1. Soil Forming Processes
1.1. Soil Additions
1.1.1. Organic Matter, water,oxygen, carbondioxide, minerals, sediment, and energy.
1.2. Soil Translocations
1.2.1. clay, organic matter, circulated by plant, dissolved minerals, and sediment.
1.3. Soil Depletions
1.3.1. Upper Soil Depletions = Erosion
1.3.2. Low Soil Depletions = Dissolved Minerals
1.4. Soil Transformation
1.4.1. Refer to the decomposition of minerals and organic matter into the other forms within the soil.
2. Soil Forming Factors
2.1. Parent Material
2.1.1. Parent Material such as glacial or steam sediment that has recently been deposited and in wich soil form.
2.2. Climate
2.2.1. Humid Climate
2.2.2. Semi-arid Climate
2.2.3. Arid Climate
2.2.4. Temperature and presipitation are the most important aspect of climate.
2.3. Organisms
2.3.1. Organisms give life to soil and contribute greatly to the notion that soil is significanthly.
2.4. Relief
2.4.1. Topography referes to the configuration of the earths surface in other words, postion, ect.
2.5. Time
2.5.1. The best developed soil occur on surface that have been stable for the longest period of tim
3. Soil is loose surface material that covers most of the land.
4. What is Soil?
5. Basic Soil Properties
5.1. Inorganic material
5.1.1. Chemical elements of compounds that process a crystalline structure.
5.2. Water
5.2.1. Water is critical to soils for a variety of reasons. Water is delivered to soils in the form of rain and melting snow.
5.3. Air
5.3.1. The air in soil is mostly carbondioxide wich plants give off during respiration and then take in during photosynthesis
5.4. Organic Matter
5.4.1. Organic matter forms living and decayed organisms and accumulates in the upper part of soil and produce humus.
6. Soil Characteristic
6.1. Color
6.1.1. Color can be an indicator of the composition of the soil. Soil color is typically measured with a Munsell Color Chart.
6.2. Texture
6.2.1. Soil can be texturally classifield based on the relative propotion of sand silt, and clay in the parent material.
6.3. Structure
6.3.1. Soil structure refers to the way in wich soil particules naturally clump togeter in peds, wichh are natural soil aggreagtes.
6.3.1.1. Granular Structure
6.3.1.2. Blocky Structure
6.3.1.3. Platy Structure
6.3.1.4. Columnar Structure
6.4. Soil pH
6.4.1. Soil Chemistry
6.4.1.1. Given that soil contain a variety of mineral, organic, water and atmospheric components.
6.4.2. Soil pH refers to the acidity or basicity of the soil.