Soil Science Exam 1 | SOCR 240 - Introductory Soil Science, Quizzes of Agricultural engineering

Download Soil Science Exam 1 | SOCR 240 - Introductory Soil Science and more Quizzes Agricultural engineering in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Paleosol DEFINITION 1 Soil that is formed on a landscape in the past with distinctive morphological features resulting from a soil-forming environment that no longer exists at the site. TERM 2 Soil Profile DEFINITION 2 Vertical section of the soil through all of its horizons and extending into the parent material. TERM 3 Soil Tessera DEFINITION 3 Three-dimensional, vertical soil prism or cylinder. TERM 4 Humus DEFINITION 4 Most stable fraction of the soil organic matter remaining after the major portion of added plant and animal residues have decomposed. TERM 5 Eluviation DEFINITION 5 Leaching or removal process. TERM 6 Illiviation DEFINITION 6 Accumulation Process. TERM 7 Pedon DEFINITION 7 Smallest volume that we call soil. TERM 8 Soil Conservation DEFINITION 8 Combination of all management and land-use methods that safeguard the soil against deterioration by natural or man- induced factors. TERM 9 Pedology DEFINITION 9 Study of soils as natural entities. TERM 10 Edaphology DEFINITION 10 Study of soils as media growth for plants.