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SWS3022 Practice Questions and Answers | 100% Pass Dimensions of the Earth? - Answer️️ -D=8,000 C=25,000 What is soil? - Answer️️ -the upper layer of earth in which plants grow, a black or dark brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and rock particle...

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Dimensions of the Earth? - Answer✔️✔️-D=8,000 C=25,000


What is soil? - Answer✔️✔️-the upper layer of earth in which plants grow, a black or dark

brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and rock

particles.

The parameters related to soil composition for an idealized surface soil? - Answer✔️✔️-

50% -Solid

50%-Pore Space

45%-Mineral

5%-organic matter

Basic functions of soil in the environment? - Answer✔️✔️-1. Medium for plant growth

2.Regulator of water supplies

3. Recycler of raw materials

4. Habitat for soil organisms

5. Landscaping and engineering medium.

The 4 basic processes involved in soil formation? - Answer✔️✔️-1. Transformations

2. Translocation

3. Additions

4. Losses


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Examples of Transformation - Answer✔️✔️-Weathering of Rocks and Minerals.

Physical:changing the size and shape of rocks or mineral particles

Chemicalaltering a mineral particle's chemical composition(Synthesis/reorganization.

Examples of Translocation - Answer✔️✔️-Movement of soil constituents (organic or

mineral) within the profile and/or between horizons.

Examples of Additions - Answer✔️✔️-Materials added to the soil, such as decomposing

vegetation and organisms (organic matter--OM), or new mineral materials deposited by

wind or water.

Examples of Losses - Answer✔️✔️-Through the movement of wind or water, or uptake by

plants, soil particles (sand, silt, clay, and OM) or chemical compounds can be eroded,

leached, or harvested from the soil, altering the chemical and physical makeup of the

soil.

The Basics of Weathering - Answer✔️✔️-Physical: Reduce size, increase surface area.

(Freezing and thawing)

Chemical: Chemical Alteration Reorganization.(Hydration, Acids, hydrolysis.)

5 Soil Forming Factors - Answer✔️✔️-Parent Material, Climate, Organism,

Relief(Topography) and Time.

Parent Material - Answer✔️✔️-Original Material

Climate - Answer✔️✔️-Temperature, Moisture

Organism/biota - Answer✔️✔️-Vegetation, Insects, Microbes

Relief(Topography) - Answer✔️✔️-Altitude, Slope

Time - Answer✔️✔️-Controls extent of other factors.

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