4.1 terms

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Across
  1. 2. Small, mineral, soil particle, ranging in diameter from 0.5 to 0.002 millimeters.
  2. 5. The addition of sediment, as by flowing water.
  3. 6. To gather or collect
  4. 7. The group of processes whereby earthy or rock material is worn away from the earth's surface.
  5. 9. Process of soil deposited due to erosion
  6. 10. Color difference on a mass of moderately poorly drained soil.
  7. 11. A size term denoting particles, regardless of mineral composition, with diameter less than 2 microns.
  8. 12. Slope of the land and the position on the landscape
  9. 14. The long-term average weather conditions.
  10. 16. Decrease in volume of sediments, as a result of compressive stress from deposition above.
  11. 17. Change in form, appearance, nature, or character.
  12. 19. Unweathered rock that lies under the soil layers
  13. 20. Designating the inorganic nature of a substance.
  14. 21. voids or openings in the soil that exist between soil particles and soil peds or clods.
Down
  1. 1. The removal of soluble constituents from soils or other materials by percolating water.
  2. 3. To move or transfer from one place to another
  3. 4. Process of removing soil from the surface.
  4. 8. The horizon of weathered rock or partially weathered soil material from which the soil is
  5. 13. Any vegetation that grows close to the ground
  6. 15. The mineral and organic surface of the earth capable of supporting upland plants.
  7. 18. A group of textural classes in which the particles are finer than gravel but coarser than silt