Across
- 3. - Here are the minerals and nutrients. This layer supports the process of plant growth due to its nutrients.
- 6. - Soil becomes depleted of nutrients, compacted, salinized, and acidified.
- 7. - The diverse community of tiny life forms residing in soil.
- 10. - It is a resource of soil formation - this is where everything starts. Full of weathered rocks and minerals. It is above bedrock.
- 11. - The soil has certain ______ like properties when it comes to water.
- 13. - How many soil horizons are there
- 14. - Soil absorbs harmful substances (heavy metals, pesticides, pollutants).
- 15. - Chemicals used in farming, which hurt soil.
Down
- 1. - The process of storing a surtant organic mater element in soil.
- 2. - Terracing, Contour farming, Reforestation to prevent soil erosion
- 4. - Limitation on pesticides, no-till farming, and crop rotation
- 5. - The upper layer, full of organic matter like humus and leaves.
- 8. - This is the unweathered layer of ruck that is below all of the other horizons. It provides a base for soil development.
- 9. - Causing soil damage through (floods, turnarounds, hurricanes, etc.)
- 12. - Loss of the topsoil layer.