soil

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Across
  1. 4. The act of cutting back or making smaller
  2. 6. Layers of organic material.
  3. 7. The long-term pattern of weather in a particular area.
  4. 8. The lowest layer.
  5. 11. An act, process, or instance of transforming or being transformed.
  6. 13. A genetic change in which a piece of one chromosome breaks off and attaches to another chromosome
Down
  1. 1. A layer of mineral soil that has a defined soil structure, and it is mostly made up of humus (decayed organic matter).
  2. 2. An assembly of molecules functioning as a more or less stable whole that exhibits the properties of life.
  3. 3. Is a mineral horizon with the main feature of eluvial loss of silicate clay, iron, aluminum, silicon, or some combination of these, leaving a residual concentration of sand and silt particles, and in which all or much of the original
  4. 5. The horizon of maximum accumulation, or illuviation, of clay, iron, aluminum, or other compounds leached from the A horizon.
  5. 7. A mineral horizon, excluding strongly cemented and hard bedrock,
  6. 9. The loose surface material that covers most land.
  7. 10. A term for the general physical, chemical, and mineralogical composition of the unconsolidated material, mineral or organic, in which soil forms.
  8. 12. The geological process in which earthen materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind or water.
  9. 14. A process of combining two or more numbers.