1. Welcome! The Topic For Today Is… Soil

2. SOIL TextureStructureBMPsSoil SurveySoil Forming Factors 200 400 600 800 1000 FINAL JEOPARDY

3. Texture: 200 Question: Soil texture can be defined as the relative proportions of these particles. Answer What are sand, silt, and clay.

4. Texture: 400 Question: Soils with this texture have large voids between the particles and allow water and air to move freely. Answer What is sandy?

5. Texture: 600 Question: Soils with this texture may shift and slide when wet. Answer What is silty?

6. Texture: 800 Question: Clay particles are an important reservoir of plant food due largely to these two properties. Answer What are their large surface area and negative charge?

7. Texture: 1000 Question: In samples of sand, silt, or clay with equal volumes this soil particle size will have the largest total pore space. Answer What is clay?

8. Structure: 200 Question: Soil structure is defined as the arrangement of these into aggregates. Answer What are the primary soil particles (sand, silt, and clay)

9. Structure: 400 Question: A soil that allows water and air infiltration, plant root penetration, and resists erosion has this kind of structure. Answer What is good soil structure?

10. Structure: 600 Question: This is the most common type of soil structure in topsoil. Answer What is granular?

11. Structure: 800 Question: This dark brown spongy material is important because it improves soil structure. Answer What is humus?

12. Structure: 1000 Question: Name five commonly recognized types of soil structure. Answer What are granular, single grain, blocky, prismatic, columnar, platy, and massive

13. BMPs: 200 Question: BMP is short for this. Answer What is Best Management Practice?

14. BMPs: 400 Question: BMPs are activities that farmers, rural residents, and city dwellers can do to promote this. Answer What is the conservation (wise use) of soil and water?

15. BMPs: 600 Question: This BMP is an area of vegetation along a stream, river, or other body of water that is important for water quality. Answer What is a riparian buffer?

16. BMPs: 800 Question: Conservation Tillage is a BMP because it does many things. Name three benefits of conservation tillage. Answer What are reduces erosion, improves water quality, improves soil quality, stores carbon, reduces evaporation, improves fertility, etc.

17. BMPs: 1000 Question: Two important aspects of an animal waste management plan are _______ and _______. Answer What are keeping animal waste out of the water and utilizing the nutrients in the waste to benefit the farm?

18. Soil Survey: 200 Question: You can get a copy of a soil survey here. Answer Where is a soil and water conservation district office?

19. Soil Survey : 400 Question: These maps found in a soil survey are good for comparing large areas for general land uses but are not suitable for planning the management of a specific farm or field. Answer What are general soils maps?

20. Soil Survey : 600 Question: A soil map symbol tells you this. Answer What is the soil series name and slope class?

21. Soil Survey : 800 Question: Most soils are given a name that comes from this. Answer What is the location where they were first mapped?

22. Soil Survey : 1000 Question: The ratings in the soil survey interpretative tables indicate this. Answer What are the limitations of a soil?

23. Soil Forming Factors: 200 Question: The number of soil forming factors. Answer What is five?

24. Soil Forming Factors : 400 Question: This soil forming factor can be either mineral or organic. Answer What is parent material?

25. Soil Forming Factors : 600 Question: This soil forming factor has a great influence on the rate of chemical and mechanical weathering. Answer What is climate?

26. Soil Forming Factors : 800 Question: This soil forming factor causes soils that have developed under trees to usually have a thin O horizon while soils that develop under grasses to usually lack an O horizon. Answer What are biological factors?

27. Soil Forming Factors : 1000 Question: These are the result of the action of the soil forming factors. Answer What are soil properties?

28. FINAL JEOPARDY Question: Name the three types of erosion caused by water. Answer … What are sheet, rill, and gully?