Soils Vocabulary: Weeks 3 & 4

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Across
  1. 1. Soil horizon that contains unconsolidated parent material
  2. 3. Process of accumulating materials in a soil
  3. 4. Used as an indicator of a soils redoximorphic state
  4. 9. A system for naming soil layers
  5. 12. Primary soil horizon that contains the elluvial zone
  6. 13. The vertical section of soil from the ground surface downwards to where the soil meets the underlying rock
  7. 15. Soil horizon that is mostly organic matter
  8. 16. Process of losing materials in a soil
  9. 18. Soil horizon that is topsoil
Down
  1. 2. Soil horizon that contains bedrock
  2. 4. Soil particle with a diameter of < 0.002 mm
  3. 5. The primary horizons within a soil profile
  4. 6. Soil particle with a diameter of 0.05 - 0.002 mm
  5. 7. Soil with a combination of sand, silt and clay
  6. 8. Soil properties associated with wetness that result from reduction & oxidation of iron and Mg
  7. 10. A measure of a soils organic matter content
  8. 11. Soil horizon that contains the illuvial zone
  9. 14. Soil particle with a diameter of 2.00 - 0.05 mm
  10. 17. The upper part of the soil that experiences weathering and soil-forming processes
  11. 19. Color of a soil