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