Across
- 1. Gathering of a substance in soil
- 5. Irregular arrangement of spots
- 6. Air, water, minerals, and organic matter supporting plant life
- 8. Removal of soil from an area
- 10. Hard layer of rock from which soil forms
- 11. Inorganic substance of natural occurrence
- 14. Removal of soil in an area as a process of erosion
- 16. Accumulation of soil sediments
- 17. Plant and leaf litter on top of the ground
- 20. A dip between two slopes
- 21. Redirection of water for use by plants
- 22. Second smallest soil particle
- 26. Soil substance derived from a once living thing
- 28. weathering of a mineral that produces a different substance
Down
- 2. living thing we cannot see
- 3. Reduction of pore space
- 4. The origin of soil
- 6. Second largest soil particle
- 7. removal of soil nutrients from one area
- 9. Weather
- 12. When soil moves into a soil layer
- 13. Movement of soil from one location to another
- 15. Smallest particle size
- 18. A living thing
- 19. Solid mineral larger than gravel
- 23. Lay of the land
- 24. A measure of the number of pores in a given soil sample
- 25. Process by which soil is broken down into smaller components
- 27. Largest particle size