2023 UI Soil Judging Team Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Parent material of soils formed from gravity-transported rocks and sediment
  2. 6. Abbreviation scoresheet section where you have A, C, or G
  3. 8. Check this for subsurface horizons & features if you have an Entisol
  4. 9. Full classification of Mollic epipedon with regular color and argillic horizon
  5. 11. Epipedon choice if it’s not Mollic
  6. 14. Subsurface horizon meaning little development (often Bw)
  7. 16. Likely great group classification for Mollisols with Bt horizons and no Bk
  8. 19. Abbreviations for the two Efferv. Classes with the most effervescence
  9. 20. Abbreviations for the first/weakest three effervescence classes
  10. 22. True or false, Fluvaquent is a valid classification
  11. 23. Full classification of Ochric epipedon with regular color and argillic horizon
  12. 24. How much percent clay must be in the argillic if eluvial has 25% clay?
  13. 26. Landform on a hill with a slip face
  14. 27. Full classification of Mollic epipedon with Bg/saturated lower horizons
  15. 29. Full classification of Mollic epipedon with free carbonates above calcic horizon
  16. 31. Flat eolian landform, no slip face or nearby dunes
  17. 35. Full classification of Ochric epipedon, no argillic, and free carbs above calcic
  18. 36. Soil order if Mollic epipedon is present
  19. 37. Full classification of Ochric epipedon with only C horizons and nothing else
  20. 38. Full classification of Ochric epipedon with only C horizons and LFS texture
  21. 39. Parent material of soils formed in place from bedrock
  22. 40. Landform of upland between two stream valleys (could be ambiguous)
  23. 41. Soil order if Ochric epipedon and Bt horizon(s) are present
Down
  1. 1. Epipedon with 10YR 3/3 or darker to 18 cm+
  2. 2. What forgetting on your score sheet makes it worth 0 pts no matter what
  3. 4. Parent material well sorted, sandy or silty, and free from coarse fragments
  4. 5. Soil order if Bw horizons only, no other B sub. dists.
  5. 7. Percent clay increase (absolute) needed for argillic when eluvial is <15% clay
  6. 10. Nail is somewhere in this horizon
  7. 12. Abbreviation for coarse sandy loam
  8. 13. Full classification of Ochric epipedon with only C horizons and in floodplain
  9. 15. C horizon structure must be single grained or _________
  10. 16. Common parent material, well sorted, many textures, possible coarse frags
  11. 17. Full classification of Ochric epipedon with only cambic subsurface
  12. 18. Full classification of Ochric epipdon with regular color and perched water table
  13. 21. Scoresheet section where you describe structure with 3, 2, 1, or 0
  14. 23. Likely great group classification for Alfisols with Bt horizons
  15. 25. Change in PM is often indicated by a sudden change in texture or _____
  16. 27. Percent clay increase (absolute) needed for argillic when eluvial is >40% clay
  17. 28. Abbreviation for loamy very fine sand
  18. 30. Parent material found in old lakebeds, likely smooth textures
  19. 32. Full classification of Mollic epipedon with regular color and argillic horizon
  20. 33. Great group classification for soil with a perched water table
  21. 34. True or false, Calciustalf is a valid classification