survey here.• Answer• Where is a soil and water conservation district
office?
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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?
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Soil Survey : 600• Question:• A soil map symbol tells you this.• Answer• What is the soil series name and slope class?
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Soil Survey : 800• Question:• Most soils are given a name that comes from
this.• Answer• What is the location where they were first
mapped?
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Soil Survey : 1000
• Question:• The ratings in the soil survey interpretative
tables indicate this.• Answer• What are the limitations of a soil?
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Soil Forming Factors: 200
• Question:• The number of soil forming factors.• Answer• What is five?
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Soil Forming Factors : 400
• Question:• This soil forming factor can be either mineral
or organic.• Answer• What is parent material?
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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?
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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?
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Soil Forming Factors : 1000
• Question:• These are the result of the action of the soil
forming factors.• Answer• What are soil properties?
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FINAL JEOPARDY• Question:• Name the three types of erosion caused by
water.• Answer• …• What are sheet, rill, and gully?
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