1. Welcome to
an exciting game of Soil Taxonomy Jeopardy! I’m your host, Alex
Trebek.

2. Rules Choose a category and a point level. Look at the clue.
Answer before the music stops.
Answer in the form of a question.

3. Verbal descriptions of Orders/Suborders
Example:
Diagnostic
Horizons
Verbal descriptions of Orders/Suborders
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4. “This order forms in volcanic ash”.
Answer

5. “What is an Andisol ?”

6. Verbal descriptions of Orders/Suborders
Diagnostic
Horizons
Verbal descriptions of Orders/Suborders
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7. GRASSLAND SOIL
this epipedon
Answer

8. “What is MOLLIC ?”

9. “This diagnostic horizon is similar to mollic but it has less than 50% base saturation”.
Answer

10. “What is UMBRIC ?”

11. “This epipedon forms in VOLCANIC ASH and is very high in organic matter and is very black”.
Answer

12. “What is MELANIC ?”

13. White, leached, coarse
diagnostic horizon
Answer

14. “What is ALBIC ?”

15. “This diagnostic horizon has accumulated silicate clays, usually as clay skins”.
Answer

16. “What is ARGILLIC ?”

17. “This order forms in forests and has an argillic horizon”.
Answer

18. “What is an Alfisol ? “

19. “This order forms in permafrost regions”
Answer

20. “What is a Gelisol?”

21. “This order has organic parent material”.
Answer

22. “What is a Histosol ? “

23. “This suborder prefix refers to soils in HUMID climates ”.
Answer

24. “What is an Ud- ? “

25. “This suborder prefix refers to soils in regions with a Mediterranean climate (dry summers/wet winters).”
Answer

26. “What is an Xer- ? “

27. “This diagnostic horizon has accumulated carbonates and is also called a Bk horizon.”
Answer

28. “What is a calcic horizon ? “

29. Answer This diagnostic horizon is stained with organic material
and iron oxides from the
above layer.
Answer

30. “What is a Spodic horizon ? “

31. “This is the most ultimately weathered soil order that forms in the contiguous United States.”
Answer

32. “What is an Ultisol ? “

33. “This order is the most thoroughly leached, eluviated and weathered of all soil orders and is found in the tropics.”
Answer

34. “What is an Oxisol ? “

35. This soil order is
represented by this diagram.
Answer

36. “What is a Spodosol ? “

37. This material forms in tropical soils and can be hardened into bricks.
Answer

38. “What is plinthite / laterite ? “

39. “This soil order cracks deeply when it is dry and forms in shrink-swell clays.”
Answer

40. “What is a Vertisol ? “

41. “This soil order has
a pale profile and
usually has a layer
of salt or carbonate
Accumulation.”
Answer

42. “What is an Aridisol ? “

43. “This ” Answer This is a typical environment in which you might find
this soil order.
Answer

44. “What is an Entisol ? “

45. The map shows the
distribution
of this soil order.
Answer

46. “What is an Ultisol ? “

47. Answer These shiny ped surfaces form in soils with shrink-
swell clays.
Answer

48. “What are slickensides ? “

49. “This soil order
is mapped here”.
Answer

50. “What is a Mollisol ? “