Soils quiz 1

What is the origin of the word soil?

What is pedosphere?

Who are pedologists?

What is soil? List 4 soil components.

Why soil is important?

Explain concept of soil as a “natural” body.

What are urban, agricultural soils, and subaqueous soils.

How do we use soil? Be able to give examples for each of the anthropogenic activities and needs.

What are the ecosystem services of soils? Give examples for each of the categories listed?

What is a “state/representative soil”?

What is a “state/representative soil” for your state?

What is a landscape?

What is a pedon?

What is a soil profile?

What is a soil horizon?

How do we label soil horizons?

What do these labels mean?

What is eluviation?

What is illuviation?

How do we label soil color? What do we use? What are hue, value and chroma?

Be able to distinguish what is what when you are given a soil color, e.g. 10YR 4/3.

What is soil texture? General definition.

What is soil structure? Name 6 soil structure types.

How do we call soil without structure?

What is soil consistence? Name 4 types of soil consistence.

What is “fizz” test? Why do we do it?

How do we describe soil boundary?

What is a Soil Survey and why do we need it?

What are Soil Information Systems?

What is are of interest (AOI)?

What is map unit symbol and why do we use it?

How do we know which soil map unit name is the most dominant one in the area of interest(AOI)?