Soils Game 1 1

By : Crysta HugoLowndes Co. High School

Dr. James Corbett, Agriculture TeacherJuly 2005

To accompany the Georgia Agriculture Education Curriculum

Modified for Colorado Soils Curriculum 2006

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Soil Moisture

Soil structure

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Question: Areas where water slows down and the soil particles settle to the bottom.

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Terms for 1

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Answer: Deltas

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Question: Fine soil particles like silt and clay deposited by the wind create what type of soils?

Terms for 2

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Answer: Loess soils

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Terms for 2

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Question: Process that breaks down rock into soil.

Terms for 3

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Answer: Weathering

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Terms for 3

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Question: Organic material in the soil that comes from living sources.

Terms for 4

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Answer: Humus

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Terms for 4

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Question: Organisms that can be seen by the unaided eye.

Terms for 5

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Answer: Macroorganisms

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Question: What is available water?

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Answer: Amount of water between field capacity and wilting point

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Question: What is wilting point?

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Answer: the point where the soil has too little water and plants can no longer recover from wilting

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Question: What is adhesion?

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Answer: Attraction of two different molecules – water to soil

Water held by adhesion is not available to plant

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Question: What is cohesion?

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Answer: Attraction of 2 similar molecules

Water held by cohesion is available to plant

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Question: What is field capacity?

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Answer: When soil contains the maximum amount of available water

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Question: If most of the soil is formed into peds and can be handled without breaking up, what kind of structure does it have?

Structure for 1

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Answer: Strong

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Question: Soil texture is the ______ of sand, silt and clay in a soil sample.

Structure for 2

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Answer: Percentage

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Question: peds are held together by _____.

Structure for 3

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Answer: Humus

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Question: What is a clod?

Structure for 4

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Answer: a mass of soil that is cemented together unnaturally by a soil disturbance

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Question: What are six of the seven common soil structures?

Structure for 5

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Answer: 1.angular blocky 2.granular 3.platy 4.prismatic 5.columnar 6. Crumb 7.subangular blocky

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Question: _______ are bacteria that fix nitrogen in the soil.

Microorganisms for 1

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Answer: Rhizobia

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Microorganisms for 1

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Question: Rhizobia live in ______ on the roots of leguminous plants.

Microorganisms for 2

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Answer: Nodules

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Microorganisms for 2

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Question: When a plant dies, decomposition returns the nutrients the plant took from the soil back to the soil. What is this know as?

Microorganisms for 3

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Answer: Carbon Cycle

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Microorganisms for 3

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Question: ______ are one celled organisms that live in moist soil.

Microorganisms for 4

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Answer: Protozoa

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Question: _____ are tiny worms that live in the soil. Many feed on the roots of plants.

Microorganisms for 5

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Answer: Nematodes

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Question: _____ are among the most abundant animals that live in the soil.

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Answer: Earthworms

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Question: Earthworms enhance the _____ by burrowing through the layers of soil.

Other for 2

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Answer: Soil

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Question: A crop that is grown for organic matter and is turned back into the soil.

Other for 3

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Answer: Green Manure

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Question: What is the largest source of organic matter in the soil?

Other for 4

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Answer: Plant roots

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Question: Why do producers use summer fallow in a crop rotation?

Other for 5

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Answer: To conserve water and nitrogen

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