Soil Terms

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Across
  1. 1. Gathering of a substance in soil
  2. 5. Irregular arrangement of spots
  3. 6. Air, water, minerals, and organic matter supporting plant life
  4. 8. Removal of soil from an area
  5. 10. Hard layer of rock from which soil forms
  6. 11. Inorganic substance of natural occurrence
  7. 14. Removal of soil in an area as a process of erosion
  8. 16. Accumulation of soil sediments
  9. 17. Plant and leaf litter on top of the ground
  10. 20. A dip between two slopes
  11. 21. Redirection of water for use by plants
  12. 22. Second smallest soil particle
  13. 26. Soil substance derived from a once living thing
  14. 28. weathering of a mineral that produces a different substance
Down
  1. 2. living thing we cannot see
  2. 3. Reduction of pore space
  3. 4. The origin of soil
  4. 6. Second largest soil particle
  5. 7. removal of soil nutrients from one area
  6. 9. Weather
  7. 12. When soil moves into a soil layer
  8. 13. Movement of soil from one location to another
  9. 15. Smallest particle size
  10. 18. A living thing
  11. 19. Solid mineral larger than gravel
  12. 23. Lay of the land
  13. 24. A measure of the number of pores in a given soil sample
  14. 25. Process by which soil is broken down into smaller components
  15. 27. Largest particle size