Weathering and Soil Answers

The map shows the Soils of America.

Which correctly lists the three parts of soil that are classified by their particle size?

Which soil would most likely be found in the Arctic?

Which property of soil depends on the size of particles?

Which describes how weathering and erosion are different?

What is one of the causes of mechanical weathering?

Which increases the rate of soil formation?

Which is one factor that scientists use to classify orders of soil?

Which describes the horizons in a soil profile?

Organic material provides nitrogen for plants. Which soil component contributes the most nitrogen to plants?

Which factor contributes to both chemical and mechanical weathering?

Which climate favors mechanical weathering?

Which describes a climate effect on the rate of weathering?

Which describes the formation of Horizon B?

Which is one property of silt soils?