Soil Science Exam 1 Review

“The Soil”; all soils everywhere. Lies at the intersection of the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere

• Pedosphere

• Soil horizon

• Soil quality

• Pedon

The capacity of soil to carry out ecosystem services.

• Soil structure

• Soil integrity

• Soil horizon

• Soil quality

The removal of soil material in suspension or solution from a layer of soil

• Illuviation

• Elluviation

The accumulation of material in a lower horizon, translocated from an upper horizon

• Illuvation

• Elluvation

Surface soil horizon

• Epipedon

• Endopedon

Rock type that forms during cooling and crystallization of magma

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

Rock type that forms from alteration of other rock types under high heat and pressure conditions deep in the Earth's crust

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

Which of the following are agents of physical weathering?

• Temperature and pressure

• Water and ice

• Wind

• Biota

What is the size range for sand particles?

• 2 - 5 mm

• 0.05 - 2 mm

• 0.002 - 0.05 mm

• <0.002 mm

What is the size range for clay particles?

• 0.001 - 0.05 mm

• < 0.001 mm

• < 0.002 mm

• 0.002 - 0.005 mm