Soil Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Misplaced soil such as soil on your clothes, your kitchen floor, and under your fingernails is called dirt
  2. 3. solid rock layer in soil
  3. 5. Particles of minerals, organic matter, water, and air; that is found on most surfaces of the land
  4. 6. smallest soil particles, holds water too well
  5. 8. the layer of soil beneath the topsoil
  6. 11. fertile upper layer of soil which is rich in organic matter
  7. 13. the movement of sediments
  8. 15. any element an organism needs to grow and reproduce
  9. 16. products from living organisms, like plants and animals
  10. 17. largest soil particles, does not hold water
Down
  1. 1. to decay or break down into small pieces
  2. 2. any living individual, plant or animal
  3. 4. Small pieces of weathered of rock broken down over thousands of years
  4. 7. thoroughly decomposed organic matter
  5. 9. broken pieces of rock
  6. 10. a mixture of sand, silt, and clay
  7. 12. the process which rocks are broken down into sediments
  8. 14. middle size soil particles