Chapter 2 crossword
Across
- 3. soil organisms that decompose remains of organisms and digest them.
- 6. plowing fields along the curves of the landscape to prevent soil loss.
- 10. What is happening now operated in the past to change earths surface.
- 11. organic soil matter.
- 12. Planting different crops in different Felix's to let the soil stay fertile.
- 13. a rich fertile soil containing of water, air, silt, sand, clay,a and organic matter.
- 14. a resource that is natural that humans use.
- 16. A heavier contour line on a map.
- 17. A map that shows the elevation and features of an area.
- 19. A difference of something from one contour line to another.
- 22. the chemical change in which oxidation occurs.
- 23. when farmers leave the previous years dead plant's stalks on the ground to hold the soil in place.
- 26. How well the soil supports plant growth.
- 27. a layer of soil that differs from its neighboring soil.
- 28. the top layer of the soil.
- 29. The process when things move rocks and the earths surface.
Down
- 1. A process that breaks down rock.
- 2. a solid layer beneath the soil.
- 4. A weather when rock is physically broken.
- 5. full of tiny little air spaces that water can seep through.
- 7. The process in which ice forms in cracks and expands the crack.
- 8. an event in the 1930's where soil erosion in the Great Plains caused storms of soil.
- 9. the process by which rock breaks down because of chemical changes.
- 15. a thick mass of thick grass and roots.
- 18. the layer beneath topsoil.
- 20. loose weathered material on earths surface.
- 21. The grinding away of rock from other rocks.
- 23. A line that connects two separate points on a map.
- 24. the conservation of soil to prevent its destruction.
- 25. a loose layer off dead plant leaves on the surface.