Soil 454 Final Exam Review

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Across
  1. 2. Suborder of OR state soil (Jory)
  2. 5. Cambic subsurf. horiz. usually means this horizon
  3. 8. Dominant soil order in Nevada
  4. 9. Horizon description appearing in CaCO3 stage III
  5. 11. Major crop grown in a Belt of alfisols
  6. 12. Most common soil order on Earth
  7. 14. Three __ pathways to Mollisol formation
  8. 15. Number of Aridisol suborders
  9. 17. Common Mollisol suborder in northern ID
  10. 19. Brittle dense Bx layer
  11. 22. most of the US east of the Rockies is this SMR
  12. 25. Migration of SiO2 from soil forming Bo horizons
  13. 27. limiting growth factor in Torric SMRs
  14. 28. SMR limited by saturation
  15. 29. Aquerts are almost exclusively found near a major ___
  16. 31. True or false hydric soil conditions prevent crop cultivation
  17. 33. As depth to CaCO3 increases in Mollisols annual productivity ___
  18. 34. Common Aridisol suborder in ID along with argid and calcid
Down
  1. 1. What Paul wishes you on the final
  2. 3. deep dark epipedon with Base sat below 50%
  3. 4. Clay films often indicate a Bt horizon and this subsurf. horiz.
  4. 6. what Paul wants to say for a great semester of Pedology
  5. 7. Lone cementation agent of a duripan
  6. 8. Suborder found with udults in SE USA Coastal Plain
  7. 10. Bt subsurf. horizon with low activity clays
  8. 13. Soil order that causes a gilgai landscape pattern
  9. 16. Albic subsurf. horiz. indicates this in profile
  10. 18. Rich black Oxisol amendment Terra __
  11. 20. Potential subsurf. horiz. result for a young Entisol
  12. 21. between Alfisol and Ultisol the soil that’s generally older
  13. 23. Mollisol pathway with anaerobic-limited OC decomposition
  14. 24. Determines Oxisol suborder (abbrev)
  15. 26. Mollisol suborder with poor drainage
  16. 30. Percent of this must be above 35 to be an Alfisol
  17. 32. MAT under 8 C is either Cryic or this STR