Soil and Water

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Across
  1. 1. Decrease in volume of sediments, as a result of compressive stress, usually resulting from
  2. 4. any living animal or plant
  3. 5. the color difference on a mass of moderately poorly drained soil.
  4. 7. unweathered hard rock that lied directly beneath the soil layer or beneath superficial geological deposits, such as glacial drift.
  5. 8. the act or process of separating a solid from a liquid.
  6. 10. small, mineral, soil particle, ranging in diameter from 0.5 to 0.002 millimeters.
  7. 12. growth by continuous addition
  8. 15. the mineral and organic surface of the earth capable of supporting upland.
  9. 16. material, the horizon of weathered rock or partially weathered soil material from which the soil is formed.
  10. 17. an elongated, erosional depression usually occupied by a stream that has a downward slope
  11. 19. the removal of soluble constituents from soils or other materials by percolating water.
  12. 20. cover, any vegetation that grows close to the ground, producing protection for the soil.
  13. 21. a size term denoting particles, regardless of mineral composition, with diameter less than 2 microns.
  14. 22. the sum total of all atmospheric or meteorological influences, principally temperature, moisture, wind, pressure, and evaporation
  15. 24. deposition above them.
  16. 25. the process of being supplied with air.
  17. 26. change in form, appearance, nature, or character
  18. 30. accumulation of water-worn pebbles larger than two millimeters in diameter.
Down
  1. 1. to the direction of flow of the occupying stream, and includes both bottomland and slopes.
  2. 2. The group of processes whereby earthy or rock material is worn away, loosened, or dissolved andirrigation The artificial application of water to soil for the purpose of increasing plant production
  3. 3. The addition of sediment, as by flowing water.
  4. 6. or submicroscopic organism.
  5. 9. the relative portion of sand, silt, and clay particle.
  6. 11. soil, soil whose properties are dominated by soil minerals, usually containing less than 20 percent
  7. 13. to move or transfer from one place to another; cause to change location; displace.
  8. 14. an organism so small that it cannot be seen clearly without the use of a microscope; a
  9. 18. the process of soil deposited due
  10. 23. a group of textural classes in which the particles are finer than gravel but coarser than silt, ranging in size from 2.00 to 0.5 millimeters in diameter.
  11. 27. mineral matter of variable composition, consolidated or unconsolidated, assembled in masses orconsiderable quantities in nature.
  12. 28. matter, matter found in or produced by, living animals and plants, which contains carbon, hydrogen,
  13. 29. and often nitrogen and sulfur.